Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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May 1972: Audrey Slaughter established Over 21, a London...
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May 1972
Audrey Slaughter
established Over 21, a London monthly magazine of fashion and beauty for young women from MS Publishing
.
Moody, Jane. “Illusions of authorship”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 99-124.
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Moody, Jane. “Illusions of authorship”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 99-124.
114-16
Spring 1843: The Glasgow Abstinence Society organized...
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Spring 1843
The Glasgow Abstinence Society
organized the first People's Concert in Britain; these soon became a vehicle for attempts to reform and educate the working classes.
Russell, Dave. Popular Music in England, 1840-1914: A Social History. Manchester University Press, 1987.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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Tabitha Tenney
TT
, who lived in New England through the time of the American Revolution, published in 1799 (perhaps) and 1801, and lived for another thirty-six years apparently without further writerly activity, was the certain author...
1947: The WRNS (Women's Royal Navy Service or Wrens)...
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1947
The WRNS
(Women's Royal Navy Service or Wrens) was made a permanent force, though it was cut back to its initial size of about 3,000 members.
van der Vat, Dan. “Commandant Vonla McBride”. The Guardian, 14 Aug. 2003, p. 27.
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17 May 1954: In Brown vs Board of Education, the US Supreme...
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17 May 1954
In Brown vs Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racially segregated schools and schooling were unconstitutional: a violation of the 14th Amendment.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 241
Culley, Margo. “The courage of their convictions”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xvii
, No. 8, May 2000, pp. 1-4.
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“Desegregation: Introduction”. Old Dominion University Libraries: Special Collections: Manuscripts.
July 27-July 29 1830: The July Revolution (also known as the Three...
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July 27-July 29 1830
The July Revolution (also known as the Three Glorious Days) erupted in Paris after the loss of a general election which led Charles X
to declare a state of emergency.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
110, 117
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
65-6
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
179
By 12 May 1877: The Grosvenor Gallery (welcomed by a Punch...
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By 12 May 1877
The Grosvenor Gallery
(welcomed by a Punch cartoon on this date) was established as an alternative exhibition arena to the Royal Academy
shows. It lasted until 1891.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
107
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
12-13, 44
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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27 June 1900: The Tuppeny Tube, the central London underground...
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27 June 1900
The Tuppeny Tube, the central London underground railway (now the Central Line) opened, running from Shepherd's Bush to the Bank; it charged a flat fare of twopence.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
330
Bradley, Simon. “Coldbath Fields”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2007, p. 31.
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Mary Martha Sherwood
MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...
1899: This year saw the earliest known printing...
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1899
This year saw the earliest known printing of what was later called an advertising blurb on a book jacket: that of John Barrett
's Admiral George Dewey.
Barcham, Maureen. “Letter”. Guardian Weekly, 5–11 July 2001, p. 18.
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1923: The first six volumes of Winston Churchill's...
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1923
The first six volumes of Winston Churchill
's The World Crisis 1911-1918 were published.
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.
January 1896: Harriet Hemenway and her cousin Minna B....
January 1792: A number of black people embarked at Halifax,...
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January 1792
A number of black people embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading for Sierra Leone, where they arrived (on a ship captained by John Clarkson
, brother of the abolitionist) two months later.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
xvii
1932: Alexander Korda formed London Film Productions...
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
415
1872: Both entry scholarships to the Slade School...
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1872
Both entry scholarships to the Slade School of Art
were awarded to female applicants.
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
52
By late 1799: Mary Ann Radcliffe in The Female Advocate...
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By late 1799
Mary Ann Radcliffe
in The Female Advocate estimated the number of poverty-stricken prostitutes in London as 5,000, and the public money spent on containing them as 20,000 pounds annually.
Campbell, Thomas J. “The Other Mrs. Radcliffe: ’The Female Advocate’ in her Memoirs”. Studies in the Humanities, Vol.
24
, No. 1-2, 1997, pp. 65-74.
66
August 1940: A Ministry of Information pamphlet appeared...
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August 1940
A Ministry of Information
pamphlet appeared under the title Loss of Eden. A Cautionary Tale. Re-issued in 1941 more openly called If Hitler
Comes, it dealt with the possible scenario of successful Nazi
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Vita Sackville-West
VSW
wrote prolifically and almost obsessively from her childhood in the early twentieth century. She began with poems, plays, and fiction about her family's romantic links to English history. As an adult she used these...
