Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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10 December 1917: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the...
November 1915: Women's Police Volunteers were recognized...
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November 1915
Women's Police Volunteers
were recognized by the Grantham Town Council as members of the local police force, becoming the first paid women police in local forces in Great Britain.
Allen, Mary S. The Pioneer Policewoman. AMS Press, 1973.
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1819: Surgeon William Lawrence's publication of...
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1819
Surgeon William Lawrence
's publication of his lectures on the Natural History of Man caused a scandal because conservatives believed it reduced humans to the level of animals.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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1850: The manufacture of perambulators began in...
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1850
The manufacture of perambulators began in England.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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30 August 1963: Nearly a year after the Cuban missile crisis,...
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30 August 1963
Nearly a year after the Cuban missile crisis, a hot-line telephone was installed linking the Kremlin in Moscow (seat of the government of the USSR) and the White House in Washington, DC.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
30 August 2011
7 January 2010: Nadifa Mohamed (Somali-born in 1961 and now...
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7 January 2010
Nadifa Mohamed
(Somali-born in 1961 and now a British writer) published her first novel, Black Mamba Boy.
December 1713: Richard Steele published Poetical Miscellanies;...
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December 1713
Richard Steele
published Poetical Miscellanies; it included poems by Pope
, Anne Finch
, and himself (including praise of the unnamed and only recently identified young Elizabeth Tollet
).
Londry, Michael. Thomas Parnell’s Poem ’To a Young Lady’ as Addressed to Elizabeth Tollet. 1998.
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Ketaki Kushari Dyson
KKD
(poet, novelist, playwright, translator, scholar, and critic of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries) grew up and was educated in Calcutta, but has lived in or near Oxford for most of her adult life...
November 1746: Mary Hamilton was convicted of crimes of...
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November 1746
Mary Hamilton
was convicted of crimes of deception including marrying a series of women while posing as a man; Henry Fielding
published The Female Husband about the case.
Fielding, Henry. The Female Husband, and Other Writings. Editor Jones, Claude E., Liverpool University Press, 1960, http://BLC.
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Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. The Female Husband, and Other Writings, edited by Claude E. Jones, Liverpool University Press, 1960.
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After March 1866: On the death of prominent Victorian psychiatrist...
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After March 1866
On the death of prominent Victorian psychiatrist John Conolly
, his son-in-law and leading Darwinist psychiatrist Henry Maudsley
wrote a scathing official memoir.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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30 May 1911: The first Indianapolis 500 motor race was...
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30 May 1911
The first Indianapolis 500 motor race was held.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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1895: Chatto and Windus published The Professor's...
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1895
Chatto and Windus
published The Professor's Experiment, a novel by Margaret Hungerford
(who was near the end of her life but not yet slackening in productivity).
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.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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15 February 1782: Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met...
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15 February 1782
Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers
met at Dungannon and adopted resolutions in favour of Ireland's independence from England and relaxation of the Penal Laws.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
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Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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Lili Elbe
LE
, born in Denmark in 1882, was an artist rather than an author. She wrote one major work: her life narrative about her years as a man, her embrace of her female identity, and...
AW
wrote poetry, two novels (one for children), drama, and journalism, including book reviews and criticism, in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Despite her translations from and imaginative interpretations of classical literature, her...
March 1952: The British identity cards which had been...
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March 1952
The British identity cards which had been issued in time of war (from 29 September 1939), were finally discontinued.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
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Richmal Crompton
Richmal Crompton
's great popularity during her lifetime and her later enduring fame rest on her extraordinary outpouring of William stories for children, published between 1922 and 1970. There were thirty-eight books of William stories...
1901: Surveys of the poor conducted in London and...
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1901
Surveys of the poor conducted in London and York by Charles Booth
(in a volume of Life and Labour of the People in London) and Seebohm Rowntree
(in Poverty: a Study of Town Life...
16-27 May 1919: The first transatlantic flight was made in...
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16-27 May 1919
The first transatlantic flight was made in three stages by United States Navy
pilot Lieutenant Commander A. C. Read and his crew.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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27-29 April 1994: The first democratic general election in...
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27-29 April 1994
The first democratic general election in South Africa made Nelson Mandela
the first president of the new, non-apartheid, republic.
South African History online. 30 Mar. 2005, http://www.sahistory.org.za/.
Hall, Florence Howe. “Back to the Garden”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
