Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Alison Cockburn
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did not publish, and much of her writing is probably lost. She won a place in literary history with her composition of a popular mournful song or ballad, to an old Scottish tune. Most...
“Pioneering Child Guidance: A Miller’s Tale”. Prevention Action, 12 Mar. 2008.
7 September 1854: Putting his theories into practice, Dr John...
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7 September 1854
Putting his theories into practice, Dr John Snow
contained an outbreak of cholera in Soho, London, by effectively stopping the main water supply.
Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
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Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Youngson, A. J. The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine. Holmes and Meier, 1979.
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Shryock, Richard Harrison. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
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1820: William Buckland's excavation of Goat Hole...
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1820
William Buckland
's excavation of Goat Hole cave near Paviland on the Welsh coast uncovered both animal bones and a human skeleton, dubbed the Red Lady of Paviland because of the red ochre stains on...
1661: Parliament passed the Corporation Act, the...
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1661
Parliament
passed the Corporation Act, the first of four Acts making up the Clarendon Code (named after Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
), which strictly limited the rights and practices of Dissenters.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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1685: The Licensing Act, which had lapsed in 1679,...
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1685
The Licensing Act, which had lapsed in 1679, was renewed for a period of ten years only.
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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25 March 1738: The Irish harper, composer, and song-writer...
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/.
17 June 1972: A secret investigation unit made their second...
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17 June 1972
A secret investigation unit made their second break-in at the headquarters of the US Democratic Party
in the Watergate Building in Washington, DC; the investigators were arrested.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
“National archives 1973”. The Guardian, 1 Jan. 2004, pp. 4-5.
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“Watergate’s Deep Throat revealed”. BBC News, 1 June 2005.
May 1937: The Golden Gate Bridge across San Francisco...
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May 1937
The Golden Gate Bridge across San Francisco Bay opened for traffic.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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14 August 1775: American ships raided Bermuda, capturing...
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14 August 1775
American ships raided Bermuda, capturing forts and carrying off all the powder in their magazines.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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From January 1947: Severe weather during this harshest winter...
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From January 1947
Severe weather during this harshest winter since 1883 led to the rationing of coal in Britain. A full-scale fuel crisis ensued as cold weather and blizzards during February and March continued to wreak havoc on...
1923: Anna Freud opened her own private practice...
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1923
Anna Freud
opened her own private practice in child analysis in Vienna.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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July 1874: The Women's Advocate, considered Ireland's...
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July 1874
The Women's Advocate, considered Ireland's first feminist paper, ceased publication in Dublin.
June 1968: Machinists at the Ford plant at Dagenham...
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June 1968
Machinists at the Ford
plant at Dagenham in Essex went on strike for equal pay: a strike which was important in the growth of the Women's Liberation Movement.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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1937: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1884-1924)—published...
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1937
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
(1884-1924)—published in German as Die Verwandlung—first appeared in English, translated by A. L. Lloyd
; its English title was later Metamorphosis.
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.
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By November 1765: A Bristol clergyman published A Dialogue...
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By November 1765
A Bristol clergyman published A Dialogue Concerning the Subjection of Women to their Husbands.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
35 (1765): 530
26 June 1846: The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert...
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26 June 1846
The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert Peel
's Conservative
government, after much agitation by groups such as the Anti-Corn Law League
and in face of the growing urgency of the Great Famine in...
1910: Kathleen Ainslie published Votes for Catherine,...
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1910
Kathleen Ainslie
published Votes for Catherine, Susan and Me, a children's book which is also anti-suffrage propaganda.
Immel, Andrea. “Introduction: Choice Scraps of History: Lloyd E. Cotsen and Modern Children’s Book Collecting”. Princeton University Library: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections: Cotsen Children’s Library, p. xxi - xxvi.
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9 August 1946: The Arts Council of Great Britain received...
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9 August 1946
The Arts Council of Great Britain
received its royal charter; its purpose was to make fine arts more accessible to the public by organizing exhibitions and preserving art.
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
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White, Eric W. The Arts Council of Great Britain. Davis-Poynter, 1975.
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1 January 1936: British Airways began operations after a...
Economist J. A. Hobson
published what is probably his most important work, the influential Imperialism, A Study.
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November 1959: At the Labour Party conference in the wake...
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November 1959
At the Labour Party
conference in the wake of Conservative
electoral victory, leader Hugh Gaitskell
proposed repealing Clause 4 of the party's constitution, the clause that set the goal of common ownership of the means...
18 November 1827: William Hazlitt, in The Examiner, attacked...
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18 November 1827
William Hazlitt
, in The Examiner, attacked what he called the Dandy School of novelists like Theodore Hook
; he used the phrase which originated the term silver fork novel.
Vargo, Lisa. “Lodore and the Novel of Society”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 425-40.
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1991: RU 486, the morning after pill, was approved...
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1991
RU 486, the morning after pill, was approved for use in the UK.
Asbell, Bernard. The Pill: A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World. Random House, 1995.
