Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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25 October 1976: The National Theatre's new home on the South...
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25 October 1976
The National Theatre
's new home on the South Bank officially opened with a royal gala performance of a comedy by Carlo Goldoni
in its larger auditorium, the Olivier.
9 July 1816: The port city of Buenos Aires formally declared...
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9 July 1816
The port city of Buenos Aires formally declared its independence from Spain, which it had been striving for since the upheaval of the Peninsular War. A constitution for a federal nation of Argentina did not...
November 1886: The monthly magazine Lady's World: A Magazine...
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November 1886
The monthly magazine Lady's World: A Magazine of Fashion and Society 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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Rose Macaulay
RM
was highly prolific, publishing during the earlier half of the twentieth century twenty-three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as three books of short stories, several historical and travel narratives, and works...
15 February 1728: The Compleat Housewife: or, The Accomplished...
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15 February 1728
The Compleat Housewife: or, The Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion . . . was published.
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.
By 1836: 400 miles of open railway track existed in...
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By 1836
400 miles of open railway track existed in the UK.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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1901: Hubert Cecil Booth, a British inventor, patented...
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1901
Hubert Cecil Booth
, a British inventor, patented the suction vacuum cleaner.
Williams, Trevor I. A Short History of Twentieth-Century Technology, c.1900-c.1950. Clarendon, 1982.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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By 8 March 1718: A maypole standing in The Strand in London...
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By 8 March 1718
A maypole standing in The Strand in London (destroyed by the Puritans in 1644 after such practices were made illegal, and loyally re-erected on 4 April 1661) was after various vicissitudes finally dismantled.
Rogers, Pat. “The Maypole in the Strand”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
28
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 83-95.
83-6, 88
Autumn 1802: A Miss Shepherd closed her boarding school...
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Autumn 1802
A Miss Shepherd closed her boarding school in Percy Street, London, and opened one in the Chateau de Taillis, 24 kilometres from Rouen in France.
Skedd, Susan. “Women Teachers and the Expansion of Girls’ Schooling in England, c. 1760-1820”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 101-25.
109-10, 123
1855: When Napoleon III and his wife, the Empress...
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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By September 1800: The high price of wheat produced hardship...
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By September 1800
The high price of wheat produced hardship and scarcity in Britain and Ireland.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 30 (1800): 116-7, 458
A hundredweight (a measure of 112 pounds weight or one cwt) must be meant here...
14 May 1920: Time and Tide began publication, offering...
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14 May 1920
Time and Tide began publication, offering a feminist approach to literature, politics, and the arts: Naomi Mitchison
called it the first avowedly feminist literary journal with any class, in some ways ahead of its time...
1945: US naval computer scientist Grace Brewster...
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1945
US naval computer scientist Grace Brewster Hopper
coined the term bug to describe a computer glitch when her team discovered a moth caught in the circuitry of a malfunctioning computer.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
349
11 March 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev was named Secretary of...
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11 March 1985
Mikhail Gorbachev
was named Secretary of the Soviet Communist party, becoming leader of the Soviet Union.
“1985: Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader”. BBC News: On This Day, 11 Mar. 1985.
23 February 1852: The Earl of Derby, Edward Stanley, formed...
Banham, Martin, editor. Plays by Tom Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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22 September 1862: Abraham Lincoln set forth the Emancipation...
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22 September 1862
Abraham Lincoln
set forth the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves held in the states which were now rebel territory of the USA would be free as of 1 January 1863.
June 2018: The US organization VIDA found in its annual...
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June 2018
The US organization VIDA
found in its annual survey of literary reviewing that female writers accounted for less than 40 percent of articles and reviews at more than half of major publications.
Flood, Alison. “Vida survey of gender bias in literary criticism shows ’stubborn imbalance’”. theguardian.com, 19 June 2018.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
52-57, 277
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Kate Parry Frye
KPF
wrote prolifically throughout her life. Her most significant work was her diary, in which she meticulousy recorded her daily life from the age of nine until only four months before her death in 1959...
