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Late 1859: The offices of The English Woman's Journal...

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Late 1859

The offices of The English Woman's Journal moved from Cavendish Square to 19 Langham Place, where a ladies' club was also planned.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1866: American Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published...

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1866

American Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published St Elmo, one of the most succesful novels of the nineteenth century.
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.

28 November 1956: The film Et Dieu . . . créa la femme (And...

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28 November 1956

The film Et Dieu . . . créa la femme (And Woman . . . Was Created in the UK and And God Created Woman in the USA) had its French premiere. It starred...

Early November 2012: A merger was proposed between the publishers...

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Early November 2012

A merger was proposed between the publishers Penguin and Random House , that would create a mega-company with worldwide revenues of 4.1 billion dollars US.
Sabbagh, Dan. “Amazon fears underlie books merger”. Guardian Weekly, 2 Nov. 2012, p. 17.

1898: English point-founders (those who make type...

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1898

English point-founders (those who make type for use in typesetting) adopted the American point system to standardize type sizes in the English-speaking world.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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Phebe Gibbes

PG was an eighteenth-century novelist (of great gifts but extreme obscurity), who also wrote (from financial need) drama and periodical essays, and projected a sociological study of the lower classes. Her canon is, like most...

10 February 1793: The president of the Dijon women's club published...

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10 February 1793

The president of the Dijon women's club published a reasoned argument for the freedom and equality of women.
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
289, 370

17 June 1911: The Women's Coronation Procession was attended...

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17 June 1911

The Women's Coronation Procession was attended by 40,000 women from at least twenty-eight women's suffrage organisations, including both the Women's Social and Political Union and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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4 September 1778: The United States signed a treaty of alliance...

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4 September 1778

The United States signed a treaty of alliance with the Netherlands.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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January-February 1991: The US and a large coalition of allies launched...

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January-February 1991

The US and a large coalition of allies launched the first Gulf War against Iraq (whose ruler, Saddam Hussein , had invated Kuwait in August 1990).
Lowry, Richard S. The Gulf War Chronicles. IUniverse, 2003.
Johnson, Richard William. “Living on the Edge”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 9, 28 Apr. 2011, pp. 32-3.
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4 November 1869: The weekly scientific journal Nature was...

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4 November 1869

The weekly scientific journal Nature was founded, edited first by Norman Lockyer .
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 159-80.
159, 165

Medbh McGuckian

MMG , who lives in Northern Ireland, is well-regarded among contemporary poets writing in English. She began by writing a very private and reserved poetry. Using images from the home and from nature, she explored...

1892: Catherine Martin, under the pseudonym Mrs...

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1892

Catherine Martin , under the pseudonym Mrs Alick Macleod, published her novel The Silent Sea.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1886: The firm of Lambert and Son advertised for...

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1886

The firm of Lambert and Son advertised for sale in Britain, openly, without bowdlerising or embarrassment, the original, small contraceptive cap for wearing inside a woman's body.
Greer, Germaine. Sex and Destiny. Harper and Row, 1984.
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Autumn 1953: The actor John Gielgud was convicted of persistently...

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Autumn 1953

The actor John Gielgud was convicted of persistently importuning male persons for an immoral purpose, and fined.
“Sir John Gielgud: Master of the Bard onstage - and barbs off it”. National Post, 23 May 2000, p. A16.
(23 May 2000): A16
Jongh, Nicholas de. “Obituary: Sir John Gielgud”. Guardian Weekly, 1–7 June 2000, p. 12.
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Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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1759: An Excise Office survey for tax purposes...

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1759

An Excise Office survey for tax purposes of England and Wales found 141,700 retail outlets, of which 21,603 were in London.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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15 July 1099: The First Crusade ended with the fall of...

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15 July 1099

The First Crusade ended with the fall of Jerusalem to the Franci or Christians. The epic slaughter on this occasion was long remembered.
Nelson, J. L. “Eastern Promises”. London Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2008, pp. 30-2.
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: 750,000 men were employed in Ireland's public...

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Spring 1847

750,000 men were employed in Ireland's public works, in a policy designed to relieve the distress caused by repeated crop failures (particularly of potatoes).
Adelman, Paul. Great Britain and the Irish Question 1800-1922. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
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11-23 October 1937: Embarrassingly for the British government...

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11-23 October 1937

Embarrassingly for the British government and royal family, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor visited Nazi Germany, where they had a cordial meeting with Hitler .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1897: Miss I. Stansfield was appointed Assistant...

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1897

Miss I. Stansfield was appointed Assistant Poor Law Inspector, the first woman to hold the post.
Martindale, Hilda. Women Servants of the State, 1870-1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service. G. Allen and Unwin , 1938.
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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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1767: Man-midwife Sir John Leake assigned cost-free...

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1767

Man-midwife Sir John Leake assigned cost-free land in Lambeth, south of the Thames, on which to build to the New Westminster Lying-in Hospital , a charity institution.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1974: The English National Opera was created: the...

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1974

The English National Opera was created: the latest, most secure incarnation of the Vic-Wells Opera , a company founded by Lilian Baylis in 1931, which moved from Sadler's Wells Theatre to the London Coliseum in 1968.
English National Opera. http://www.fsz.bme.hu/opera/enoabout.html.

3 March 1924: Sean O'Casey followed his first success at...

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3 March 1924

Sean O'Casey followed his first success at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, with a play about war entitled Juno and the Paycock.
Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2016, pp. 11-23.
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By 8 February 1946: Ann Petry published her first novel, The...

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By 8 February 1946

Ann Petry published her first novel, The Street. It sold a million and a half copies, more than any previous novel by an African-American woman.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Wall, Cheryl. “People’s Culture”. WRB, Vol.
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, No. 2, Mar.–Apr. 2014, pp. 10-12.
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