Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1901: Douglas Cockerell published his influential...
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1901
Douglas Cockerell
published his influential Bookbinding and the Care of Books in London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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By 15 April 1882: Elinor Louisa Huddart, writing as Louisa...
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.
1875: The Local Government Board of London stressed...
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1875
The Local Government Board of London stressed that all public infirmaries should train and supply their own nurses; this reflected the high demand for professional nurses throughout the country.
White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.
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13 July 2006: A rare book sale at Sotheby's brought under...
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13 July 2006
A rare book sale at Sotheby's
brought under the hammer both a First Folio of the works of Shakespeare
and a copy of the first edition of Woolf
's Orlando inscribed to Vita Sackville-West
.
Mullan, John. “The Book’s the Thing”. Guardian Unlimited, 13 July 2006.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Casteras, Susan P., and Linda H. Peterson. A Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and Authors. Yale Center for British Art, 1994.
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Elizabeth Mary Parker
EMP
is among the few working-class women writers of the Victorian period to have reached print in volume form, with a romance novel.
1930: A human egg cell was seen for the first time...
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1930
A human egg cell was seen for the first time through a microscope.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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11 September 1944: Allied troops first entered Germany....
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11 September 1944
Allied troops first entered Germany.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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1853: Baron Haussmann was appointed Prefect of...
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1853
Baron Haussmann
was appointed Prefect of the Seine to rebuild the city of Paris.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1873: Administrative consternation was caused when...
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1873
Administrative consternation was caused when the top-ranked candidate in the Oxford Senior Local Examination turned out to be a woman, or girl: the seventeen-year-old Annie Rogers
. Girls had been eligible to sit these exams...
10 May 1775: The Second Continental Congress met in P...
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10 May 1775
The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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15 May 1730: Sir Robert Walpole's Whig ministry was confirmed...
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15 May 1730
Sir Robert Walpole
's Whig ministry was confirmed in power following the general election.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Dorothy Wordsworth
DW
is chiefly remembered for her Romantic-period journals, especially for her descriptions of the detail of nature, landscape, growth, and seasonal change. The journals, however, are equally remarkable for observing the doings of people: both...
