Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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By 7 May 1881: Walter Besant and James Rice published The...
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By 7 May 1881
Walter Besant
and James Rice
published The Chaplain of the Fleet, the fictional autobiography of Kitty Pleydell.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2793 (1881): 622
6 August 1965: Lyndon B. Johnson signed the US Voting Rights...
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6 August 1965
Lyndon B. Johnson
signed the US Voting Rights Act, which banned the use of race or colour as a category in the election process: this finally gave black people the vote on equal terms with...
14 August 1912: Three English suffragettes jailed for the...
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14 August 1912
Three English suffragettes jailed for the Asquith
incident in Dublin started a hunger strike, demanding recognition as political prisoners; four Irish suffragettes joined the hunger strike next day.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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26 December 1672: John Banister placed his first newspaper...
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26 December 1672
John Banister
placed his first newspaper advertisement for a public concert at his house in Whitefriars, London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1441-78: Margaret Paston, née Mautby, wrote—that is,...
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1441-78
Margaret Paston
, née Mautby, wrote—that is, dictated—to her husband and sons (in Virginia Woolf
's words) long long letters . . . . explaining, asking advice, giving news, rendering accounts
Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press, 1986–2011, 6 vols.
12 August 1765: The East India Company took over the direct...
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12 August 1765
The East India Company
took over the direct administration of revenues from Bengal. The young Mughal emperor, Shah Alam, dismissed his tax-collectors and gave their powers to officers of the company, in which...
1951: The Falling Leaves, a novel by Rosalind Wade,...
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1951
The Falling Leaves, a novel by Rosalind Wade
, was published.
Collini, Stefan. “HiEdBiz”. London Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2003, pp. 3-9.
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1930: The Book Guild was funded, on the model of...
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1930
The Book Guild
was funded, on the model of the Book Society
of the previous year, to cater to the needs of the intelligent but not academic (middle-brow) reader.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
305
1897: F. A. Kehrer of Germany carried out the first...
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1897
F. A. Kehrer
of Germany carried out the first eugenic sterilization on a woman who had given birth to seven abnormal or feeble minded children.
Wood, Clive. Vasectomy and Sterilization. Temple Smith, 1974.
93
March 1860: Following their war with Austrialink to 3916,...
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March 1860
Following their war with Austria, Savoy and Nice were ceded to France, and Lombardy was ceded to Piedmont.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
274
July 1832: With the support of the British army, Dom...
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July 1832
With the support of the British army, Dom Pedro
(Emperor of Brazil since 1822) assumed the crown of Portugal at Lisbon; his deposed brother Dom Miguel
fled to Spain.
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
67
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Author profile
Monica Furlong
MF
was a Christian feminist who began as a journalist and went on to a prolific late-twentieth-century output of books. She published poetry, a couple of novels, stories for children, biographies of remarkable Christians, collected...
1876-1878: More than six million people died from drought,...
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1876-1878
More than six million people died from drought, famine, and disease during a major famine in India.
Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso, 2001.
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16 June 1928: In response to the debate about extending...
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16 June 1928
In response to the debate about extending the franchise to women in their twenties, the Daily Mail headlines read: Flapper Issue Resumed / Election Swamped by Women / Conservative Alarm at Flapper Vote Results /...
Early July 1942: The German invasion of the Crimea was completed...
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Early July 1942
The German invasion of the Crimea was completed with the fall of Sevastopol.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
64
1890: Charles Albert Watts, with other writers...
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1890
Charles Albert Watts
, with other writers and intellectuals, created the Propaganda Press Committee
, which aimed to make freethinking ideas accessible through cheap editions of Rationalist texts.
Royle, Edward. “Secularists and Rationalists, 1800-1940”. A History of Religion in Britain, edited by Sheridan Gilley and William J. Sheils, Blackwell, 1994, pp. 406-22.
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29 October 1924: Ellen Wilkinson was elected as the Labour...
Kimber, Richard. “UK General Elections since 1832”. Richard Kimber’s Political Science Resources: British Politics: Election Information.
1831: The Royal Society, considered the leading...
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1831
The Royal Society
, considered the leading institution of natural science in Britain, started the publication of Proceedings of the Royal Society, which featured abstracts of members' papers.
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.
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Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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1940: Women in Quebec finally gained the right...
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1940
Women in Quebec finally gained the right to vote in provincial elections; most other Canadian women had enjoyed voting rights since 1918.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
504
8 September 1954: Britain, Australia, France, New Zealand,...
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8 September 1954
Britain, Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand and the United States formed the South-East Asia Treaty Organization
or SEATO.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-2001. Fourth, Longman, 2001.
299
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Elizabeth De la Pasture
EDP
had a successful career as a popular playwright (few of whose dramas reached print) and novelist. She also wrote short stories for periodicals, and a single story for children which had great success a...
29 February 1916: A Board of Education circular stipulated...
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29 February 1916
A Board of Education
circular stipulated that school children should be hired for work only when no adult man or woman could fill the position.
Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
148
By 23 September 1848: A volume of fourteen Poems by a Sempstress,...
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By 23 September 1848
A volume of fourteen Poems by a Sempstress, published by E. L. E., called for just and equal brotherhood.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1091 (1848): 957
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1091 (23 September 1848): 957
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
under Craik
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.
