Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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8 March 1763
William Thomas
's diary notes that an old woman buried this day was universally feared in the neighbourhood (south-east Glamorgan) as a witch.
1861-1891
The number of hospital beds available throughout England and Wales increased by an average of 1,600 beds per year.
1700
New urban development began in Bristol with Queen Square; five more new squares were completed in the city by 1784.
1876-1878
More than six million people died from drought, famine, and disease during a major famine in India.
10 April 1941
The National Service Act legislated conscription for women.
9 July 1777
Henry Hallam
, historian, was born at Windsor in Berkshire.
After September 1940
During the London blitz, according to a US literary historian, one of the earliest harbingers of rehabilitation was the appearance of books in the fetid burrows while the bombs rained overhead.
14 November 1834
George Stephen
told Anne Knight
that women, banded together in Ladies' Societies, deserved most credit for the recent Abolition Act.
Dulcie Gray
launched her publishing career: Samuel French
issued her playLove Affair (which had been staged the previous year) and the first of her murder mysteries, Murder on the Stairs, also appeared.
10 July 1886
The Royal Niger Company
was given a royal charter and authorized to administer the Niger territory
Early 1897
Scottish painter Katharine Cameron
, whose work was influenced by the Glasgow School, contributed illustrations to The Yellow Book.
The Irish government decriminalized homosexuality.
After 1816
A court ruled against a widowed father (a Unitarian minister) in his suit to get his daughters back from his wife's family, who had brought them up as Baptists.
Early July 1820
Keats
published Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and other Poems.
About 1470
The Distaff Gospels, a collection of the beliefs, proverbs, stories, medical and cookery recipes, and advice of medieval peasant women, is assigned to this date by its editors, Kathleen Garay
and Madeleine Jeay
.