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1845: American physician James Marion Sims conducted...

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1845

American physician James Marion Sims conducted the first surgical repair of a vesico-vaginal fistula.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Shryock, Richard Harrison. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
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July and August 1898: The short-lived Female Compositors Society...

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July and August 1898

The short-lived Female Compositors Society was established in Scotland.
Reynolds, Siân. Britannica’s Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian England. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
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1960: The Betting and Gaming Act (which came into...

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1960

The Betting and Gaming Act (which came into force the following year) made off-course betting legal in Britain: betting shops sprang up, though their appearance was uninviting.
McKibbin, Ross. “Perhaps a Merlot”. London Review of Books, 3 Mar. 2005, pp. 16-17.
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1654: A young French priest, Father Antoine Biet,...

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1654

A young French priest, Father Antoine Biet , visited British-held Barbados and Surinam in the Caribbean; his account of his journey, published in 1664, mentions the low cost of the slaves and the huge...

1838: The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House...

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1838

The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House of Commons but was rejected by the House of Lords .
Huddleston, Joan, and Caroline Norton. “Introduction”. Caroline Norton’s Defense, Academy Chicago, 1982, p. I - XIII.
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June 1961: Margaret Stanley Wrench wrote and published...

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June 1961

Margaret Stanley Wrench wrote and published a book for children entitled The Story of Thomas More, illustrated by Kenneth Ody .
The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, 1950.

1989: Elisabeth Bond's play Lily and Colin (performed...

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1989

Elisabeth Bond 's play Lily and Colin (performed on radio in 1985) was included in the anthology They Said You Were too Young, edited by Rony Robinson .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

Young, Mary Julia

MJY , who began writing in the 1780s and publishing in the 1790s, turned from poetry to mostly novels before the turn of the century. By this time the pressure to earn money must have...
Young, Mary Julia

27 October 2005: Margaret Walters published Feminism: A Very...

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27 October 2005

Margaret Walters published Feminism: A Very Short Introduction in a popular series from Oxford University Press .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

Maria Theresa Kemble

MTK was an actress and playwright who began her acting career in London at the age of eight and her public career as a writer just before the dawn of the nineteenth century. She wrote...
Maria Theresa Kemble Painting of Maria Theresa Kemble by Samuel de Wilde, in character as the male lover, Patie, in a stage version of Allan Ramsay's Scottish pastoral "The Gentle Shepherd" (which she first played in 1796). She stands in a meadow among mountains, holding a shepherd's crook, dressed in white shirt and trousers, with a tartan jacket, cummerbund, and Scots bonnet sporting a large black feather. Garrick Club.

February 1768: James Boswell published his composite work...

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February 1768

James Boswell published his composite work on the Corsican liberation struggle: An Account of Corsica; the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
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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.
Ruxin, Paul. “Review of James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin, eds., Boswell, An Account of CorsicaJohnsonian New Letter, Vol.
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, No. 1, Mar. 2007, pp. 52-6.
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16 August 1921: The newly elected (second) Dail Eireann or...

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16 August 1921

The newly elected (second) Dail Eireann or Irish lower house convened for the first time.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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1937: The report of the Joint Council of Midwifery...

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1937

The report of the Joint Council of Midwifery advocated more strenuous measures to combat the sale of abortifacient drugs.
Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm, 1988.
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21 January 1976: The first supersonic passenger plane, the...

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21 January 1976

The first supersonic passenger plane, the British-French Concorde, began service between Paris and London; service to New York was later added.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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Spufford, Francis. “Love that Bird”. London Review of Books, 6 June 2002, pp. 28-33.
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7 May 1622: The Changeling, a tragedy by Thomas Middleton...

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7 May 1622

The Changeling, a tragedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley , was licensed for performance.
Middleton, Thomas, 1580 - 1627. The Selected Plays of Thomas Middleton. Editor Frost, David L., Cambridge University Press, 1978.
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1865: The Commons Preservation Society was established...

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1865

The Commons Preservation Society was established to fight against the growing trend of enclosure by property owners of land previously available for public use.
Offer, Avner. Property and Politics, 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology, and Urban Development in England. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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20 February 1896: The first films in Britain to charge admission...

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20 February 1896

The first films in Britain to charge admission were shown at Regent Street Polytechnic, London, for three weeks from this day.
Betts, Ernest. The Film Business: A History of British Cinema 1896-1972. Allen and Unwin, 1973.
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Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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July-October 1859: Charles Reade's historical sensation novel...

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July-October 1859

Charles Reade 's historical sensation novel The Cloister and the Hearth was serialised as A Good Fight in Once A Week.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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1736: Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion,...

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1736

Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, a defence of Christianity against Deism which argued from a principle of reasonable probability.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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12 October 1597: Michael Drayton's England's Heroicall Epistles...

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12 October 1597

Michael Drayton 's England's Heroicall Epistles was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared the same year.
Drayton, Michael. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton. Editor Brett, Cyril, Clarendon Press, 1907.
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Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.

16-17 October 1903: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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16-17 October 1903

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies sponsored a National Convention in Defence of the Civic Rights of Women in London; the conference's aim was to develop strategies to make suffrage an issue in...

1935: The ban on employing female married teachers...

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1935

The ban on employing female married teachers was ended in London.
Ferguson, Neal A. “Women’s Work: Employment Opportunities and Economic Roles, 1918-1939”. Albion, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 1975, pp. 55-68.
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Mary Webb

MW became very well known in the early twentieth century as a poetic regional novelist. She also wrote poetry, essays, short stories, and reviews. Her subject-matter is a rural past of love, violence, beauty and...
Mary Webb Black and white photograph of Mary Webb, shown in profile, from the shoulders up. She is wearing a simple light dress with a high collar and her dark hair is pulled back into a bun.

After 11 March 1618: Samuel Daniel published The Collection of...

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After 11 March 1618

Samuel Daniel published The Collection of the Historie of England, an account concentrating on the later middle ages from the Norman Conquest; he had issued a First Part in 1612.
Woolf, Daniel. The Idea of History in Early Stuart England. University of Toronto Press, 1990.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.