Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Early December 1868: Lady Scarisbrick, along with twenty-seven...
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Early December 1868
Lady Scarisbrick
, along with twenty-seven of her female tenant farmers, cast parliamentary votes successfully when the revising barristers looking after the electoral register did not dispute their registration.
1913: An Inn Upon the Road, a melodramatic novel...
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1913
An Inn Upon the Road, a melodramatic novel by Janet Dodge
, was published.
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.
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.
31 July 1868: The Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act...
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31 July 1868
The Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act provided for compulsory governmental purchase and demolition of insanitary housing.
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
50
Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
384-5
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
1831: Sir John Herschel published Preliminary Discourse...
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1831
Sir John Herschel
published Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, a cheaply-produced book designed to teach scientific practices and scientific standards to people lacking in formal education.
Jay, Mike. “Like Cooking a Dumpling”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 22, 20 Nov. 2014, pp. 25-6.
25
23 April 1996: The annual BAFTA (British Academy of Film...
McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.
143
June 1956: Workers' protests occurred at Poznan in Poland,...
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June 1956
Workers' protests occurred at Poznan in Poland, which were later seen as having been a dry run for the Hungarian uprising in October.
Edgar, David. “Each Scene for Itself”. London Review of Books, 4 Mar. 1999, pp. 25-6.
25
1700: In Campania Foelix, a treatise on agriculture,...
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1700
In Campania Foelix, a treatise on agriculture, Timothy Nourse
on balance praised the system of common lands in England (still mostly unenclosed).
Neeson, J. M. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
20, n15
December 1985: Science writer John Langone argued in Discoverer...
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December 1985
Science writer John Langone
argued in Discoverer that women were not normally at risk from AIDS, since the vagina is rugged although the anus is fragile.
Koelsch, Patrice Clark. “Mortal Combats”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xvii
, No. 6, Mar. 2000, pp. 18-20.
18-19
25 June-14 September 1742: A French army was besieged in Prague: one...
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25 June-14 September 1742
A French army was besieged in Prague: one of three sieges of Prague during the War of the Austrian Succession, which made the city a byword for human suffering.
Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
107, 116, 124
Anderson, Matthew Smith. The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748. Longman, 1995.
112-13
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 303
By June 1806: Poems Written on Different Occasions by the...
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By June 1806
Poems Written on Different Occasions by the domestic servant Charlotte Richardson
were selected, edited, and published with some account of the author by the middle-class activist and social reformer Catharine Cappe
.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 8 (1806): 217
1930: A Danish painter, Einar Wegener, who had...
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1930
A Danish painter, Einar Wegener
, who had always felt himself to be a woman as well as a man, travelled to Dresden for sex-change or gender reassignment surgery: removal of penis and testicles, insertion...
March 1873: A Times correspondent reported that Sir Bartle...
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March 1873
A Times correspondent reported that Sir Bartle Frere
(father of the folklorist Mary Frere
) had received a flat refusal from the Sultan of Zanzibar in his attempt negotiate an end to the Zanzibarian slave trade.
“12 March 1873. Zanzibar’s slaving sultan gets lesson”. Guardian Weekly, 13 Mar. 2009, p. 22.
1863: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine published Histoire...
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1866: In Manchester the Central Association for...
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1866
In Manchester the Central Association for Stopping the Sales of Intoxicating Liquors on a Sunday was founded, blending temperance and religious concerns.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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Author profile
Harriett Mozley
HM
's writings, published over about a decade of the mid-nineteenth century, are deeply involved with the sectarian struggles within the Church of England
to which her brother, later Cardinal Newman
, largely contributed. She...
February 1744: An anonymous fiction purportedly from French,...
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February 1744
An anonymous fiction purportedly from French, The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu, related the protagonist's picaresque adventures in men's clothes, with a female companion.
Woodward, Carolyn. “Crossing Borders with Mademoiselle de Richelieu: Fiction, Gender, and the Problem of Authenticity”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
16
, No. 4, July 2004, pp. 573-01.
585, 573, 589, 601
1644: The English Parliament suppressed the Anglican...
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1644
The English Parliament suppressed the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
274, 304, 366
By April 1894: English theatre patron Annie Horniman funded...
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By April 1894
English theatre patron Annie Horniman
funded a repertory season at the Avenue Theatre
(later the Avenue Playhouse), London which concentrated on the new drama.
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
397
1891: Mary Dickens (grand-daughter of Charles Dickens)...
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1891
Mary Dickens
(grand-daughter of Charles Dickens
) published her first novel, Cross Currents, a story of the conflict between love and career in a talented actress.
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.
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.
1952: Angus Wilson published Hemlock and After,...
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1952
Angus Wilson
published Hemlock and After, which Margaret Drabble
in 2008 called one of the first gay novels to hit the postwar world.
“Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, 3 May 2008, pp. Review 4 - 6.
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“Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, 3 May 2008, pp. Review 4 - 6.
4-6
1858: The wharfdale stop-cylinder printing machine,...
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1858
The wharfdale stop-cylinder printing machine, invented by David Payne
, was introduced.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
