Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1737: The Belfast Newsletter was founded as a liberal,...
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1737
The Belfast Newsletter was founded as a liberal, reformist journal which attracted disapproval some years later by its support for the revolt of the American colonists.
O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962.
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March 1882: The first issue appeared of The Gatherer,...
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March 1882
The first issue appeared of The Gatherer, a small literary and feminist magazine published in London.
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.
136
17 July 1790: The first patent for a sewing machine was...
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17 July 1790
The first patent for a sewing machine was taken out, by Thomas Saint
in London.
“Anniversaries”. Times, 17 July 2000, p. 20.
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16 October 1816: At Derby thirty-five rioters went on trial...
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16 October 1816
At Derby thirty-five rioters went on trial for treason; nineteen were sentenced to hang.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
July 1935: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant were painting...
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
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Harriett Jay
A now largely-forgotten novelist and playwright, HJ
was prolific and popular in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. She wrote eight novels, the majority devoted to the contemporary state of Ireland from an Anglo...
Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory 1999. 37th ed., R. R. Bowker, 1998.
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1839: Mungo Ponton announced the discovery of light-sensitive...
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1839
Mungo Ponton
announced the discovery of light-sensitive properties of bichromate of potash.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
109
31 October 1658 : Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Thomas Austen...
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31 October 1658
Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Thomas Austen
died. His widow, Katherine
, kept a series of manuscript books containing religious meditations, notes about her life, family records, and poems (mostly religious).
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.
July 1917: Printers began charging for the rental of...
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July 1917
Printers began charging for the rental of standing type and the storage of unbound sheets.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
68
30 May 1431: Following her trial for heresy, Joan of Arc...
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30 May 1431
Following her trial for heresy, Joan of Arc
was burned at Rouen under English occupying forces.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
204
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
702
1953: John Bowlby published his guilt-inducing...
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1953
John Bowlby
published his guilt-inducing Child Care and the Growth of Love, which maintains that early development is dependent on the constant presence of a single, irreplaceable mother-figure.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
184-5
June 1761: The Society of Artists of Great Britain held...
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June 1761
The Society of Artists of Great Britain
held its annual exhibition in the rooms of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
91
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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26 August 1936: The Anglo-Egyptian treaty ended British military...
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26 August 1936
The Anglo-Egyptian treaty ended British military occupation of Egypt (except in the Suez Canal zone) and produced a twenty-year alliance between Britain and Egypt.
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
554
1922: Anna Freud presented a paper to the Vienna...
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1922
Anna Freud
presented a paper to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society
entitled Beating Phantasies and Day Dreams, on the basis of which she was accepted as a member.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
II: 18
By January 1872: Gustave Moynier, an instigator of the Red...
Waal, Alex de. “Dangers of Discretion”. London Review of Books, 21 Jan. 1999, pp. 27-9.
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May 1909: Gertrude Jennings's one-act suffrage play...
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May 1909
Gertrude Jennings
's one-act suffrage play A Woman's Influence was performed at the Votes for Women Exhibition at the Prince's Skating Rink in Knightsbridge.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
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Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge, 1996.
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Laura Riding
LR
, an American who spent crucial years of her astonishingly productive life in England and Europe, was an important modernist poet, critic, and theorist, who regarded her poetry as a tool in the search...
August 1967: The government responded to the Plowden committee's...
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August 1967
The government responded to the Plowden committee's call for special resources for schools in deprived areas: funds were allocated.
Rogers, Rick. Crowther to Warnock: How fourteen reports tried to change children’s lives. Heinemann Educational Books in association with the International Year of the Child, 1980.
vi, 122
June 1882: The Journal of Women's Education Union ceased...
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June 1882
The Journal of Women's Education Union ceased publication in London.
1811: John Frank Newton published The Return to...
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1811
John Frank Newton
published The Return to Nature, or a Defence of the Vegetable Regimen.
Perkins, David. Romanticism and Animal Rights. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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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.
8 February 1828: Novelist Jules Verne was born in Nantes in...
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8 February 1828
Novelist Jules Verne
was born in Nantes in France.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
