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August 1526: Erasmus published his De Matrimonio Christiano,...

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August 1526

Erasmus published his De Matrimonio Christiano, an account of the kind of marriage relation (with the wife as partner, but junior partner) later favoured by the Puritans.
Halkin, Léon-Ernest. Erasmus: a critical biography. Translator Tonkin, John, Blackwell, 1993.
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18 October 1998: Ten days before Poet Laureate Ted Hughes...

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18 October 1998

Ten days before Poet Laureate Ted Hughes died, the Sunday Times carried his poem entitled The Offers, which he had excluded from both his books published this year, Birthday Letters (his last major collection)...

7 June 2012: US journalist Katherine Boo, who has made...

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7 June 2012

US journalist Katherine Boo , who has made poverty her special subject, published her first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

1909: Loughborough College of Advanced Technology...

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1909

Loughborough College of Advanced Technology was founded; it became Loughborough University of Technology in 1966 and subsequently Loughborough University in 1996.
Armytage, Walter Harry Green. Four Hundred Years of English Education. Second, Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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1989: Josephine Saxton published two science fiction...

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1989

Josephine Saxton published two science fiction stories, The Consciousness Machine and Jane Saint and the Backlash: The Further Travails of Jane Saint, in a single volume from Women's Press.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

August 1578: Three female wax figures were found in a...

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August 1578

Three female wax figures were found in a London dunghill with bristles through the chest; the Spanish ambassador reported a widespread assumption that this was a witchcraft threat to the queen 's life.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History: early modern and twentieth-century representations. Routledge, 1996.
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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.
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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.

22 September 1955: BBC television acquired its first commercially...

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22 September 1955

BBC television acquired its first commercially sponsored competitor when ITV (Independent Television) began broadcasting alternative programmes.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.
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About 1818: Sir William Congreve (namesake of the dramatist)...

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About 1818

Sir William Congreve (namesake of the dramatist) invented a machine to produce coloured watermarking of paper.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
Some sources give a date of 1819.

February 1833: William Ullathorne began Roman Catholic missionary...

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February 1833

William Ullathorne began Roman Catholic missionary work among prisoners in New South Wales.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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16 August-20 September 1890: A weekly magazine entitled My Lady's Novelette...

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16 August-20 September 1890

A weekly magazine entitled My Lady's Novelette was 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.

June 1966: Anthropologist Mary Douglas published her...

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June 1966

AnthropologistMary Douglas published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger. Routledge, 2002.
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Fardon, Richard. Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography. Routledge, 1999.
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Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translator Roudiez, Leon S., Columbia University Press, 1982.
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British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1967

June 1787: The Botanical Magazine: or flower garden...

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June 1787

The Botanical Magazine: or flower garden displayed began publication, edited by William Curtis and addressing itself to ladies, gentlemen, and gardeners seeking scientific knowledge of the plants they grew.
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.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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Lydia Howard Sigourney

LHS has been called the first professional woman poet of the USA.
Watts, Emily Stipes. The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. University of Texas Press, 1977.
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Immensely prolific, she published more than sixty-five books (didactic, educational, biography, children's, and travel books as well as poetry), and stopped counting...
Lydia Howard Sigourney Full-length photograph of Lydia Howard Sigourney by Matthew Brady. She is seated on a wooden chair with wooden panelling behind her, wearing a dark jacket and hood with lace bonnet and collar, and a full, boldly checked skirt. She holds a handkerchief in her hands.

1967: This year the French philosopher and critic...

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1967

This year the French philosopher and critic Jacques Derrida issued three of his best-known works: La voix et la phénomène, L'Ecriture et la différence, and De la Grammatologie.
Attridge, Derek, and Thomas Baldwin. “Jacques Derrida”. Guardian Weekly, 15–21 Oct. 2004, p. 30.
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Patricia Wentworth

PW began her writing career early in the twentieth century with half a dozen historical novels and romances and went on to achieve great popularity with between sixty and seventy thrillers, mysteries, and detective novels...

1927: Eric Partridge founded Scholartis Press at...

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1927

Eric Partridge founded Scholartis Press at New Oxford Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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1670: The Hôtel Dieu in Paris was given letters...

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1670

The Hôtel Dieu in Paris was given letters patent to operate as a sanctuary for abandoned babies; it also operated as a centre for training nurses, run by nuns.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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1924: Leading suffragist Annie Kenney published...

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1924

Leading suffragist Annie Kenney published Memoirs of a Militant, a book bound in WSPU colours: purple cloth, with white and green stripes.
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.

November 1681: John Dryden published his political satire...

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November 1681

John Dryden published his political satire Absalom and Achitophel, at Charles II 's personal suggestion, just a week before the first Earl of Shaftesbury 's trial for treason.
Sherburn, George, and Donald F. Bond. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century. 2nd ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
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1795: Uvedale Price published his influential contribution...

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1795

Uvedale Price published his influential contribution to the romantic concept of landscape: Essays on the Picturesque.
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.

8 March 1910: Baroness Raymonde de Laroche became the first...

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8 March 1910

Baroness Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman pilot when she received her brevet de pilote d'aéroplane.
Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard. Aviation: An Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
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1797: Publisher Thomas Longman died worth over...

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1797

Publisher Thomas Longman died worth over £60,000: the figure shows to what extent publishers were doing well at this period.
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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16-21 March 1953: Yugoslavian leader Marshal Tito became the...

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16-21 March 1953

Yugoslavian leader Marshal Tito became the first communist leader to visit Great Britain.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1913: The Irish Women's Reform League was established...

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1913

The Irish Women's Reform League was established in Dublin by Louie Bennett , and affiliated to the Irish Women's Suffrage Federation .
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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Murphy, Cliona. The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Temple University Press, 1989.
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Ó’Céirín, Kit, and Cyril Ó’Céirín, editors. Women of Ireland: A Biographic Dictionary. Tír Eolas, 1996.
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