Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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January 1961: A B-52 aircraft flying over North Carolina...
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January 1961
A B-52 aircraft flying over North Carolina exploded in the air carrying hydrogen bombs. The populations of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington were reprieved from death when just one among several safety mechanisms...
28 March 1681: Charles II dissolved a very short-lived parliament...
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28 March 1681
Charles II
dissolved a very short-lived parliament (the second that year), which was, for the third time, about to pass an Exclusion Bill barring his brother James
from the succession.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
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Henning, Basil Duke, editor. The House of Commons, 1660-1690. Secker and Warburg, 1983, 3 vols.
1: 86
1849: Henry Charles Harrod took over the small...
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1849
Henry Charles Harrod
took over the small grocery shop of a friend in Brompton Road, London; this was the birth of Harrods
department store.
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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25 December 1898: Imperial Penny Postage was proclaimed to...
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25 December 1898
Imperial Penny Postage was proclaimed to most of the British Empire.
Staff, Frank. The Penny Post, 1680-1918. Lutterworth Press, 1964.
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1832: Mehemet Ali of Egypt conquered Syria and...
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1832
Mehemet Ali
of Egypt conquered Syria and threatened to attack Constantinople.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
130
30 December 1657: Mystical writer Thomas Traherne was admitted...
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30 December 1657
Mystical writer Thomas Traherne
was admitted as rector of the small, poor village of Credenhill in Herefordshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1952: Angus Wilson published Hemlock and After,...
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1952
Angus Wilson
published Hemlock and After, which Margaret Drabble
in 2008 called one of the first gay novels to hit the postwar world.
“Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, 3 May 2008, pp. Review 4 - 6.
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“Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, 3 May 2008, pp. Review 4 - 6.
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1648: Robert Herrick published his collection of...
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1648
Robert Herrick
published his collection of poems, Hesperides.
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September 1936: Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, edited in Chicago...
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September 1936
Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, edited in Chicago by Harriet Monroe
, ceased publication under her editorship.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
277
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Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
50
: Each adult in England, of either sex, was...
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Spring 1554
Each adult in England, of either sex, was required by their bishop to make a formal statement of Catholic
faith before they were eligible to make their Easter Communion.
Duffy, Eamon. “Rolling Back the Reformation”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2008, pp. 27-9.
28
1824: The Lying-In Hospital in London began training...
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
146
19 June 1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshovka...
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19 June 1963
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshovka returned to Earth aboard the spaceship Vostok VI, after making forty-eight revolutions of the globe in less than three days and becoming the first woman to circle the globe in...
By 13 October 1877: Lucy Walford published Pauline, a novel....
July 1946: The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals...
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July 1946
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals
indicated that the state (the universities' main source of funding) should ensure that the universities functioned in the national interest.
Historian George F. Kneller sees this as particularly significant...
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Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian feminist author NES
wrote hard-hitting polemic on social and political topics (unjust legal systems, interrogation, censorship, misuse of political power) and especially women's topics—clitoridectomy, prostitution, forced marriage, rape, honour killing, the hijab, and other...
Chalus, Elaine. “’That epidemical Madness’: women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth century”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 151-78.
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Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson
EFG, an American poet writing in the later eighteenth century (who also ran the first American literary salon), was remarkable for the ambitious scope of her writing. As well as occasional verse and translation, she...
By 1927: English Electric was producing cookers, bowl...
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By 1927
English Electric
was producing cookers, bowl fires, and irons to sell to the domestic British market.
Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
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1826: Everywoman's Book or What is Love?, by Richard...
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1826
Everywoman's Book or What is Love?, by Richard Carlile
, was first published as an 18-penny pamphlet.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.
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1824: The Jamaica Assembly, as representatives...
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1824
The Jamaica Assembly, as representatives of the people (that is, of the white plantation owners), declared their determination to resist attempts by the British Parliament
to implement abolition of slavery.
Almeida, Joselyn M. “Locating Romanticism’s Transatlantic Song”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
10
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1999, pp. 401-23.
410-11
1859: A monthly periodical for women entitled the...
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1859
A monthly periodical for women entitled the What-Not, or Ladies' Handy-Book began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
