Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
PBS
is one of the six major (male) English Romantic poets.
1712: A boarding school for girls at the Two Golden...
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1712
A boarding school for girls at the Two Golden Bulls on Mile End Green near London offered domestic science in addition to the usual accomplishments.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...
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1 July 2007
British publisher Tank Books
released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.
June 1757: Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia lost...
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June 1757
Britain's ally Frederick II
of Prussia lost half his army (30,000 of his best troops), at Kolin in Bohemia.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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February 1948: In what was then Czechoslovakia the Czech...
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February 1948
In what was then Czechoslovakia the Czech Communist Party
achieved a majority in what had been a coalition government, and instituted hardline Stalin
ist rule.
“Timeline of the Cold War”. Thinkquest: Library.
14 June 1645: Cromwell's New Model Army scored its first...
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14 June 1645
Cromwell
's New Model Army
scored its first signal victory, at the battle of Naseby in Northamptonshire. This defeat for Charles I
was a step towards his surrender in May 1646 and the end...
January 2005: The European Union instituted a market trading...
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January 2005
The European Union
instituted a market trading in carbon dioxide emissions from large, fixed installations.
MacKenzie, Donald. “The Political Economy of Carbon Trading”. London Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2007, pp. 29-31.
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8 August 1910: The first talking motion pictures were demonstrated...
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8 August 1910
The first talking motion pictures were demonstrated by Thomas Edison
.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
By 19 December 1831: Cholera was sufficiently widespread in London...
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By 19 December 1831
Cholera was sufficiently widespread in London for Joanna Baillie
to comment on the general panic and uneasiness.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
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26 May 1762: The Earl of Bute (a Tory, and the young king's...
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26 May 1762
The Earl of Bute
(a Tory, and the young king
's mentor) became Prime Minister.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Mary Deverell
MD
is a remarkably interesting and talented miscellaneous writer of lower-class background and strong feminist views. Her essays and short poems (published in the later eighteenth century) are delightful, her longer narrative poem and tragic...
June 1942: The Jewish diarist Victor Klemperer, in Dresden,...
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June 1942
The Jewish diarist Victor Klemperer
, in Dresden, recorded that every day some German gentile would reassure him that the German war effort was crumbling.
Powers, Thomas. “’A Thousand Mosquito Bites’”. London Review of Books, 21 Sept. 2000, pp. 3-7.
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1865: The Palestine Exploration Fund was founded...
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1865
The Palestine Exploration Fund
was founded for the purpose of producing accurate, modern surveys of the Holy Land, following the English, Protestant sense of personal belonging to that part of the world.
Birch, Dinah. “Land of Pure Delight”. London Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2006, pp. 24-5.
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1873: An entire block in Regent Circus, Piccadilly...
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1873
An entire block in Regent Circus, Piccadilly (now Piccadilly Circus), was purchased for £100,000 and used to build the underground Criterion Theatre
.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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By April 1781: William Hayley published The Triumphs of...
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By April 1781
William Hayley
published The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem: one of many fictional constructions of the ideal woman.
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
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1924: The United States Congress laid its first-ever...
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1924
The United States Congress laid its first-ever restrictions on the number and type of immigrants to be admitted: 150,000 a year, of whom 70% were to be British, Irish, German, etc.
Kennedy, David. “Leur Pays”. London Review of Books, 22 Feb. 2001, pp. 24-5.
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By 16 June 1877: Irish novelist Margaret Hungerford published...
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By 16 June 1877
Irish novelist Margaret Hungerford
published Phyllis, her first novel, which she had written several years earlier at the age of eighteen.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2590 (1877): 765
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
By early October 1963: Jessica Mitford published The American Way...
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By early October 1963
Jessica Mitford
published The American Way of Death, a satirical work of social analysis. It opens by quoting an advertisement for shoes suitable for a successful man to be buried in.
Searle
's birth-control pill, Enovid, received US FDA
approval for non-contraceptive, therapeutic purposes.
“The Pill: Timeline: 1951-1990”. PBS: The Pill: American Experience.
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Frances Jacson
FJ
is now accepted as the author of five late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels, published anonymously or with allusion to former titles in the chain, which were formerly attributed to Alethea Lewis
. She...
5 February 1920: The Daily Mail carried an article entitled...
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5 February 1920
The Daily Mail carried an article entitled A Million Women Too Many, 1920 Husband Hunt claiming that more than a million young women of child-bearing age, unable to marry, were entering the work force and...
1958: Speaking of Women, which published feminist,...
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1958
Speaking of Women, which published feminist, mystical, and anti-vivisection articles, ended publication in London.
31 March 1832: William Tait published the first issue of...
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31 March 1832
William Tait
published the first issue of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
