Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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2 August 1898: The first recording sessions took place in...
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2 August 1898
The first recording sessions took place in a London basement at 31 Maiden Lane; gramophones had been shipped to Europe from Eldridge Johnson
manufacturers (Camden, New Jersey) to coincide with this event.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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23 March 1861: The Oxford finally opened as a music hall,...
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23 March 1861
The Oxford
finally opened as a music hall, after resistance from other music hall managers in the East End.
Cheshire, David F. Music Hall in Britain. David and Charles, 1974.
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Bratton, Jacqueline S., editor. Music Hall: Performance and Style. Open University Press, 1986.
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1859: French physician Pierre Briquet (1796-1881)...
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1859
French physician Pierre Briquet
(1796-1881) published Traité clinique et thérapeutique de l'hystérie. Briquet argued that hysteria was caused by the central nervous system rather than a disorder of the uterus, as was commonly believed...
Panati, Charles. Panati’s Browser’s Book of Beginnings. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
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1697-9: In a decade including too many lean years,...
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1697-9
In a decade including too many lean years, Scotland was devastated by famine: the last one to occur on the British mainland, though conditions were bad again in Scotland in 1783-4.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
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1856: Fulham Refuge, a prison for women nearing...
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1856
Fulham Refuge
, a prison for women nearing the end of penal servitude sentences, opened in London.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
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24 May 1799: Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened...
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24 May 1799
Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
opened at Drury Lane
. An adaptation of Kotzebue
's melodrama about Peru, Pizarro voiced the anti-French feelings (fore-runners of anti-Napoleonic feelings) disturbing the English people at this time.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 2097-8, 2177-89
1863: James Hogg began publication of the Anglican...
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1863
James Hogg
began publication of the Anglican monthly Churchman's Family Magazine, containing uplifting fiction and essays by clergymen.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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19 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen, and...
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Menie Muriel Dowie
Ménie Muriel Dowie
, largely forgotten travel and adventure writer, essayist and new woman novelist, stormed into the literary scene of the 1890s with her enormously popular first book, A Girl in the Karpathians...
Living an upper-class life in the eighteenth century, Lady Hertford
did not publish; her patronage activity was as important as her writing. But as well as letters, a fragmentary political journal, and commonplace-books, she wrote...
1984: French writer Marguerite Duras, after publishing...
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1984
French writer Marguerite Duras
, after publishing for forty years and being admired in the English-speaking world for her filmscript Hiroshima mon amour, 1960, issued her startling autobiographical novel L'Amant.
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.
1895: During a gold crisis, US financier J. Pierpont...
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1895
During a gold crisis, US financier J. Pierpont Morgan
was credited with saving the day, by raising $65 million from bankers to stabilise the currency.
Leader, Zachary. “800 Napkins, 47 Finger Bowls”. London Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2000, pp. 18-20.
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22 May 1685: Titus Oates, the informer in the alleged...
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22 May 1685
Titus Oates
, the informer in the alleged Popish Plot, was whipped through the London streets at a cart's tail from Newgate Prison
, where he was incarcerated, to Tyburn.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Author profile
Ruth Pitter
During a career that spanned the greater part of the twentieth century, RP
published eighteen collections of poetry. She left letters and a journal, and occasionally spoke or wrote on literary topics. Her admirers have...
1907: In England notification of birth within six...
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1907
In England notification of birth within six weeks became mandatory.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
