Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Bogenschneider, Duane R., editor. The Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History, 1543-1945: A Bibliographic Guide to the Microform Collection. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983, 3 vols.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
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Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
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After February 1806: Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea,...
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After February 1806
Walter Savage Landor
published Simonidea, which included the well-known poem Rose Aylmer.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
28 May 1888: John Robert Gregg first published his system...
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28 May 1888
John Robert Gregg
first published his system of script shorthand, which in the long run superseded that of Isaac Pitman
(1837).
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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Symonds, F. Addington, and Paul S. Lomax. John Robert Gregg: The Man and His Work. Gregg, 1963.
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22 January 1944: Allied troops landed at Anzio in Italy....
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22 January 1944
Allied troops landed at Anzio in Italy.
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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Author profile
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
was a writer, lecturer, photographer, and amateur archaeologist working from the 1870s. Her writings include field notes, a travel diary, a book of articles, two epic poems, several smaller poems and...
1811: Army regulations set out the system whereby...
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1811
Army regulations set out the system whereby regiments ordered abroad on active service were allocated six soldiers' wives' tickets per company, distributed by ballot.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
133, 17-18, 2, and passim
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
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By 1800: Madras and Calcutta, both British-ruled cities,...
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By 1800
Madras and Calcutta, both British-ruled cities, were the largest in India.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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1770 or 1771: Scottish painter George Romney did a portrait...
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1770 or 1771
Scottish painter George Romney
did a portrait of English painter Mary Moser
which shows her using the medium of oils, mark of the professional rather than the amateur.
“Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings”. National Portrait Gallery.
1893: The Royal Academy provided male models to...
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1893
The Royal Academy
provided male models to its female life drawing classes.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Between 1788 and 1792: The historian Edward Gibbon composed no less...
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Between 1788 and 1792
The historian Edward Gibbon
composed no less than six drafts of his autobiography, which remained unpublished during his lifetime.
Pocock, John Greville Agard. “The Ironist”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 13-17.
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1761: Joseph Priestley published The Rudiments...
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1761
Joseph Priestley
published The Rudiments of English Grammar; adapted to the use of schools. With observations on style.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
1854: A Hero of Our Times, a novel by Russian Romantic...
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1854
A Hero of Our Times, a novel by Russian Romantic poet Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
(who died in 1841), was published in English translation.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich. “Introduction and Notes”. A Hero of Our Times, translated by. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov, Doubleday, 1958.
ET (dubbed Corinna by Dryden
and writing mostly in the early eighteenth century) was a poet of real stature and an interesting letter-writer. Her few authentic works have been upstaged by the many miscellaneous writings...
Late 1888: Harry Quilter published Is Marriage a Failure?,...
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Late 1888
Harry Quilter
published Is Marriage a Failure?, a collection of contributions to the debate aroused by Mona Caird
's critique of marriage.
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.
BLC
Hammerton, A. James. Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life. Routledge, 1992.
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19 July 1848: The first women's rights convention in the...
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19 July 1848
The first women's rights convention in the United States met in Seneca Falls, New York.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Dow, Bonnie J. “How the Battle of Memory Was Won”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2014, pp. 3-4.
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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...
Late October 1862: John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal, published...
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Late October 1862
John William Colenso
, Bishop of Natal, published the first volume of his controversial The Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua Critically Examined, challenging the literal truth of the Bible on scientific grounds.
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.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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4 February 1839: The Chartist National Convention was held...
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4 February 1839
The Chartist National Convention was held at the British Hotel, Charing Cross.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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July 1875: Insurrections against Turkish rule occurred...
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July 1875
Insurrections against Turkish rule occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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15 April 1764: Madame de Pompadour, former mistress of Louis...
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15 April 1764
Madame de Pompadour
, former mistress of Louis XV
, died: she had exercised a powerful influence on the visual arts, and on French public life generally, for nearly twenty years.
Gordon, Alden R. “Searching for the Elusive Madame de Pompadour”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
