Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
196 results for bluestocking
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20 June 1787 Actor John Palmer briefly opened the first...
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23 September 1782 Covent Garden Theatre re-opened after a three-month...
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Shortly before 20 April 1759 George Frederick Handel died after spending...
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13 February 1751 William Hogarth advertised the imminent availability...
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1882 An Ancient Monuments Act passed through parliament:...
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2 February 1785 Sarah Siddons first played Lady Macbeth (a...
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18 August 1746 Lord Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino, who had...
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1815 Elizabeth Appleton published Private Education;...
Appleton warned parents that many women seeking governess jobs, and many books written for young children, were inferior and inadequate. She blamed the vast numbers of badly written books for children on the rush by men who felt threatened by the bluestockings,
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and who therefore dashed into print without knowing anything about education.
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8 May 1777 The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley...
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3 December 1751 Christopher Smart, as Mrs Mary Midnight,...
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January 1750 English roads and streets were hotbeds of...
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1814 George Stephenson's first steam railway engine...
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By 4 December 1745 The Young Pretender's Jacobite army arrived...
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10 February 1786 For her benefit night at Covent Garden Theatre,...
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7 December 1875 The Historical Manuscripts Commission was...
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21 June 1737 The Licensing Act received royal assent:...
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31 October 1729 Another new London theatre opened: Goodman's...
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11 November 1779 One of Arkwright's new, highly-mechanized...
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Late 1737 to spring 1738 A group of women calling themselves Shakespeare's...
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1759 Josiah Wedgwood leased a pottery at Burslem...
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11 April 1747 The last of the Jacobite rebel lords, Simon,...
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1769 Josiah Wedgwood opened a new pottery at Etruria...
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12 January 1895 The National Trust was founded at Grosvenor...
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3 March 1770 Hissing from supporters of John Wilkes prevented...
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8 August 1781 At the Haymarket Theatre, a transvestite...