Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
GMH
, whose desire to publish his poetry was frustrated in his Victorian lifetime by his Jesuit
superiors, was first published in 1918 by his trusted friend and informal archivist Robert Bridges
. During the...
1877: The University College, Nottingham, was founded...
Evans, W. Gareth. Education and Female Emancipation: the Welsh Experience, 1847-1914. University of Wales Press, 1990.
247
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
42-3, 152
August 1850: Thomas Carlyle published his virulent Latter-day...
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August 1850
Thomas Carlyle
published his virulent Latter-day Pamphlets in a single volume, following their gradual appearance earlier in the year in the form of eight pamphlets.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
171
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
February 1912: The Enterprise Club Magazine, a magazine...
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February 1912
The Enterprise Club Magazine, a magazine for women clerks, began monthly publication in London.
NG
was a South African novelist and short-story writer who bore witness in her work first to the struggle against apartheid, then to the problems and challenges of building an interracial nation. She is widely...
November 1959: The Crowther Committee on Education (set...
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November 1959
The Crowther Committee on Education (set up in 1956) reported on the educational needs of children from fifteen to eighteen, including the particular unmet needs of girls.
Rogers, Rick. Crowther to Warnock: How fourteen reports tried to change children’s lives. Heinemann Educational Books in association with the International Year of the Child, 1980.
vi, 5
1879: Thomas Burberry patented an impervious, breathable,...
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1879
Thomas Burberry
patented an impervious, breathable, virtually indestructible fabric he called gaberdine (spelled gabardine in the USA).
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
87
Later 1832: Following the First Reform Bill of 7 June...
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Later 1832
Following the First Reform Bill of 7 June 1832, a number of offences (stealing and various types of forgery) ceased to be subject to the death penalty.
Davenport-Hines, Richard. “Suffocating Suspense”. London Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2000, pp. 36-37.
37
Collins Dictionary of British History. Collins, 2002.
78
1909: The self-contained diving system was inv...
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1909
The self-contained diving system was invented.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
172, 189
1978: Anthropologist Mary Douglas continued her...
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1978
Anthropologist Mary Douglas
continued her provocative work on systems of classification in The World of Goods.
Fardon, Richard. Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography. Routledge, 1999.
130
June 1940: More than five million women were in civil...
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June 1940
More than five million women were in civil employment in Britain.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
chronology
By June 1958: The Nigerian Chinua Achebe published his...
Writer or writing item
By June 1958
The Nigerian Chinua Achebe
published his first and still most famous novel, Things Fall Apart (titled from W. B. Yeats
).
“The Centre Cannot Hold”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2938, 20 June 1958, p. 341.
341
End of the 1990s: Bloody conflicts still raged in the Horn...
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End of the 1990s
Bloody conflicts still raged in the Horn of Africa, Angola, Sri Lanka, and the Russian province of Chechnya, while those in Kosovo and in East Timor had only recently ended.
“It will be remembered as the Age of Barbarism”. Guardian Weekly, 30 Dec. 1999–5 Jan. 2000, p. 3.
3
Early 1958 to late 1960: Mao Tse-tung carried out in China the ironically-named...
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Early 1958 to late 1960
Mao Tse-tung
carried out in China the ironically-named Great Leap Forward, forcibly converting the peasants to collective agriculture and collective living and eating.
Becker, Jasper. “Business as Usual at the ’People’s Daily’”. London Review of Books, 29 July 1999, pp. 26-7.
26-7
Scott, James C. “Tyranny of the Ladle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 23, 6 Dec. 2012, pp. 21-8.
21
24 August 1940: German bombs were dropped on London for the...
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24 August 1940
German bombs were dropped on London for the first time.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
41
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
387
1979: St Anne's College became the first women's...
The Baptist Church
allowed women pastors to use the title of minister.
Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.
511
April 2005: Béa González, Spanish-born Canadian novelist,...
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April 2005
Béa González
, Spanish-born Canadian novelist, published her second novel, the magic-realist The Mapmaker's Opera, set in late nineteenth-century Spain and Mexico. Her first was The Bitter Taste of Time, 1998.
Canton, Jeffrey. “Reviews. The Mapmaker’s Opera by Béa Gonzalez”. Quill and Quire, Apr. 2005.
“Playwrights. Victor Kazan”. doollee.com.
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Author profile
Leah Sumbel
LS
, an actress of the later eighteenth century, became a remarkable memoirist as well as a journalist and a dabbler in writing for the stage. Her account of her life may be grouped with...
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
93 n1
21 March 1994: The United Nations Framework Convention on...
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21 March 1994
The United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change came into effect, having been ratified by 191 member nations.
“The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”. The United Nations.
By 24 December 1881: Lillie Langtry became the first English society...
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By 24 December 1881
Lillie Langtry
became the first English society woman to appear professionally on the stage when she played Kate Hardcastle in Goldsmith
's She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre
, London.
Norback, Craig T., and Melvin Gray. The World’s Great News Photos 1840-1980. Crown Publishers, 1980.
23
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
2
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2826 (1881): 861
1955: The Central Midwives' Board laid down new...
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1955
The Central Midwives' Board
laid down new rules to govern British midwives' practice of their profession.
British Book News. British Council.
(1956): 180
22 May 1936: The Peace Pledge Union was founded by Canon...
