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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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14 December 1844: Famous English ballerina Clara Webster was...

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14 December 1844

Famous English ballerina Clara Webster was burned to death in a fire.
Roose-Evans, James. London Theatre from the Globe to the National. Phaidon, 1977.
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George Sand: By 21 December 1844

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Author event in George Sand

By 21 December 1844

GS published another novel, La comtesse de Rudolstadt, sequel to Consuelo.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
895 (1844): 1168

21 December 1844: The Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society,...

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21 December 1844

The Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society , founded by disciples of Robert Owen , opened the first co-operative retail shop in Britain at Toad Lane, Rochdale.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
266
Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern Britain 1700-1983: A Domestic History. Croom Helm, 1986.
78

Emma Frances Brooke: 22 December 1844

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Author event in Emma Frances Brooke

22 December 1844

EFB was born in Bollington, Cheshire, apparently one of a family of at least four.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Anonymous. “Woman and Home: Miss Emma Brooke, the Author of ‘A Superfluous Woman’”. The North American, 31 May 1895, p. 6.
(31 May 1895): 6
Anonymous. “The Literary World”. Boston Daily Advertiser, 16 May 1895, p. 5.
(16 May 1895): 5

Frances Browne: 24 December 1844

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Author event in Frances Browne

24 December 1844

Soon after her first poetry volume, The Star of Attéghéi, appeared, FB was granted, by Prime Minister Robert Peel , an annual pension of £20 from the Royal Bounty Fund for literary achievement in...

Caroline Frances Cornwallis : Later 1844

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Later 1844

CFC published Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Second Century, the seventh of Small Books on Great Subjects and the third to appear this year.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Second Century. William Pickering, 1844.
titlepage
“Multiple Advertisement and Notices Items”. The Morning Post, No. 23077, 31 Dec. 1844.
23077 (31 December 1844)

Sarah Flower Adams: 1845

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1845

SFA published The Flock at the Fountain, a catechism for children.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Isabella Beeton: Around 1845

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Author event in Isabella Beeton

Around 1845

At the age of nine, Isabella Mayson, the future IB , began her education in household management when she was made largely responsible for her younger siblings.
Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
35
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
20

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 1845

Women writers item

1845

Marguerite Blessington 's four-volume novel Strathern; or, Life at Home and Abroad: A Story of the Present Day came out in book form, following serialisation in the Sunday Times.
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
150

Mary Elizabeth Braddon: January 1845-1848

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Author event in Mary Elizabeth Braddon

January 1845-1848

At MEB 's request, she was sent for these years to Dartmouth Lodge, a boarding school for girls in Old Brompton Road, London.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
37, 41

Anna Eliza Bray: 1845

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Author event in Anna Eliza Bray

1845

AEB published a ten-volume collection of her works, The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 49

Amelia Bristow: 1845

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Author event in Amelia Bristow

1845

AB again applied to the Royal Literary Fund and received twenty pounds, as she had done two years previously; this is her last known application.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Caroline Chisholm: 1845

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1845

CC was joined in Australia by her husband when he retired from the East India Company .
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Caroline Chisholm: 1845-6

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1845-6

To encourage British emigration to Australia, CC and her husband travelled through rural New South Walesgathering optimistic autobiographical statements from more than six hundred recent settlers.
Mackenzie, Eneas. Memoirs of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm. Webb, Millington, 1852.
127-8
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
65-9

Eliza Cook: 1845

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Author event in Eliza Cook

1845

EC 's Poems were published at London and Philadelphia with slightly different titles.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Hannah Cullwick: By 1845

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By 1845

HC returned from her public-house experience to working for Mrs Phillips , despite the low status of this previous job.
Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press, 1984.
36
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
298

Charlotte Dempster: 1845

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1845

CD 's parents moved their family to St Andrews in order to give their children a better education.
Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920.
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Margaret Fuller: 1845

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Author event in Margaret Fuller

1845

MF published her most famous work, a social critique called Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
183

Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: 1845

Women writers item

1845

Her editor John Goss dates EPW 's death in this year.
A private submission to the International Genealogical Index puts the death of Elizabeth Jervis Pipe Wolferton on 26 April 1859, but since this woman...

Alfred Tennyson: 1845

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Author event in Alfred Tennyson

1845

On the strength of his 1842 Poems, AT received a Civil List pension of £200 per year.
Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan, 1972.
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Mary Taylor: By January 1845

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Author event in Mary Taylor

By January 1845

Having given up her German teaching position, MT left Germany for England.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Elizabeth Stone: 1845

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Author event in Elizabeth Stone

1845

ES published a historical study, Chronicles of Fashion, from the time of Elizabeth to the early part of the nineteenth century in manners, amusements, banquets, costumes, etc..
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.

Mary Somerville: 1845

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1845

After conducting a set of experiments on the effect of sunlight on vegetable juices, MS sent a report of her method and results to John Herschel , who presented her findings to the Royal Society .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
213, 214

Margaret Sandbach: 1845

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Author event in Margaret Sandbach

1845

MS anonymously published another verse drama, The Amidei, A Tragedy in Five Acts.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

James Malcolm Rymer: Biography: 1845

Writing climate item

1845

JMR 's Varney the Vampyre appeared about mid-way in date between John Polidori 's The Vampire (1819) and Bram Stoker 's Dracula (1897).
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.