Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
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Hannah Brand
HB
, who was active at the end of the eighteenth century, was a mediocre poet but a remarkable, unconventional playwright who produced tragedy, comedy, and translation.
1724: Allan Ramsay published his influential anthology...
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1724
Allan Ramsay
published his influential anthology of Scottish works from several centuries in the past: The Ever Green.
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.
Davis, Leith. “Crossing Borders: Orality and Print in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Song Collection”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Vancouver, BC, 25 Oct. 2003.
April 1880: Virginia Woolf chose this month to introduce...
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April 1880
Virginia Woolf
chose this month to introduce the Pargiter family in her novel The Years: the Victorian mother is on her deathbed, leaving some of her children still young.
Woolf, Virginia. The Years. Hogarth Press, 1979.
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By 1 October 1853: Charles Reade published his second novel,...
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By 1 October 1853
Charles Reade
published his second novel, Christie Johnstone.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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18 June 1799: The French Legislative Assembly staged a...
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18 June 1799
The French Legislative Assembly
staged a coup d'état against the Directory
, and excluded particular Directors from office.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
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Ethel Mannin
EM
began publishing stories at the age of ten but was twenty-three, with a grounding in journalism and editing, before she began to publish longer works. She then continued to do so with gusto: by...
Beginning in the later twentieth century, Anna Livia
has written, compiled, and translated short stories and novels, as well as social and literary criticism and theory. In her fiction and non-fiction she is concerned with...
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...
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12 August-3 September 1821
The newly-crowned George IV
visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III
made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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Early 1957: Hardship and political anxiety were caused...
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Early 1957
Hardship and political anxiety were caused in Britain by a strike of telephone and electrical workers. By 25 March, some 600,000 engineers were on strike, accompanied by 200,000 shipyard workers.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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1854: Evangelical Bishop Samuel Wilberforce established...
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1854
Evangelical Bishop Samuel Wilberforce
established the first theological college in England, at Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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First week in March 1946: Nearly 14,000 babies born this week in Britain...
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First week in March 1946
Nearly 14,000 babies born this week in Britain (representing 98% of families canvassed) were tracked by James Douglas
in a statistical cohort study for sociological information.
Francis, Gavin. “Get the placentas”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 11, 2 June 2016, pp. 21-2.
By 21 April 1855: James Dawson Burn published The Language...
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By 21 April 1855
James Dawson Burn
published The Language of the Walls, one of only a handful of books describing the contemporary advertising business.
Fenstermaker, John J. “Thomas Carlyle, Popular Advertising, and the Commerical Spirit in Victorian England”. Studies in Popular Culture, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1992, pp. 25-36.
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Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
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10 August 1842: Ashley's Mines Act passed, making it illegal...
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10 August 1842
Ashley's Mines Act passed, making it illegal for women, girls, and boys under ten years old to work underground.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
Baron Ashley
, later the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, was a champion of...
1807: By this date plate glass was being used in...
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1807
By this date plate glass was being used in shopfronts, and displays of goods for sale were becoming more common.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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2 August 1858: The Imperial Act provided British Columbia,...
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2 August 1858
The Imperial Act provided British Columbia, no longer under the jurisdiction of the Hudson Bay Company
, with its own government.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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November 1919: The Woman's Outlook: a Popular Magazine devoted...
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November 1919
The Woman's Outlook: a Popular Magazine devoted to Woman's Interests in all Spheres and Phases of Life, which combined general interest, home hints, and socialist-feminist political articles, began publication in Manchester It ran until...
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Sophia Jex-Blake
In a society that valued modesty, where women refrained from seeking treatment from male doctors for some medical problems, SJB
saw a need for women doctors. Through extensive conflict, she became the third woman to...
An unlikely feminist in view of her wealthy and conservative background, JB
was a prominent member of the Langham Place group, who established, edited, and contributed to the Englishwoman's Review during the second half of...
