Easton, Celia A. “Jane Austen and the Enclosure Movement: the Sense and Sensibility of Land Reform”. Persuasions, Vol.
24
, 2002, pp. 71-89. 87
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| Occupation | Romer Wilson | After the outbreak of World War One, RW
became involved in the war effort. In the last years of the war, 1917-18, she took a civil service job. This may be the same thing as... |
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1794: In his General View of the County of Westmorland,...
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1794
In his General View of the County of Westmorland, Andrew Pringle
reported that although generally horse work was men's work, in Westmorland women often drove teams of three or four harnessed to ploughs or...
1808: Arthur Young's General Report on Enclosures,...
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1808
Arthur Young
's General Report on Enclosures, commissioned by the Board of Agriculture
, performed the analysis that its title suggests. An appendix traced, county by county, the effects of enclosure on the rural poor.
11 September 1915: The first British Women's Institute was founded...
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11 September 1915
The first British Women's Institute
was founded in Llanfair, Anglesey, Wales; the first Women's Institute of all had been founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, in 1897.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
352
Jenkins, Inez. A History of the Women’s Institute Movement of England and Wales. Printed at the University Press by C. Batey, 1953.
1-15
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
105
Hughes, Mary, and Mary Kennedy, editors. New Futures: Changing Women’s Education. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
173
17 January 1917: A Women's Service demonstration was held...
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17 January 1917
A Women's Service demonstration was held in the Albert Hall to appeal to women to engage in war work, and to display their determination to go on doing all that was needed.
Fraser, Helen. Women and War Work. G. A. Shaw, 1918.
100
Fraser, Helen. Women and War Work. G. A. Shaw, 1918.
100-1
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