Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1877: The Central Committee of the National Society...
1858: The Ladies' Treasury, a monthly periodical,...
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1858
The Ladies' Treasury, a monthly periodical, began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Charlotte Chanter
CC
wrote one novel, Over the Cliffs, 1860, which anticipated in some respects the sensation genre, as well as a book about ferns and a collection of children's animal stories which was co-authored with...
30 August 1709: The Tatler asserted that women were obsessed...
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30 August 1709
The Tatler asserted that women were obsessed with their own beauty: this great evil proceeded from an unaccountable wild Method in the Education of the better half of the World, the Women.
Steele, Sir Richard, editor. The Tatler. Printed for the author, 1-272.
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1830: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
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Helen Maria Williams
HMW
wrote, during the Romantic or revolutionary period, as a woman with a mission, eager to see change for the better in the political, international world. She was a radical and egalitarian in gender relations...
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.
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George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron
1886: Annie Leigh Browne, Caroline Biggs and others...
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.
1845: The Bradford Long Pledge Association, a working-class...
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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1889: The first public electricity supply was inaugurated...
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1889
The first public electricity supply was inaugurated in London.
Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
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Mary Fage
MF
shared her passion for anagrams with Lady Eleanor Douglas
and many others in the earlier seventeenth century. She was unique in publishing a book of verse incorporating anagrams and acrostics on the names of...
1889: The Student Christian Movement (still active...
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1889
The Student Christian Movement
(still active in the twenty-first century with its centre now in Birmingham, and called on its website the oldest student Christian Network in the UK) was founded. Its initial...
1793: The Jardin des Plantes, the world's first...
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1793
The Jardin des Plantes
, the world's first public zoo, opened in Paris, France.
Rothfels, Nigel. Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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Probably late 1474: William Caxton published (at Bruges) the...
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Probably late 1474
William Caxton
published (at Bruges) the heroic romance entitled Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy: the first book printed in English.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1908-1909: The issue of cheap 7d cloth-bound reprints...
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1908-1909
The issue of cheap 7d cloth-bound reprints of copyright works became a real threat to the profitability to author and publisher of the 6s novel.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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1868: A pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked—Shewing...
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1868
A pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked—Shewing the Depravity of the Romish
Priesthood was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 25 August 1857.
Hirsch, Afua. “How to police popslash”. The Guardian, 4 July 2009, pp. 28-9.
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10 May 1786: The Times (not yet using its final and best-known...
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10 May 1786
The Times (not yet using its final and best-known title) published the first of a three-year series of accounts complaining of the high numbers of prostitutes, especially child prostitutes.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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November 1940: Three out of every five Londoners were sleeping...
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November 1940
Three out of every five Londoners were sleeping in homes threatened or damaged by bombing; yet a census this month showed that 60 per cent did not leave home for shelter when air-raid sirens sounded...
1946: Carol Reed directed the film adaptation of...
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1946
Carol Reed
directed the film adaptation of the novel by F. L. Green
entitled Odd Man Out.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Robinson, David. The History of World Cinema. Stein and Day, 1981.
