Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1881
Cambridge University began admitting women to degree examinations, but women were not awarded degrees on the same terms as men until they finally obtained that privilege in 1947 (first degrees awarded in 1948).
7 October 1660
News reached the British royal household of a marriage that was to become dynastically significant: that of the king
's brother (later James II
) with the commoner Anne Hyde
, daughter of Lord Clarendon
.
1897
The Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican Church
(an order of ministry lower than that of priests) was finally recognized by the Lambeth Conference
of Anglican bishops.
1951
Nikolaus Pevsner
published the first three titles in his Buildings of England series, an immensely knowledgeable gazetteer, county by county, of historic and other noteworthy structures.
With sales of the once-popular Bentley's Miscellany at an all-time low, the owner, Richard Bentley
, ended its publication.
10 January 1777
Following a defeat at Princeton on 3 January, the British withdrew all their forces from New Jersey except for two posts.
1920
Post Office
management and the United Postal Workers
signed an agreement providing for equal pay for women (up to an arbitrary marrying age of twenty-two) working as sorting clerks, telegraphists, and telephonists.
15 October 1940
A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC
's Broadcasting House during the 9 o'clock news, killing seven staff-members.
1826
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
produced a permanent positive image on pewter coated with bitumen of Judea; he called the process heliography.
3 December 1998
Ministry of Defence
police arrested Tony Geraghty
under the 1989 Official Secrets Act, as author of The Irish War, published that October, a book which covers three hundred years of history.
Mid 1820s
Harsh economic conditions caused two-thirds of established British publishing firms to crash: authors were ruined, like Sir Walter Scott
, by the bankruptcy of Constable and Ballantyne
in Edinburgh.
EB
published three novels (all either early or late in her writing career, which spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), a religious work, and a travel book, but she made her name as the author...
1830-49
Douglas Jerrold
consolidated his career as a journalist and short-story writer while continuing to write for the theatre.
1964
The Department of Education and Science
was established in Britain as the ministry responsible for universities. It operated under this name until 1995.
Collini, Stefan. “From Robbins to McKinsey”. London Review of Books, No. 16, pp. 9 - 14.
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25-29 May 1868
The first regular Trades Union Congress was held, at Manchester.
Women writers for the first time outnumbered men in the Guardian newspaper's annual listing of the fastest-selling paperbacks in Britain.
Author profile
George Bradshaw
10 October 1802
The Edinburgh Review (founded by Henry Brougham
as a quarterly magazine of liberal views) published its first issue; it became a leading voice under editors like Francis Jeffrey
and Sydney Smith
, and lasted until...
1908
Researchers Hitschmann
and Adler
proved that ovulation and menstruation are causally related.
1897
The Public Health Act (Scotland) provided for the setting up of isolation hospitals: local smallpox was eradicated in seven years from this Act, after 34 years of compulsory vaccination had failed.
2 September 1939
All entertainment venues in London and other English centres closed until further notice as a precaution against expected immediate heavy bombing.
K. L. Montgomery
, the pseudonym for the two sisters Kathleen and Letitia (who were distantly related to Oliver Goldsmith
), published the contemporary love story Love in the Lists: A Pension Comedy.
The Mersey Railway
became the first steam railroad in England to convert to electricity.
Author profile
Anne Killigrew
AK
(also a painter) was a fine Restoration-period poet, who has the misfortune of being better known for Dryden
's praises of her than for her actual work.
Peter Jay
founded Anvil Press Poetry
, which by the early twenty-first century was based in Greenwich in south-east London, and described itself as England's longest-standing independent poetry publisher.
December 1854
The last issue of Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art was published.
26 February 1876
Women and Work, a practical guide to employment for middle-class women, ended publication in London.
ADA
is a remarkably skilled and hard-hitting verse satirist of the late Restoration period, who writes about international politics and about the misogynist, ingrown, self-satisfied culture of the university to whose press her father was...
The trial began in London of W. T. Stead
and others for the abduction of Eliza Armstrong
, purchased as a white slave.
Author profile
Flora Tristan
French writer FT
refused to limit herself to feminine genres, and her writing enjoyed limited success during her lifetime. She did, however, gain a degree of notoriety through the drama of her life, which culminated...
