Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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April 1993: The Queen voluntarily began paying personal...
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April 1993
The Queen
voluntarily began paying personal income taxes.
“The Queen at 80: Timeline”. BBC News.
1968: Shrew, also titled Harpies Bizarre, and Bird,...
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
196
1508: Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine...
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1508
Michelangelo
painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at Rome, two years after Pope Julian II
had laid the foundation stone of St Peter's there.
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
236
30 December 1782: A print entitled Beauty in search of Knowledge...
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30 December 1782
A print entitled Beauty in search of Knowledge showed a fashionably-clad young woman in front of a circulating-library window featuring modishly scandalous material.
Benedict, Barbara M. “Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy”. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women’s Fiction" and Social Engagement, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 147-00.
195
1876: James McNeill Whistler painted the Peacock...
Backscheider, Paula R. “The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-102.
97
2 January 1711: Richard Steele ceased publishing his ground-breaking...
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2 January 1711
Richard Steele
ceased publishing his ground-breaking periodical, The Tatler.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
July 1819: John Keats's Ode to a Nightingale, written...
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July 1819
John Keats
's Ode to a Nightingale, written in May, appeared in a journal called Annals of the Fine Arts.
Keats, John. Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends. Editor Colvin, Sir Sidney, Macmillan, 1891.
272 n2
10 February 1749: Henry Fielding published Tom Jones, his comic...
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10 February 1749
Henry Fielding
published Tom Jones, his comic epic poem in prose, in six volumes containing three books each. It reached a (revised) fourth edition by 11 December.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
xlii
By 18 August 1888: Lucy Walford published Four Biographies from...
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By 18 August 1888
Lucy Walford
published Four Biographies from Blackwood's.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3173 (1888): 223
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.
By 1834: Amalgam, a mercury alloy, was being used...
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By 1834
Amalgam, a mercury alloy, was being used as a material for filling teeth.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
301
1946: Secretary, deserted single mother, and entrepreneur...
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
202
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Barrell, John. “Shoot first, ask questions later”. The Guardian, 12 May 2012, p. Review 6.
Review 6
13 December 1577 - 26 September 1580: Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the world,...
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13 December 1577 - 26 September 1580
Sir Francis Drake
circumnavigated the world, travelling from Plymouth in Devon through the Straits of Magellan and round the Cape of Good Hope, and back to Plymouth again.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
7 November 1722: Richard Steele's The Conscious Lovers (his...
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7 November 1722
Richard Steele
's The Conscious Lovers (his final play) was first performed.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
15 February 1939: Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes opened...
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15 February 1939
Lillian Hellman
's play The Little Foxes opened on Broadway, in a production that ran for a year and was followed by a film in 1941 with Hellman's screenplay.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
15 February 2011
7 June 1787: The Times (not yet using its final and best-known...
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7 June 1787
The Times (not yet using its final and best-known title) reported an attack by prostitutes on two respectable young women coming home from the theatre with their father.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
119-20
December 1764: The Critical gave a bad review to the anonymous,...
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December 1764
The Critical gave a bad review to the anonymous, pro-woman Man-Midwifery Analysed; however, it disclaimed (less than convincingly) any prejudice in favour of men.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
18 (1764): 444-6
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
18 (1764): 478
11 September 1915: The first British Women's Institute was founded...
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11 September 1915
The first British Women's Institute
was founded in Llanfair, Anglesey, Wales; the first Women's Institute of all had been founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, in 1897.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
352
Jenkins, Inez. A History of the Women’s Institute Movement of England and Wales. Printed at the University Press by C. Batey, 1953.
1-15
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
105
Hughes, Mary, and Mary Kennedy, editors. New Futures: Changing Women’s Education. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
173
1 October 1985: New Zealander Janet Frame issued the last...
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1 October 1985
New Zealander Janet Frame
issued the last of three volumes of autobiography, The Envoy from Mirror City; the first came out in 1982. These books finally spread her fame and quashed her reputation as...
1895: Chatto and Windus published The Professor's...
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1895
Chatto and Windus
published The Professor's Experiment, a novel by Margaret Hungerford
(who was near the end of her life but not yet slackening in productivity).
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.
January 1881: Followers of the Fenian or Irish Republican...
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January 1881
Followers of the Fenian or Irish Republican Brotherhood
man O'Donovan Rossa
(who himself was in the USA) exploded a bomb in Salford, the first time a bomb had been planted in Britain to further...
1760: Denis Diderot published his novel La religieuse;...
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1760
Denis Diderot
published his novel La religieuse; it was translated into English as The Nun.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
313
1804: The Watercolour Society (later called the...
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1804
The Watercolour Society
(later called the Old Watercolour Society) was founded.
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
