Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown.
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Events Timeline
Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.
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Jean Rhys: Autumn 1909-December 1910
Women writers item
Author event in Jean Rhys
Autumn 1909-December 1910
Ella Williams (later
) went to
's theatrical agency, signed up as a chorus girl, and worked for slightly over a year in the musical comedy Our Miss Gibbs.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: November 1909 - December 1910
Writing climate item
Author event in Charlotte Perkins Gilman
November 1909 - December 1910
's novel What Diantha Did—whose title refers to the popular girls' story What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (
)—was published serially in her own journal, the Forerunner.
Ella D'Arcy: December 1910
Women writers item
Author event in Ella D'Arcy
December 1910
's final identified story was An Enchanted Princess, published in The English Review.
Julia Ward Howe: December 1910
Writing climate item
Author event in Julia Ward Howe
December 1910
A new but unfinished book of poems (which
had been working on at the time of her death in October) was assembled by her daughter
and published posthumously by
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda: December 1910
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
December 1910
Margaret Haig Mackworth (later
) slipped through a police barricade to confront Prime Minister
about women's suffrage as he was being driven off in his car.
Jean Rhys: December 1910-Autumn 1912
Women writers item
Author event in Jean Rhys
December 1910-Autumn 1912
While working as a chorus girl, Ella Williams (later
) had what she termed my first real affair with a man, Lancelot Smith.
Rosamund Marriott Watson: December 1910
Women writers item
Author event in Rosamund Marriott Watson
December 1910
Uterine cancer forced
to have a hysterectomy: Hughes thinks she may have been showing symptoms of cancer as early as 1901.
Virginia Woolf: December 1910
Women writers item
Author event in Virginia Woolf
December 1910
heard
's talk on The Feminine Note in Literature at the
. His novel Howards End had appeared the previous October.
Oscar Wilde: 8 December 1910
Writing climate item
Author event in Oscar Wilde
8 December 1910
The first performance was heard at
of the English opera written by
to the text of
's Salome.
Beatrice Harraden: 9 December 1910
Women writers item
Author event in Beatrice Harraden
9 December 1910
Votes for Women carried a piece by
(originally intended as a letter to the Times) defending male suffrage supporters against attack by
.
Anna Akhmatova: 11 December 1910
Writing climate item
Author event in Anna Akhmatova
11 December 1910
, at Tsarskoe Selo, composed a poem which became one of her best-known: The Grey-Eyed King, on the accidental death out hunting of a young king, which
likens to one...
20 December 1910: A general election resulted in a tie between...
National or international item
20 December 1910
A general election resulted in a tie between the
and
parties.
26 December 1910: The London Palladium opened as a music hall...
26 December 1910
The opened as a music hall with a variety bill including one of England's great music hall stars,
, in a one-act play.