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By 1900: Women accounted for twelve percent of the...

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By 1900

Women accounted for twelve percent of the library staff in Britain whereas in America ninety-five percent of library staff were women.
Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1975. 2nd ed., Library Association, 1977.
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1695: As an index of the decline of brewing as...

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1695

As an index of the decline of brewing as women's work, historian Deborah Simonton notes that Aberdeen had only ten female brewers this year, compared to 150 in the previous century.
Simonton, Deborah. A History of European Women’s Work, 1700 to the Present. Routledge, 1998.
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30 November 1885: The opening of the second London Pavilion...

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30 November 1885

The opening of the second London Pavilion signalled the beginning of the luxurious music-hall era.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Bailey, Peter, editor. Music Hall: The Business of Pleasure. Open University Press, 1986.
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28 May 1961: Amnesty, later Amnesty International, was...

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28 May 1961

Amnesty , later Amnesty International, was founded when a British lawyer, Peter Benenson , published an article in the Observer entitled The Forgotten Prisoners.
Waal, Alex de. “The Moral Solipsism of Global Ethics Inc”. London Review of Books, 23 Aug. 2001, pp. 15-18.
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Amnesty Timeline. http://web.amnesty.org/flash/40th/flashmovie.html.

1647: Abraham Cowley's The Mistress, a collection...

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1647

Abraham Cowley 's The Mistress, a collection of love-poems, was published, but not by the intention of its author.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
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May 1889: Louisa Lawson, publisher of The Dawn: A Journal...

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May 1889

Louisa Lawson , publisher of The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women, formed the Dawn Club .
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm.

1771: J. D. T. Bienville published an influential...

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1771

J. D. T. Bienville published an influential treatise, Fureurs utérines (also known as Nymphomanie), which ascribed a long and varied list of maladies to the female reproductive system.
Norberg, Kathryn. “From Courtesan to Prostitute: Mercenary Sex and Venereal Disease 1730-1802”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 34-50.
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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.

February 1897: Various Contagious Diseases Acts were passed...

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February 1897

Various Contagious Diseases Acts were passed in India, only two years after the existing Acts there had been repealed.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 828-9

December 1905: A young British officer, Hugh Trenchard,...

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December 1905

A young British officer, Hugh Trenchard , ordered the massacre of inhabitants of the village of Ahiara in southern Nigeria in retaliation for the killing of another officer.
Gott, Richard. “Shoot them to be sure”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 26-9.
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By 18 May 1867: With his first work, The Physiology and Pathology...

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By 18 May 1867

With his first work, The Physiology and Pathology of Mind, leading Darwinist psychiatrist Henry Maudsley turned psychiatry towards mental activity and its relation to the biological sciences.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
2064 (1867): 659

Anne Dowriche

AD was a sixteenth-century poet and translator with a passion for Protestantism, a feeling for the heroic element in religious history, and a fondness for acrosticss.
Anne Dowriche Portrait painting of Anne Dowriche, dated 1567. She faces the viewer on a slight angle, with a slightly tense expression. She wears a heavy, dark, ornamented gown with a high, stiff ruffled collar that encircles her jawline and joins to an ornate headband, and her hair is pulled back from her face.

29 September 1736: An act for Laying a Duty upon the Retailers...

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29 September 1736

An act for Laying a Duty upon the Retailers of Spiritous Liquors (Gin Act) came into effect, making it harder to obtain a licence to retail spirits.
Hervey, John, Baron. Some Materials towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II. Editor Sedgwick, Romney, AMS Press, 1970, 3 vols.
II: 568-9
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Charlotte Guest

Lady CG is remembered as an amateur scholar: her editions (with translation and annotation) of Middle Welsh tales which she called the Mabinogion remained a standard text for almost a century. She was also a...
Charlotte Guest Sepia reproduction of a painting of Charlotte Guest by William Walker, 1852. Her smooth, dark hair is parted in the middle and coiled over her ears; she wears a dark dress with a deep V neck and a lace collar with a bow, a lacy shawl, and a ring on each hand. To the right is a basket full of roses and other flowers. National Library of Wales.

By June 1752: Christopher Smart published his first collection,...

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By June 1752

Christopher Smart published his first collection, Poems on Several Occasions.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
22 (1752): 291

1870: Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem...

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1870

Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem by William Allingham , a collection of exquisitely detailed and coloured plates called In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World.
Doyle, Richard, and William Allingham. In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870.
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1823: The Catholic Association was founded in Ireland;...

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1823

The Catholic Association was founded in Ireland; its leader was Daniel O'Connell .
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
21, 53-4

4 March 1817: As in 1794 (another time of fermenting political...

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4 March 1817

As in 1794 (another time of fermenting political dissatisfaction) the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended as part of a package of anti-radical legislation.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1996: US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy,...

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1996

US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy, King of the Pirates, a feminist-pornographic reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island in which the treasure-seekers are a band of women pirates.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

November 1879: Ellice Hopkins founded the Friendless Girls...

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November 1879

Ellice Hopkins founded the Friendless Girls Association in Plymouth.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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28 July 1916: England banned the importing of cocaine and...

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28 July 1916

England banned the importing of cocaine and opium.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

January 1806: The Monthly Repository, a Dissenting magazine,...

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January 1806

The Monthly Repository, a Dissenting magazine, began publication in London, edited by Robert Aspland .
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
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University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

July 1875: The General Medical Council was forced to...

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July 1875

The General Medical Council was forced to issue a statement explaining its position on medical women after a three-day debate in Parliament.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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1912: The weekly magazine Woman ceased publica...

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1912

The weekly magazine Woman ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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9 May 1918: Lytton Strachey published his irreverent...

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9 May 1918

Lytton Strachey published his irreverent biographies entitled Eminent Victorians. He claimed to be breaking with two traditions: that of admiration for the Victorians and that of reverential biography.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
9 May 2008
“4 June 1918. Victorians before a just court”. The Guardian, 5 June 2009, p. 22.
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1914: Edgar Rice Burroughs published Tarzan of...

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1914

Edgar Rice Burroughs published Tarzan of the Apes.
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.