Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1794: The Cymreigyddion Society (a branch of the...
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1794
The Cymreigyddion Society
(a branch of the Gwyneddigion Society), was founded in London by twelve male Welsh residents for the purposes of holding political debates, in Welsh, on radical topics which were at this time...
August 1874: The National Union of Working Women was founded...
29 May 1970: The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of...
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29 May 1970
The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of treatment for both sexes in employment contracts.
Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
2 (1970): 1366-75
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
164, 176-9
Kessler-Harris, Alice. “Into the blue”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 10-11, July 2003, p. 32.
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October 1909: The Men's League for Women's Suffrage began...
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October 1909
The Men's League for Women's Suffrage began monthly publication in London.
HM
began her career as a professional writer, which spanned more than four decades in the mid nineteenth century, with writing from a Unitarian perspective on religious matters. She made her name with her multi-volume...
July 1784: The Universal Magazine carried a posthumous...
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July 1784
The Universal Magazine carried a posthumous essay by Dr William Hunter
(who had died in March 1783) entitled On the Uncertainty of the Signs of Murder in Bastard Children.
Elliott, Nathan. “"Unball’d Sockets" and ‘The Mockery of Speech’: Diagnostic Anxiety and the Theater of Joanna Baillie”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
November 1761: The Lady's Magazine, or polite companion...
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November 1761
The Lady's Magazine, or polite companion for the fair sex printed a correspondent's letter remarking, The greatest reproach of an old maid . . . is her ill humour.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
Internationally distinguished dancer Alicia Markova
(born in London as Lilian Alicia Marks) became prima ballerina of the Vic-Wells Ballet Company
in her home city.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
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“Alicia Markova”. The Ballerina Gallery.
October 1928: The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican...
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October 1928
The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican
monthly, ended publication in London.
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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1762: Elizabeth Taylor of Southampton patented...
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1762
Elizabeth Taylor
of Southampton patented a lucrative invention, made by her late husband and their son, for manufacturing blocks for ships' tackle.
MacLeod, Christine. Inventing the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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10 December 2004: Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel, both based...
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10 December 2004
Linda B. Buck
and Richard Axel
, both based in the USA, were jointly awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.
Late 1859: The offices of The English Woman's Journal...
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Late 1859
The offices of The English Woman's Journal moved from Cavendish Square to 19 Langham Place, where a ladies' club was also planned.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
21 February 1927: A Round Table Conference of representatives...
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21 February 1927
A Round Table Conference of representatives from India, the UK, and South Africa agreed on voluntary repatriation of Indians currently in the Union of South Africa at UK government expense.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 719
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1084
December 1686: A case brought by one London married couple...
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December 1686
A case brought by one London married couple against another (with one wife accusing the other of business cheating) illuminates the conditions of women's work.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Elizabeth Strutt
As a novelist and travel-writer and in one book of at least semi-feminist debate, ES
seems to be addressing women; but when she writes on religion she takes men as her subject. With only one...
