Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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: Following an agreement of the British government...
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Summer 1953
Following an agreement of the British government to import German cars to the value of two million pounds over the next year, the Volkswagen
(or people's car) went on sale in Britain.
“’People’s Car’ makes UK debut”. Guardian Weekly, 8 June 2007, p. 22.
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1782: George Romney painted a picture to illustrate...
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
607, 609
25 August 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to...
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25 August 1932
Amelia Earhart
became the first woman to cross the United States in a non-stop flight.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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22 August 1748: The nuns of the Bar Convent at York were...
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22 August 1748
The nuns of the Bar Convent
at York were issued with notice to quit by this date, in conformity with the anti-Catholic penal laws, by York cathedral cleric Dr Jacques Sterne
.
Kirkus, Sister M. Gregory. The Archives of the Bar Convent, York, UK.
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1833-1834: Another uprising occurred in Italy against...
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1833-1834
Another uprising occurred in Italy against the ruling Austrian power; it failed.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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Jane Warton
JW
tried her hand at various genres of literature during the later eighteenth century, without making any one her own. She published poetry, essays, conduct books, and a remarkable novel. She may have been an...
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
248
1927: Victor Gollancz established his own publishing...
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1927
Victor Gollancz
established his own publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
201
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
340
April 1913: The Free Church Suffrage Times began pub...
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April 1913
The Free Church Suffrage Times began publication.
Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.
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7 April 1939: Italy under Mussolini further pursued its...
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7 April 1939
Italy under Mussolini
further pursued its expansionist policy by invading Albania.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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December 1681: The Privy Council moved against Quakers and...
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December 1681
The Privy Council
moved against Quakers
and Dissenters by enforcing past orders against them, like the Clarendon Code, which dated 1661 and the few years thereafter.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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7 August 1832: The Irish Reform Act increased the number...
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7 August 1832
The Irish Reform Act increased the number of Irish seats in the British Parliament
from 100 to 105 and introduced a £10, male-only franchise in Irish boroughs.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
606
Curtis, Liz. The Cause of Ireland: From the United Irishmen to Partition. Beyond the Pale Publications, 1994.
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1925: The Black US singer Josephine Baker, aged...
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1925
The Black US singer Josephine Baker
, aged nineteen, met with phenomenal success in Paris; she was seen as exemplifying the Jazz Age on one hand and a new racial consciousness on the other.
Nkosi, Lewis. “An UnAmerican in New York”. London Review of Books, 24 Aug. 2000, pp. 30-2.
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Rogin, Michael. “Mon Pays”. London Review of Books, 22 Mar. 2001, pp. 21-3.
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September 1919: The Malthusian League proposed to set up...
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September 1919
The Malthusian League
proposed to set up the first British birth control clinic in London.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
189
8 June 1886: Gladstone's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was...
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8 June 1886
Gladstone
's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was defeated. The issue split his party, the Liberals
, and eventually the Liberal-Unionists were absorbed into the Conservatives
.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
424-5, 609
Kidd, Colin. “Coalition Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 5, 6 Mar. 2014, pp. 27-8.
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11 June 1866: The Contagious Diseases Act was amended....
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11 June 1866
The Contagious Diseases Act was amended.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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McHugh, Paul. Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform. 1980th ed., Croom Helm, 1980.
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9 June 1705 : John Vanbrugh was officially appointed architect,...
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9 June 1705
John Vanbrugh
was officially appointed architect, with the assistance of Nicholas Hawksmoor
, to build Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire as a national thank-offering to the Duke of Marlborough
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Vanbrugh
January 1777: The Magazine à la Mode, or Fashionable Miscellany...
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January 1777
The Magazine à la Mode, or Fashionable Miscellany was published in London for a single issue.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
9 March 1954: On Equal Pay Day, petitions with 680,000...
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9 March 1954
On Equal Pay Day, petitions with 680,000 signatures were presented at Westminster.
Potter, Allen. “The Equal Pay Campaign Committee: a case study of a pressure group”. Political Studies, Vol.
5
, No. 1, 1957, pp. 49-64.
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1872: The Royal School of Art Needlework was founded...
Cumming, Elizabeth, and Wendy Kaplan. The Arts and Crafts Movement. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
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Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 1983.
10 October 1957: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, her last novel,...
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10 October 1957
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
, her last novel, set her Objectivist philosophy in stone: I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your...
Edwards, Elizabeth. “The Culture of Femininity in Women’s Teacher Training Colleges 1914-1945”. This Working-Day World: Women’s Lives and Culture(s) in Britain, 1914-1945, edited by Sybil Oldfield, Taylor and Francis, 1994, pp. 54-67.
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Autumn 1834: Charles Babbage envisioned the Analytical...
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Autumn 1834
Charles Babbage
envisioned the Analytical Engine or calculating machine, an advance on his previous work on the Difference Engine and precursor to the modern computer.
Hyman, Anthony. Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer. Princeton University Press, 1982.
1, 164-6, 253
Hyman, Anthony, editor. Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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Swade, Doron. Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines. Science Museum, 1991.
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Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. Scarecrow Press, 1993.
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Baum, Joan. The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron. Archon Books, 1986.
66ff, 105
October 1907: Votes for Women, the official organ of the...
King, Elspeth. “The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement”. Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800-1945, edited by Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, pp. 121-50.
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Lady Mary Wroth
LMW
achieved two firsts with a single publication in 1621: the first full-length fiction (a prose romance) to be written in English by a woman and the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman...
