Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1772: An English translation, A Tour to London,...
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1772
An English translation, A Tour to London, relayed the view of Frenchman P. J. Grosley
that streetwalkers in London were more numerous than at Paris, and have more liberty and effrontery than at Rome itself.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
171
June 1920: The Coming Day, from the Free Church League...
October 1882: The last issue of Fraser's Magazine was ...
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October 1882
The last issue of Fraser's Magazine was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 315
11 June 1788: George III, at the resort town of Cheltenham,...
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11 June 1788
George III
, at the resort town of Cheltenham, publicly suffered preliminary symptoms leading up to his second attack of porphyria, which began on 17 October.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
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Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
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1953: The Kinsey Report on Sexual Behaviour in...
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1953
The Kinsey Report on Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female was published.
Tannahill, Reay. Sex in History. Stein and Day, 1980.
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Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
241, 242
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
551
27 February 1933: A fire at the parliament building or Reichstag...
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27 February 1933
A fire at the parliament building or Reichstag
in Berlin was used by Hitler
to incite fears of a Communist takeover.
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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December 1919: The Woman Clerk: the Organ of the Association...
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
602
10 May 1892: Frederic Eugene Ives first exhibited his...
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10 May 1892
Frederic Eugene Ives
first exhibited his patented method for producing colour prints (three-colour printing with half-tone cuts) at the Royal Institution, London.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
955
1755: Wealthy West Indian proprietor William Beckford...
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1755
Wealthy West Indian proprietor William Beckford
(father of the author of the same name) launched The Monitor, the first newspaper to appeal explicitly to London freeholders, that is the well-to-do urban middle class.
Hudson, Nicholas. “Discourse of Transition: Johnson, the 1750s, and the Rise of the Middle Class”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, 2002, pp. 31-51.
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29 June 1855: The first number appeared of Daily Telegraph...
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29 June 1855
The first number appeared of Daily Telegraph and Courier, a newspaper which as the Daily Telegraph is still published in London in the twenty-first century.
1855: Robert Wilhelm von Bunsen, a German chemist...
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1855
Robert Wilhelm von Bunsen
, a German chemist from Heidelberg, invented with his assistant C. Desaga
the Bunsen burner, in which gas is mixed with air before ignition.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
324
1859: Albert Napper founded the first rural charity...
White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.
55-6
16 July 1985: The Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act...
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16 July 1985
The Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act made it an offence to excise, infibulate or mutilate female genitals or to aid or abet such procedure in the UK.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1985): 969-70
McVeigh, Tracy. “Female genital mutilation rising in Britain”. Guardian Weekly, 30 July 2010, p. 15.
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3 May 1858: Rosa Brett made her exhibition debut, showing...
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3 May 1858
Rosa Brett
made her exhibition debut, showing The Hayloft at the Royal Academy
, under the pseudonym Rosarius.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
52, 54-5
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
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January 1847-July 1848: William Makepeace Thackeray's most famous...
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January 1847-July 1848
William Makepeace Thackeray
's most famous novel, Vanity Fair, was serialised in monthly instalments with illustrations by the author.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
February 1860: Alfred Tennyson published Tithonus in the...
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February 1860
Alfred Tennyson
published Tithonus in the Cornhill Magazine.
Tennyson, Alfred. Tennyson’s Poetry. Editor Hill, Robert W., Jr, W. W. Norton, 1971.
71
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
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27 May 1878: The Matrimonial Causes Act was amended so...
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27 May 1878
The Matrimonial Causes Act was amended so that magistrates could order a marital separation and the payment of an allowance to abused wives in cases of spousal assault.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
160
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
194
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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1904: The first scientific paper read by a woman...
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Jones, Claire. “Women’s History Month: Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923): scientist yet ’in every way a woman’”. Women’s History Network Blog, 23 Mar. 2010.
15 November 1816: A meeting was held at Spa Fields in Bristol,...
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15 November 1816
A meeting was held at Spa Fields in Bristol, with the object of starting a petition for various reforms including general male suffrage.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
1720: The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence...
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1720
The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence of the Dublinparliament
on the English one at Westminster.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
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Author profile
Susanna Moodie
SM
is best remembered for her first-person narrative of pioneer life in Canada, Roughing It in the Bush, 1852, considered a foundational work of Canadian literature. She was a prolific author who wrote...
By 31 May 1641: Milton entered (anonymously) the ideological...
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By 31 May 1641
Milton
entered (anonymously) the ideological battle surrounding episcopacy (government of the Church of England
by bishops) with the first of his five anti-prelatical pamphlets, Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in England.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Milton
May 1788: The Analytical Review: or history of literature...
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May 1788
The Analytical Review: or history of literature domestic and foreign began publication, edited by Thomas Christie
and published by Joseph Johnson
.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
After 1900: The Birmingham School of Music developed...
