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1689: Jean Racine's tragedy Esther (this time on...

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1689

Jean Racine 's tragedy Esther (this time on a biblical, not a classical subject) was both produced and published; it was translated into English under the same title in 1715.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1850: The Interpretation Act (also known as Lord...

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1850

The Interpretation Act (also known as Lord Brougham 's Act) which aimed to simplify the language of legal statutes, laid down that the masculine includes the feminine (so that he should be understood to mean...

24 March 1882: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, died....

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24 March 1882

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , poet, died.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Jane Williams

JW 's eight books and several periodical publications appeared from the pre-Victorian to the mid-Victorian period in a number of genres, including poetry, literary criticism (of women writers in particular), and an account of her...

1834-1848: The number of advertisements placed in newspapers...

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1834-1848

The number of advertisements placed in newspapers between these years rose from 1,112,305 to 1,902,322.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
25-7

April 1853: Stage performer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield,...

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April 1853

Stage performer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield , an ex-slave from Mississippi and the first Black concert singer to win fame in both the US and Britian, arrived in Liverpool.
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and its Business. Oxford University Press, 1988.
219

24 April 1857: Thomas Hughes published his highly successful...

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24 April 1857

Thomas Hughes published his highly successful boys' story, Tom Brown's Schooldays, under the pseudonym An Old Boy.
Mack, Edward Clarence, and Walter Harry Green Armytage. Thomas Hughes; The Life of the Author of Tom Brown’s Schooldays. Benn, 1952.
89

June 1762: John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched...

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June 1762

John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched the anti-government paper The North Briton; on 23 April 1763 the notorious number 45 attacked the king's speech and indirectly made Wilkes into a hero of radical opinion...

1826: Charles Tilt established himself as a publisher...

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1826

Charles Tilt established himself as a publisher and bookseller at 86 Fleet Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 296

After 15 January 1869: Frances Power Cobbe took up in the pages...

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After 15 January 1869

Frances Power Cobbe took up in the pages of the Echo the cause of Susanna Palmer , imprisoned for wounding her abusive husband in a fight.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
189-90, 196-7, 265

After February 1806: Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea,...

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After February 1806

Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea, which included the well-known poem Rose Aylmer.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
547
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847

ML is still known primarily as the sister of the essayist Charles Lamb , and as the central character in a painful and sensational story. She was, however, the lead author in her three collaborations...
Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847 Image of the head of Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847, from a portrait of her with her brother Charles, by Francis Stephen Cary, 1834. She looks straight at the viewer; her face and some visible black hair are encircled by a white ruffled cap tied with a broad, dark ribbon, and she wears a black cloak.

1896: Margaret Louisa Woods published Wild Justice:...

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1896

Margaret Louisa Woods published Wild Justice: A Dramatic Poem.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

1681: Joseph Glanvill's Sadducismus Triumphatus:...

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1681

Joseph Glanvill 's Sadducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions was posthumously published: it contains many stories of women and men persecuted as witches, many sentenced to death.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1 October-15 December 1856: Gustave Flaubert serially published his first...

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1 October-15 December 1856

Gustave Flaubert serially published his first novel, Madame Bovary, in the Revue de Paris.
Steegmuller, Francis. Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait. Macmillan, 1968.
316
Berg, William J., and Laurey Kramer Martin. Gustave Flaubert. Twayne, 1997.
xx-xxi

1853: The United Kingdom Alliance, a temperance...

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1853

The United Kingdom Alliance , a temperance reform group dedicated to prohibition, formed in Manchester.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
75-6, 78-9

1888: The Society of Apothecaries began to admit...

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1888

The Society of Apothecaries began to admit women to its examinations.
Witz, Anne. Professions and Patriarchy. Routledge, 1992.
99

1858: Francis Hessey published Hints to District...

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1858

Francis Hessey published Hints to District Visitors, as a conduct manual for visitors on missions of charity.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
113-14

15 August 1839: A Universal Suffrage Central Committee for...

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15 August 1839

A Universal Suffrage Central Committee for Scotland was elected.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
127

January 1944: The average wage for women in engineering...

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January 1944

The average wage for women in engineering jobs was £3, 10s compared to £7 for men.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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1872: T. H. Huxley and other members of the Physics,...

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1872

T. H. Huxley and other members of the Physics, Chemistry, and Natural History departments of the School of Mines split from the School and relocated in new buildings in South Kensington.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
400, 408

22 April 1834: Daniel O'Connell introduced in the British...

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22 April 1834

Daniel O'Connell introduced in the British Parliament debate on Repeal of the Union between Ireland and England.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
606

1932: Margaret Louisa Woods edited a collection...

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1932

Margaret Louisa Woods edited a collection from the Poetry Circle of the Writers' Club , The Writers' Club Anthology.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Warren

EW , active at the mid seventeenth century, is a learned writer who fills her three Puritan theological pamphlets with strongly structured argument and with Latin notes and references in the margins. Her polemic has...

1877: The House on the Marsh appeared in print:...

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1877

The House on the Marsh appeared in print: a mystery novel, the second work by Florence Warden, whose real name was Florence Alice James.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Reference sources, including the Feminist Companion, mistakenly attribute a later publication date.