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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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1845: Eliza Acton published Modern Cookery for...

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1845

Eliza Acton published Modern Cookery for Private Families, which Elizabeth David (who is credited with rescuing English food preparation from the slough into which it had fallen during the rationing and shortages during and...

1845: The National Association of United Trades...

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1845

The National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour was founded.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
37

1845: American physician James Marion Sims conducted...

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1845

American physician James Marion Sims conducted the first surgical repair of a vesico-vaginal fistula.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
124
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
204
Shryock, Richard Harrison. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
177

Anne Marsh: By 4 January 1845

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By 4 January 1845

The earliest of four monthly instalments appeared of Mount Sorel; or, The Heiress of the de Veres, AM 's first novel: the publishing method was meant to counter the stranglehold of the three-decker.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
897 (1845):13

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 10 January 1845

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10 January 1845

Robert Browning wrote a letter to Elizabeth Barrett , effusively praising her poetry.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
143
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
10: xii

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 11 January 1845

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11 January 1845

With Elizabeth Barrett 's reply to an epistolary overture by Robert Browning , one of the greatest exchanges of love letters in English got underway.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
10: 18, xii

Anna Brownell Jameson: 11 January 1845-21 February 1846

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11 January 1845-21 February 1846

ABJ explored the lives of saints in The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art; first published serially in the Athenæum, it appeared in book form as Sacred and Legendary Art in 1848.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
20, 238

Grace Aguilar: 18 January 1845

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18 January 1845

GA 's father, Emanuel Aguilar , died of consumption.
Aguilar, Sarah, and Grace Aguilar. “Memoir of Grace Aguilar”. Home Influence, Hickling, Swan, and Brewer, 1857, p. ix - xvii.
xiv
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
138, 148

Mary Ann Browne: 28 January 1845

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28 January 1845

MAB (now living and writing under her married name of Gray) died at her home, Sunday's Well in Cork, of heart spasms, aged only thirty-two.
Dublin University Magazine. William Curry, Jun.
25 (March 1845): 327
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Emma Caroline Wood: 30 January 1845

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30 January 1845

ECW bore her thirteenth and last child, a daughter named Katherine, who was later famously known as Kitty O'Shea .
Marlow, Joyce. The Uncrowned Queen of Ireland: The Life of ’Kitty’ O’Shea. Saturday Review Press, 1975.
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Geraldine Jewsbury: By 1 February 1845

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By 1 February 1845

GJ published her first novel, Zoe. The History of Two Lives, in three volumes. It is a historical work, set in the eighteenth century.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
901 (1845): 114

Mary Martin: By 1 February 1845

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By 1 February 1845

MM published as Miss Martin what is probably her first novel, St. Etienne, A Romance of the First Revolution, in three volumes.
A Dictionary of Irish Biography lists the title as St Etienne, A...

Harriett Mozley: Early 1845

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Early 1845

HM and her family visited London, where they stayed in lodgings. It was becoming apparent that her husband would have liked to live there for his journalism work, if he could only have afforded...

February 1845: The first issue of the British Quarterly...

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February 1845

The first issue of the British Quarterly Review was published, edited by Robert Vaughan .
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 122
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 114-16, 122

1 February 1845: The first issue of the Prospective Review:...

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1 February 1845

The first issue of the Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 337, 339-41, 347

10 February 1845: Edward Lear's first publication, A Book of...

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10 February 1845

Edward Lear 's first publication, A Book of Nonsense, appeared, containing short, deliberately inconsequential poems (not yet known as limericks) illustrated with his own line drawings.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
10 February 2009

George Eliot: March 1845

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March 1845

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) accepted a proposal of marriage from a young artist, still unidentified, only to withdraw it when she apparently realised that her eager imagination had attributed to him attractions that...

1 March 1845: The popular working-class London Journal:...

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1 March 1845

The popular working-class London Journal: and Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art began publication, boasting elaborately illustrated romantic, historical, and gothic fiction.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
381
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Caroline Frances Cornwallis : 1845

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1845

CFC 's eighth Small Book was titled An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors. She used the pseudonym Thomas Brown Redivivus, in homage to Sir Thomas Browne 's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646 (often...

Mary Howitt: By 8 March 1845

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By 8 March 1845

MH published her first translations from Hans Christian Andersen , The Improvisatore; or, Life in Italy and Only a Fiddler!; they were the first English versions ever made from his Danish.
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.
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.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
143-5, 150
Athenæum. J. Lection.
906 (1845): 235

Harriette Wilson: 10 March 1845

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10 March 1845

HW died at her house in Chelsea, leaving a careful estimate of her funeral expenses and requests to ex-lovers to pay them.
Wilson, Harriette. “Editorial Materials”. The Blackmailing of the Chancellor, edited by Kenneth Bourne, Lemon Tree Press, 1975, p. Various pages.
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Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
297

15 March 1845: Friedrich Engels dated the preface of The...

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15 March 1845

Friedrich Engels dated the preface of The Condition of the Working Class in England.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Zlotnick, Susan. Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
65
Engels, Friedrich, and Eric John Hobsbawm. The Condition of the Working Class in England. Granada, 1969.
173, 174

Regina Maria Roche: 17 March 1845

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17 March 1845

RMR died at her house in The Mall in Waterford. The Chronicle and Munster Advertiser of 19 March reported this, giving her age as eighty-nine.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Regina Maria Roche. 3 Oct. 2016.

Harriet Downing: 18 March 1845

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18 March 1845

HD —Mrs. Harriet Oliver (formerly Downing)—died of apoplexy (that is a stroke) at Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire. The Gentleman's Magazine notice of her death mentioned her Remembrances of a Monthly Nurse and...

26 March 1845: The first two Anglican sisters arrived at...

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26 March 1845

The first two Anglican sisters arrived at 17 Park Village West (near Regent's Park in London) to take up residence with the Sisterhood of the Holy Cross , a newly-founded nursing order which was the...