Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1924: A report on Maternal Mortality by Dame Janet...
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1924
A report on Maternal Mortality by Dame Janet Campbell
, published by the Ministry of Health
, found that induced abortions were widespread, especially in industrial areas in the UK.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Leap, Nicky, and Billie Hunter. The Midwife’s Tale: An Oral History from Handywoman to Professional Midwife. Scarlet Press, 1993.
212
December 1728: George II's eldest son, then Frederick Augustus,...
Backscheider, Paula R. “The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-102.
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Marcel Proust
French novelist, whose novel sequence A la recherche du temps perdu, published between 1913 and 1927, blends memory, invention, and psychological study of the human response to time passing. It has been almost immeasurably influential.
Twentieth-century popular writer JP
wrote over 200 novels under seven different pseudonyms: some eighty-seven historical novels as Jean Plaidy, at least thirty-one gothic romances as Victoria Holt, and another nineteen historical romances as Philippa Carr...
8 August 1880: The ship Jeddah, flying the British flag...
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8 August 1880
The ship Jeddah, flying the British flag and carrying almost a thousand Malayan Muslims on pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, was towed into Aden, leaking badly, three weeks after sailing from Singapore.
Gilsenan, Michael. “And you, what are you doing here?”. London Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2006, pp. 3-7.
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14 December 1995: The Dayton Peace Accords, formally known...
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14 December 1995
The Dayton Peace Accords, formally known as the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, were signed in Paris after their conception in November at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton.
“The Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia”. University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, 25 Feb. 2002.
“Summary of The Dayton Peace Agreement”. United States of America State Department, 11 Dec. 1995.
“Hopes Betrayed: Trafficking of Women and Girls to Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina for Forced Prostitution”. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vol.
14
, No. 9, Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2002.
April 1780: The radical John Cartwright founded the Society...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Madeleine Lucette Ryley
MLR
's brief career as a dramatist (which she turned to because it enabled a more settled life than acting) spanned only about seventeen years, from 1890 to 1907. She began with hack work...
13 June 1956: INTERPOL (the International Criminal Police...
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13 June 1956
INTERPOL
(the International Criminal Police Organization) was set up in order to facilitate co-operation between police forces of different nations.
International Organizations and Groups. http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/org-fact.html#ec.
April 1982: Shocking Pink, an alternative anti-sexist...
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April 1982
Shocking Pink, an alternative anti-sexist magazine for teenage women, ceased publication.
20 January 1980: President Jimmy Carter announced that America...
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20 January 1980
President Jimmy Carter
announced that America would boycott the MoscowOlympics
in an attempt to pressure the Soviet Union, which had invaded Afghanistan at the end of 1979.
“Olympic Games, Moscow 1980, Did you know?”. International Olympic Committee.
Morse, Eric. “Be careful whom you boycott”. The Globe and Mail, 27 Mar. 2008, p. A19.
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1769: Edward Bancroft published his Essay on the...
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1769
Edward Bancroft
published his Essay on the Natural History of Guiana, which includes arguments for the moral justification of slavery.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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From January 1924: Following the death of Lenin, Josef Stalin,...
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From January 1924
Following the death of Lenin
, Josef Stalin
, who had already achieved great power in the Soviet Communist Party
because of Lenin's illness, became its acknowledged leader after a bitter and secret power struggle.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1890: An Order in Council instituted mandatory...
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1890
An Order in Council instituted mandatory retirement of all Civil Servants at sixty-five, and gave Department Heads the discretionary authority to ask an employee to retire after sixty.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
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Mary Carleton
MC
, who was active in London in the Restoration years, was at some level or other a confidence trickster or woman living on her wits. When she stood trial and became the subject of...
July 1902: Female suffrage was exercised in federal...
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July 1902
Female suffrage was exercised in federal elections in Australia.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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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.
1877: Octavia Hill founded the Kyrle Society; this...
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1877
Octavia Hill
founded the Kyrle Society
; this organization sought to bring beauty to the lives of the poor, through the creation of public parks, private gardens, and home decor.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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23 March 1899: The Woman's Signal, a temperance periodical,...
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23 March 1899
The Woman's Signal, a temperance periodical, ceased publication in London.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
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Elinor James
EJ
was a publisher and political writer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, as well as a tireless admonisher of monarchs and fervent supporter of the Church of England
. Her tone has...
