Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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5 February 1909: In Belgium a chemist named Leo Baekeland...
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5 February 1909
In Belgium a chemist named Leo Baekeland
announced his invention of Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic. Its commercial production began soon afterwards.
May 1881: The Sentinel, which supported the Contagious...
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May 1881
The Sentinel, which supported the Contagious Diseases Acts and emphasized social purity, began monthly publication in London.
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Caroline Scott
CS
published three anonymous novels over a span of almost thirty years, beginning under the patronage of her novelist cousin Lady Charlotte Bury
. Meanwhile she had become an Evangelical Christian, who put her fervent...
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Dora Carrington
DC
is known predominantly for her personal relationships with writer Lytton Strachey
and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, but she produced much striking work—visual and literary—herself. André Derain
and Simon Bussy
gave her...
May 1777 to April 1778: The Magazin à La Mode, a French-language...
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May 1777 to April 1778
The Magazin à La Mode, a French-language magazine especially designed for young women, was published in Dublin and distributed throughout Ireland.
Kennedy, Máire. “The Distribution of a Locally-Produced French Periodical in Provincial Ireland: The ’Magazin à La Mode’, 1777-1778”. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Vol.
9
, pp. 83-98.
83-98
June 1925: Annie Jump Cannon, distinguished US astronomer,...
1891: During the 1890s Hippolyte Bernheim of the...
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1891
During the 1890s Hippolyte Bernheim
of the University of Nancy
in Alsace-Lorraine challenged Jean-Martin Charcot
's idea that hysteria was a physical ailment; Bernheim argued that hysteria should be considered a psychological problem.
2 August 1914: The World Alliance for Promoting International...
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2 August 1914
The World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches was founded at a conference in Constance, Switzerland.
1970: The Education (Handicapped Children) Act...
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1970
The Education (Handicapped Children) Act made Local Education Authorities
responsible for the education of all children: no child, no matter how severely handicapped, was to be classed as ineducable.
19 February 1704: Daniel Defoe issued the first number of his...
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19 February 1704
Daniel Defoe
issued the first number of his long-running, one-man periodical, A Review of the State of the British Nation,, which began under the title A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France.
20 August 1853: The Customs Consolidation Act prohibited...
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20 August 1853
The Customs Consolidation Act prohibited importing obscene books and pictures into Britain.
After 1816: A court ruled against a widowed father (a...
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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.
28 December 1836: The province of South Australia was foun...
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28 December 1836
The province of South Australia was founded.
After 12 July 1539: Following the Six Articles Act, a bill to...
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After 12 July 1539
Following the Six Articles Act, a bill to suppress the few remaining monasteries or convents passed through Parliament almost unnoticed.
1486: The Boke of St Albans, a treatise on hunting,...
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1486
The Boke of St Albans, a treatise on hunting, was printed: persistent rumour attributes it to one Dame Juliana Berners
, or Julyan Barnes
, who only possibly existed.
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George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron
1870s: By this date, newspapers and periodicals...
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1870s
By this date, newspapers and periodicals were regularly accepting advertisements for female hygiene products such as Southall's Sanitary Towels.
November 1761: The Lady's Magazine, or polite companion...
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November 1761
The Lady's Magazine, or polite companion for the fair sex printed a correspondent's letter remarking, The greatest reproach of an old maid . . . is her ill humour.
1 March 1912: The Women's Social and Political Union smashed...
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1 March 1912
The Women's Social and Political Union
smashed shop windows in London's West End; this was the first time they had attacked private property.
After September 1940: During the London blitz, according to a US...
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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.
2 September 1945: Japan formally surrendered to the Allies...
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2 September 1945
Japan formally surrendered to the Allies.
18 April 1791: Horace Walpole reported that sedan chairs...
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18 April 1791
Horace Walpole
reported that sedan chairs were dying out as a form of transport: London was now too big.