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1891: William Morris published his collection Poems...

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1891

William Morris published his collection Poems by the Way at his own Kelmscott Press .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Mary Fortune

MF , publishing under the pseudonyms Waif Wander, M. H. F., and W. W., wrote in a range of genres for the Australian periodical market in the second half of the nineteeth...

25 July 1907: Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout...

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25 July 1907

Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout movement. Its purpose was to teach outdoor survival and character building through an approach which moved its learners through successive levels of skills.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

June 1893: The Journal of the British Women's Temperance...

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June 1893

The Journal of the British Women's Temperance Association began monthly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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December 1961: A Handful of Time, a novel by Helen Foley,...

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December 1961

A Handful of Time, a novel by Helen Foley , was published.
The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, 1950.

19 June 2006: Book collector Pierre Berès donated a corrected...

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19 June 2006

Book collector Pierre Berès donated a corrected manuscript of Stendhal 's The Charterhouse of Parma to the French nation, allaying fears that this unique text would be bought at auction and taken out of the country.
“Collector donates rare text to France”. Arthur Rimbaud: News 2006, 19 June 2006.

August 1850: Thomas Carlyle published his virulent Latter-day...

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August 1850

Thomas Carlyle published his virulent Latter-day Pamphlets in a single volume, following their gradual appearance earlier in the year in the form of eight pamphlets.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1662: An anonymous translation appeared of Jacques...

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1662

An anonymous translation appeared of Jacques Olivier 's formal attack on women written in French: the English version was entitled A Discourse of Women, Shewing their Imperfections Alphabetically.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

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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Lady Anne Clifford

LAC 's known writings (clustered in two periods: her youth in the early seventeenth century and her old age after the Restoration) consist of diaries, yearly summaries or chronicles, and an autobiography which relates...
Lady Anne Clifford Portrait of Lady Anne Clifford by William Larkin. She faces forward, sumptuously dressed in a green, heavily embroidered jacket over a white, lace-edged bodice, a small ruff of starched lace, and drop pearl earrings. Her thick hair is brushed back and adorned with a coronet. National Portrait Gallery.

24 April 1869: Leslie Stephen (later Virginia Woolf's father)...

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24 April 1869

Leslie Stephen (later Virginia Woolf 's father) published in the Saturday Review an unsigned response to W. R. Greg , entitled The Redundancy of Women.
Saturday Review. Chawton.
(1869): 544-6
Annan, Noel. Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
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After September 1940: During the London blitz, according to a US...

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After September 1940

During the London blitz, according to a US literary historian, one of the earliest harbingers of rehabilitation was the appearance of books in the fetid burrows while the bombs rained overhead.
Haycraft, Howard. Murder for Pleasure. Carroll and Graf, 1984.
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April 1946: The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford...

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April 1946

The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre , Stratford upon Avon, was reopened by Sir Barry Jackson with a performance of Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare produced by Peter Brook .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
396

By November 1772: After a widespread epidemic of puerperal...

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By November 1772

After a widespread epidemic of puerperal fever, English surgeon Charles White published a Treatise on the Management of Pregnant Women and Lying-in Women.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
34 (1772): 340-9
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.

1887: The magazine Mother's Friend ceased publ...

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1887

The magazine Mother's Friend ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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January 1756: The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature,...

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January 1756

The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature, a monthly, began publishing under the editorship of Tobias Smollett , ostensibly by a Society of Gentlemen.
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
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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.

25 May 1951: Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, friends from...

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25 May 1951

Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , friends from their Cambridge days, who had been spying for the Soviet Union from positions of some influence within the British establishment, fled to Russia.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1888: Feminist activist Elizabeth Wolstenholme...

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1888

Feminist activist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy published The Emancipation of Women.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
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27 April 1964: Tanganyika and Zanzibar united to become...

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27 April 1964

Tanganyika and Zanzibar united to become Tanzania.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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February 1960: A Guardian article by Betty Jerman and a...

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February 1960

A Guardian article by Betty Jerman and a response from Maureen Nicol resulted in the birth of a Liberal-minded Housebound Wives' Register which eventually became the National Women's Register.
NWR: National Women’s Register. http://www.nwr.org.uk/.

May 1948: Policewomen were first admitted to the British...

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May 1948

Policewomen were first admitted to the British Police Federation .
Carrier, John. The Campaign for the Employment of Women as Police Officers. Avebury; Gower, 1988.
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Luck, Joan. The British Policewoman: Her Story. R. Hale, 1979.
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October 1918: The Dilution of Labour Bulletin, an illustrated...

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October 1918

The Dilution of Labour Bulletin, an illustrated monthly report on the role of women as replacements for men in munitions work, ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1862: The Church of England Temperance Chronicle...

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1862

The Church of England Temperance Chronicle began publication.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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3 January 1880: The popular Girl's Own Paper began as a weekly...

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3 January 1880

The popular Girl's Own Paper began as a weekly published by the Religious Tract Society ; it later became a monthly.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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April 1935: Heinemann, publisher of Bessie Cotter by...

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April 1935

Heinemann , publisher of Bessie Cotter by Wallace Smith , was fined £100 after pleading guilty to a charge of obscene libel.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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