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Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

MAS , who issued her first publication in 1813, has period interest as an aesthetic theorist and a religious writer, an apologist for the French Jansenist movement connected with Port Royal , and later for...
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck Stipple engraving of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck by Fisher after a photograph by Henry Adlard, published 1858. She is sitting, wearing a tall, frilled cap and, it seems, both a shawl and a jacket over her dress. A scarf at her neckline has pinned to it a cross of the type called "cross pattée".

June 1557: Tottel's Miscellany was published....

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June 1557

Tottel 's Miscellany was published.
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.

5 November 1757: Britain's ally Frederick II had the first...

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5 November 1757

Britain's ally Frederick II had the first of two unexpected victories, at Rossbach near Halle in Germany.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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January 1704: Volume one of Antoine Galland's Les mille...

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January 1704

Volume one of Antoine Galland 's Les mille et une nuit, was published at Paris; the first English version appeared in 1706, as Arabian Nights Entertainments: later usually Arabian Nights.
Mack, Robert L., editor. Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Oxford University Press, 1998.
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1939: Cambridge's first professorship bestowed...

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1939

Cambridge 's first professorship bestowed on a woman, the Chair of Archaeology. was achieved by Dorothy Garrod of Newnham .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

By June 1796: Samuel Taylor Coleridge compiled a booklet...

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By June 1796

Samuel Taylor Coleridge compiled a booklet titled Sonnets from Various Authors: four each by himself, Southey , Charles Lamb , and Charles Lloyd , two by Charlotte Smith , and one each by seven...

18 March 1871: The rule of the Paris Commune began when...

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18 March 1871

The rule of the ParisCommune began when Paris workers resisted the provisional National Assembly 's efforts to disarm the city by seizing firearms and 2,000 cannons from the National Guard.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
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Early August 1591: Sir John Harington's translation of Ariosto's...

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Early August 1591

Sir John Harington 's translation of Ariosto 's heroic romance Orlando Furioso (which means something like Roland Run Mad) was published.
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Critical Materials”. The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by William A., Jr Ringler, Clarendon Press, 1962, p. various pages.
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Munby, Alan Noel Latimer. “Jane Austen’s Ariosto”. The Private Library, Vol.
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, No. 3, July 1962, p. 46.
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August 1940: A Ministry of Information pamphlet appeared...

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August 1940

A Ministry of Information pamphlet appeared under the title Loss of Eden. A Cautionary Tale. Re-issued in 1941 more openly called If Hitler Comes, it dealt with the possible scenario of successful Nazi

1869: English Roman Catholic dioceses established...

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1869

English Roman Catholic dioceses established Councils for Education in order to collect education statistics.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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January 1716: A great frost of three weeks in London produced...

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January 1716

A great frost of three weeks in London produced the usual carnival atmosphere, but was bad for the poor.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Late 1951: Winston Churchill's Conservative government...

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Late 1951

Winston Churchill 's Conservative government decided to remove the last traces of wartime austerity by ending the rationing system: it took them until 1954 to complete this process with the end of meat rationing.
Roberts, Clayton, and David Roberts. A History of England: 1688 to the Present. Prentice-Hall, 1980.
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Mount, Ferdinand. “The Doctrine of Unripe Time”. London Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2006, pp. 28-30.
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1 November 1592: Moderata Fonte (also known as Modesta Pozzo)...

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1 November 1592

Moderata Fonte (also known as Modesta Pozzo ) did her last work on a treatise in Italian on women, the day before she died in childbirth
Pozzo, Modesta. The Worth of Women. Translator Cox, Victoria, University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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Cox, Virginia. “The Single Self: Feminist Thought and the Marriage Market in Early Modern Venice”. Renaissance Quarterly, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 513-81.
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16 October 2009: In Britain university loans or grants for...

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16 October 2009

In Britain university loans or grants for about 175,000 students had still not been paid a week after the academic year began.
“News in brief”. Guardian Weekly, 16 Oct. 2009, p. 16.
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1662: People were brought to trial for witchcraft...

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1662

People were brought to trial for witchcraft at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk; this is one of the best-documented cases of which records remain.
Wootton, David. “Brutish Babies”. London Review of Books, 11 Nov. 1999, pp. 34-35.
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10 December 1921: Frederick Soddy from Great Britain was awarded...

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10 December 1921

Frederick Soddy from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.

25 February 1948: A nationalist riot broke out in the Gold...

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25 February 1948

A nationalist riot broke out in the Gold Coast.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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1928: Blanche Winder (who had given up using her...

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1928

Blanche Winder (who had given up using her former pseudonym) published a novel entitled Trespassers in Paradise. Its topic is a socially unacceptable love-relationship.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

13 October 1924: The BBC broadcast its first election address:...

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13 October 1924

The BBC broadcast its first election address: Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald speaking at a mass meeting in Glasgow.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Sarah Flower Adams

SFA was a poet, a contributor to periodicals, and a hymn-writer. Over the course of her career she published a dramatic poem, a catechism for children, and fourteen hymns. Her uncollected works include numerous poems...
Sarah Flower Adams A black and white drawing of Sarah Flower Adams. She looks over her left shoulder at the viewer with a small smile.

1925: Leonard and Virginia Woolf published Edwin...

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1925

Leonard and Virginia Woolf published Edwin Muir 's First Poems.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Rosita Forbes

RF was a popular travel writer of the earlier twentieth century. Her travel books are often flavoured with adventure, and she also published books of biography, essays, stories, political and social commentary, and memoirs, all...
Rosita Forbes Black and white, three-quarter-length photo of Rosita Forbes by Mendoza. She is seated, gazing at the viewer, in a dark hat with wide brim and large artificial flowers, and a fur wrap thrown over an open jacket and light dress with a full, gauzy or lacy skirt. Library of Congress.

1875: Male compositors struck at Newcastle upon...

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1875

Male compositors struck at Newcastle upon Tyne because a printer had appointed female compositors.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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1889: Matron Eva Lückes published the pamphlet...

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1889

Matron Eva Lückes published the pamphlet What Will Trained Nurses Gain by Joining the British Nurses' Association ? arguing against a national register for nurses.
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.
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