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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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Harriet Martineau: April 1845

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April 1845

HM produced Dawn Island, a tale for the National Anti-Corn Law Bazaar. It was published the next month.
Martineau, Harriet. Dawn Island. J. Gadsby, 1845.
prelims

Anne Marsh: By 5 April 1845

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By 5 April 1845

AM , as the Author of the Two Old Men's Tales, published the final monthly instalment of her first full-length novel, Mount Sorel; or, The Heiress of the de Veres, according to the...

Mary Carpenter: 6 April 1845

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6 April 1845

MC 's first published volume appeared anonymously: an ecumenical or inter-denominational little book of devotion entitled Morning and Evening Meditations for every day in a Month.
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.
66
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
OCLC

Emily Hickey: 12 April 1845

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12 April 1845

EH was born at the Norman Macmine Castle in County Wexford, Ireland.
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.
Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland, 1986.
215

Caroline Norton: By 12 April 1845

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By 12 April 1845

CN expressed her views of society and politics in a long poem addressed to the baby future king , entitled The Child of the Islands.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
911 (1845): 351

Lucy Walford: 17 April 1845

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17 April 1845

Lucy Bethia Colquhoun (later LW ) was born at 11 Brighton Crescent, Portobello, near Edinburgh.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Olivia Clarke: By 27 April 1845

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By 27 April 1845

OC died in Dublin, at about sixty, after being ill for some time.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 489

Christina Rossetti: Spring 1845

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Spring 1845

CR suffered some kind of breakdown that lasted into the summer and temporarily stopped her writing.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
49-50

Elizabeth Ham: May 1845

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May 1845

EH wrote the Introduction to The Ford Family in Ireland, a novel finally and anonymously published this year, though dating from thirty-five years earlier.
Ham, Elizabeth. The Ford Family in Ireland. Newby, 1845, 3 vols.
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Elizabeth Grant: 8 May 1845

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8 May 1845

Towards the end of her two-year stay in France with her family, Elizabeth Smith (formerly EG ) began writing the recollections of her life, which were later published as the popular Memoirs of a Highland...

Camilla Crosland: 10 May 1845

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10 May 1845

Camilla Toulmin (later CC ) turned to a different genre for her second book-length publication: Lays and Legends Illustrative of English Life.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 32
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.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
915 (10 May 1845): 460-1

12 May 1845: German critic August Wilhelm von Schlegel...

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12 May 1845

German critic August Wilhelm von Schlegel died.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
94

By 12 May 1845: Benjamin Disraeli published his condition-of-England...

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By 12 May 1845

Benjamin Disraeli published his condition-of-England novel Sybil, or The Two Nations.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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.
Braun, Thom. Disraeli the Novelist. George Allen and Unwin, 1981.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
916 (1845): 477

L. S. Bevington: 14 May 1845

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14 May 1845

Louisa Sarah Bevington was born in Battersea in South London, the eldest of eight children (of whom seven were girls).
Domingue, Jackie Dees. Doctrine and Dynamite. Texas A and M, 2000.
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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.

E. A. Dillwyn: 16 May 1845

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16 May 1845

EAD was born at her family home, Parc or Park Wern, in Sketty near Swansea, Glamorgan.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

19 May 1845-1848: John Franklin made his final, unsuccessful...

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19 May 1845-1848

John Franklin made his final, unsuccessful attempt to discover the North-West Passage.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 464
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
199

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 20 May 1845

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20 May 1845

Robert Browning paid his first visit to Elizabeth Barrett in Wimpole Street.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
150
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
151

Harriet Martineau: 24 May 1845

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24 May 1845

Soon after her miraculous recovery, HM met Henry Atkinson , a mesmerist and religious sceptic who had a profound effect on her later philosophy.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 214

Anne Brontë: June 1845

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June 1845

AB left her position as a governess to the Robinsons of Thorp Green, shortly before Branwell was dismissed from his position as a tutor there for pursuing his employer's wife.
Langland, Elizabeth. Anne Brontë: The Other One. Barnes and Noble, 1989.
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Rebecca Harding Davis: Later 1845

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Later 1845

The fourteen-year-old Rebecca Blaine Harding entered the Washington Female Seminary at Washington, Pennsylvania.
Harris, Sharon M. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
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Elizabeth Rigby: June 1845

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June 1845

ER 's essay Lady Travellers appeared anonymously in the pages of the Quarterly Review.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 727

Anna Brownell Jameson: Summer 1845

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Summer 1845

When Ottilie von Goethe 's illegitimate daughter Alma died, ABJ comforted Ottilie and accompanied her to Nuremberg and Venice.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
161

Louisa Stuart Costello: By 7 June 1845

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By 7 June 1845

LSC published The Falls, Lakes, and Mountains, of North Wales.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
919 (1845): 560-2

By June 1845: Charles Meryon (who had travelled and lived...

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By June 1845

Charles Meryon (who had travelled and lived with Lady Hester Stanhope as her physician in the Middle East from 1810 until her death in 1839) published Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope as Related by...

Sarah Stickney Ellis: 12 June 1845

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12 June 1845

SSE and her long-time friend Mrs (Isabella) Hurry took possession of Rawdon House, an Elizabethan manor in Hoddesdon, which they transformed into a school for young ladies.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Home Life and Letters of Mrs. Ellis. J. Nisbet, 1893.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.