Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research, 1984.
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Events Timeline
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Mary Ann Kelty: 1844
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Ann Kelty
1844
apparently published this year, with her name, Memoirs of the Lives and Persecutions of the Primitive
Exemplifying the Obedience of Faith in Some of the Early Members of the Society; a second...
Fanny Kemble: 1844
Women writers item
Author event in Fanny Kemble
1844
When her
sold her favourite horse,
published a volume entitled Poems to buy him back.
Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880: 1844
Writing climate item
Author event in Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880
1844
, a US writer who later achieved brief international fame, published her first collection of poetry, Records of the Heart.
Jane Loudon: 1844
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Loudon
1844
issued a book for young people that had been hard to write, Glimpses of Nature during a Visit to the Isle of Wight, a commission finished on 30 November the previous year, the...
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: 1844
Women writers item
Author event in Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
1844
published Memoirs of a Muscovite, another historical novel (of which she purported to be not author but editor).
The anonymous Where There's a Will There's a Way, published...
Louisa Anne Meredith : By 1844
Women writers item
Author event in Louisa Anne Meredith
By 1844
's family was close to bankruptcy; they were forced to move so that her
could take work.
Louisa Anne Meredith : 1844-1846
Women writers item
Author event in Louisa Anne Meredith
1844-1846
The Dictionary of Literary Biography ascribes to
an annual published at Boston during these years as by a Lady: The Bouquet, Containing the Poetry and Language of Flowers.
Louisa Anne Meredith : 1844
Women writers item
Author event in Louisa Anne Meredith
1844
Publishing for the first time under her married name, Mrs. Charles Meredith,
offered her autobiographical travel narrative Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, During a Residence in that Colony from 1839...
Georgina Munro: 1843
Women writers item
Author event in Georgina Munro
1843
Using her own name for the first time,
published a second silver fork novel, Charles Harcourt; or, The Adventures of a Legatee, in three volumes.
Florence Nightingale : 1844
Women writers item
Author event in Florence Nightingale
1844
unsuccessfully petitioned to join
in Dublin for nursing experience; she applied again in 1852 but was put off on grounds that the buildings were under repair.
1844: The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers's...
Writing climate item
1844
The anonymous publication of
's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation influenced the evolutionary thinking of
and
.
1844: Scottish physician Sir Patrick Manson, a...
1844
Scottish physician Sir
, a tropical medicine specialist, first suggested that the mosquito might transmit malaria.
1844: The Law Amendment Society was founded by...
National or international item
1844
The
was founded by
.
1844: Ralph Waldo Emerson published his Essays:...
Writing climate item
1844
published his Essays: Second Series.
1844: There was a public scandal over the British...
National or international item
1844
There was a public scandal over the British government's secret interception of the correspondence of
, then living in England as a political exile from Italy.
1844: Céline Céleste began managing the Adelphi...
1844
began managing the .
1844: The first crèche, a type of day nursery for...
1844
The first crèche, a type of day nursery for the care of poor babies, was established by the Mayor of Paris.
1844-1847: This was the period of Railway Mania....
1844-1847
This was the period of Railway Mania.
1844: The first telegraph line in the US was built,...
National or international item
1844
The first telegraph line in the US was built, connecting Washington and Baltimore.
1844: The Hungarian Diet abolished the official...
National or international item
1844
The Hungarian Diet abolished the official use of Latin in Hungary, establishing Magyar as the kingdom's sole language.
1844: The issue of Sunday Closing was first raised...
1844
The issue of Sunday Closing was first raised at the annual meeting of the
.
1844: Bishop Philpotts introduced a Bill for the...
National or international item
1844
introduced a Bill for the Effectual Suppression of Brothels and Trading in Seduction and Prostitution, to facilitate prosecution of brothel keepers and procurers.
1844: A shilling monthly for women entitled The...
Writing climate item
1844
A shilling monthly for women entitled The Christian Mothers' Magazine began publication in London.
1844: American dentist Horace Wells pioneered the...
1844
American dentist
pioneered the use of nitrous oxide as a dental anaesthetic.
1844-1890: Public asylums became a refuge for pauper...
1844-1890
Public asylums became a refuge for pauper lunatics, until this group comprised approximately 91%of all patients in mental institutions; over a forty-five year span, the number of pauper lunatics increased four hundred times.