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May 1763: The anonymous Every Woman her own Broker...

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May 1763

The anonymous Every Woman her own Broker was printed: not a straight guide to investment (like its exemplar, Every Man his own Broker), but a joke about earnings from prostitution.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
15 (1763): 408

Margaret Oliphant

As the breadwinner for her constantly extending family, MO was astonishingly productive. She published (sometimes by name, sometimes anonymously, often with no name but with allusion to her previous works) ninety-eight novels, and three times...
Margaret Oliphant Head-and-shoulders chalk drawing of a youthful-looking Margaret Oliphant by Frederick Sandys, 1881. She is wearing a brocaded dress and a plain lace cap on her grey hair. National Portrait Gallery.

By April 1818: Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare,...

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By April 1818

Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare, in fact a further extension of a project begun by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler .
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19 (1818): 283
Price, Leah. “The Poetics of Pedantry from Thomas Bowdler to Susan Ferrier”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 75-88.
80

Louisa Baldwin

Over the course of her writing career (during the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth), LB published four novels, two collections of children's stories, one collection of gothic ghost stories...
Louisa Baldwin Photograph of a painting of Louisa Baldwin by Edward Poynter. The background (patterned wallpaper, a painting on the wall, ornaments) is mostly blue. She sits in a carved black chair, wearing a simple black dress with four strands of blue beads around her neck, and a paper fan clasped in her hands.

20 June 1960: Nan Winton became the first woman reader...

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20 June 1960

Nan Winton became the first woman reader of television network news on the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
391

Late 1822: Charles Knight founded his eponymous publishing...

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Late 1822

Charles Knight founded his eponymous publishing firm in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 164

1808: Charles Fourier, social reformer, published...

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1808

Charles Fourier , social reformer, published his Théorie des quatre mouvements.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
364

11 November 1911: The Liverpool Repertory Theatre opened after...

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11 November 1911

The Liverpool Repertory Theatre opened after a successful trial season run by actor Basil Dean .
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
497

26 December 1867: Ellen Terry and Henry Irving made the first...

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26 December 1867

Ellen Terry and Henry Irving made the first of many stage appearances together when they played opposite one another in Katherine and Petruchio (better known as The Taming of the Shrew) at the new...

June 1920: The British Communist Party was founded—in...

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June 1920

The British Communist Party was founded—in a year when socialism was militant in Britain, and when Churchill sent tanks against Communists in Glasgow as well as in Poland.
Rattenbury, Arnold. “How the sanity of poets can be edited away”. London Review of Books, 14 Oct. 1999, pp. 15-19.
17

1949: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, released the previous...

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1949

Laurence Olivier 's Hamlet,William Shakespeare released the previous year, became the first British film to win the Oscar for best film.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
401

24 July 1789: Marie Antoinette wrote for her children's...

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24 July 1789

Marie Antoinette wrote for her children's governess Instructions donnè à la marquise de Tourzel, which was later published among her letters.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
17: 710n2

1924: Leading suffragist Annie Kenney published...

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1924

Leading suffragist Annie Kenney published Memoirs of a Militant, a book bound in WSPU colours: purple cloth, with white and green stripes.
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.

5 August 1971: The Finance Act for the first time made provision...

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5 August 1971

The Finance Act for the first time made provision for a British husband and wife to apply to have their earnings taxed separately.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1971): 1195
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
338

1895: Psychiatrist Henry Maudsley published a revision...

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1895

Psychiatrist Henry Maudsley published a revision of Pathology of Mind: a Study of Its Distempers, Deformities, and Disorders, arguing that insanity grew in the uncultured and uneducated mind.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
108-9, 119-20, 124, 296
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
124

11 July 1921: Fighting in Ireland between British forces...

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11 July 1921

Fighting in Ireland between British forces and the Irish Republican Army ended in a truce: the next step was to negotiate a new constitutional status for Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Michael Collins

5-6 February 1971: Provisionals (irregular republican fighters)...

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5-6 February 1971

Provisionals (irregular republican fighters) killed a British soldier on active service in Ulster.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
618
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
431

14 April 1865: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United...

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14 April 1865

Abraham Lincoln , President of the United States, was fatally shot by actor John Wilkes Booth , at Ford's Theatre, Washington.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
206
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
286
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
2: 95
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
14 April 2010

24 September 1869: On this day, one of several later called...

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24 September 1869

On this day, one of several later called Black Friday, a financial panic broke out that caused the collapse of the U. S. gold market. Two speculators used deception and bribery to control the...

29 June 1875: The new Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings...

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29 June 1875

The new Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act contained provisions for the rehousing of those rendered homeless through the compulsory demolition of insanitary buildings.
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
50
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

1681: Andrew Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems were...

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1681

Andrew Marvell 's Miscellaneous Poems were posthumously published by his widow (whose legal right to this designation was doubted by scholars for a long time).
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.

1876: Elizabeth Stone, under the pseudonym of Sutherland...

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1876

Elizabeth Stone , under the pseudonym of Sutherland Menzies, published a volume in Collins 's School Series, entitled History of Germany for Junior Classes.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1953: The Kinsey Report on Sexual Behaviour in...

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1953

The Kinsey Report on Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female was published.
Tannahill, Reay. Sex in History. Stein and Day, 1980.
404
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
241, 242
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
551

1841: The autobiographical A Narrative of the Experience...

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1841

The autobiographical A Narrative of the Experience and Suffering of William Dodd : A Factory Cripple appeared in London.
Carlisle, Janice. “Introduction”. Factory Lives, edited by James R. Simmons, Broadview Press, 2007.
11-2, 50-3

31 March 1941: German troops, commanded by General Erwin...

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31 March 1941

German troops, commanded by General Erwin Rommel , fought with British troops in Libya.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
54-5
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
149
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
215, 222