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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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Emma Roberts: 1845-1847

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1845-1847

A two-volume collection of ER 's writings on Asian towns and landscapes (reprinting two earlier picture books) was posthumously published as Hindostan: Its Landscapes, Palaces, Temples, Tombs: The Shores of the Red Sea: And the...

Elizabeth Rigby: 1845

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Author event in Elizabeth Rigby

1845

ER travelled from Edinburgh to Germany, where she visited Düsseldorf and Cologne.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
60

Julia Pardoe: January 1845

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Author event in Julia Pardoe

January 1845

Fraser's Magazine carried JP 's fantastic short storyThe Poet of Prague about Earnest [sic] Von Tailler, a youth at the beginning of the Thirty Years War.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 295
Pardoe, Julia. “The Poet of Prague”. Fraser’s Magazine, Vol.
2026
, 1845, pp. 106-15.
107
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
5: 603

Catherine Gore : 1845

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Author event in Catherine Gore

1845

CG in The Story of a Royal Favourite followed in the footsteps of Francis Coventry in Pompey the Little, by choosing a dog as her satirical narrator of the scandals of high life.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Julia Ward Howe: 1845

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Author event in Julia Ward Howe

1845

JWH 's second daughter, Florence , was born, and was named after Florence Nightingale , the remarkable young woman whom the Howes had met while on honeymoon in Europe.
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. Little, Brown and Co., 1978.
86
Howe, Julia Ward. Reminiscences, 1819–1899. Houghton Mifflin, 1899.
136

Anna Brownell Jameson: 1845

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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson

1845

ABJ published the pamphlet The Relative Position of Mothers and Governesses, which protests against the poor education of both, and offers encouragement to the Governesses' Benevolent Association .
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
12, 18, 167-8

Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: 1845

Women writers item

1845

In the same year as her death, Mary Anne Jevons , as Mrs Thomas Jevons, published her final volume, Sonnets, and Other Poems, Chiefly Devotional.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Geraldine Jewsbury: 1845

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Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury

1845

GJ took a trip to the Europe with her brother Frank to recover from her romantic entanglement with Q.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
80-8

Christian Isobel Johnstone: 1845-6

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1845-6

CIJ collected articles and stories from her magazines and published them as The Edinburgh Tales, in three large volumes.
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.

Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880: Around 1845

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Author event in Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880

Around 1845

Sarah Lewis and her husband began their relationship with Edgar Allan Poe and his family.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.
13: 571

Eliza Lynn Linton: 1845

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1845

Eliza Lynn , later Linton, left her family to go to London. She settled in a boarding house at 35 Montagu Place, near Russell Square.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1899.
11, 15
Layard, George Somes. Mrs. Lynn Linton: Her Life, Letters, and Opinions. Methuen, 1901.
50

Eliza Lynn Linton: 1845

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1845

Eliza Lynn , later Linton, first reached print with a poem entitled The National Convention of the Gods, for which she received two guineas in payment from Ainsworth's Magazine.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
18

Jane Loudon: 1845

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1845

JL moved a little away from gardening with the first book she was able to turn her mind to writing after her husband died: The Lady's Country Companion: or How to Enjoy a Country Life...

Harriet Martineau: January 1845

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January 1845

Believing herself to be cured by the power of mesmerism, HM travelled to the Lake District and to Birmingham.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
xxii

Harriet Martineau: 1845

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1845

HM 's Letters on Mesmerism (which had been carried more than a year before by the Athenæum) were published in book form by Edward Moxon .
Martineau, Harriet. Letters on Mesmerism. Edward Moxon, 1845.
title-page
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
216

Charlotte Montefiore: 1845

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1845

CM anonymously published a satirical novel, Caleb Asher, as an attack on Christian supposed philanthropists attempting to convert poor Jews.
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
175

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: 1845 or 1846

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1845 or 1846

Late in her life Lady Nairnewas preparing a volume of her songs for print; her sister Margaret Euphemia, Mrs Keith , published it in a large and handsome edition after she died, as Lays...

Margaret Oliphant: 1845

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1845

Margaret Wilson (later MO ) suffered a broken engagement with a man she identified only as J. Y.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
12, 338

1845: Prosper Mérimée's story Carmen appeared in...

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1845

Prosper Mérimée 's story Carmen appeared in French. It became the source for Bizet 's opera Carmen.
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
449-50
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.
I: 750

1845: The Society of Fraternal Democrats (the first...

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1845

The Society of Fraternal Democrats (the first international working-class organization) was founded.
Rothstein, Theodore. From Chartism to Labourism. Garland, 1984.
128, 130, 131

1845: The monthly Female's Advocate, developed...

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1845

The monthly Female's Advocate, developed by the London Female Mission , ceased publication.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
7

1845-1847: Europe experienced three years of major famine,...

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1845-1847

Europe experienced three years of major famine, unmatched during the rest of the century.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
169

1845: Frances Osgood published a poetry book for...

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1845

Frances Osgood published a poetry book for children, The Flower Alphabet in Gold Colours.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
250

1845: After this date, female Methodist preachers...

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1845

After this date, female Methodist preachers were very rare.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
15

1845: William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin...

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1845

William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin published the satirical A Book of Ballads, as edited by Bon Gaultier.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.