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2 November 1772: Twelve proprietors launched the Morning Post,...

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2 November 1772

Twelve proprietors launched the Morning Post, published by John Wheble and edited by Henry Bate .
Brooke, Frances. The Excursion. Editors Backscheider, Paula R. and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
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6 June 1944: On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed...

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6 June 1944

On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed a day because of bad weather), 155,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy. The airborne armada, nine planes wide and stretching for 200 miles, carried British, Canadian...

1850: The Royal Academy unleashed the full weight...

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1850

The Royal Academy unleashed the full weight of its criticism against the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood .
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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1916: August Strindberg's play The Ghost Sonata,...

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1916

August Strindberg 's play The Ghost Sonata, written in Swedish in 1907, appeared posthumously in English.
Magill, Frank N., editor. Critical Survey of Drama: Foreign Language Series. Salem Press, 1986, 6 vols.
5: 1746

30 March 1882: Melanie Reizes (later Melanie Klein) was...

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30 March 1882

Melanie Reizes (later Melanie Klein ) was born in Vienna.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 169

1 June 1937: Woman, a mass weekly directed at housewives,...

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1 June 1937

Woman, a mass weekly directed at housewives, began publication; it was the first magazine printed in colour.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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Ferguson, Marjorie. Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann, 1983.
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23 June 1849: Louisa Nottidge's relatives were were put...

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23 June 1849

Louisa Nottidge 's relatives were were put on trial for confining her against her will in a lunatic asylum; she was awarded £50 damages.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
72, 74

16 January-9 April 1752: Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant,...

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16 January-9 April 1752

Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant, Bonnell Thornton issued thirteen weekly numbers of a periodical entitled Have at You All; or, The Drury Lane Journal.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
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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.

1913: Harvard University Press was founded in Cambridge,...

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1913

Harvard University Press was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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1949: The Royal Irish Academy elected its first...

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1949

The Royal Irish Academy elected its first women members: art historian Françoise Henry , botanist and plant virologist Phyllis Clinch , Celtic scholar Eleanor Knott , and mathematical physicist Sheila Tinney .
Royal Irish Academy (RIA): About RIA: Academy Brochure. http://www.ria.ie/about/pdfs/brochure.pdf.

By March 1774: Warren Hastings became the first English...

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By March 1774

Warren Hastings became the first English Governor-General of India.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
318
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
2:136

By November 1695: Thomas Southerne (or Southern)'s Oroonoko,...

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By November 1695

Thomas Southerne (or Southern)'s Oroonoko, a tragedy adapted for the stage from Aphra Behn 's novel of the same title (his second recent stage adaptation of Behn), had its first performance.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

Rose Allatini

RA is known for a single novel, Despised and Rejected, 1918, whose pacifist and homosexual content has attracted critics. Yet her career as author of almost forty known novels and a few short stories...

Elizabeth Beverley

EB 's works, all opportunistic money-raisers, are pamphlets of many different kinds, dating from the early nineteenth century. Their production was closely connected with her career as a stage performer. Some are in verse, while...

Sarah Harriet Burney

SHB was an early nineteenth-century novelist and letter-writer (though she began to publish before the end of the eighteenth century). Her achievements in both these genres have been obscured by those of her sister Frances...
Sarah Harriet Burney

1854: Leonie d'Aunet published at Paris Voyage...

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1854

Leonie d'Aunet published at ParisVoyage d'une femme au Spitzberg (Voyage of a Woman to Spitsbergen), recounting her journey to northern Scandinavia.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France. http://www.bnf.fr/.
Sandler, Corey. Henry Hudson. Kensington Publishing, 2007.
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June 1714: Sophia of Brunswick, Electress of Hanover,...

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June 1714

Sophia of Brunswick , Electress of Hanover, died two months before her cousin Queen Anne .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

6 October 1891: Charles Parnell, Irish patriot, died at Brighton...

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6 October 1891

Charles Parnell , Irish patriot, died at Brighton in Sussex; Virginia Woolf used his death to date the second section in her novel The Years, 1937.
Woolf, Virginia. The Years. Hogarth Press, 1979.
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Gustave Doré

26 May 1770: Oliver Goldsmith published his best-known...

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26 May 1770

Oliver Goldsmith published his best-known poem, The Deserted Village.
Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966, 5 vols.
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Elizabeth Bury

EB was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican , which after the Restoration became Dissenting ) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and...
Elizabeth Bury Oval line print of Elizabeth Bury by J. Burden, 1777 (more that fifty years after her death). Her hair is fashionably styled on top of her head with a couple of locks hanging down. She is wearing a dress with white at neckline and cuffs and her name, " Mrs. Elizabeth Bury", is written below.

23 November 1938: The BBC televised underwater scenes for the...

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23 November 1938

The BBC televised underwater scenes for the first time, during a training session for divers.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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By 27 November 1886: Rosa Mulholland published Marcella Grace:...

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By 27 November 1886

Rosa Mulholland published Marcella Grace: An Irish Novel, as Rosa M. Gilbert.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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15 July 1819: Byron began to publish in instalments (opening...

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15 July 1819

Byron began to publish in instalments (opening with cantos one and two) his satirical mock-epic poem Don Juan; he left it unfinished at his death.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

July 1990: A British judge sentenced a man to three...

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July 1990

A British judge sentenced a man to three years in prison for raping his estranged wife; this potentially extended the law on marital rape (which was still illegal only if a wife had already obtained...