Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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By December 1825: The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey were...
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By December 1825
The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey were published with a memoir by R. H. Nicholas.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
33 (1825): 277
1622: William Gouge in Of Domesticall Duties voiced...
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1622
William Gouge
in Of Domesticall Duties voiced the prevailing view that women's lives had public as well as domestic aspects: for them, he wrote, a conscionable performance of household duties was a publike worke.
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.
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Josephine Butler
Social reformer JB
is primarily remembered for her unrelenting efforts in the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts during the second half of the nineteenth century. She was both a gifted orator and a prolific...
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
154: 17
October 1939: Pianist Myra Hess began giving special wartime...
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October 1939
Pianist Myra Hess
began giving special wartime after-work concerts, starting at 5:30, at the National Gallery (from which the most precious pictures had already been removed as a precaution against destruction by bombs).
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001.
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1889: Bertha von Suttner published Die Waffen nieder...
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1889
Bertha von Suttner
published Die Waffen nieder (Lay down your Arms), a work which inspired Alfred Nobel
to establish his Peace Prize.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
444
By March 1767: There was published in London The Female...
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By March 1767
There was published in LondonThe Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Elizabeth Winkfield, whose mixed-race heroine recounts her life story.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
97ff
Winkfield, Unca Eliza. The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Editor Burnham, Michelle, Broadview, 2001.
10-11, 192
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
307
11 November 1995: Nigeria was suspended from the Commonwealth...
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11 November 1995
Nigeria was suspended from the Commonwealth at the New Zealand Commonwealth meeting.
CNN World News: World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, Seattle. http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min99_e/min99_e.htm.
28 March 1835: The Englishwoman ceased publication as a...
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28 March 1835
The Englishwoman ceased publication as a weekly, after less than a year.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1873: American physician Edward Clarke's antifeminist...
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1873
American physician Edward Clarke
's antifeminist Sex in Education; Or, a Fair Chance for the Girls founded its arguments on the claim that a woman's ovaries were her most important organ.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. Random House, 1997.
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1921: At the International Co-operative Congress...
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1921
At the International Co-operative Congress in Basel, Switzerland, delegates unanimously supported the formation of an International Co-operative Women's Guild
.
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.
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Scott, Gillian. Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women’s Cooperative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War. UCL Press, 1998.
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Elizabeth Daryush
ED
is in the unusual position of being a poet laureate's daughter (a grievous disadvantage for any poet to labour under, as Donald Davie
put it).
Davie, Donald, and Elizabeth Daryush. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Carcanet New Press, 1976, pp. 13-23.
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Her career spanned much of the twentieth...
13 February 1857: Lord Brougham introduced an unsuccessful...
1670: Members of a London jury headed by Edward...
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1670
Members of a London jury headed by Edward Bushel
(called by a recent commentator disinterested . . . property-owners) professed themselves willing to go to jail rather than to convict against their consciences.
Sedley, Stephen. “From Victim to Suspect”. London Review of Books, 21 July 2005, pp. 15-17.
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1841: Ludwig Feuerbach published Das Wesen des...
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1841
Ludwig Feuerbach
published Das Wesen des Christentums, an influential philosophical work demythologising Christianity.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1926: Fanfrolico Press, founded in Australia in...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
119
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
204-5
: Shakespeare probably completed the story...
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Winter 1598-9
Shakespeare
probably completed the story of his two Henry IV history plays by writing Henry V, in which the charismatic but formerly undisciplined prince makes good as national military hero.
Dobson, Michael. “A Furtive Night’s Work”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 7-8.
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By 1931: British households possessed about 1.3 million...
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By 1931
British households possessed about 1.3 million electric cookers, 400,000 vacuum cleaners and 220,000 fridges. Almost every home had a radio, called the wireless.
Pedersen, Susan. “A Babylonian Touch”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 21, 6 Nov. 2008, pp. 21-2.
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By 1850: England boasted approximately three million...
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By 1850
England boasted approximately three million Evangelical Christians.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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8 November 2016: The American people, offered the opportunity...
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8 November 2016
The American people, offered the opportunity to elect their first female President in the person of Hillary Clinton
, chose instead to confer the presidency on Donald Trump
, a developer, former reality tv host...
1 January 1856: The McGlashan and Gill publishing house was...
