Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Hannah Webster Foster
HWF
published a landmark sentimental novel and a fictional-didactic text at Boston, Massachusetts, in the final decade of the eighteenth century. She also wrote for periodicals.
AMS
is to all intents and purposes a one-work author. Her eighteenth-century epistolary novel, The Old Maid; or, The History of Miss Ravensworth, is vigorous and highly unusual; but any other work is still untraced.
4 April 1850: The North London Collegiate School for Ladies,...
5 November 1686: Mother Frances Bedingfield (using, for safety,...
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5 November 1686
Mother Frances Bedingfield
(using, for safety, the alias Frances Long) signed the contract for the purchase of property on the site of the present Bar Convent
in York, to use as a girls' school
.
Gregory, M., and Isobel Grundy. Email about Mother Mary Davies to Isobel Grundy. 19 Apr. 2002.
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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12 March-1 October 1713: Richard Steele published a periodical entitled...
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12 March-1 October 1713
Richard Steele
published a periodical entitled the Guardian.
Steele, Sir Richard et al., editors. The Guardian. University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
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Later 1778: Ann Wilson published her 1600-line poem Teisa,...
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Later 1778
Ann Wilson
published her 1600-line poem Teisa, describing, with moral reflections, the landscape, towns, antiquities, and history around the course of the River Tees.
Keegan, Bridget. “Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Women’s Locodescriptive Poetry: The Case of Ann Wilson’s ’Teisa’”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 17 Mar. 2001.
1970-1975: The Boston Women's Health Book Collective's...
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1970-1975
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective
's Our Bodies, Ourselves earned the collective over $500,000 in royalties with sales of more than one million copies.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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2 February 1785: The recently imposed window-tax (not the...
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2 February 1785
The recently imposed window-tax (not the first, but the most notorious tax of this kind) provoked the publication of an ironic mock sermon about it.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
59 (1785): 154
February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...
Byatt, A. S. Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction. Editor Bell, Hazel K., University of Toronto, 2001.
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Lewis, D. B. Wyndham et al. The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. 2nd edition, Capricorn, 1962.
1886: Henry Allbutt published The Wife's Handbook,...
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1886
Henry Allbutt
published The Wife's Handbook, which included a chapter on birth control.
Porter, John F., editor. The Control of Human Fertility. 2nd ed., Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987.
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Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
169
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
126
John Porter has the date of publication as 1885 rather than 1886. I have given Peter Fryer's 1886...
By October 1794: Charles Pigott anonymously published his...
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By October 1794
Charles Pigott
anonymously published his scurrilous personal lampoon on upper-class women: The Female Jockey Club, or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 12 (1794): 238
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6 October 1592: Thomas Kyd registered with the Stationers'...
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6 October 1592
Thomas Kyd
registered with the Stationers' CompanyThe Spanish Tragedy, which was anonymously published and staged the same year.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1832: The Select Committee on Dramatic Literature...
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1832
The Select Committee on Dramatic Literature considered factors affecting theatre audiences.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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May 1910: The Woman Journalist, the organ of the Society...
Josephine Saxton
's feminist science fiction tale The Travails of Jane Saint was published.
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1847: The Fast Man's Phrase Book was published,...
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1847
The Fast Man's Phrase Book was published, offering a translation of the fop lexicon.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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Susanna Parr
SP
was a religious apologist and polemicist: that is, once only, in 1659, when provoked by personal controversy within her former Independent
congregation, she put an assertive self-defence in print.
1912: The Board of Censors began to issue film...
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1912
The Board of Censors
began to issue film ratings of 'U' for universal, meaning acceptable for all ages, and 'A', meaning suitable for adults only.
Bishop, James. The Illustrated London News Social History of the First World War. Angus and Robertson, 1982.
120
22 March 1896: Thomas Hughes, novelist, died at Brighton,...
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22 March 1896
Thomas Hughes
, novelist, died at Brighton, East Sussex.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
163
January 1972: Tom Stoppard's comedy Jumpers opened at the...
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January 1972
Tom Stoppard
's comedy Jumpers opened at the Old Vic Theatre in London during the three-year period during which the USA was sending astronauts to the moon.
Shapin, Steven. “What did you expect?”. London Review of Books, 1 Sept. 2005, pp. 31-2.
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Julia Kristeva
JK
is one of the three French feminist theorists whose writings dominated the field of British and especially French and North American literary criticism and humanities scholarship during the 1980s and 1990s. Particularly influential have...
1 February 1806: The monthly magazine La Belle Assemblée began...
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1 February 1806
The monthly magazine La Belle Assemblée began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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Thomas Hardy
TH
was a poet by vocation and became a novelist by profession. The Wessex of his novels has made him arguably a regional novelist. As well as a prolific output in both these forms, he...
