Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Sara Coleridge
Living in the shadow of her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, SC
nevertheless became recognized in her own right as a talented writer during the first half of the nineteenth century. She began with translations...
Hitch, Susan. “Women”. The Oxford Myth, edited by Rachel Johnson, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
87-8
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
374
Thomas, Keith. “College Life, 1945-1970”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Vol.
viii
, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 189-15.
210
1887: The newly-built Theatre Royal, Exeter burnt...
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1887
The newly-built Theatre Royal, Exeter
burnt to the ground, killing more than a hundred people.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
69
By 16 November 1889: Una Ashworth Taylor released a collection...
Women writers item
By 16 November 1889
Una Ashworth Taylor
released a collection of her short stories entitled Knight Asrael.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3238 (1889): 669
After 6 September 1901: Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman was...
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After 6 September 1901
Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman
was implicated in the assassination of American President William McKinley
. She had already renounced the use of violence, but she publicly praised McKinley's assassin. She was stripped of her American...
23 February 1848: Fourteen-year-old Fleeming Jenkin (son of...
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23 February 1848
Fourteen-year-old Fleeming Jenkin
(son of the writer Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
and a future distinguished scientist), caught up in the February Revolution, noted the number and variety of women among the street mobs.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx.
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26 April 1798: Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell, A German...
Writer or writing item
26 April 1798
Francis Lathom
's The Midnight Bell, A German Story, one of the gothic horrid novels mentioned in Jane Austen
's Northanger Abbey, was advertised as newly published.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
Garside 1: 749-50
September 1886: A famous meeting of the Fabian Society resolved...
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September 1886
A famous meeting of the Fabian Society
resolved that it was desirable for socialists to form a politial party; this was the first germ of the Labour Party
.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
137
By 13 January 1796: John H. D. Anderson, Professor of Natural...
Mackie, John Duncan. The University of Glasgow, 1451-1951: A Short History. Jackson, 1954.
211-12, 300
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1560
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
66 (1796): 85
September 1908: At the age of fifty-eight, American climber...
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September 1908
At the age of fifty-eight, American climber Annie Smith Peck
reached the summit of Mount Huascarán in the Peruvian Andes.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
327
April 1955: The announcement was publicly made of the...
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April 1955
The announcement was publicly made of the discovery by Jonas Salk
of Canada of a vaccine for polio: the first effective protection against the infectious disease of poliomyelitis, which could cripple for life.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
298
Radford, Tim. “Nobel scientist warns of human hazard from bird flu”. Guardian Weekly, 22–28 Apr. 2005, p. 13.
13
New Year's Day 1964: The popular and long-running BBC programme...
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New Year's Day 1964
The popular and long-running BBC
programme Top of the Pops was launched The presenter was Jimmy Savile
, who years later was posthumously disgraced as a paedophile.
O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 21, 8 Nov. 2012, pp. 5-8.
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27 April 1909: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
100
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
98-9
Webb gives the date as 27 May 1909.
April 1895: The American Jewess, the first periodical...
Writer or writing item
April 1895
The American Jewess, the first periodical targeted to American Jewish women, began publication.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
27, 40
By August 1775: Sarah Siddons first performed the role of...
Women writers item
By August 1775
Sarah Siddons
first performed the role of Hamlet at Worcester: she went on to repeat the part at Manchester, Bristol, and probably Liverpool even before she finally cracked the London stage in 1782.
Woo, Catherine. “Sarah Siddons’s Performances as Hamlet: Breaching the Breeches Part”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
18
, No. 5, Dec. 2007, pp. 573-95.
574 and n10
3 November 1789: The French National Assembly ordered all...
