Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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24 September 1957: BBC television for schools began broadca...
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
388
1672: A Quaker committee set up by the first Yearly...
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1672
A Quakercommittee
set up by the first Yearly Meeting began the work which resulted in decisions about members' publications: to vet them for acceptability, to finance, edit and distribute them, and to archive them.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
157
26 May 1826: The Criminal Law Act was introduced by Sir...
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26 May 1826
The Criminal Law Act was introduced by Sir Robert Peel
. It was entitled An Act for Improving the Administration of Criminal Justice in England.
Tobias, John Jacob. Urban Crime in Victorian England. Shocken Books, 1972.
224-5
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
1 February 1845: The first issue of the Prospective Review:...
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1 February 1845
The first issue of the Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 337, 339-41, 347
9 January 1840: Welsh Chartist leader John Frost was found...
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9 January 1840
Welsh Chartist leader John Frost
was found guilty of high treason.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
21, 27, 40
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
26
October 1739: The Gentleman's Magazine printed a four-page...
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October 1739
The Gentleman's Magazine printed a four-page article by an anonymous Lady about women's education and women's employment.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
9 (1739): 525-6
5 October 1978: The Polish-American author Isaac Bashevis...
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5 October 1978
The Polish-American author Isaac Bashevis Singer
(who emigrated to the USA in 1935 but continued to write mainly in Yiddish) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
5 October 2010
29 May 1896: James Connolly formed the Irish Socialist...
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
610
By 1802: The smallpox vaccination method established...
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By 1802
The smallpox vaccination method established by Edward Jenner
was coming into use around the world; in England about 100,000 people had been vaccinated, and the annual smallpox death rate (which had averaged about 3,000 per...
4 April 1741: Henry Fielding, publishing as Conny Keyber,...
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4 April 1741
Henry Fielding
, publishing as Conny Keyber, led the rush of response to Richardson
's Pamela with a burlesque entitled Shamela.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
xli
1829-31: Abby Jane Morrell accompanied her husband,...
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1829-31
Abby Jane Morrell
accompanied her husband, Benjamin Morrell
, on a voyage of exploration in the US schooner Antarctic, about which she then published a book.
Druett, Joan. Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail. Simon and Schuster, 1998.
63-4, 246-7
30 September-5 December 1941: German troops battled their way towards Moscow;...
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30 September-5 December 1941
German troops battled their way towards Moscow; harsh weather and Russian counter-attacks checked their progress nineteen miles from it.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
64, 70
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
207
1852: Tolstoy's first published work, Childhood,...
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1852
Tolstoy
's first published work, Childhood, appeared in the Russian literary journal entitled Contemporary.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Noyes, George Rapall. Tolstoy. Dover Publications, 1968.
24-5
28 May 1901: The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was established...
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 884
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
895
1-27 May 2000: The magazine Mslexia conducted a four-week...
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1-27 May 2000
The magazine Mslexia conducted a four-week statistical survey of nineteen major British newspapers and weeklies, and found that 70 per cent of reviewers where male and 72 per cent of books reviewed were written by...
1678: An anonymous woman, who had charge of her...
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1678
An anonymous woman, who had charge of her own family's finances by invitation of her father, urged in Advice to the Women and Maidens of London that girls should be taught the useful skill of...
6 February 1840: The Treaty of Waitangi, signed by 512 Maori...
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6 February 1840
The Treaty of Waitangi, signed by 512 Maori chiefs over the next six months, was interpreted by the British to cede sovereignty of New Zealand to the UK, although the Maori and recent historians...
1935: Bruce Rogers completed at Oxford a lectern...
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1935
Bruce Rogers
completed at Oxford a lectern Bible considered to be the greatest folio Bible since Baskerville
's 1763 Bible printed at Cambridge.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
142
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
182
February 1931: Margaret Thomas edited for the Hogarth Press...
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February 1931
Margaret Thomas
edited for the Hogarth PressCambridge Women's Verse, an Anthology, number 20 in the Hogarth Living Poets.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986.
88
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Author profile
Anne Brontë
The youngest of the famous Brontë sisters, AB
has had the slightest reputation among the three for her output of poetry and two novels. Recently, however, her fiction's importance and influence has begun to be...
June 1966: Anthropologist Mary Douglas published her...
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June 1966
AnthropologistMary Douglas
published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger. Routledge, 2002.
2, xvi-xviii
Fardon, Richard. Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography. Routledge, 1999.
80-3
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translator Roudiez, Leon S., Columbia University Press, 1982.
65-6
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1967
12 October 1999: The human population of the world reached...
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12 October 1999
The human population of the world reached six billion.
Guardian Weekly.
(6-12 January 2000): 27
1869: The National Education League was founded;...
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1869
The National Education League
was founded; it sought a national compulsory education system, supported and regulated by the state.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
170
22 March 1895: A film of workers leaving the Lumière brothers'...
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22 March 1895
A film of workers leaving the LumièreLouis Lumière
brothers' photographic factory in Lyons became the first film shown publicly on a screen; it was shown at 44 rue de Rennes, Paris.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
84
Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
5: 745
14 July 1908: The Maori congress opened at Wellington,...
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14 July 1908
The Maori congress opened at Wellington, New Zealand.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
