Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Sarah, Lady Cowper
SLC
is best remembered for the diaries which she kept between 1700 and 1716 and for the eleven volumes of commonplace-books in which, from 1670 till 1700, she recorded excerpts from her voracious and highly...
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, and Nikolai Efremych Andreyev. Fathers and Children. Translator Pyman, Avril, Dent, 1962.
ix
February 1744: An anonymous fiction purportedly from French,...
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February 1744
An anonymous fiction purportedly from French, The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu, related the protagonist's picaresque adventures in men's clothes, with a female companion.
Woodward, Carolyn. “Crossing Borders with Mademoiselle de Richelieu: Fiction, Gender, and the Problem of Authenticity”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
16
, No. 4, July 2004, pp. 573-01.
585, 573, 589, 601
1885-1886: Ottmar Mergenthaler patented and marketed...
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1885-1886
Ottmar Mergenthaler
patented and marketed Linotype™, the first successful mechanical typesetting system.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
161
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
132
1909: Britain's first antenatal clinic opened at...
Onslow, Barbara. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Macmillan, 2000.
155
January 1778: John Wesley and others began publishing the...
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January 1778
John Wesley
and others began publishing the Arminian Magazine: consisting of extracts and original translations on universal redemptions.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
1826: Duty was placed on opium imports at the rate...
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1826
Duty was placed on opium imports at the rate of nine shillings per pound; this rate decreased over the next decades.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
14
25 February 1830: Victor Hugo's play Hernani; ou, l'Honneur...
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25 February 1830
Victor Hugo
's play Hernani; ou, l'Honneur castillan (Hernani; or, The Honour of a Castilian) premiered in Paris.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
25 February 2008
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Isabel Hill
IH
is best known as a writer for annuals, to which she made at least thirty-four contributions of short stories and comic articles for both children and adults. She wrote six dramas, and also published...
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
248, 250
16 June 1928: In response to the debate about extending...
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16 June 1928
In response to the debate about extending the franchise to women in their twenties, the Daily Mail headlines read: Flapper Issue Resumed / Election Swamped by Women / Conservative Alarm at Flapper Vote Results /...
1852: In the wake of the success of Stowe's Uncle...
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1852
In the wake of the success of Stowe
's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Richard Hildreth
's retitled novel The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive appeared in an English edition with illustrations by Charles Kean
5 June 1947: American Secretary of State George Marshall...
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5 June 1947
American Secretary of State George Marshall
proposed his European Recovery Programme (the Marshall Plan); it was accepted by Britain and other European nations on the thirteenth of July.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
397
Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern Britain 1700-1983: A Domestic History. Croom Helm, 1986.
237
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
175
13 August 1912: Octavia Hill, housing advocate and one-time...
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13 August 1912
Octavia Hill
, housing advocate and one-time friend of John Ruskin
, died of cancer in her home at 190 Marylebone Road, London.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1873: Construction of the present Natural History...
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.
23 December 1992: The Dáil amended the Irish Constitution so...
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23 December 1992
The Dáil amended the Irish Constitution so that prohibition of abortion should no longer limit travel between states or free access to information about abortion services legally available in other countries.
Acts of the Oireachtas. Stationery Office, 1938–2026.
(1992): 4-6
29 March 1779: The American Congress recommended that in...
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29 March 1779
The American Congress
recommended that in view of a shortage of white soldiers, a force of 3,000 negroes be raised in South Carolina and Georgia.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
116
November 1940-January 1941: The Registration for Employment Order authorized...
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November 1940-January 1941
The Registration for Employment Order authorized Ernest Bevin
, Minister of Labour, to require women aged between twenty and thirty-one to register at the Labour Exchange
for war work.
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.
213
20 December 1918: Britannia, a suffragette magazine which had...
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20 December 1918
Britannia, a suffragette magazine which had opted to support Britain's military efforts during the First World War, ended publication in London.
