“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Woodrow Wilson
Standard Name: Wilson, Woodrow
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Beach | SB
's father was a dynamic Presbyterian minister who drew powerful parishioners into his fold. In Princeton, New Jersey, the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach
became the pastor for Woodrow Wilson
and other history-makers... |
| Occupation | Sylvia Beach | SB
worked for twelve hours a day and yet she wrote to her parents to tell them that she had never felt better in her life. She wore riding breeches and amused the locals with... |
| politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | Having arrived in the United States as a distinguished visitor, but then been refused entry, EP
threatened a hunger strike. President Wilson
then rescinded the ban on her. Her North American meetings in support of... |
| Publishing | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | In 1929 American publishers Dutton
released Is This Wilson? Messages Accredited to Woodrow Wilson
, Received by Mrs. C.A. Dawson Scott. Shepard, Leslie, editor. Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Second, Gale Research, 1984, 3 vols. |
| Textual Features | Hope Mirrlees |
Timeline
4 August 1914: Germany invaded neutral Belgium. Britain...
National or international item
4 August 1914
Germany invaded neutral Belgium. Britain and all its Commonwealth countries declared war on Germany; President Woodrow Wilson
announced a policy of US neutrality.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
612
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
350
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
Harding, Jeremy. “The Uninvited”. London Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2000, pp. 3-25.
12
1917: Cumann na mBan sent Hanna Sheehy Skeffington...
National or international item
1917
Cumann na mBan
sent Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
to the USA to present President Wilson
with a Cuman na mBan memorial.
McKillen, Beth. “Irish Feminism and Nationalist Separatism, 1914-23”. Éire-Ireland, Vol.
17
, No. 3, 4, 1982, pp. 52 - 67, 72. 64
Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.
243
22 January 1917: American President Woodrow Wilson made his...
National or international item
22 January 1917
American President Woodrow Wilson
made his well-known Peace Without Victory speech.
Bussey, Gertrude, and Margaret Tims. Pioneers for Peace: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1965. WILPF British Section, 1980.
27
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978. II: 127
8 January 1918: US President Woodrow Wilson made his famous...
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8 January 1918
US President Woodrow Wilson
made his famous Fourteen Points for Peace declaration.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
230
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
472
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
13 December 1918: The American ship George Washington, with...
National or international item
13 December 1918
The American ship George Washington, with President Woodrow Wilson
aboard, laid anchor at Brest. Wilson and his entourage then took the first train to Paris for the peace conference.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House, 2003.
15-16, 154
14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...
National or international item
14 December 1918
The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
166
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. ix - xii, xix-lv.
xlviii
“The 1918 coupon general election”. Liberal Democrat History Group.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
92
“Houses of the Oireachtas—Where it began!”. Houses of the Oireachtas / Tithe an Oireachtas.
26 December 1918: US President Woodrow Wilson (who had already...
National or international item
26 December 1918
US President Woodrow Wilson
(who had already been in Paris in connection with the peace conference which did not officially convene until 18 January following) was received in London with intense enthusiasm.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
92-4
1 January 1920: The League of Nations officially came into...
National or international item
1 January 1920
The League of Nations
officially came into being—without the United States, although the first suggestion for such a body had been made by President Woodrow Wilson
.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
16 January 1920: Prohibition came into force in the United...
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After 3 February 1924: The German embassy in Washington, DC, refused...
National or international item
After 3 February 1924
The German embassy in Washington, DC, refused to lower its flag on the occasion of President Wilson
's death.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House, 2003.
465
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