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Before October 1865: John Ruskin published his popular treatise...

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Before October 1865

John Ruskin published his popular treatise on gender roles, Sesame and Lilies.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1886: The New York Tribune began using Ottmar Mergenthaler's...

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1886

The New York Tribune began using Ottmar Mergenthaler 's linotype setting machine; other newspapers soon followed.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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14 June 1792: The title of radical novelist Robert Bage's...

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14 June 1792

The title of radical novelist Robert Bage 's anonymous Man As He Is, published this day, suggests the unpalatable truths revealed by reformers or satirists; it influenced later titles chosen by William Godwin and...

14-25 February 1956: The Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist...

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14-25 February 1956

The Twentieth Congress of the SovietCommunist Party sowed the seeds of de-Stalinization. It opened with a report from Khrushchev critical of Stalin , and closed with his revelation of some selected truths about Stalin's...

1558: John Knox published his Monstrous Regiment...

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1558

John Knox published his Monstrous Regiment of Women, maintaining that woman had no natural or god-given authority to rule.
Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
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6 October 1891: Charles Parnell, Irish patriot, died at Brighton...

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6 October 1891

Charles Parnell , Irish patriot, died at Brighton in Sussex; Virginia Woolf used his death to date the second section in her novel The Years, 1937.
Woolf, Virginia. The Years. Hogarth Press, 1979.
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1832: The University of Durham was founded....

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1832

The University of Durham was founded.
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
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Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
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Dyhouse, Carol. No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939. UCL Press, 1995.
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13 April 1797: The gathering mutiny at Spithead off Portsmouth...

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13 April 1797

The gathering mutiny at Spithead off Portsmouth was reported by telegraph (communication by flashing lights from a national system of observation posts).
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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Anne Grant

AG 's life as woman of letters, which had its foundations in a bookish, colonial American childhood and isolated, late-eighteenth-century married years in the Scottish Highlands, was constructed during her residence in Edinburgh during the...
Anne Grant Black and white engraving of Anne Grant by H. Robinson after a painting by K. Macleay. She sits in an armchair wearing a large ribboned cap and frilled collar tied with a black bow, with a shawl over her dress. Behind her is a dark curtain and a small table with books and papers. Above her right shoulder a window shows a Highland scene: a little boat on a tree-fringed loch and hills or mountains behind.

30 June 1865: The Anglican Community of the Mission Sisters...

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30 June 1865

The Anglican Community of the Mission Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus was founded at Malvern Link, Worcestershire.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
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7 January 1785: The first airborne crossing of the English...

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7 January 1785

The first airborne crossing of the English Channel was made, by balloon from Dover to the Forêt de Felmores in France.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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May 1765: A Regency Act was passed to arrange for the...

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May 1765

A Regency Act was passed to arrange for the government of Britain in case of the monarch's further illness.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
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September 1920: The Irish Citizen, launched in May 1912,...

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September 1920

The Irish Citizen, launched in May 1912, published its final issue.
McKillen, Beth. “Irish Feminism and Nationalist Separatism, 1914-23”. Éire-Ireland, Vol.
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, No. 3, 4, 1982, pp. 52 - 67, 72.
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31 October 1848: 4,000 people were killed in Vienna when the...

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31 October 1848

4,000 people were killed in Vienna when the Imperial government reconquered the city following what is variously called by historians the second revolution and the third rising.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Deák, István. “Lawful Revolutions and the Many Meanings of Freedom in the Habsburg Monarchy”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 280-14.
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1746: The Whitehall Evening-Post was launched to...

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1746

The Whitehall Evening-Post was launched to join the select group of leading London newspapers in the field of publishers' book advertising.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
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, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
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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.

: The young Vita Sackville-West, travelling...

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Autumn 1909

The young Vita Sackville-West , travelling in Russia (now Ukraine), saw the serfs grovelling up to their master and being slashed at carelessly with a dog-whip for their pains.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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1750: British female literacy rates at this time...

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1750

British female literacy rates at this time have been estimated as 40%, against a male rate of 60%.
Hunter, J. Paul. Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction. W. W. Norton, 1990.
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Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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J. Paul Hunter, however, reckons that 40% of people were now literate, overall.
Hunter, J. Paul. Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction. W. W. Norton, 1990.
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26 April 1916: Pacifist writer (and Republican sympathiser)...

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26 April 1916

Pacifist writer (and Republican sympathiser) Francis Sheehy Skeffington was executed with two others in Dublin by order of a British army captain, J. C. Bowen-Colthurst .
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
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John Bowen-Colthurst was a cousin of Elizabeth Bowen

1684: John Bunyan published his sequel The Second...

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1684

John Bunyan published his sequel The Second Part of the Pilgrim's Progress, in which the protagonist is female.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

CPG , a prolific early twentieth-century American writer and feminist social critic, published satirical poems and nationalist verse, newspaper articles, short stories, serialized novels, and a vast amount of non-fiction. She was unapologetically didactic, and...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Black and white photograph of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, shown in profile, from the torso up, with one hand resting on a fur wrap. She wears a dark jacket over a white shirt and her wavy hair is done in a loose bun.

1828: In the penal colony at New South Wales, Australia,...

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1828

In the penal colony at New South Wales, Australia, men outnumbered women three by to one: the actual figures were 26,611 men and 8,987 women.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
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Smith, Babette. A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal. New South Wales University Press, 1988.
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October 1925: The Author reported the Motion Picture Producers...

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October 1925

The Author reported the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America 's ban on filming Sydney Howard 's Pulitzer-Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted and Michael Arlen 's The Green Hat.
The Author. Alexander P. Watt.
(Winter 2000) cxi: 4, 188

Sara Jeanette Duncan

SJD was a Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist whose work spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her writing generally features characters who fail to live up to their own potential, such as Lorne...
Sara Jeanette Duncan Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Sara Jeannette Duncan, wearing a light buttoned blouse with a white flower in her dark curly hair.

March 1885: The first issue of the first British anarchist...

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March 1885

The first issue of the first British anarchist journal was edited by Henry Seymour and published by The International Publishing Company in London under the title Anarchist: A Revolutionary Review.
Quail, John. The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists. Granada, 1978.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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North, John S., editor. The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900. http://www.victorianperiodicals.com/series2/defaultLoggedIn.asp.