Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1477: William Caxton printed an edition of Geoffrey...
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
1750: At Mr and Mrs Philips's boarding school for...
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1750
At Mr and Mrs Philips
's boarding school for girls in Lawrence Street, Chelsea, the curriculum included reading, writing, arithmetic, drawing, dancing, music, French, needlework, and religion.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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Christmas 1914: German and Allied forces at the front lines...
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Christmas 1914
German and Allied forces at the front lines began an informal cease-fire, which lasted up to five days, in honour of the season.
1 September 1939: The BBC television service was stopped for...
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1 September 1939
The BBC
television service was stopped for reasons of national defence.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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January-December 1844: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Luck...
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January-December 1844
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, by Fitz-Boodle appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
1817: Britain signed treaties with Spain and Portugal...
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1817
Britain signed treaties with Spain and Portugal which made slave-trading illegal (Portugal retained the right to trade in slaves south of the equator, though not north of it) and gave British ships the right of...
22 October 1903: William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian,...
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1885: American physician Silas Weir Mitchell's...
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1885
American physician Silas Weir Mitchell
's treatment programme for anorectics was touted by British doctors as a highly successful approach to the disease.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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Martha Fowke
Apart from her unidentified periodical contributions, most of the early eighteenth-century MF
's writings in prose (epistolary and autobiographical) and poetry have a strongly erotic tone. She has been described as a poet whose writing...
9 July 1882: The Marianne North Gallery opened at Kew...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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1841: The Registrar General's Office announced...
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1841
The Registrar General's Office announced the national statistic that over 3,000 mothers died each year during childbirth.
Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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1713: William Cockburn published his Symptoms,...
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1713
William Cockburn
published his Symptoms, Nature, Cause, and Cure of a Gonorrhoea; it went through four more editions by 1728.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
1789: Stamp Duty (the tax levied on periodicals...
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1789
Stamp Duty (the tax levied on periodicals by the Stamp Act) was raised from a penny halfpenny to twopence a sheet.
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
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9 August 1945: The US dropped a second atomic bomb, on Nagasaki:...
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9 August 1945
The US dropped a second atomic bomb, on Nagasaki: up to 80,000 people (by early twenty-first century estimates) were killed on the spot, with thousands more seriously injured.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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Adam, David. “The day the sky exploded”. Guardian Weekly, 7–13 Aug. 2003, p. 24.
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Anna Akhmatova
Writing through the turmoils of the twentieth century, AA
(Anna of all the Russias as she was solemnly called by her fellow poet Marina Tsvetaeva
) was one of the greatest poets of Russian...
