Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Maria De Fleury
MDF
was a Baptist—and anti-Catholic—religious, theological, and political polemicist active during the 1780s and 1790s who wrote with force and imagination, especially in her verse. She published one more private poem, an elegiac ode.
2 August 1786: A working-class woman named Margaret Nicholson...
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2 August 1786
A working-class woman named Margaret Nicholson
tried to stab George III
with a knife outside St James's Palace; she had no political motive.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
56 (1786): 708
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J. S. Anna Liddiard
JSAL
was an Irish poet of the early nineteenth century, whose subjects touch on landscape, human relations, Irish history and culture, and patriotism both Irish and British. She also wrote translations and a masque.
22 November 1927: Persia protested to the UK against the allotment...
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22 November 1927
Persia protested to the UK against the allotment of the Bahrein Islands to Britain.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 888
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1099
July 1977: Splendid Lives: Stories by Penelope Gilliatt...
December 1950: British Prime Minister Clement Attlee flew...
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December 1950
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee
flew to Washington, DC, apparently seeking to deflect US President Harry S. Truman
from a possible plan to use nuclear weapons against CommunistNorth Korea.
Ascherson, Neal. “Wedgism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 14, 23 July 2009, pp. 13-15.
13
27 September 1540: A Papal Bull officially established the Order...
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27 September 1540
A Papal Bull officially established the Order of the Jesuits
at a maximum of sixty members.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
697
1967: The BBC began the first regular colour television...
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1967
The BBC
began the first regular colour television service in Europe.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
360
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Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich
, née Boole, was an Irish-born musician, novelist, translator and revolutionary, publishing in the 1890s and the first half of the twentieth century. She is renowned for her first novel, The Gadfly...
8 April 1838: The Great Western, the first steamship built...
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8 April 1838
The Great Western, the first steamship built especially for transatlantic crossings, left Bristol for New York.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
90
Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
85
1909: Elizabeth Davenay, a semi-autobiographical...
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1909
Elizabeth Davenay, a semi-autobiographical novel set in Paris, was published by Claire De Pratz
.
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.
1838: The Public Record Office was founded by Act...
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1838
The Public Record Office
was founded by Act of Parliament, to preserve in one place records from every government department that were deemed to have potential historical interest.
The Author. Alexander P. Watt.
(Autumn 2000): 134
3 October 1990: East and West Germany, politically divided...
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3 October 1990
East and West Germany, politically divided at the end of the Second World War, were reunited as a single nation; the GDR or East Germany ceased to exist at midnight on the 2nd.
Crystal, David. “Edit It Again, Sam”. The Author, Vol.
cxi
, No. 2, 1 June 2000–2026, pp. 82-3.
83
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
500
14 August 1848: The Act of Union (Upper and Lower Canada)...
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14 August 1848
The Act of Union (Upper and Lower Canada) was amended to repeal the clause which declared English the sole official language.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 465
1943: All conscripted women in Britain were compelled...
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1943
All conscripted women in Britain were compelled to serve in specified industries. In this year the proportion of single women under thirty in paid work rose to the high point of 90 per cent.
Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.
214
20 October 1702: The newly-elected parliament (first of Queen...
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20 October 1702
The newly-elected parliament (first of Queen Anne
's reign) assembled.
A True List of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the Parliament, which met at Westminster the 20th of October, 1702. 1702.
1975: The Women in Publishing Group, Women in Science,...
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.
21
13 June 2005: The week after winning the Orange Prize for...
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13 June 2005
The week after winning the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novel We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver
contributed a thoughtful piece to the Guardian about how women in competitive situations differ...
1780: In his poem An Essay on History, in three...
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
23 November 1936: Life, the mass-circulation American photo...
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23 November 1936
Life, the mass-circulation American photo magazine, issued its first number in a print run of half a million, priced at ten cents. Within a month, copies were changing hands at $3.50.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
23 November 2016
March 1940: The National Book Council began publishing...
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March 1940
The National Book Council
began publishing a monthly Selection of Recent Books Published in Great Britain, which in January 1941 became British Book News.
British Book News. British Council.
(March 1940)
October 1884: The University College of North Wales opened...
Evans, W. Gareth. Education and Female Emancipation: the Welsh Experience, 1847-1914. University of Wales Press, 1990.
244
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
41
January 1913: The Imprint, a short-lived but influential...
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January 1913
The Imprint, a short-lived but influential monthly on technical aspects of printing, was started by Gerard Meynell
of Westminster Press
.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
131-2
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
172
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
253
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.
