Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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12 November 1919-10 December 1919: The first flight from England to Australia...
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12 November 1919-10 December 1919
The first flight from England to Australia was made in a Vickers Vimy twin-engined bomber that left Hounslow and reached Darwin.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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19 January 1839: British ships attacked Aden, which was at...
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19 January 1839
British ships attacked Aden, which was at that time annexed to British India.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
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Probably by May 1754: A 57-page, satirical, duodecimo pamphlet...
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Probably by May 1754
A 57-page, satirical, duodecimo pamphlet was published in London, entitled The Female Parliament; it was probably suggested by the new parliament called for the end of this month.
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John, 1920 - Brooke, editors. The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964.
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2 August 1270: Louis IX of France (also called St Louis)...
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2 August 1270
Louis IX
of France (also called St Louis) died at Carthage on the final crusade (the second of his reign).
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Thomas Holcroft
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Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
During the early eighteenth century Winifred, Lady Nithsdale
, wrote family letters about business and relationships. She is remembered for the letter to her sister which tells, with a historian's narrative flair and command of...
Noori, Margaret. “Bicultural before There Was a Word for It”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, Mar.–Apr. 2008, pp. 7-9.
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as well as in her native Ojibwe or Ojibwa, died in her early forties at her sister's home in Canada.
Noori, Margaret. “Bicultural before There Was a Word for It”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
25
, No. 2, Mar.–Apr. 2008, pp. 7-9.
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1852: Jane Euphemia Saxby (1811-1898) published...
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1852
Jane Euphemia Saxby (1811-1898) published as Aunt EffieAunt Effie's Rhymes for Little Children, with whimsical pictures by Hablôt K. Browne
.
The book has often been ascribed either to Ann Hawkshaw
, who...
22 November 1994: Rosemary West was given ten life sentences...
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22 November 1994
Rosemary West
was given ten life sentences for the sex murders of ten young women and girls, who were mostly then buried at her house in Gloucester.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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August 1925: Sean O'Casey submitted to the Abbey Theatre,...
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August 1925
Sean O'Casey
submitted to the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, the first and only play to deal with the topic of the Easter Rising of 1916: The Plough and the Stars.
Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2016, pp. 11-23.
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1677: Someone called A. L. translated François...
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1677
Someone called A. L. translated François Poulain de la Barre
into English as The Woman as Good as the Man; Or, the Equality of Both Sexes.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
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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.
22 August 1791: Marie-Antoinette wrote to her friend the...
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22 August 1791
Marie-Antoinette
wrote to her friend the princesse de Lamballe
, persuading the princess to stay away from her for the sake of the safety of both of them.
Roulston, Christine. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1998–1989, pp. 215-31.
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1856: Isaac Singer opened his first sewing machine...
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1856
Isaac Singer
opened his first sewing machine retail outlet, in Glasgow; Singer's store was among the first to sell only one brand of merchandise.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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13 December 1791: Heinrich Heine, lyric poet, was born in Düsseldorf,...
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13 December 1791
Heinrich Heine
, lyric poet, was born in Düsseldorf, Germany; his family was Jewish.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
8 April 1838: The Great Western, the first steamship built...
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8 April 1838
The Great Western, the first steamship built especially for transatlantic crossings, left Bristol for New York.
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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1820: Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind...
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1820
Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown
, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University
, appeared in four volumes in the year of his death.
Harris, James A. “First feeling”. Times Literary Supplement, 5 Mar. 2004, p. 32.
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1892: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton's blank verse...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1883: Her Object in Life, a novel depicting a woman's...
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1883
Her Object in Life, a novel depicting a woman's troubled relationship with her brother, was published by Isabella Fyvie Mayo
as Edward Garrett.
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.
1987: The Tate Gallery bought Sonia Boyce's drawing...
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1987
The Tate Gallery
bought Sonia Boyce
's drawing entitled Missionary Position II. Boyce was the first black female artist to enter the collection and, she later discovered to her shock, only the fifth woman.
Higgins, Charlotte. “’The vitriol was really unhealthy’: artist Sonia Boyce on the row over taking down Hylas and the Nymphs”. theguardian.com, 19 Mar. 2018.
2 September 1752: Falling into line with the rest of Europe,...
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2 September 1752
Falling into line with the rest of Europe, Britain changed from the Julian calendar (developed by the Romans) to the Gregorian calendar, which corrected its accumulated slippage backwards from astronomical time; the next day...
1903: Rosa Newmarch published the earlier of her...
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1903
Rosa Newmarch
published the earlier of her two volumes of verse: Horae Amoris: songs and sonnets.
October 1846: Queen Isabella of Spain married her cousin,...
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October 1846
Queen Isabella
of Spain married her cousin, despite machinations by British and French diplomats to arrange a marriage that would be politically opportune for them.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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26 January 1790: Mozart's opera Così Fan Tutte had its premiere...
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26 January 1790
Mozart
's opera Così Fan Tutte had its premiere in Vienna.
Solman, Joseph. Mozartiana. Walker, 1990.
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1904: Joseph Rowntree, setting up a trust in 1904...
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1904
Joseph Rowntree
, setting up a trust in 1904 which might well have been charitable, chose to make it non-charitable, tax-paying, so that it could enter the political arena to campaign for social reforms.
Wainwright, Martin. “Reform at heart of Women’s Aid mission”. The Guardian, 27 Dec. 2003, p. 13.
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28 August 1963: Martin Luther King gave his famous I have...
