Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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May 1765: A Regency Act was passed to arrange for the...
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May 1765
A Regency Act was passed to arrange for the government of Britain in case of the monarch's further illness.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
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1878: The sensation novel Beneath the Wave by Dora...
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1878
The sensation novel Beneath the Wave by Dora Russell
(not, obviously, Dora Russell 1894-1986) appeared in three volumes following serial publication in newspapers.
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.
6: prelims
Before September 1748: Tobias Smollett published his first novel,...
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Before September 1748
Tobias Smollett
published his first novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random.
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
9 May 1755: David Mallet's masque Britannia, with music...
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Elizabeth von Arnim
Over the course of her career EA
wrote over twenty popular novels, some of which she adapted for the stage, and published her memoirs. Her bestselling first novel, Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898), brought...
PR
was a tireless advocate for the importance of education (both secular and religious) for women, and Indian self-reliance. Fifty-five years after her death, A. B. Shah
called her the greatest woman produced by modern...
Isabella Tod
, founder of the first Irish suffrage group, died.
Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.
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Murphy, Cliona. The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Temple University Press, 1989.
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1651: Manasseh ben Israel wrote from Amsterdam...
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1651
Manasseh ben Israel
wrote from Amsterdam to Oliver Cromwell
to request legal admission for the Jews to England: he argued that this would help to bring about the birth of the Messiah.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
211 and n1
Alderman, Geoffrey. “Face to Faith”. The Guardian, 31 Dec. 2005, p. 29.
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1931: Woman Clerk: the Organ of the Association...
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1931
Woman Clerk: the Organ of the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries ceased publication.
Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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Christmas Day 1989: In Romania, Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu,...
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Christmas Day 1989
In Romania, Elena
and Nicolae Ceausescu
, whose regime was hideously oppressive in social policies, particularly those of gender, were shot by army firing squad after being removed from office by popular uprising.
Murphy, Dervla. Transylvania and Beyond. Penguin, 1998.
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From March 1871: The Vigilance Association for the Defence...
About 1400: An important manuscript book in Welsh, compiled...
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About 1400
An important manuscript book in Welsh, compiled this year, is now known as the Llyfr Coch o Hergest or Red Book of Hergest. It survives in the Bodleian Library
at Oxford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Hopcyn ap Tomas ab Einion
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Dorothea Du Bois
DDB
's traumatic family romance made her a writer with an obsession. Her father's guilt and her mother's victimhood recur throughout her works: poems, plays, novel, legal statement—everything but her edited anthology. But she is...
5 April 1867: John Stuart Mill presented the House of Commons...
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5 April 1867
John Stuart Mill
presented the House of Commons
with a second women's suffrage petitionpetition, bearing over three thousand signatures.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
163
28 March 1979: A nuclear accident occurred at a reactor...
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28 March 1979
A nuclear accident occurred at a reactor at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, USA.
Broad, William J. “Who built the H-bomb?”. Edmonton Journal, 29 Apr. 2001, p. E11.
E11
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Author profile
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...
21 October 1908: The first suffrage leaflet drop was made...
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21 October 1908
The first suffrage leaflet drop was made on London, by a suffragette who scattered leaflets demanding Votes For Women! over the House of Commons from a hired civilian dirigible.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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15 March 1815: The Corn Laws came into effect....
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15 March 1815
The Corn Laws came into effect.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
108
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
382
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
248
1 May 1907: Hagenbeck's Animal Park opened in Stellingen,...
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1 May 1907
Hagenbeck's Animal Park opened in Stellingen, just outside Hamburg in Germany.
Rothfels, Nigel. Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
8-10, 162
20 November 1797-9 July 1798: The short-lived Anti-Jacobin monthly (first...
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20 November 1797-9 July 1798
The short-lived Anti-Jacobin monthly (first under this title) appeared, edited by William Gifford
.
Sherburn, George, and Donald F. Bond. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century. 2nd ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
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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.
1643: The Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli,...
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1643
The Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli
, a pupil of Galileo
working on the flow of liquids in confined spaces, invented the first simple barometer.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
