Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1835: Andrew Ure published The Philosophy of Manufactures:...
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1835
Andrew Ure
published The Philosophy of Manufactures: or, An Exposition of the Scientific, Moral, and Commercial Economy of the Factory System of Great Britain.
Ure, Andrew. The Philosophy of Manufactures. Charles Knight, 1835.
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May 1838: The People's Charter (after which the Chartist...
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May 1838
The People's Charter (after which the Chartist movement was named) was published.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. Pantheon, 1984.
122, 124
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Goodway, David. London Chartism, 1838-1848. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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4 April 1838: The British steamship Sirius left Cork for...
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4 April 1838
The British steamship Sirius left Cork for New York, undertaking the first Atlantic crossing entirely by steam.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
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1869: The National Education League was founded;...
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1869
The National Education League
was founded; it sought a national compulsory education system, supported and regulated by the state.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
170
4 September 1957: The Wolfenden Commission published its Report...
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4 September 1957
The Wolfenden Commission
published its Report on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution which recommended the decriminalization of homosexual acts occurring in private between consenting adults over 21, but suggested stricter regulation of prostitution.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
412, 416
“Homosexuality ’should not be a crime’”. BBC News: On This Day, 4 Sept. 1957.
8 May 1956: John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger opened...
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8 May 1956
John Osborne
's play Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London; within a few weeks, on 28 May, Colin Wilson
published The Outsider, a romanticizing study of the...
21 January 1793: Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in Paris...
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
170
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
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Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
272
Late 1739: There was published, bearing the date of...
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Late 1739
There was published, bearing the date of 1740, The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies
, commonly call'd Mother Ross. Taken from her own mouth, the story of a woman cross-dressing to be a soldier.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Easton, Fraser. “Plebeianizing the Female Soldier”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, St John’s, Newfoundland, 15 Oct. 2010.
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
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6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
“July 6, 1928, Celebrating full women’s suffrage”. Guardian Weekly, 6 July 2007, p. 20.
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1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...
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1838
Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria
's Scottish ancestry.
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.
Gordon, Miss. A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History. 2nd ed., John Souter, 1838, p. 60 pp.
The Bodleian
catalogue ascribes this to L. Gordon.
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Alice Sutcliffe
AS
was an early seventeenth-century religious writer in prose (meditations, a more private form of sermons) and poetry who, unusually for her rank and gender, allowed her work to be printed bearing her own name...
21 April 1907: The Cumann na nGaedheal and Dungannon Clubs...
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
339
July 1867: The Association for Promoting the Extension...
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July 1867
The Association for Promoting the Extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1866 to the Civilian Population was founded.
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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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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By June 1817: Thomas Moore published his hugely successful...
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By June 1817
Thomas Moore
published his hugely successful poem Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
96
1897: C. Méray-Horvath of Budapest patented the...
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1897
C. Méray-Horvath
of Budapest patented the Electrotypograph composing and casting machine.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
165
By 13 November 1886: Maxwell Gray (whose real name was Mary Gleed...
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By 13 November 1886
Maxwell Gray
(whose real name was Mary Gleed Tuttiet
) published her well-known and highly successful novel The Silence of Dean Maitland.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3081 (1886): 631
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946.
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2 April 1705: Bernard Mandeville published The Grumbling...
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2 April 1705
Bernard Mandeville
published The Grumbling Hive (later expanded as The Fable of the Bees).
McKee, Francis. “Early Criticism of ’The Grumbling Hive’”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
233
, June 1988, pp. 176-7.
176-7
1860: The Secretary of War, Baron Herbert, organized...
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1860
The Secretary of War, Baron Herbert
, organized a sanitary commission.
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.
110
20 March 1912: The Chinese National Assembly extended the...
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
145, 148
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Maria Elizabetha Jacson
During the 1790s and the early nineteenth century, MEJ
published three works about Linnean
botany and plant physiology
Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 1990, pp. 301-17.
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(the first of them designed expressly for the instruction of children) and one about gardening.
26 December 2004: A massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean...
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26 December 2004
A massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean produced a giant tidal wave or tsunami which devasted the coast of every country of South-East Asia, with staggering loss of life.
“Tsunami disaster”. Guardian Weekly, 14–20 Jan. 2005, p. 8.
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1864: Under the name Ruth Murray, Rosa Mulholland...
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1864
Under the name Ruth Murray, Rosa Mulholland released her first novel, entitled Dunmara.
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.
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.
28 March 1915: Scotswoman Georgiana Fyfe wrote that she...
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28 March 1915
Scotswoman Georgiana Fyfe
wrote that she and her group of volunteers had evacuated 1000 from Ypres which is now finally absolutely in ruins.
Storr, Katherine. “Women’s History Month: Miss Georgiana Fyfe”. Women’s History Network Blog, 1 Mar. 2010.
1908: The Central Committee for Women's Church...
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1908
The Central Committee for Women's Church Work
was established as a result of the Pan-Anglican Congress, where the need for ongoing representation of women's ministries had been made evident by deaconesses and their supporters.
Prelinger, Catherine M. “The Female Diaconate in the Anglican Church: What Kind of Ministry for Women?”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana UP, 1986, pp. 161-92.
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Grierson, Janet. The Deaconess. CIO Publishing, 1981.
