Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1901: Phoebe Traquair, leading artist of the arts...
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1901
Phoebe Traquair
, leading artist of the arts and crafts movement in Edinburgh, completed her mural decoration of the interior of the Mansfield Place Church
.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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April 1924: US banker Charles G. Dawes produced a report...
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April 1924
US banker Charles G. Dawes
produced a report known as the Dawes Plan on the controversy surrounding German payment or non-payment of reparations following the First World War.
Stevenson, David. “Casino Politics”. London Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2005, pp. 23-4.
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December 1768: George III signed the papers for establishing...
4 December 2009: The search engine Google initiated the use...
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4 December 2009
The search engine Google
initiated the use of 57 signals to create profiles of all its users from the searches they carry out.
Pariser, Eli. “In our own little internet bubbles”. Guardian Weekly, 24 June 2011, pp. 32-3.
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1880: The French Republic granted amnesty to Communards...
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1880
The French Republic granted amnesty to Communards who had been arrested and sentenced after the fall of the revolutionary Paris Commune
nine years earlier.
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
125
14 October 1663: Samuel Pepys recorded (unsympathetically)...
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14 October 1663
Samuel Pepys
recorded (unsympathetically) his impressions of a service at the LondonSynagogue
; women were out of sight behind a lattice.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
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26 April 1797: The Gentleman's Magazine listed the anticipated...
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26 April 1797
The Gentleman's Magazine listed the anticipated revenue from a modification in Advertising Duty as twenty thousand pounds: the duty was set this year at three shillings.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
67 (1797): 1030
1870: By this date, the word lingerie began to...
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1870
By this date, the word lingerie began to be used in its modern sense.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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16 March 1926: A rocket designed by Robert Goddard at Clark...
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16 March 1926
A rocket designed by Robert Goddard
at Clark University
, Worcester, Massachusetts, made the first free flight of a liquid-fuelled rocket.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
206
Ardley, Neil. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists. Helicon, 1996.
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1806: James S. Carter, a Tourist Outfitter, opened...
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1806
James S. Carter
, a Tourist Outfitter, opened a shop at 369 Oxford Street, London; among his wares was an Alpine boot for walking outdoors, made for men and women.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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19 January 1840: Welsh Chartist leaders John Frost, Zephaniah...
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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1938: An International Red Cross report on Dachau,...
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1938
An International Red Cross
report on Dachau
, extraordinarily, praised the camp as well regulated, the regime as severe but not inhumane, and the treatment of the sick as positively kind.
Waal, Alex de. “Dangers of Discretion”. London Review of Books, 21 Jan. 1999, pp. 27-9.
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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.
106: 62
1724: Under a pseudonym, Bernard Mandeville published...
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1724
Under a pseudonym, Bernard Mandeville
published A Modest Defence of Public Stews: or, An Essay upon Whoring, as it is now Practis'd in these Kingdoms.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
99-100
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.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
July 1900: The Storm-Bell, Josephine Butler's own paper,...
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July 1900
The Storm-Bell, Josephine Butler
's own paper, which carried her views on prostitution in India, etc., ceased publication.
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.
under Josephine Butler
January 1942: Constance Bolan, a housemaid who refused...
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January 1942
Constance Bolan
, a housemaid who refused to comply with a government work-order under the National Service Act of the previous month, became the first woman imprisoned for her pacifist beliefs.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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Author profile
Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880
Sarah Anna Lewis
was a mid-nineteenth-century American poet who is today better known for her association with Edgar Allan Poe
than for her writings. She began her career with frequent periodical publications, then published four...
January 1983: Lotus 1-2-3 was launched: the first computer...
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January 1983
Lotus 1-2-3 was launched: the first computer spreadsheet programme, which revolutionized the speed and ease of instant financial calculations.
Lanchester, John. “See you in court, pal”. London Review of Books, 30 Sept. 1999, pp. 3-7.
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11 September 1709: In a year of difficult military conditions...
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11 September 1709
In a year of difficult military conditions and friction among members of the anti-French alliance, the Duke of Marlborough
won a much trumpeted but in fact somewhat inconclusive victory near the village of Malplaquet.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
July 1991: Dulcie Gray published her autobiography,...
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July 1991
Dulcie Gray
published her autobiography, which she titled Looking Forward, Looking Back.
