Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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October 1691: Following William III's victory over James...
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October 1691
Following William III
's victory over James II
at the Battle of the Boyne the previous summer, the Treaty of Limerick severely curtailed the rights of Irish Roman Catholics to practise their religion, own property...
30 November 1829: Douglas Jerrold's play Thomas à Becket was...
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
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1820: Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind...
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1820
Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown
, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University
, appeared in four volumes in the year of his death.
Harris, James A. “First feeling”. Times Literary Supplement, 5 Mar. 2004, p. 32.
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20 October 1952-12 January 1960: A state of emergency was in force in Kenya...
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20 October 1952-12 January 1960
A state of emergency was in force in Kenya in response to a large-scale peasants' revolt, known as the Mau Mau
Rebellion, among the Kikuyu people.
Reader, John. “Scram from Africa”. London Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2000, pp. 31-4.
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Preston, Peter. “Atrocity at the end of empire”. Guardian Weekly, 28 Jan. 2005, p. 26.
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Porter, Bernard. “How did they get away with it?”. London Review of Books, 3 Mar. 2005, pp. 3-6.
3, 5
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Judith Kazantzis
JK
, a poet, journalist, historical compiler, short-story writer, visual artist, and blogger of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is known for the strong anti-war, anti-establishment stand she takes in her writings. She has also...
Hildegarde of Bingen
was a wide-ranging medieval author. She wrote medical texts, a liturgical play, poetry, songs, biblical commentaries, and hagiographies. Her collected correspondence includes letters to many influential people of her time as well...
February 1792: British forces defeated Tippoo Sahib at Seringapatam,...
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February 1792
British forces defeated Tippoo Sahib
at Seringapatam, in the Third Mysore War.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
62
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
2: 207n3
1898: The Guild of Women Binders held its first...
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
248, 254
12 August 1752: Justice John Fielding defined the crime of...
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12 August 1752
Justice John Fielding
defined the crime of apprentices caught putting on an unlicensed play as mere unlawful assembly; they got off with a reprimand.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 257, 315
30 December 1793: The botanist and collector Anna Blackburne...
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30 December 1793
The botanist and collector Anna Blackburne
died: the Gentleman's Magazine obituary praised her scientific work as well as her virtues.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
64 (1794): 180
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
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6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
“July 6, 1928, Celebrating full women’s suffrage”. Guardian Weekly, 6 July 2007, p. 20.
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1783: The fifteen stage-coaches plying each week...
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1783
The fifteen stage-coaches plying each week between London and Edinburgh contrasted strongly with the single service per month of twenty years earlier.
Buchan, James. “That sh—te Creech”. London Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2007, pp. 13-14.
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March-April 1943: The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple,...
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March-April 1943
The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple
, tried unsuccessfully to persuade the British government to assist persecuted Jews by giving them asylum in Britain.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
392
February 1940: Paper rationing was implemented, restricting...
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February 1940
Paper rationing was implemented, restricting publishers' supply of paper to 60 per cent of their pre-war supplies.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
60-1
27 March 1802: The Peace of Amiens ended the war which had...
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27 March 1802
The Peace of Amiens ended the war which had raged between England and France for nine years.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
295-6, 312-13
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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January 1817: Publisher Henry Colburn founded another periodical,...
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January 1817
Publisher Henry Colburn
founded another periodical, the Literary Gazette, to go with his New Monthly Magazine.
Vargo, Lisa. “Lodore and the Novel of Society”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 425-40.
427
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
147
1657: At Helmsley in Yorkshire a Whitby woman was...
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1657
At Helmsley in Yorkshire a Whitby woman was sentenced to be ducked as a scold.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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February 1968: The Tet offensive (that is, an attack on...
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February 1968
The Tet offensive (that is, an attack on US-held Saigon mounted at the lunar new year by the Vietcong
) emboldened opposition to American power across the Third World.
Anderson, Perry. “Our Man”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 9-12.
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Anderson, Perry. “Our Man”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 9-12.
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1731: The University of Bologna (then included...
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1731
The University of Bologna
(then included in The Papal States) appointed Doctress and ProfessorLaura Bassi
(1711-1778), to the Chair of Anatomy; she later held a philosophy chair from which she taught Newtonian physics for...
October 1947: Stafford Cripps, recently appointed Minister...
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October 1947
Stafford Cripps
, recently appointed Minister for Economic Affairs in the postwar Labour
government, delivered the landmark Economic Survey for 1947. This government white paper set out the principles of democratic planning, reconciling...
11 November 1992: The General Synod of the Church of England...
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11 November 1992
The General Synod of the Church of England
voted to allow women priests; this was the culmination of a long campaign for the ordination of women.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
511, 517
1833: Honoré de Balzac published his novel Eugénie...
