Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1861: Prussian voters elected a strongly liberal...
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1861
Prussian voters elected a strongly liberal parliament.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
89-90
1811: Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital moved from Moorfields...
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1811
Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital
moved from Moorfields in the City of London across the Thames to St George's Fields in Southwark.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
219
1840s to 1860s: A fern craze followed Nathaniel Ward's invention...
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1840s to 1860s
A fern craze followed Nathaniel Ward
's invention of a case for transporting growing plants.
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
VII: 28
30 June 1865: The Anglican Community of the Mission Sisters...
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
394-5
29 August 1890: The Irish Art Museum opened in Dublin....
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
60
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1379 (1 April 1854): 411-2
1904: British troops under Sir Francis Younghusband...
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1904
British troops under Sir Francis Younghusband
invaded Tibet (nominally under Chinese rule but feared to be leaning towards Russia); 2,000 Tibetans died in the invasion, as against forty British soldiers.
Macfarlane, Robert. “The Nominated Boy”. London Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2001, pp. 30-2.
30
July 1819: John Keats's Ode to a Nightingale, written...
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July 1819
John Keats
's Ode to a Nightingale, written in May, appeared in a journal called Annals of the Fine Arts.
Keats, John. Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends. Editor Colvin, Sir Sidney, Macmillan, 1891.
272 n2
22 July 1949: The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire...
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22 July 1949
The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire where Jane Austen
lived with her mother and sister from 1809 until her death was opened to the public, having been bought for three thousand pounds...
March 1893: Doves Bindery was established by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
330
By 13 November 1886: Maxwell Gray (whose real name was Mary Gleed...
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By 13 November 1886
Maxwell Gray
(whose real name was Mary Gleed Tuttiet
) published her well-known and highly successful novel The Silence of Dean Maitland.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3081 (1886): 631
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946.
151
23 July 1796: Horrid Mysteries. A Story, translated by...
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23 July 1796
Horrid Mysteries. A Story, translated by P. Will
from Karl Friedrich August Grosse
(one of the gothic horrid novels of Austen
's Northanger Abbey), was advertised as just out.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
Garside 1: 675
11 February 1878: The British Meteorological Office issued...
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
302
1975: Family allowances were amalgamated with child...
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1975
Family allowances were amalgamated with child tax allowances to create Child Benefit.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
22
Fairbairns, Zoë. “Wages for Housework”. New Internationalist, No. 181, Mar. 1988.
July 1927: Close up. Devoted to the Art of Film began...
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July 1927
Close up. Devoted to the Art of Film began monthly publication in Territet near Montreux, Switzerland.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
276
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
129-30
27 August 1950: The BBC made its first live television broadcast...
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27 August 1950
The BBC
made its first live television broadcast from the Continent (from Calais) using outside broadcast equipment.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
381
September 1868: Revolution in Spain occurred. Queen Isabella...
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September 1868
Revolution in Spain occurred. Queen Isabella II
was subsequently ousted, and the revolutionary party favoured a constitutional government headed by a new sovereign.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
93
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
252
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
13 September 1742: Frances Williams wrote a letter of pure anger...
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13 September 1742
Frances Williams
wrote a letter of pure anger to her husband
, who had hinted that she must have infected him with venereal disease when it was actually the other way round.
Stewart, Mary Margaret. “’And Blights with Plagues the Marriage Hearse’: Syphilis and Wives”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 103-13.
106-10
10 December 1996: Wislawa Szymborska of Poland was awarded...
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10 December 1996
Wislawa Szymborska
of Poland was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.
1934-1935: The Great Dust Bowl devastated agricultural...
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1934-1935
The Great Dust Bowl devastated agricultural production and the lives of farm people on the North American prairies.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
206
1 June 1711: From this day, by Act of Parliament, postal...
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1 June 1711
From this day, by Act of Parliament
, postal services were established and regulated between London, Edinburgh, Dublin, New York, and the West Indies.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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1839: John Lloyd Stephens and artist Frederick...
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1839
John Lloyd Stephens
and artist Frederick Catherwood
travelled to Central America to locate and investigate the Copán ruins; they discovered that these were remains of the Mayan civilization.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
304
15 April 1736: The Porteous Riots occurred in Edinburgh...
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15 April 1736
The Porteous Riots occurred in Edinburgh.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
338
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
984
8 April 1886: The first Irish Home Rule bill was proposed...
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8 April 1886
The first Irish Home Rule bill was proposed and defeated.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
64
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
