Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Anne Wentworth
AW
, member of a Baptist
congregation, became a prophet in the 1670s. She addressed warnings of the wrath of God to the king and the Lord Mayor of London, and published two prophecies of...
22 May 1819: The Savannah, the first ship to use steam...
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22 May 1819
The Savannah, the first ship to use steam in crossing the Atlantic, left Savannah, Georgia, for Liverpool.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
77
Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
84
1796: Patrick Colquhoun argued in his Treatise...
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1796
Patrick Colquhoun
argued in his Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis that the number of prostitutes in London was numbered in thousands.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
117
August 1948: The first post-war Olympic Games took place...
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August 1948
The first post-war Olympic Games
took place in still visibly bomb-damaged London. These Olympics were also the first to be televised.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
1539-1843: During these centuries the proportion of...
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1539-1843
During these centuries the proportion of the British population over the age of sixty did not exceed 9.7%.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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May 1829: A Ladies' Bazaar to benefit Spanish refugees,...
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May 1829
A Ladies' Bazaar to benefit Spanish refugees, held at the Hanover Square Rooms in London, patron the Duke of Wellington
, raised the remarkable sum of £2,000.
“Deaprtments. Travel. Stanhope, Lady Caroline”. Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
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Henrietta Maria Bowdler
HMB
, who published mainly in the early nineteenth century, was an editor, conduct-book writer, theological writer, poet, and novelist. She was also the originator of the project for rendering Shakespeare
inoffensive to delicate ears...
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
651
20 November 1837: Joanna Baillie wrote a heartfelt complaint...
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20 November 1837
Joanna Baillie
wrote a heartfelt complaint (which she feared might sound envious & spiteful) about the effects of the recent fashion for expensive albums, or annuals or gift books.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 668
June 1876: The London Anti-Vivisection Society and the...
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
89, 160
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Agnes Maule Machar
Canadian writer AMM
wrote eight novels, many dealing with Canadian themes.
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.
She also published poetry, journalism, biographies, travel guides, and children's literature, often with a didactic tone, and most on social issues such as temperance...
July 1918: Food rationing was introduced in Britain,...
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July 1918
Food rationing was introduced in Britain, together with the institution of national food kitchens.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
355
1707: Hans Sloane, later President of the Royal...
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1707
Hans Sloane
, later President of the Royal Society
, published the first volume of the work generally called Natural History of Jamaica, with its short, casual account of slavery, detailing but defending the...
15 March 1845: Friedrich Engels dated the preface of The...
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15 March 1845
Friedrich Engels
dated the preface of The Condition of the Working Class in England.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Zlotnick, Susan. Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
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Engels, Friedrich, and Eric John Hobsbawm. The Condition of the Working Class in England. Granada, 1969.
173, 174
December 1997: The Kyoto Protocol (an amendment to the United...
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December 1997
The Kyoto Protocol (an amendment to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change) was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, to set limits to emissions of greenhouse gases. It came into force on 16 February...
26 November 1998: Poems written, read, and discussed by Kathleen...
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26 November 1998
Poems written, read, and discussed by Kathleen Jamie
, Jackie Kay
, and two male poets were issued as number one in the audio-cassette series Poetry Quartets.
Panati, Charles. Panati’s Browser’s Book of Beginnings. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
333
: Liberal Protestants defeated conservative...
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Summer 1847
Liberal Protestants defeated conservative Catholics in a civil war in Switzerland.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
118, 302, 308
Sheehan, James J. “The German States and the European Revolution”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 246-79.
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1938: Richard Titmuss (not yet a professional sociologist...
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1938
Richard Titmuss
(not yet a professional sociologist or writer) argued in Poverty and Population that poverty was causing about 50,000 preventable deaths in Britain every year.
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
(9 August 2000): 18
July 1839-29 August 1842: The Opium War began after the Chinese attempted...
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July 1839-29 August 1842
The Opium War began after the Chinese attempted to curb the British opium trade; the war ended with a peace treaty signed at Nanking, by which China opened five ports to the British, and...
By 2 September 1837: W. A. F. Browne published What Asylums Were,...
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By 2 September 1837
W. A. F. Browne
published What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, extolling the virtues of the self-employed lunatic and a hierarchy of industry within the asylum.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
41-2, 60, 290
Athenæum. J. Lection.
514 (1837): 636
22 October 1837: Henry David Thoreau, aged twenty, began keeping...
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22 October 1837
Henry David Thoreau
, aged twenty, began keeping a diary. In twenty-five years it extended to forty-seven volumes.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
22 October 2008
August 1914: The Union of Democratic Control was established...
