Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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4 May 1847: Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, gave...
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
189-90
9 September 1939: Canada independently declared war on Ger...
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9 September 1939
Canada independently declared war on Germany.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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19 September 1735: A proposal was published for a series or...
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19 September 1735
A proposal was published for a series or periodical to be entitled The Weekly Novelist, a Collection of the Best Novels.
May, James E. “Scribleriana Transferred: Dealer Catalogues 1993-1994”. The Scriblerian, Vol.
xxix-xxx
, Department of English, Temple University, 1 Mar.–30 Nov. 1997, p. 286.
286
1601: A Poor Law Act gave responsibility for the...
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1601
A Poor Law Act gave responsibility for the poor (at local, parish level) to secular instead of religious authorities; this meant that a rate was levied on property owners.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
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January 1859: Physician Elizabeth Blackwell delivered a...
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January 1859
Physician Elizabeth Blackwell
delivered a series of lectures in London; extracts from them appeared in the English Woman's Journal.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
208
1969: The Divorce Act made divorce easier to obtain;...
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1969
The Divorce Act made divorce easier to obtain; it granted divorce automatically after five years' separation, and introduced the concept of incompatibility. It came fully into operation only in 1971.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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Donoghue, Emma. “Author’s Note”. The Sealed Letter, Picador, 2011, pp. 465-74.
474
1918: Havelock Ellis published two sexological...
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1918
Havelock Ellis
published two sexological another essays in the same volume: The Erotic Rights of Women and The Objects of Marriage.
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.
17 December 1958: The United States announced that its piloted...
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17 December 1958
The United States announced that its piloted satellite program run by NASA
would be known as Project Mercury.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
277
October 1913: The Central Board of Co-operative Union refused...
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
154-7
Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
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16 April 1993: More than a hundred Muslims were massacred...
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16 April 1993
More than a hundred Muslims were massacred in the central Bosnian village of Ahmici; for this, in January 2000, five men were found guilty of war crimes by a United Nations
tribunal.
Guardian Weekly.
(20-26 January 2000): 4
3 May 1834: William Harrison Ainsworth published his...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Marianne North Gallery”. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
1975: The Employment Protection Act increased some...
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1975
The Employment Protection Act increased some rights concerning maternity entitlement.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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19 May 1685: The new monarch, James II, summoned his first...
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19 May 1685
The new monarch, James II
, summoned his first parliament for this date.
Henning, Basil Duke, editor. The House of Commons, 1660-1690. Secker and Warburg, 1983, 3 vols.
1: 86
By June 1810: Eaton Stannard Barrett (famous for his later...
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By June 1810
Eaton Stannard Barrett
(famous for his later parody novel The Heroine) entered the field of commentary on gender issues with Woman, A Poem.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 20 (1810): 223
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19: 246-50
May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
144-5
By 29 April 1882: Walter Besant published The Revolt of Man,...
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By 29 April 1882
Walter Besant
published The Revolt of Man, an anti-feminist dystopia.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2844 (1882): 537
March 1864: The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal...
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March 1864
The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life was developed by Charles Beard
.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 93, 505, 507
June-July 1919: People first flew in large numbers, not as...
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June-July 1919
People first flew in large numbers, not as continent-bound travellers but as joy-riders.
Hudson, Kenneth. Air Travel: A Social History. Adams and Dart, 1972.
13, 15-16
c.1590-1601: John Donne composed the famous lyrics which...
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c.1590-1601
John Donne
composed the famous lyrics which were posthumously published and later known as Songs and Sonnets.
Donne, John. “Chronological Table”. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Davy Hayward, Nonesuch Library, 1955, p. xi - xii.
20 March 1863: The executive of the Ladies' London Emancipation...
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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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.
Spring 1843: The Glasgow Abstinence Society organized...
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Spring 1843
The Glasgow Abstinence Society
organized the first People's Concert in Britain; these soon became a vehicle for attempts to reform and educate the working classes.
Russell, Dave. Popular Music in England, 1840-1914: A Social History. Manchester University Press, 1987.
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1936: The Midwives' Act established a diploma programme...
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1936
The Midwives' Act established a diploma programme for teaching midwifery, with further provisions for training and salaries.
“About Us”. The Royal College of Midwives.
October 1928-January 1929: The Royal Commission on Police Powers and...
