Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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2 June 2002: Caroline Hamilton and Ann Daniels completed...
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2 June 2002
Caroline Hamilton
and Ann Daniels
completed their trek to the North Pole, two years after successfully reaching the South Pole.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
14 December 1901: Guglielmo Marconi, from a wireless station...
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14 December 1901
Guglielmo Marconi
, from a wireless station at Signal Hill, St John's, Newfoundland, received signals from his station in Cornwall, England.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 493
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
609
1874: Artist James McNeill Whistler mounted his...
Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement: Theory and Practice. Studio Vista, 1972.
76
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Author profile
Margaret Roberts
MR
wrote from youth until old age, mostly during the later nineteenth century. She usually remained anonymous, though she did eventually give permission to the firm of Tauchnitz
to put her name on some of...
1592-3: These were plague years in London; the theatres...
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1592-3
These were plague years in London; the theatres were closed.
Rogers, Pat, editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1987.
505
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction”. Sonnets, edited by Alfred Leslie Rowse, Macmillan, 1964, p. vii - xxxvii.
xx
21 July 1773: The Order of Jesuits was abolished by Pope...
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21 July 1773
The Order of Jesuits
was abolished by Pope Clement XIV
; they took refuge in Prussia, where their presence fed English anti-Catholicism.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
697
By late October 1920: Flora Murray wrote about her war experience...
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By late October 1920
Flora Murray
wrote about her war experience in Women as Army Surgeons: Being the History of the Women's Hospital Corps
in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919.
“Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, 3 May 2008, pp. Review 4 - 6.
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.
331, 333
1977: In his influential essay The Death of the...
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1977
In his influential essay The Death of the Author (in Image, Music, Text) theorist Roland Barthes
proposed that approaching texts through their authors is misreading.
Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author”. Image, Music, Text, translated by. Stephen Heath, Hill and Wang, 1977, pp. 142-8.
1803: The Wesleyan Conference decided that their...
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1803
The Wesleyan Conference decided that their association (still within the Anglican Church
but soon to form the new body of the Methodist Church
) should bar women from preaching.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
207
1851: In a novel entitled The Female Jesuit, or,...
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1851
In a novel entitled The Female Jesuit, or, a Spy in the Family, Jemima Luke
presents a Roman Catholic young woman, Marie, taken in by a Protestant family, where she makes all kinds of trouble.
Peschier, Diana. “Vulnerable Women and the Danger of Gliding Jesuits: England in the Nineteenth Century”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
11
, No. 2, 2004, pp. 281-0.
285-6
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Queen Elizabeth I
QEI
was a scholar by training and inclination (who wrote translations both as learning exercises and for recreation), as well as a writer in many genres and several languages. As monarch she wrote speeches, and...
FAR
, a schoolteacher by profession in the early nineteenth century, published mostly with instruction in mind. She began with a textbook on botany (designed to sanitize that topic after the work of Erasmus Darwin
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.
6 December 1889: Charles Stewart Parnell, having lost credit...
January 1924: Women Members of Parliament stopped wearing...
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January 1924
Women Members of Parliament stopped wearing hats in the House of Commons
. Nancy Astor
's hats had garnered more attention than her politics during her first years in the House.
Harrison, Brian. “Women in a Men’s House: The Women M.P.s, 1919-1945”. The Historical Journal, Vol.
29
, No. 3, Sept. 1986, pp. 623-54.
628
1820: The Stealing from Shops Act abolished the...
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1820
The Stealing from Shops Act abolished the death penalty for thefts of less than five shillings.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
268
1810-1845: Estimated national expenditures on newspaper...
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1810-1845
Estimated national expenditures on newspaper advertising rose from £270,030 in 1810 to £507,540 in 1845.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
28
1891: Elinor Huddart anonymously published her...
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1891
Elinor Huddart
anonymously published her semi-autobiographical novel Leslie, about a woman's hatred for her father and love for her mother, whose death then devastates her.
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.
1752: The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against...
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1752
The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against bawdy houses in the London area: all places of public entertainment (music, dancing, etc.) now had to be licensed by justices of the peace.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
93-4, 95
1896: Sarah Reddish's paper Right of Women to Membership...
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.
79-80
25 November 1689: The House of Commons accepted the final wording...
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25 November 1689
The House of Commons
accepted the final wording of the Revolution Settlement, or what became known as the Bill of Rights, the nearest thing to a British constitution.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Atkyns
26 June 1959: The St Lawrence Seaway was officially opened...
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26 June 1959
The St Lawrence Seaway was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth
and American President Eisenhower
at St Lambert, Quebec.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
278
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
415
1836: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin published...
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1836
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
published Contrasts, or, a parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and similar buildings of the present day, shewing the present decay of taste.
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.
