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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

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Author event in Jean Rhys

Autumn 1909-December 1910

Ella Williams (later JR ) went to Blackmore 's theatrical agency, signed up as a chorus girl, and worked for slightly over a year in the musical comedy Our Miss Gibbs.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990.
51-4, 59-60

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: November 1909 - December 1910

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Author event in Charlotte Perkins Gilman

November 1909 - December 1910

CPG 's novel What Diantha Did—whose title refers to the popular girls' story What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey )—was published serially in her own journal, the Forerunner.
Kessler, Carol Farley. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings. Syracuse University Press, 1995.
289
Scharnhorst, Gary. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Bibliography. The Scarecrow Press, 1985.
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Ella D'Arcy: December 1910

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Author event in Ella D'Arcy

December 1910

EDA 's final identified story was An Enchanted Princess, published in The English Review.
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. “Ella D’Arcy: A Commentary with a Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol.
35
, No. 2, 1992, pp. 179-11.
189

Virginia Woolf: December 1910

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Author event in Virginia Woolf

December 1910

VW heard E. M. Forster 's talk on The Feminine Note in Literature at the Friday Club . His novel Howards End had appeared the previous October.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
271

Rosamund Marriott Watson: December 1910

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Author event in Rosamund Marriott Watson

December 1910

Uterine cancer forced RMW to have a hysterectomy: Hughes thinks she may have been showing symptoms of cancer as early as 1901.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240

Jean Rhys: December 1910-Autumn 1912

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Author event in Jean Rhys

December 1910-Autumn 1912

While working as a chorus girl, Ella Williams (later JR ) had what she termed my first real affair with a man,
Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. 1st ed., Deutsch, 1979.
112
Lancelot Smith.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990.
61, 71

Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda: December 1910

Women writers item

December 1910

Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR ) slipped through a police barricade to confront Prime Minister Herbert Asquith about women's suffrage as he was being driven off in his car.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
28

Julia Ward Howe: December 1910

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December 1910

A new but unfinished book of poems (which JWH had been working on at the time of her death in October) was assembled by her daughter Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and published posthumously by Houghton Mifflin

Oscar Wilde: 8 December 1910

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8 December 1910

The first performance was heard at Covent Garden of the English opera written by Richard Strauss to the text of OW 's Salome.
Tydeman, William, and Steven Price. Wilde—Salome. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
185

Beatrice Harraden: 9 December 1910

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9 December 1910

Votes for Women carried a piece by BH (originally intended as a letter to the Times) defending male suffrage supporters against attack by Winston Churchill .
Willis, Chris. Beatrice Harraden—Suffragette Writer. http://replay.web.archive.org/20071209111819/http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/Harraden.htm.

Anna Akhmatova: 11 December 1910

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11 December 1910

AA , 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 Elaine Feinstein likens to one...

20 December 1910: A general election resulted in a tie between...

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20 December 1910

A general election resulted in a tie between the Liberal and Tory parties.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

26 December 1910: The London Palladium opened as a music hall...

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26 December 1910

The London Palladium opened as a music hall with a variety bill including one of England's great music hall stars, Nellie Wallace , in a one-act play.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
344
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
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