Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1905: Charles Nessler introduced the chemical perm...
Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
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August 1861: Captain Robert Fitzroy, head of the United...
Burton, Jim. “Robert FitzRoy and the Early History of the Meteorological Office”. British Journal for the History of Science, Vol.
19
, 1986, pp. 147-76.
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Fishman, Jack, and Robert Kalish. The Weather Revolution: Innovations and Imminent Breakthroughs in Accurate Forecasting. Plenum Press, 1994.
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Shaw, Sir Napier. Forcasting Weather. Constable, 1911.
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: Elizabeth Blackwell returned to Britain from...
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Summer 1869
Elizabeth Blackwell
returned to Britain from the United States (where she had taken her degree), and began practicing medicine in London.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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1539-1843: During these centuries the proportion of...
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1539-1843
During these centuries the proportion of the British population over the age of sixty did not exceed 9.7%.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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1706: Arabian Nights Entertainments first appeared...
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1706
Arabian Nights Entertainments first appeared in English, translated from Les mille et une nuit: contes arabes by Antoine Galland
, itself a translation from Persian.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
2 July 1859: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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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 1832: A short-lived monthly for women, The Boudoir,...
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January 1832
A short-lived monthly for women, The Boudoir, began publication in London; it collapsed after only twelve issues.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1765: Thirty-eight women (as against fifty-seven...
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1765
Thirty-eight women (as against fifty-seven men) were officially licensed this year as merchants or retailers in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
VanBurkleo, Sandra F. “Declarations of independence”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xviii
, No. 9, June 2001, p. 10.
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Hannah Cowley
HC
, who is said to have become a dramatist by accident and who probably persevered out of necessity, achieved in time great stage success during the late eighteenth century. She was well acquainted with...
1914: The County and Borough Councils (Qualification)...
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1914
The County and Borough Councils (Qualification) Act and the County, Town and Parish Councils (Qualification) (Scotland) Act removed property qualifications for councillors and aldermen; any woman or man who had lived in the...
1675: For the second time slaves brought from Fort...
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1675
For the second time slaves brought from Fort Cormantine in the Gold Coast to a British colony (this time Barbados) planned a serious slave revolt.
Behn, Aphra. “Editorial Materials”. Oroonoko, edited by Joanna Lipking, W. W. Norton, 1997, p. Various pages.
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9 March 1949: A National Theatre Act was passed by the...
Woodward, Richard, and Isobel Grundy. Email about National Theatre Act of 1949 to Isobel Grundy. 22 Aug. 2003.
: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting The Girlhood...
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Spring 1849
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
's painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (featuring Christina Rossetti as its model) appearing at the Free Exhibition at Hyde Park Gallery
, was the first to display the initials of the...
August 1815: The Critical Review began the marketing ploy...
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August 1815
The Critical Review began the marketing ploy of monthly listings of Works in the Press; it ceased publication not long after this, in June 1817.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 2 (1815): 223
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By April 1818: John Keats published Endymion: A Poetic ...
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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1890: Matron Margaret Huxley opened Elpis, the...
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1890
Matron Margaret Huxley
opened Elpis, the first nursing home in Ireland catering to a private clientele.
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.
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March 1848: Chartist uprisings took place in London,...
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March 1848
Chartist uprisings took place in London, Glasgow, and Manchester.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Tillie Olsen
TO
, one of the leading lights of the twentieth-century feminist movement in the USA, prided herself on being a proletarian writer. She published very few books: a short-story volume, a novel, a book...
7 July 2005: Fifty-two people died and many were injured...
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7 July 2005
Fifty-two people died and many were injured in suicide bombings on the London tube and a bus during the morning rush hour.
Aitkenhead, Decca. “A Year of Catastrophe”. Guardian Unlimited, 31 Dec. 2005.
1952: The seventy-eight-year-old Somerset Maugham...
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1952
The seventy-eight-year-old Somerset Maugham
confided to his former headmaster that he believed that the Order of Merit was something that they ought to award him, as the greatest living writer of English.
Tayler, Christopher. “I only want the OM”. London Review of Books, 1 Sept. 2005, pp. 19-22.
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August 1884: The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) was...
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
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Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
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21 February 1774: The House of Lords decision Donaldson vs....
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21 February 1774
The House of Lords
decision Donaldson vs. Becket put an end to the legality (based in common law) of perpetual copyright. The case was provoked by the pirating activities of Alexander Donaldson
.
Nichol, Donald W. “Warburton (Not!) on copyright: Clearing up the Misattribution of An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1996, pp. 171-82.
171-82
Abbott, John L. “Review of William Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1998”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
