Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1745 Surgeons in England broke away from the Barbers'...
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1816 After the uncovering of abuses through the...
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8 June 1829 Douglas William Jerrold's play Black-Ey'd...
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1690 A satire on women, Mundus Muliebris: or,...
Mary Evelyn (1665-85), daughter of the diarist and virtuoso John Evelyn and of Mary (Browne) Evelyn
(a letter-writer of note, who declined to branch out into other authorship), was regarded as a prodigy of learning, but died young of smallpox. Manuscript writings by her and her mother, on deposit among other Evelyn papers at Christ Church, Oxford
, include her Rules for Spending my Pretious Tyme Well.
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8 May 1835 Hans Christian Andersen began publishing...
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1898 A Vaccination Act allowed parents to register...
The act also made arm-to-arm vaccination illegal. It had constituted a real danger to pauper children, who received the virus from other pauper children who occasionally communicated other diseases together with smallpox immunity.
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1869 Wyoming Territory became the first political...
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29 August 1842 The signing of the Treaty of Nanking ended...
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May 1863 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton...
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29 March 1867 The Metropolitan Poor Law Act was passed...
The Act also established the Metropolitan Asylums Board to manage lunatic asylums and hospitals for special diseases, such as smallpox and other infectious complaints.
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Autumn 1867 The London National Society for Women's Suffrage...
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1870 Western Australia was granted responsible...
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16 October 1880 The first South African War (or First Boer...
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1658 Sarah Jinner, Student in Astrology, published...
ECCO has four issues of this serial. It covers the law courts' and universities' terms, the influence of astrology over dates and parts of the body (with an illustration showing Man's Body which is clearly female), the phases of the moon, calendar of the church, and weather forecasts (in June 1658 cold and dark weather with showers of rain will give way to a wholsome air with some gentle showres). Jinner added new features from time to time. From 1659 she appended an address To the Reader. The first of these expresses regret that people are often too embarrassed to be clear when consulting a doctor about sexual problems. She recommends further reading matter about health and fertility (and how to conceive either a boy or a girl); she desires that our Sex may be furnished with knowledge: if they knew better, they would do better.
Jinner, Sarah. An Almanack and Prognostication for the year of our Lord 1659. Company of Stationers.
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In 1660 this address refers darkly to political events both past and to come; this year Jinner's expanded almanac lists the dates of monarchs' reigns since the Norman Conquest, and adds recipes for medicines of all kinds, and detailed prognostications for each month, not only on agricultural matters but for instance, for April, a probability of revolution for princes and states, with public affairs ill-joynted and discomposed. Jinner adds wryly: I know not what this Moneth is good for else, than to marry in it: the Woman will be fruitful, and the Man more constant than ordinary. She then says that July will be worse, with miscarriages, deaths in childbed, smallpox, and suicides.
Jinner, Sarah. An Almanack or Prognostication for the year of our Lord 1660. Company of Stationers.
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1841 Russian Romantic poet and novelist Mikhail...
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Autumn 1834 Charles Babbage envisioned the Analytical...
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13 February 1832 Cholera was registered as epidemic in London...
The nineteenth century also saw epidemics of yellow fever, smallpox, diptheria, scarlet fever, dysentery, typhus and typhoid. Tuberculosis was ever-present.
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31 March 1829 Pius VIII was chosen Pope after the death...
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1869 Debt ceased to be a crime in England....
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10 August 1842 Ashley's Mines Act passed, making it illegal...
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30 May 1827 John Keble anonymously published The Christian...
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12 February 1722 The Quarantine Act received the royal as...
It was not aimed at smallpox (though that was in the headlines) but at the plague, which was much feared as an import from Europe.
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June 1866 The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution...
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1881 Henry Fawcett, Postmaster-General and husband...
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18 August 1828 William Corder was hanged at Bury Gaol for...