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March-December 1863: Charles Reade's Hard Cash was serialised...

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March-December 1863

Charles Reade 's Hard Cash was serialised as Very Hard Cash in Dickens' weekly paper All the Year Round.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
274, 523

1893: St Mary's University College was founded...

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1893

St Mary's University College was founded for Catholic girls in Merrion Square, Dublin.
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
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1691: William Walsh published anonymously A Dialogue...

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1691

William Walsh published anonymously A Dialogue Concerning Women, Being a Defence of the Sex, Written to Eugenia.
Walsh, William, d. 1708. A Dialogue Concerning Women. Printed for R. Bentley and J. Tonson, 1691.
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Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
2: 305n10

26 May 1879: Under the Treaty of Gandamak, Britain was...

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26 May 1879

Under the Treaty of Gandamak, Britain was allowed to occupy the Khyber Pass and maintain an envoy at Kabul.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
303, 306

1957: Oxford University abolished its quota limiting...

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1957

Oxford University abolished its quota limiting the numbers of women students.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
358
West, Priscilla. “Reminiscences of Seven Decades”. St. Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford, edited by Penny Griffin, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 62-243.
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1924: Mollie Stanley Wrench, as Mrs S. Wrench,...

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1924

Mollie Stanley Wrench , as Mrs S. Wrench, published her retelling of Stories of Famous Operas, illustrated by T. Peddie .
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

17 March 1905: Eleanor Roosevelt married her distant cousin...

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17 March 1905

Eleanor Roosevelt married her distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; at the ceremony she was given away by her uncle Theodore Roosevelt , then President of the United States.
Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929–2026, 1-20.

1876: A volume of verse called Mirren's Musings...

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1876

A volume of verse called Mirren's Musings appeared in Glasgow, by the young radical feminist and music teacher Marion Bernstein .
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.
Boos, Florence S. “Cauld Engle-Cheek: Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Scotland”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1995, pp. 53-73.
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King, Elspeth. The Hidden History of Glasgow’s Women: The Thenew Factor. Mainstream Publishing, 1993.
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3 June 1720: The House of Commons agreed to amendments...

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3 June 1720

The House of Commons agreed to amendments from the Lords to the Transportation of Felons Act, for banishing convicted criminals.
Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
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1859-1866: Obstetrician Isaac Baker Brown performed...

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1859-1866

Obstetrician Isaac Baker Brown performed clitoridectomies in London on women whom he believed to be succumbing to female insanity.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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1831-1835: Republican risings in France were consistently...

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1831-1835

Republican risings in France were consistently suppressed.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
119
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
75

July 1835: The first issue of The British and Foreign...

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July 1835

The first issue of The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal was published.
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.
2: 133; 3: 62-3, 68-9

16 April 1746: The (mostly Highland) forces of Charles Edward...

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16 April 1746

The (mostly Highland) forces of Charles Edward Stuart , and with them the Jacobite cause, were defeated at the Battle of Culloden in Scotland by forces (mostly English) loyal to George II , led by...

1845: The Hospital for the Diseases of Women became...

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1845

The Hospital for the Diseases of Women became the Hospital for Women.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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August 1938: Theodore Thomas MacDonald founded the publishing...

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August 1938

Theodore Thomas MacDonald founded the publishing firm T. T. MacDonald at Ludgate House, 110 Fleet Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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July 1902: Female suffrage was exercised in federal...

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July 1902

Female suffrage was exercised in federal elections in Australia.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
398
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.

1991: Bangladesh appointed its first woman Prime...

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1991

Bangladesh appointed its first woman Prime Minister, Begum Khaleda Zia .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1921: Dorothy Howell won the Cobbett Prize at the...

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1921

Dorothy Howell won the Cobbett Prize at the Royal Academy of Music in London for her violin and piano composition Phantasy.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
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1976: The Banshee, a journal edited and published...

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1976

The Banshee, a journal edited and published by Irish United Women , began publication in Dublin.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
135

May 1934: Robert Graves's historical novel I, Claudius,...

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May 1934

Robert Graves 's historical novel I, Claudius, narrated in the first person by a Roman emperor whose reputation with posterity was that of an idiot, was published to enthusiastic reviews.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005.
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Burrow, Colin. “Adjusting the Mechanism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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February 1895: Grant Allen published his best-selling novel...

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February 1895

Grant Allen published his best-selling novel entitled The Woman Who Did; it was Keynotes Series no. 8.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Annie Sophie Cory
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Annie Sophie Cory

1764: Twenty-four sepoys or native soldiers who...

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1764

Twenty-four sepoys or native soldiers who had mutinied at Patna in India were executed by cannonade: standing against the mouth of a cannon fired point-blank at their shoulders.
Gott, Richard. “Shoot them to be sure”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 26-9.
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September 1965: The United Nations Conference on Population...

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September 1965

The United Nations Conference on Population was held.
Pfeffer, Naomi. The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine. Polity Press, 1993.
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15 April 2003: Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading...

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15 April 2003

Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, a remarkable work of social and political commentary intertwined with and expressed through literary criticism.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.