Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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May 1953: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was...
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May 1953
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
was marked by a special bonus on the butter ration: four extra ounces to add to each person's weekly eight ounces.
13 September 1759: A British party under James Wolfe climbed...
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13 September 1759
A British party under James Wolfe
climbed the Heights of Abraham at Quebec and beat the French in battle there.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Wharncliffe, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, first Baron, Richard Bentley, 1836, 3 vols.
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Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
778
January 1769-December 1795: The Town and Country Magazine was published...
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January 1769-December 1795
The Town and Country Magazine was published at London; it became well-known for its reports of adultery trials.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
5 August 1858: The first effective transatlantic telegraph...
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5 August 1858
The first effective transatlantic telegraph cable was laid between Ireland and Newfoundland. During the celebrations, Queen Victoria
and President James Buchanan
exchanged messages over the cable.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet. Walker and Company, 1998.
81, 83-4
April 1978: A number of punk and rock bands performed...
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April 1978
A number of punk and rock bands performed at the large-scale Rock Against Racism concert in Victoria Park in East London.
Sweeting, Adam. “Poly Styrene”. The Guardian, 27 Apr. 2011, p. 37.
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1879: British firms on the Niger River amalgamated...
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
492
22 August 1791: Marie-Antoinette wrote to her friend the...
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22 August 1791
Marie-Antoinette
wrote to her friend the princesse de Lamballe
, persuading the princess to stay away from her for the sake of the safety of both of them.
Roulston, Christine. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 2, 1998–1989, pp. 215-31.
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1758: Pierre-Joseph Boudier de Villemert published,...
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1758
Pierre-Joseph Boudier de Villemert
published, allegedly at Hamburg, a book called L'Ami des femmes, which remarked on the number and excellence of women writers in French.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
148
25 August 1919: The first daily scheduled commercial flight,...
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25 August 1919
The first daily scheduled commercial flight, with one passenger, was made between London's Hounslow airfield and Paris's Le Bourget airfield.
Hudson, Kenneth. Air Travel: A Social History. Adams and Dart, 1972.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Medbh McGuckian
MMG
, who lives in Northern Ireland, is well-regarded among contemporary poets writing in English. She began by writing a very private and reserved poetry. Using images from the home and from nature, she explored...
1 February 1960: Four black students in Greensboro, North...
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1 February 1960
Four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, protested segregation by staging a sit-in at the Woolworths
lunch-counter when they were refused service.
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
672
Harriman, W. Averell. The Twentieth Century: An Almanac. Editors Ferrell, Robert H. and John S. Bowman, World Almanac Publications, 1985.
352
22 November 1955-17 October 1960: The News Chronicle (founded in 1930) ran...
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22 November 1955-17 October 1960
The News Chronicle (founded in 1930) ran as the News Chronicle and Daily Dispatch before finally merging with the Daily Mail.
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.
1536: Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of the...
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1536
Henry VIII
ordered the dissolution of the monasteries in England and Wales; 560 institutions were suppressed by November 1539.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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19 October 1839: George Bradshaw published the first Bradshaw's...
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19 October 1839
George Bradshaw
published the first Bradshaw's Railway Guide.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1922: The first woman surveyor, Irene Barclay,...
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1922
The first woman surveyor, Irene Barclay
, received her charter this year.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
29 September 1904: Gertrude von Petzold, a German Unitarian,...
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29 September 1904
Gertrude von Petzold
, a German Unitarian
, became the first woman to act as a minister in England since before the Victorian age.
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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Gilley, Keith. “The ministry of women”. The Guardian, 25 Sept. 2004, p. 29.
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December 1918: The Irish Women's Franchise League campaigned...
FN
's fame began when she headed nurses in the Crimean war. After the war, she worked to reform health care and promoted sanitation at home and abroad. To this end she composed speeches, government...
A Dr Collins, who described himself as a Professional Planter, published at London Practical Rules for the Management and Medical Treatment of Negro Slaves, in the Sugar Colonies.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
1899: This year saw the earliest known printing...
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1899
This year saw the earliest known printing of what was later called an advertising blurb on a book jacket: that of John Barrett
's Admiral George Dewey.
Barcham, Maureen. “Letter”. Guardian Weekly, 5–11 July 2001, p. 18.
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Florence Marryat
FM
, who published about eighty books during the later nineteenth century, was primarily a novelist (known for fiction that plays about the borders of the supernatural, in spiritualist and vampire novels) and also a...
CC
devoted much of her life to helping British nineteenth-century emigrants (particularly women and working-class families) to travel to Australia, and her writing was primarily dedicated to this cause. She produced numerous tracts on...
