Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Ella Baker
EB
was a essayist, poet and novelist of the late nineteenth century. She wrote only on request; her compositions were not intended for publication. After her early death, her father edited and published much of...
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.
22: 178
Late July 1866: The transatlantic telegraph cable between...
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Late July 1866
The transatlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland was firmly, lastingly established.
Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet. Walker and Company, 1998.
88-9
23 June 1885: The Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative)...
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
1915: Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford...
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1915
Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford University
agreed to allow the formation of mixed societies.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
361
By 18 March 1988: Tom Wolfe's satirical novel The Bonfire of...
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By 18 March 1988
Tom Wolfe
's satirical novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, set in modern-day New York, was published at London.
Hitchens, Christopher. “Mugged by reality”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4433, 18–22 Mar. 1988, p. 302.
302
By 1866: Female pre-millennialist preachers abounded;...
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By 1866
Female pre-millennialist preachers abounded; middle-class women spoke urgently to large assemblies about the second coming of Christ.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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Katharine Bruce Glasier
Katharine Bruce Glasier
was a socialist-feminist writer and activist at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advances her ideas for social reform. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels all in...
24 May 1921: The British Legion, looking after the needs...
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24 May 1921
The British Legion
, looking after the needs of ex-servicemen and servicewomen, was founded.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
360
May 1981: A serial killer of prostitutes, Peter Sutcliffe,...
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May 1981
A serial killer of prostitutes, Peter Sutcliffe, whom the media called the Yorkshire Ripper, was found guilty on thirteen charges.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
365-7
July 1784: The Universal Magazine carried a posthumous...
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July 1784
The Universal Magazine carried a posthumous essay by Dr William Hunter
(who had died in March 1783) entitled On the Uncertainty of the Signs of Murder in Bastard Children.
Elliott, Nathan. “"Unball’d Sockets" and ‘The Mockery of Speech’: Diagnostic Anxiety and the Theater of Joanna Baillie”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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.
439
1568: Edmund Tilney published Brief and Pleasant...
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1568
Edmund Tilney
published Brief and Pleasant Discourse of Duties in Marriage, called the Flower of Friendship.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
96
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.
13 February 1888: The Financial Times began publication; it...
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13 February 1888
The Financial Times began publication; it was printed on its characteristic pink paper from 1893.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
140
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.
By about 1825: The number of commercially-produced Valentine...
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By about 1825
The number of commercially-produced Valentine cards or messages sent in mid-decade in London alone had reached about 200,000.
Flynn, Amanda. “Sweet and Sour Commodities: Nineteenth-Century Valentines in the John Johnson Collection of Ephemera”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
23
, No. 1, Apr. 2010, pp. 64-9.
65
18 August 1883: The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention...
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18 August 1883
The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act was passed; it limited the amount of money candidates could spend on an election campaign, and outlawed paid canvassers.
Craig, Fred W. S. British Electoral Facts 1832-1987. 5th ed., Parliamentary Research Services, 1989.
179
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
308
Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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15 October 1917: Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle) was...
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15 October 1917
Mata Hari
(Margaretha Geertruida Zelle
) was executed outside the St Lazare prison (the Slaughterhouse) by an Allied firing squad after having been convicted of spying for the Germans.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
411
Ostrovsky, Erika. Eye of Dawn: The Rise and Fall of Mata Hari. MacMillan, 1978.
196, 184-5, 188
February 1798: Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his conversation-poem...
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February 1798
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wrote his conversation-poem Frost at Midnight, published the same year.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poetical Works [of] Coleridge, including poems and versions of poems herein published for the first time. Editor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, Oxford University Press, 1969.
240, 242
March 1793: Thomas Holcroft, in his Monthly review of...
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March 1793
Thomas Holcroft
, in his Monthly review of Robert Bage
's recent Man As He Is, made disparaging remarks about young ladies who write novels, as well as those who read them; he may...
1 February 1914: The railway from Dar-es-Salaam to Lake Tanganyika...
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1 February 1914
The railway from Dar-es-Salaam to Lake Tanganyika at Kigoma was completed.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 593
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
884, 1075
1927: The K2 public telephone booth came into service...
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1927
The K2 public telephone booth came into service in Britain, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
.
Trotter, David. “The Person in the Phone Booth”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 2, 28 Jan. 2010, pp. 20-2.
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Hilary Mantel
The author of twelve novels (ranging from political thrillers through social satire, comedy of manners, and near-gothic), still at the height of her career, HM
has been likened to Muriel Spark
or Edna O'Brien
for...
1904: The first scientific paper read by a woman...
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Jones, Claire. “Women’s History Month: Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923): scientist yet ’in every way a woman’”. Women’s History Network Blog, 23 Mar. 2010.
20 November 1975: The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died....
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20 November 1975
The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco
died. His government had been recognised by that of Britain on 28 February 1939, a month before Franco himself announced victory over the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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1895: Amelia Garland Mears published her feminist...
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1895
Amelia Garland Mears
published her feminist utopian, science-fiction novel Mercia, the Astronomer Royal; a Romance.
Albinski, Nan Bowman. Women’s Utopias in British and American Fiction. Routledge, 1988.
