Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
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April 1684: Mr and Mrs Priest's school at Gorges House,...
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April 1684
Mr
and Mrs Priest's school at Gorges House, Chelsea, put on a private revival of the court masque Venus and Adonis, by John Blow
(to a libretto perhaps by the future Anne Finch
).
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Winn, James Anderson. “A Versifying Maid of Honour: Anne Finch and the Libretto for Venus and AdonisReview of English Studies, Vol.
59
, No. 238, Feb. 2008, pp. 67-85.
67-85
1920: Hillcroft Residential College for Working...
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1920
Hillcroft Residential College for Working Women
was founded at South Bank, Surbiton, Surrey, to provide, instead of the factory or domestic training usual for working-class provision, an education in academic subjects.
“Hillcroft College”. Women in London: A Directory of London Based Women’s Groups.
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2 December 1823: US President James Monroe promulgated the...
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2 December 1823
US President James Monroe
promulgated the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the USA would not permit any European power to interfere in the affairs of any independent state in North or South America.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1912: The weekly magazine Woman ceased publica...
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1912
The weekly magazine Woman ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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1949: John Calder (Publishers) Limited was founded...
Davies, John Dunn. Phrenology: Fad and Science. A 19th-Century American Crusade. Archon Books, 1971.
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Stern, Madeleine B., editor. A Phrenological Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Americans. Greenwood, 1982.
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1781: Alexander Hamilton published a Treatise of...
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1781
Alexander Hamilton
published a Treatise of Midwifery, arguing (like others) that this subject was too important to be left to women.
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.
January 1756: Britain broke with the Old System by allying...
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January 1756
Britain broke with the Old System by allying itself with Frederick II
's Prussia instead of Maria Theresa
's Austria (which it had supported in the War of the Austrian Succession). The stage was now...
25 August 1883: A Factory and Workshop Act passed, which...
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25 August 1883
A Factory and Workshop Act passed, which regulated working conditions in white lead factories.
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.
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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1882: Thomas Fisher Unwin bought the small publishing...
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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June-July 1919: People first flew in large numbers, not as...
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June-July 1919
People first flew in large numbers, not as continent-bound travellers but as joy-riders.
Hudson, Kenneth. Air Travel: A Social History. Adams and Dart, 1972.
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July 1928: Jennie Lee, a Scottish coalminer's daughter,...
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July 1928
Jennie Lee
, a Scottish coalminer's daughter, was selected as Labour
candidate for the constituency of Lanarkshire; she was elected to the House of Commons
as its youngest member in a by-election in February...
9 February 1911: A revised version of the Conciliation Bill...
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9 February 1911
A revised version of the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) passed its first reading in the House of Commons
.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
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1 August 1815: The surveyor William Smith dated his first-ever...
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1 August 1815
The surveyor William Smith
dated his first-ever geological map of Britain; the national Geological Society
cold-shouldered him and published its own map, five years later, which was essentially a plagiarism of his.
Fortey, Richard. “Prophet of the Rocks”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 27-8.
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Winchester, Simon. The Map that Changed the World. HarperCollins, 2001.
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
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25 November 1841: Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey died, leaving...
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25 November 1841
Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey
died, leaving conditions in his will that after the death of his wife, more than £100,000 would be left to set up a national public collection of fine art in Britain.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1879: A new cloak from Spence and Co., the Polarium,...
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1879
A new cloak from Spence and Co.
, the Polarium, was constructed of a faithful imitation of fur.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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12 May 1784: James Sheridan Knowles, playwright, was born...
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1912: To celebrate its forty thousandth number,...
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1912
To celebrate its forty thousandth number, The Times published a supplement on the history of printing and the newspaper press.
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
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Pauline Johnson
PJ
is best remembered for the poemThe Song My Paddle Sings, published in 1892, which has been memorized by generations of Canadian school children, but she also wrote short stories and journalism, and...
