Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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7 September 1822: An article in the Manchester Guardian commented...
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7 September 1822
An article in the Manchester Guardian commented on the revolution in communications brought about by steam power at sea, with a weekly service between London and Rotterdam keeping almost perfect time.
The Manchester Guardian.
7 September 1822
1884: Alexander Grant's history of Edinburgh University...
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1884
Alexander Grant
's history of Edinburgh University revealed that admission of female medical students had been considered solely because of low enrolment in the Faculty in 1869-1870.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
102
1864: Famous Girls who have become Illustrious...
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1864
Famous Girls who have become Illustrious Women: Forming Models for Imitation by the Young Women of England, a very popular book of biographical sketches by John M. Darton
, was published.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
1955: Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett and Lolita...
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1955
Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett
and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(both published in France) were seized by British Customs.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
112
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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28 March 1956: The BBC's Crystal Palace television station...
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28 March 1956
The BBC
's Crystal Palace television station was opened.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
386
6 July 1924: Hans Berger developed the electro-encephalogram...
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6 July 1924
Hans Berger
developed the electro-encephalogram (EEG) for monitoring brain waves. He published his developments five years later.
“Hans Berger”. Who Named It? (whonamedit.com).
Writer or writing
Author profile
Toni Morrison
TM
's eleven novels give her a place as one of the major American novelists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her books of non-fiction—speeches and essays on social and literary topics— give her an...
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
59 (1789): 442-4, 632-3; 60 (1790): 1088-90
20 March 1869-20 June 1870: Jules Verne serially published in French...
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20 March 1869-20 June 1870
Jules Verne
serially published in French his science-fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Gallagher, Edward Joseph et al. Jules Verne: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography. G. K. Hall, 1980.
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1851: Johann and Bertha Ronge established at Hampstead...
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1851
Johann
and Bertha Ronge
established at Hampstead the first kindergarten in England, a school designed to foster physical and mental development in young children.
Storey, Graham et al., editors. The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Seven 1853-1855. Vol. 7, Clarendon Press, 1993.
520
5 May 1813: Søren Kierkegaard, existentialist philosopher,...
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5 May 1813
Søren Kierkegaard
, existentialist philosopher, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the youngest of his parents' seven children.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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22 March 1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died at Weimar...
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
26 December 1918: US President Woodrow Wilson (who had already...
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26 December 1918
US President Woodrow Wilson
(who had already been in Paris in connection with the peace conference which did not officially convene until 18 January following) was received in London with intense enthusiasm.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
92-4
7 June 1787: The Times (not yet using its final and best-known...
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7 June 1787
The Times (not yet using its final and best-known title) reported an attack by prostitutes on two respectable young women coming home from the theatre with their father.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
119-20
October 1913: The Central Board of Co-operative Union refused...
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
154-7
Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
