Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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By August 1785: William Cowper published The Task, his meditative-didactic...
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By August 1785
William Cowper
published The Task, his meditative-didactic poem in six books. Writing it was a task set before him by his friend Lady Austen
.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
55 (1785): 637, 985
Probably October 1858: The Ladies' National Association for the...
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
48
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
218
Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
36, 69
McCrone, Kathleen E. “The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and the Advancement of Victorian Women”. Atlantis, Vol.
8
, No. 1, 1982, pp. 44-66.
48
Goldman, Lawrence. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
121
Williams, Perry. “The Laws of Health: Women, Medicine and Sanitary Reform, 1850-1890”. Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945, edited by Marina Benjamin, Basil Blackwell, 1991, pp. 60-88.
60
“Second Annual Report of the Ladies’ National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge”. English Woman’s Journal, Vol.
3
, No. 18, 1859, pp. 380-87.
381
18 December 1714: A new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields (built...
October 1879: Somerville College, one of the two first...
Building and people item
October 1879
Somerville College
, one of the two first residential women's colleges at Oxford University, opened its doors to students.
Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
185
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
345-6, 374-5
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31.
29, 30
12 December 1821: Phoebe Hessel died at Brighton, where a tombstone...
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12 December 1821
Phoebe Hessel
died at Brighton, where a tombstone records her claim to have reached the age of a hundred and eight, and to have served for five years in the army, wearing men's clothes.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
105-6
February-March 1693: John Dunton published, in London, the four...
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February-March 1693
John Dunton
published, in London, the four issues of The Ladies' Mercury, a sister paper to the Athenian Mercury.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1804: The word romantisme, forerunner of Romanticism,...
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1804
The word romantisme, forerunner of Romanticism, first appeared in French.
Robb, Graham. “Missing Mother”. London Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2000, pp. 21-2.
21
June 1785-November 1787: The desirability of French as a school subject...
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June 1785-November 1787
The desirability of French as a school subject for girls, together with low prices in France, led several English schoolmistresses to transport their schools lock, stock, and barrel across the Channel.
Skedd, Susan. “Women Teachers and the Expansion of Girls’ Schooling in England, c. 1760-1820”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 101-25.
108
20 November 1803: The Royal Philanthropic Expedition set sail...
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20 November 1803
The Royal Philanthropic Expedition set sail in three ships from La Coruna, to carry the practice of vaccination against smallpox to Spanish possessions in South America and Spanish outposts in China (Canton) and Macao).
Williams, Gareth. Angel of Death. The Story of Smallpox. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
215-17
1678: Roger L'Estrange published the first English...
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1678
Roger L'Estrange
published the first English translation (out of ten before 1740) of G. J. Guilleragues
' Portuguese Letters (often called Letters of a Portuguese Nun), which in French dated from 1669.
Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist. Blackwell, 1986.
23 and n60
1-2 July 1784: Famine in the Shetland Islands was brought...
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1-2 July 1784
Famine in the Shetland Islands was brought to the attention of the House of Commons
.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
54 (1784): 700
Richards, Eric. Debating the Highland Clearances. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
221
1967: Elizabeth Cadell published her popular novel...
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1967
Elizabeth Cadell
published her popular novel The Stratton Story.
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.
1901: The Women's Local Government Society campaigned...
Mary Cecil Hay
published Old Myddleton's Money, an early detective story combining sensation fiction with small-town satire.
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.
Maunder, Andrew, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Varieties of Women’s Sensation Fiction, 1855-1880. Vol. 6 vols., Pickering and Chatto.
5: prelims
1947: The last horse-drawn hackney carriage ceased...
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1947
The last horse-drawn hackney carriage ceased operation in London, 308 years after the first were licensed, and many years after motor taxis had become predominant.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, 8 Aug. 2002, p. 20.
20
30 July 1937: In Russia the Soviet leadership issued Operational...
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30 July 1937
In Russia the Soviet leadership issued Operational Order no. 00447, which listed nine distinct groups of people subject to punitive measures (i.e. the death penalty), and how many of these people were to be executed...
15 June 1996: A bomb planted by the IRA destroyed a shopping...
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15 June 1996
A bomb planted by the IRA
destroyed a shopping centre in the heart of Manchester, injuring about two hundred people.
“Huge Explosion Rocks Central Manchester”. BBC News: On this Day, 15 June 1996.
1841: The death penalty for rape was changed to...
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1841
The death penalty for rape was changed to transportation for life.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
711
Adler, Zsuzsanna. Rape on Trial. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.
21
16 November 1682: The recently-formed United Company gave its...
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 621-4, 627
6 February 1778: Representatives of France and the United...
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6 February 1778
Representatives of France and the United States signed treaties of alliance and of amity and commerce.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
111
14 May 1857: Sir Thomas Erskine Perry and Richard Monckton...
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
45-8
Helsinger, Elizabeth K. et al. The Woman Question. Garland, 1983.
2: 14
1851: Isaac Merrit Singer patented his continuous...
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1851
Isaac Merrit Singer
patented his continuous stitch sewing machine design, and founded the company which still bears his name.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
114
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.
