Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Henry Cole
Standard Name: Cole, Henry
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26 May 1840: The Westminster Review, a new or restored...
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26 May 1840
The Westminster Review, a new or restored incarnation of the London and Westminster Review, first appeared, following on the resignation of John Stuart Mill
.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 540-1
Late 1843: Sir Henry Cole, tired of writing out Christmas...
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Late 1843
Sir Henry Cole
, tired of writing out Christmas greetings for all his friends, commissioned John Callcott Horsley
to design the first pictorial Christmas card.
“Christmas Gallery”. Postcard & Greeting Card Museum.
1849: Henry Cole and Richard Redgrave, members...
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1849
Henry Cole
and Richard Redgrave
, members of the Society of Arts, created the Journal of Design and Manufactures.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
10: 254
1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...
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1 May 1851
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by Queen Victoria
in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
Beaver, Patrick. The Crystal Palace 1851-1936: A Portrait of Victorian Enterprise. Hugh Evelyn, 1970.
5, 11, 13
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
1852: Henry Cole was appointed director of the...
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1852
Henry Cole
was appointed director of the Female School
of Design.
Callen, Anthea. Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914. Astragal Books, 1980.
33-4
1857: The Department of Practical Art constructed...