Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Emma Parker
EP
is a skilled though obscure novelist and essayist publishing in the 1810s, whose works were well received and have much to offer today's reader. She was articulately concerned about the craft of novel-writing, and...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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26 June 1885: The first of two letters to the Times of...
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26 June 1885
The first of two letters to the Times of India by Rukhmabai
appeared under the pseudonym A Hindu Lady.
Chandra, Sudhir. Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law, and Women’s Rights. Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Burton, Antoinette. “Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain”. Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century, edited by George Robb and Nancy Erber, New York University Press, 1999, pp. 33-56.
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1977: Calling All Women, a magazine for ex-suffragettes,...
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1977
Calling All Women, a magazine for ex-suffragettes, ceased publication.
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.
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1806: Claire de Duras issued in a small, limited...
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1806
Claire de Duras
issued in a small, limited edition her short French novel Ourika, about a Senegalese woman of slave origin.
Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de et al. Ourika. Translator Fowles, John, Modern Language Association of America, 1994.
prelims
August 1667: John Dryden published An Essay of Dramatick...
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August 1667
John Dryden
published An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, bearing the title-page date of 1668.
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.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
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10 May to 14 August 1813: The British Institution held a retrospective...
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10 May to 14 August 1813
The British Institution
held a retrospective exhibition of 141 paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds
at its Pall Mall Picture Galleries: a major event of the social season, both cultural and patriotic.
Barchas, Janine. What Jane Saw. 2013, http://www.whatjanesaw.org.
1723: Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who improved the...
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1723
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
, who improved the microscope and identified some types of bacteria, died in Delft, Holland.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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1861: Francis Turner Palgrave edited and published...
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1861
Francis Turner Palgrave
edited and published The Golden Treasury of Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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By May 1797: William Wilberforce published A Practical...
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By May 1797
William Wilberforce
published A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country contrasted with real Christianity.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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1849: The British Female Emigrant Society was founded...
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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Elizabeth Taylor
ET
published, during the mid to late twentieth century, twelve novels, four collections of short stories, and a handful of essays. As a writer of high calibre whose favourite effects are built on understatement and...
1 June 1900: At Kiowa, Kansas, USA, Carrie or Carry A....
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1 June 1900
At Kiowa, Kansas, USA, Carrie or Carry A. Nation
began the campaign for Prohibition by breaking up saloons.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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Carry A. Nation: Historical Marker in Kiowa, Barber County, Kansas, USA. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/history/cnation.html.
19 May 1662: The Act of Uniformity made use of the revised...
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19 May 1662
The Act of Uniformity made use of the revised Book of Common Prayer compulsory in England and Wales; it came into use within three months.
Collinson, Patrick. “Holy-Rowly-Powliness”. London Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2001, pp. 33-4.
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1707: Fortnum and Mason's grocery shop was founded...
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1707
Fortnum and Mason's
grocery shop was founded by two former footmen to the court of Queen Anne.
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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By late July 1963: Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) issued the first...
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By late July 1963
Rosemary Tonks
(1928-2014) issued the first of her two volumes of poetry, Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms, which was a Poetry Book Society
recommendation. The second collection, Iliad of Broken Sentences, appeared in 1967.
McGuinness, Patrick. “On Rosemary Tonks”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 13, 2 July 2015, pp. 28-9.
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1972: The 600 members of the Panarà tribe, living...
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1972
The 600 members of the Panarà tribe, living in a remote part of Brazil, were first contacted by the outside world; by the end of the century 90% of them were dead.
Grig, Sophie. “Spare the Jarawa the deadly urge to ’civilise’ them”. Guardian Weekly, 7–13 Sept. 2000, p. 25.
