Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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30 July 1966: England won the final of the football World...
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30 July 1966
England won the final of the football World Cup, on their home ground at Wembley Stadium in London, beating West Germany 4-2, with a last goal scored in the final minutes of extra time.
“1966: Football glory for England”. BBC News: On This Day, 30 July 1966.
20 October 1827: The naval forces of England, France and Russia...
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20 October 1827
The naval forces of England, France and Russia combined to destroy the Turkish-Egyptian fleet at Navarino.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
45
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
28 August 1907: The Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act...
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28 August 1907
The Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act rescinded the ban on a man's marrying the sister of his previous wife, after her death.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1907): 215-16
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
31
1916: Special clinics were set up in England for...
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1916
Special clinics were set up in England for the investigation and treatment of venereal disease.
Pfeffer, Naomi. The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine. Polity Press, 1993.
49
Kennedy, Meegan. “Syphilis and the Hysterical Female: the limits of realism in Sarah Grands The Heavenly TwinsWomens Writing, Vol.
11
, No. 2, 2004, pp. 259-80.
260
After April 1763: Martin Madan published An Account of the...
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After April 1763
Martin Madan
published An Account of the Triumphant Death of F. S. a Converted Prostitute, who had supposedly died recently at the age of twenty-six.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
16-17
1851-2: Chartist Ernest Jones published in the National...
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1851-2
ChartistErnest Jones
published in the National Instructor a series of tales called Women's Wrongs, published as an episodic novel in 1855.
Vicinus, Martha. The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth Century British Working-Class Literature. Croom Helm, 1974.
123-4, 139
1694: Publisher John Dunton issued The Ladies Dictionary;...
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1694
Publisher John Dunton
issued The Ladies Dictionary; Being a General Entertainment For the Fair Sex: A Work Never attempted before in English.
Dunton, John. The Ladies Dictionary. Printed for John Dunton, 1694.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
48 (2000): 98
July 1979: Anastosio Somoza, dictatorial President of...
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July 1979
Anastosio Somoza
, dictatorial President of Nicaragua, was overthrown by the Sandinistas
following a bloody civil war.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
592, 628
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. “Inside the revolution”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 7, Apr. 2003, pp. 12-13.
12
1604: A law was passed to invoke sanctions against...
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1604
A law was passed to invoke sanctions against bigamy.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
100
3 April 1973: Martin Cooper, Motorola chief executive,...
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3 April 1973
Martin Cooper
, Motorola
chief executive, made the first phone call on a cellular phone called the DynaTAC. It weighed over a kilogram and was nicknamed The Brick.
Cell Phone Culture: Mobile technology in everyday life. Routledge, 2006.
April 1906: The popular Evangelical journal Good Words...
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April 1906
The popular Evangelical journal Good Words (launched in 1860) ceased publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
252-3
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.
September 1643: Parliament entered into the Solemn League...
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
112-3
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
233
1979: St Vincent and the Grenadines became independent...
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1979
St Vincent and the Grenadines became independent from Britain.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
249
1877: Using proceeds won at horse racing, Mr James...
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1877
Using proceeds won at horse racing, Mr James Rosebery Smith
set up a Bon Marché
in Brixton; this was the first English enterprise set up explicitly as a department store.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
169-71
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Author profile
R. D. Blackmore
1909: Mrs and Miss Earle of England established...
Angeloglou, Maggie. A History of Make-up. Studio Vista, 1970.
115
1736: Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion,...
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1736
Joseph Butler
published Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, a defence of Christianity
against Deism
which argued from a principle of reasonable probability.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
58
13 December 1958: The United States Army launched Gordo the...
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13 December 1958
The United States Army
launched Gordo the squirrel monkey on a 1,500-mile flight in a rocket nose cone.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
278
1 January 1801: The first asteroid ever sighted (and thought...
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1 January 1801
The first asteroid ever sighted (and thought at first to be a planet) was observed by an astronomer at Palermo, Giuseppe Piazzi
, who named it Ceres.
Steel, Duncan. “2001: A space anniversary”. Guardian Weekly, 4–10 Jan. 2001, p. 22.
22
1923: Post-war inflation in Germany grew so high...
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1923
Post-war inflation in Germany grew so high that a new German mark was introduced, the Rentenmark, worth one billion of the former marks.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
7: 76
Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint, 2005.
170
31 July 1786: Robert Burns published his Poems, Chiefly...
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31 July 1786
Robert Burns
published his Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect at Kilmarnock in Ayrshire in an edition of 612 copies.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
63 (1787): 387-8
Lindsay, Maurice. Robert Burns: The Man, His Work, and the Legend. Robert Hale, 1970.
116
Buchan, James. “That sh—te Creech”. London Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2007, pp. 13-14.
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August 1864: The English Woman's Journal, a practical...
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August 1864
The English Woman's Journal, a practical and theoretical source of organized feminism from London, merged into The Alexandra Magazine and English Woman's Journal.
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.
31 July 1991: Shirley Gee based her play Warrior, published...
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31 July 1991
Shirley Gee
based her play Warrior, published this year, on the life of Hannah Snell
, who joined the army and went to sea, wearing men's clothes and searching for her husband, and whose...
30 October 1884: Indian coolies (that is labourers) at San...
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30 October 1884
Indian coolies (that is labourers) at San Fernando, Trinidad, were attacked during a forbidden religious procession.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
