Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Patricia Highsmith
PH
, writing from the mid-twentieth century, first in the USA and then in Europe and England, produced short stories and novels, the majority of them variously classifiable as thrillers or suspense fiction, a...
1870: Mary Florence Potts, an American housewife,...
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1870
Mary Florence Potts
, an American housewife, patented the double-ended flat iron with a detachable handle.
Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
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Sarah Orne Jewett
Active during the latter part of the nineteenth century, United States author SOJ
wrote fiction in the form of short stories, novels, and novellas. Her interest in experimentation, and a particular skill in delineating character...
6 June 1762: A British expedition sent to invade Cuba...
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6 June 1762
A British expedition sent to invade Cuba reached Havana.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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1823: English scientist William Sturgeon made the...
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1823
English scientist William Sturgeon
made the first electromagnet.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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December 1722: Alexander Pope edited and published his late...
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1859: The Jewish Board of Guardians was established...
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1859
The Jewish Board of Guardians
was established to coordinate the activities of Jewish charities in England.
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
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1852: Tolstoy's first published work, Childhood,...
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1852
Tolstoy
's first published work, Childhood, appeared in the Russian literary journal entitled Contemporary.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Noyes, George Rapall. Tolstoy. Dover Publications, 1968.
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By January 1789: The Society for Bettering the Conditions...
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By January 1789
The Society for Bettering the Conditions and Increasing the Comfort of the Poor, founded by future Clapham Sect
members and others, was planning expansion; its plans for amelioration claimed a scientific basis.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
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Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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November 1857: Scottish missionary David Livingstone published...
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November 1857
Scottish missionary David Livingstone
published Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Jeal, Tim. Livingstone. Heinemann, 1973.
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18 August 1882: The Municipal Corporations Act confirmed...
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18 August 1882
The Municipal Corporations Act confirmed the right of women ratepayers to vote but excluded them from election.
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
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1862: The Victories of Love, the fourth and final...
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1862
The Victories of Love, the fourth and final part of Coventry Patmore
's poem The Angel in the House, was serialised in Macmillian's Magazine.
EM
began publishing stories at the age of ten but was twenty-three, with a grounding in journalism and editing, before she began to publish longer works. She then continued to do so with gusto: by...
1874: Henry Mayhew, well known for his journalism...
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1874
Henry Mayhew
, well known for his journalism on the British lower classes, published London Characters.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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24 August 1839: The Metropolitan Police Act included penalties...
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24 August 1839
The Metropolitan Police Act included penalties for abuses by the burgeoning advertising trade.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
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15 November 1910: Parliament reconvened and the Government...
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15 November 1910
Parliament
reconvened and the Government refused to guarantee that they would take up consideration of the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) in that parliamentary session.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Elizabeth Ashbridge
EA
was an early eighteenth-century Quaker
minister whose preaching was highly valued and who wrote her life-story for the edification of others.
The University of Bologna
(then included in The Papal States) appointed Doctress and ProfessorLaura Bassi
(1711-1778), to the Chair of Anatomy; she later held a philosophy chair from which she taught Newtonian physics for...
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Anne Carson
Anne Carson
is a Canadian writer best known for her work in poetry, translation, fiction, literary criticism, and on and across the boundaries between poetry and prose and between one genre and another. She is...
Roulston, Christine. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 2, 1998–1989, pp. 215-31.
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1808-14: This period of Indian history was called...
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1808-14
This period of Indian history was called The Great Anarchy because Anglo-Indians (men of mixed race) were discharged from the British Army, where many had been doing well; feeling betrayed, many took service in...
4 October 1957: The USSR launched the 185-pound Sputnik I,...
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4 October 1957
The USSR launched the 185-pound Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit earth; this caused panic in the USA about perceived Soviet research superiority.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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December 1835: Feargus O'Connor toured the North of England,...
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December 1835
Feargus O'Connor
toured the North of England, lecturing and founding local Chartist associations.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Taylor, Miles. “Knife and Fork Question”. London Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2001, pp. 28-9.
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Susanna Wesley
SW
's surviving writings, dating from the earlier eighteenth century, include letters, devotional diaries, prayers, meditations, and essays written for her children on points of religious doctrine. Publication began years after her death.
