Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1901: Douglas Cockerell published his influential...
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1901
Douglas Cockerell
published his influential Bookbinding and the Care of Books in London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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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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July 1978: Dulcie Gray won the Times Educational Supplement...
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July 1978
Dulcie Gray
won the Times Educational Supplement Information Book Award for her book on butterfly conservation, Butterflies on My Mind: Their Life and Conservation in Britain Today, with illustrations by Brian Hargreaves
and a...
May 1844: The North British Review began publication...
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May 1844
The North British Review began publication in Edinburgh, appealing to a liberal Christian audience.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Joanna Trollope
JT
is a highly popular novelist who began in the late twentieth century with historical romances and moved on to books which explore the changing conditions of contemporary life and especially family life: the kind...
1970: Parliament passed the Industrial Relations...
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1970
Parliament
passed the Industrial Relations Bill; the Women's Liberation Movement demonstrated against it on the grounds that it was damaging to women.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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29 March 1652: An eclipse of the sun, in John Evelyn's words,...
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29 March 1652
An eclipse of the sun, in John Evelyn
's words, so exceedingly alarm'd the whole Nation, so as hardly any would worke, none stir out of their houses; so ridiculously were they abused by knavish...
16 February 1728: Henry Fielding's first play, Love in Several...
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16 February 1728
Henry Fielding
's first play, Love in Several Masques, opened on stage.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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1874: Early in the Dress Reform movement, Boston...
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1874
Early in the Dress Reform movement, Boston dressmaker Olivia Flynt
patented a corset-free bust-supporter or bra.
Farrell-Beck, Jane, and Colleen Gau. Uplift: The Bra in America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
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1882: The Liberty and Property Defence League was...
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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1876: Melvil Dewey outlined the Dewey Decimal System...
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1876
Melvil Dewey
outlined the Dewey Decimal System for the classification of books.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
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Anita Brookner
AB
began publishing as an academic translator, art historian, and book reviewer in the 1960s and 70s, but became far better known for her novels. She was fifty when her first work of fiction appeared...
1854: The first recorded Caesarean section of the...
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1854
The first recorded Caesarean section of the nineteenth century took place in the Rotunda Hospital
, Dublin.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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Valentine's Day 1732: Henry Fielding's The Modern Husband opened;...
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Valentine's Day 1732
Henry Fielding
's The Modern Husband opened; it was published the same month.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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May 1916: The US magazine Good Housekeeping began publication...
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May 1916
The US magazine Good Housekeeping began publication in New York by International Magazine Co.
; the English Good Housekeeping was launched in March 1922.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
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.
1-2 September 1930: The first non-stop flight from Paris to New...
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1-2 September 1930
The first non-stop flight from Paris to New York was made; it took thirty-seven hours and eighteen minutes.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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14 September 1914: Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson and Dr Flora Murray...
McLaren, Barbara. Women of the War. Hodder and Stoughton, 1917.
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Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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Lefanu, Sarah. “Majorie Blandy (1887 - 1937)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, 2014, pp. 52-65.
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January 1678: An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth...
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January 1678
An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth while to write the history of the beginnings of the separate meeting of women Quakers
at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.
1840: When Francis Hill drove his steam coach from...
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1840
When Francis Hill
drove his steam coach from London to Hastings and back with no mechanical problems; it was the first time a powered vehicle covered one hundred road miles.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Beaulieu, Edward, Lord Montagu of, and Anthony Bird. Steam Cars 1770-1970. Cassell, 1971.
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15 November 1816: A meeting was held at Spa Fields in Bristol,...
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15 November 1816
A meeting was held at Spa Fields in Bristol, with the object of starting a petition for various reforms including general male suffrage.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
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By autumn 1921: Cambridge University gave women undergraduates...
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By autumn 1921
Cambridge University
gave women undergraduates the right to attend university lectures, and eventually to receive a degree in name—without, however, the attendant privileges, including full university membership.
“Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology”. University of Cambridge.
19 May 1774: Thomas Gage, now governor of Massachusetts,...
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19 May 1774
Thomas Gage
, now governor of Massachusetts, reported that a town meeting at Boston had called for a boycott of trade with Britain and the West Indies.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
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1902: The Society for the State Registration of...
