Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
EOB
, a writer of the Romantic period, remains best-known for her precocious yet astonishingly mature Female Geniad (a poem celebrating women writers); but her other works in poetry, fiction, history, and memoirs show a...
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.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
392
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.
312
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
III: 604
March 1961: Jane Duncan's autobiographical book My Friend...
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March 1961
Jane Duncan
's autobiographical book My Friend Annie, treating her often rocky relationship with her stepmother, was published.
The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, 1950.
1627: An anonymous book appeared at London entitled...
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1627
An anonymous book appeared at London entitled A Mothers Teares over Hir Seduced Sonne (seduced not sexually but by the Catholic
faith away from the Protestant).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
17 November 1834: The Duke of Wellington was appointed First...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
4 March 1793: Edwin Griffith wrote in a copy of Tommy Trip's...
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4 March 1793
Edwin Griffith wrote in a copy of Tommy Trip's Valentine Gift, 1785: Edwin Griffith the gift of his wife . . . . I shall keep this book as Long as it is in being.
Jackson, Heather. Marginalia: Readers’ Notes in Books, 1700-2000. Yale University Press, 2001.
1811: Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital moved from Moorfields...
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1811
Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital
moved from Moorfields in the City of London across the Thames to St George's Fields in Southwark.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
219
4 June 1859: Household Words merged with Charles Dickens's...
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4 June 1859
Household Words merged with Charles Dickens
's new periodical All the Year Round.
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins, 1990.
850
1 February 1840: Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders...
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1 February 1840
Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders were commuted to transportation for life.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
1895: Percy Sinclair Pilcher became the first bona...
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1895
Percy Sinclair Pilcher
became the first bona fide aviator in England after designing and successfully conducting a series of glides on his glider named Bat.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
140
1831: The National Union of the Working Classes...
Cheshire, David F. Portrait of Ellen Terry. Amber Lane Press, 1989.
34-6
1890: An Order in Council instituted mandatory...
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1890
An Order in Council instituted mandatory retirement of all Civil Servants at sixty-five, and gave Department Heads the discretionary authority to ask an employee to retire after sixty.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
160
6 May 2009: The antiquarian book collection of the late...
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6 May 2009
The antiquarian book collection of the late Paula Fentress Peyraud
(the largest in private hands), auctioned in New York, fetched more than $1.5 million US. Books by women between 1760 and 1830 predominated.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Literary Property Changing Hands: The Peyraud Auction (New York City, 6 May 2009)”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
43
, No. 1, 2009, pp. 151-63.
151, 153, 156, 158
18 July 1872: The Ballot Act established voting by secret...
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18 July 1872
The Ballot Act established voting by secret ballot in the UK.
Craig, Fred W. S. British Electoral Facts 1832-1987. 5th ed., Parliamentary Research Services, 1989.
179
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
294
February 1924: The British government finally extended diplomatic...
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February 1924
The British government finally extended diplomatic recognition to the Soviet regime in the USSR.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
253n21
December 1709-February 1710: During a great frost of three months, fairs...
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December 1709-February 1710
During a great frost of three months, fairs were held on the frozen Thames at London.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
23 and n33, 101
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Mary Seymour Montague:
MSM
is the almost certainly pseudonymous author of an eighteenth-century essay in four verse epistles in praise and defence of women.
May 1861: Blondin the tightrope walker began performing...
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May 1861
Blondin
the tightrope walker began performing at the Crystal Palace, where he presented a new routine that included many of the stunts he had executed while suspended over the Niagara Falls.
Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press, 2001.
14, 16
March 1892: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Foresters: Robin...
