Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1844: The first telegraph line in the US was built,...
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1844
The first telegraph line in the US was built, connecting Washington and Baltimore.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
“Timeline: Biography of Samuel Morse 1791 - 1872”. About Inventors: Find A-Z Inventors.
15 January 1924-25 March 1924: 1,600,000 cotton-mill workers went on strike...
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15 January 1924-25 March 1924
1,600,000 cotton-mill workers went on strike in Bombay because, owing to unfavourable trade conditions, they had not received their usual bonus.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 841
11 June 1727: King George I died and George II assumed...
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
45-6
1928: A Specimen Book of Types and Ornaments used...
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1928
A Specimen Book of Types and Ornaments used by Curwen Press, London, was issued by The Fleuron Limited
.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
139
2 November 1864: The Times reported that William Thomson,...
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2 November 1864
The Times reported that William Thomson
, Archbishop of York, speaking at the Huddersfield Church Institute
, Yorkshire, condemned sensation fiction as tales which aimed at this effect simply—of exciting in the mind some...
28 January 1770: Lord North, First Lord of the Treasury, became...
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28 January 1770
Lord North
, First Lord of the Treasury, became Prime Minister, forming a government after many others had failed.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
10, 72
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Johnson, Samuel. Political Writings. Editor Greene, Donald, Yale University Press, 1977.
346
24 November 1958: The world's first large exhibition of electronic...
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24 November 1958
The world's first large exhibition of electronic computers was held at Earl's Court, London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
414
3 December 1800: At Hohenlinden in Bavaria the French imperial...
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3 December 1800
At Hohenlinden in Bavaria the French imperial army and its Bavarian allies inflicted defeat on the Austrians: a battle commemorated by the poet Thomas Campbell
and the novelist Jemima Tautphoeus
.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
By 1895: 875 women served on Boards of Guardians....
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By 1895
875 women served on Boards of Guardians.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
284
During the 1780s: John Crisp and his wife ran a boarding school...
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During the 1780s
John Crisp
and his wife ran a boarding school for boys and girls at 28 Long Acre, London; the curriculum included writing, arithmetic, French, Latin, and Greek.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
250
2 July 1865: William Booth led his first evangelical Christian...
Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern Britain 1700-1983: A Domestic History. Croom Helm, 1986.
159
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
286
31 March 1912: On Home Rule Day Irish suffragists publicly...
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31 March 1912
On Home Rule Day Irish suffragists publicly protested the exclusion of women's franchise from the Home Rule bill.
MacCurtain, Margaret. “Women, the Vote and Revolution”. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension, edited by Margaret MacCurtain and Donncha Ó Corráin, Greenwood, 1979, pp. 46-57.
49-50
1714: Following the death of Mary Kettilby, her...
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1714
Following the death of Mary Kettilby
, her executrix published her A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Maslen, Keith. “Samuel Richardson of London, Printer: Further Extending the Canon”. Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Vol.
36
, No. 3, Aug. 2012, pp. 133-54.
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January 1792: A shoemaker named Thomas Hardy founded the...
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
7
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
111
14 August 1939: Four hundred US intellectuals signed an open...
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14 August 1939
Four hundred US intellectuals signed an open letter to All Active Supporters of Democracy and Peace asserting that the USSR was a bulwark against war and aggression,
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
266
contrary to politically orthodox views.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
266 and n127
By November 2017: Classical scholar Emily Wilson (daughter...
Mason, Wyatt. “The First Woman to Translate the ’Odyssey’ Into English”. The New York Times Magazine, 2 Nov. 2017.
1773: One of the two leading subscribers' or metropolitan...
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1773
One of the two leading subscribers' or metropolitan libraries opened in Bristol.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
180
7 May 1919: The League of Nations assigned Samoa as mandated...
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7 May 1919
The League of Nations
assigned Samoa as mandated territory to New Zealand.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 945
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1117
1881: Sigmund Freud graduated from medical school...
Logan, Brian. “The play that I wrote . . ”. The Observer, 25 June 2006, p. Review 3.
Review 3
Writer or writing
Author profile
Sara Jeanette Duncan
SJD
was a Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist whose work spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her writing generally features characters who fail to live up to their own potential, such as Lorne...
By December 1999: Naomi Klein set out in her book No Logo to...
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By December 1999
Naomi Klein
set out in her book No Logo to chart the workings of worldwide global capitalist production and marketing methods, and the beginnings of an anti-corporate movement.
“No logo: taking aim at the brand bullies”. Quill and Quire, Vol.
65
, No. 12, 1 Dec. 1999, p. 28.
28
1798: What is called the first Sunday school for...
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1798
What is called the first Sunday school for adults was established in Nottingham by William Singleton
, a Methodist, helped by Samuel Fox
, a Quaker tradesman.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
17
Laqueur, Thomas. Religion and Respectability. Yale University Press, 1976.
34-5
Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
468
1729: Carl von Linné (also known as Linnaeus),...
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1729
Carl von Linné (also known as Linnaeus)
, twenty-two this year, published his early Praeludia Sponsaliarum Plantarum, which already sexualises and anthropomorphises plant reproduction.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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By 7 October 1882: Walter Besant published the best-selling...
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By 7 October 1882
Walter Besant
published the best-selling novel All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2867 (1882): 460
Weiner, Deborah E. B. Architecture and Social Reform in Late-Victorian London. Manchester University Press, 1994.
