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By late October 1942: C. S. Lewis published the book version of...

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By late October 1942

C. S. Lewis published the book version of The Screwtape Letters, an epistolary fiction in which a senior devil, Screwtape, offers advice to his nephew, a junior devil, on tempting and ultimately damning a...

1890: Frederick Macmillan proposed a net pricing...

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1890

Frederick Macmillan proposed a net pricing policy for the sale of books in Great Britain.
Feltes, Norman N. Modes of Production of Victorian Novels. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
77

After 3 May 1606: From allusions in Shakespeare's Macbeth,...

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After 3 May 1606

From allusions in Shakespeare 's Macbeth, it seems that this tragedy was completed after this date.
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction”. Macbeth, edited by Kenneth Muir, Methuen, 1953, p. xi - lxxiv.
xviii-xx

1954: Patricia Moyes published Time Remembered,...

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1954

Patricia Moyes published Time Remembered, a translation of Jean Anouilh 's play Leéocadia.
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19 November 1845: Edgar Allan Poe published The Raven and Other...

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19 November 1845

Edgar Allan Poe published The Raven and Other Poems.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Thomas, Dwight, and David Jackson. The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849. G. K. Hall, 1987.
496, 531, 591

10 October 1887: George Thompson Hutchinson founded Hutchinson...

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10 October 1887

George Thompson Hutchinson founded Hutchinson and Company (Publishers) Limited at 25 Paternoster Row, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
162

20 April 1904: The Church of Ireland, responding to maltreatment...

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20 April 1904

The Church of Ireland , responding to maltreatment of the Jewish community of Limerick, complained to the British government of the persecution of Protestants and Jews in Ireland.
Tóibín, Colm. “’What is your nation, if I may ask?’”. London Review of Books, 30 Sept. 1999, pp. 37-39.
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19 December 2001: Under a newly defined practice of internment,...

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19 December 2001

Under a newly defined practice of internment, a dozen foreign nationals, all male, were arrested and held in Britain on suspicion of links to organizations suspected of terrorist activity.
Peirce, Gareth. “Was it like this for the Irish?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 10 Apr. 2008, pp. 3-8.
3, 5, 6

1800: The Court of King's Bench upheld a father's...

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1800

The Court of King's Bench upheld a father's custody rights in the case of a French emigré named De Manneville, whose English wife had left him, taking their only child.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
39 (1829): 191-2

1845: During this year alone, one London advertising...

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1845

During this year alone, one London advertising agency received over £9,655 in payments from British railway companies for services rendered.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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15 February 1894: French anarchist Martial Bourdin was fatally...

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15 February 1894

French anarchist Martial Bourdin was fatally injured in an apparent attempt to destroy the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park using a home-made bomb.
Harkness, Bruce et al. “Introduction”. The Secret Agent, edited by Bruce Harkness et al., Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. xxiii - xli.
xxiv
Cunningham, Valentine, editor. The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics. Blackwell, 2000.
881
Senaha, Eijun. “A Life of Louisa Sarah Bevington”. The Hokkaido University Annual Report on Cultural Sciences, Vol.
101
, Aug. 2000, pp. 131-49.
141
Oliver, Hermia. The International Anarchist Movement in Late Victorian London. Croom Helm, 1983.
107
Sherry, Norman. Conrad’s Western World. Cambridge University Press, 1971.
242
Quail, John. The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists. Granada, 1978.
162-8

1609: British sailors were stranded by a storm...

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1609

British sailors were stranded by a storm on Bermuda.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 557
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
88

15 March 1909: The Daily Sketch began publication in London;...

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15 March 1909

The Daily Sketch began publication in London; having absorbed the Daily Graphic in 1925, it became known as the The Daily Sketch and Daily Graphic from 1 June 1946, and eventually as the Daily Graphic.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
“1971: Britain’s oldest tabloid closes”. BBC News: On This Day, 11 May 1971.

Probably October 1807: William Hazlitt published A Reply to the...

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Probably October 1807

William Hazlitt published A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
444
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

October 1881-December 1881: Mrs Surr and Helen Taylor, London School...

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October 1881-December 1881

Mrs Surr and Helen Taylor , London School Board members, exposed the terrible conditions at Upton House (industrial school for boys).
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
106

By July 1822: Thomas De Quincey published Confessions of...

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By July 1822

Thomas De Quincey published Confessions of an English Opium Eater in book form, following its serialization in the London Magazine the previous year.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
27 (1822): 554

: John Vanbrugh signed an agreement with Owen...

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Autumn 1706

John Vanbrugh signed an agreement with Owen Swiny , appointing Swiny to manage the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 129

4 February 2004: Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin launched...

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4 February 2004

Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin launched a social-media site called The Facebook for students at Harvard University . It was originally released as FaceMash , a website to determine the attractiveness of female students.
Horton, Alex. “Channeling ‘The Social Network,’ lawmaker grills Zuckerberg on his notorious beginnings”. The Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018.
Horton, Alex. “Channeling ‘The Social Network,’ lawmaker grills Zuckerberg on his notorious beginnings”. The Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018.

April 1757: Six weeks after his marriage, Edmund Burke...

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April 1757

Six weeks after his marriage, Edmund Burke published A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3 (1757): 361-74
Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
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St Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
582

16 March 1864: Robert Smith Surtees, sporting novelist,...

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16 March 1864

Robert Smith Surtees , sporting novelist, died in Brighton, East Sussex.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1908: The first self-closing doors on lifts were...

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1908

The first self-closing doors on lifts were exhibited at the Manchester Electrical Exhibition.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
168

Late 1845: Following Newman's example, Evangelical minister...

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Late 1845

Following Newman 's example, Evangelical minister Frederick Faber converted to Roman Catholicism; he later became the guiding spirit of Victorian popular Catholicism.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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1884: Tory women were admitted to the newly founded...

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1884

Tory women were admitted to the newly founded Primrose League .
Walker, Linda. “Party Political Women: A Comparative Study of Liberal Women and the Primrose League, 1890-1914”. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 165-91.
166, 170-1

8 April 1870: The popular spiritualist newspaper Medium...

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8 April 1870

The popular spiritualist newspaper Medium and Daybreak was founded in London; it ran until 3 May 1895.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
23, 29-30
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1830-49: Douglas Jerrold consolidated his career as...

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1830-49

Douglas Jerrold consolidated his career as a journalist and short-story writer while continuing to write for the theatre.
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
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