Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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By early 1691: Tace Sowle, aged twenty-five, took over from...
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By early 1691
Tace Sowle
, aged twenty-five, took over from her elderly father, Andrew
, the family printing firm (which that year distributed books to 151 Quaker meetings, as well as bookshops in England, Europe, and the...
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
Late 1944: In France (recently liberated from Nazi occupation)...
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Late 1944
In France (recently liberated from Nazi occupation) women at last received the vote.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
22 July 1791: Following the revelation that the Paris police...
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22 July 1791
Following the revelation that the Paris police had previously tolerated prostitution, laws were passed to ban it, and arrest any woman found soliciting on the streets.
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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1728: Ephraim Chambers attempted in his Cyclopaedia...
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1728
Ephraim Chambers
attempted in his Cyclopaedia to offer a digest of all existing modern knowledge.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
190
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(November 1738): 582
Stavisky, Aaron. “Review of Pat Rogers, The Samuel Johnson DictionaryThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate : The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Harvard University Press, 1987.
147-8
16 July 1985: The Sexual Offences Act criminalised kerb-crawling...
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16 July 1985
The Sexual Offences Act criminalised kerb-crawling in England and Wales; men could not solicit from within or near a motor vehicle the services of women believed to be prostitutes.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1985): 1015-17
3 June 1924: Franz Kafka, novelist, died in Kierling,...
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3 June 1924
Franz Kafka
, novelist, died in Kierling, Austria.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
October 1953: Scrutiny, the critical periodical published...
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October 1953
Scrutiny, the critical periodical published at Cambridge by F. R. Leavis
(with his wife, Q. D. Leavis
, as silent co-editor), published its final issue.
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.
20 February 1913: Lilian Lenton was first arrested, after she...
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20 February 1913
Lilian Lenton
was first arrested, after she and another suffragist set fire to a tea-house in Kew Gardens. She became notorious first because of damage to her health by force-feeding when she went on...
1970: Harper's & Queen, which began monthly publication...
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1970
Harper's & Queen, which began monthly publication in London from National Magazine
, was created by a merger of Harper's Bazaar and Queen magazines.
Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, AMS Press, 2002, pp. 283-35.
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Daisy Ashford
Daisy Ashford
was an avid writer as a child. She became famous when she rediscovered a novella she wrote at the age of nine, The Young Visiters, and it was published with a preface...
1850: By mid-century the Anglican Evangelical Church...
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1850
By mid-century the Anglican Evangelical Church Missionary Society
had approximately 300 volunteers worldwide; by the end of the century there were 3,500 missionaries stationed abroad and many more in domestic missions.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
77, 79
By March 1800: A midwife named Mrs Wright published An Essay...
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By March 1800
A midwife named Mrs Wright
published An Essay to instruct women how to protect themselves in a State of Pregnancy, from the Disorders incident to that Period.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 28 (1800): 344-5
May 1969: The Open University based at the barely-begun...
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May 1969
The Open University
based at the barely-begun new town of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire (fruit of Jennie Lee
's University of the Air Advisory Committee) received its royal charter.
Bell, Robert, b. 1930, and Malcolm Tight. Open Universities: A British Tradition? Open University Press, 1993.
134
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1626
Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
508
17 August 1857: The Industrial Schools Act was passed....
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17 August 1857
The Industrial Schools Act was passed.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
172
Tobias, John Jacob. Urban Crime in Victorian England. Shocken Books, 1972.
214
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
1816: The Peace Society was founded by Quakers;...
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1816
The Peace Society
was founded by Quakers; the society wished to replace war with diplomacy in international relations.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
109
By 7 December 1906: K. L. Montgomery published the novel The...
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.
