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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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Jane Marcet: 20 September 1845

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20 September 1845

The Mother's First Book, written by JM , flags once again her enjoyment in writing for or about the very young.
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.
934 (1845): 922

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 26 September 1845

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26 September 1845

Elizabeth Barrett agreed to marry Robert Browning .
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
11: 99-100
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
159-60

Emily Brontë: Autumn 1845

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Autumn 1845

Charlotte Brontë discovered a book of EB 's manuscript poetry and was convinced that she should publish it; this led to their first, joint publication (with Anne ) of their Poems.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
478-9

Harriet Tytler: Autumn 1845

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Autumn 1845

Harriet Earle (later HT ) was allowed to return to her parents in India, after years living with her aunt in England.
Tytler, Harriet, and Philip Mason. An Englishwoman in India. Editor Sattin, Anthony, Oxford University Press, 1986.
43, 45-6

Matilda Charlotte Houstoun: October 1845

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October 1845

MCH and her husband sailed again for North America; this time they stopped briefly at Halifax, Canada, early in their trip, and visited both northern and southern regions of the United States.
The...

October 1845: Henry Layard began excavating the ruins of...

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October 1845

Henry Layard began excavating the ruins of Nineveh, capital of Assyria, aided by both his scholarly reading and his experience of sharing the life of local tribes.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
312
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Dinah Mulock Craik: 3 October 1845

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3 October 1845

Dinah Mulock 's mother died before she could follow her plan of moving north from London.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
7

Jean Ingelow: 3 October 1845

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3 October 1845

Again facing financial ruin, JI 's family sold its property in Ipswich and began a five-year period of travels, visits, and rented lodgings.
Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell, 1972.
38-9

Harriett Mozley: Late 1845

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Late 1845

HM became finally estranged from her brother, John Henry Newman (after years of intellectual argument), when he converted to Roman Catholicism .
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
33, 163

John Henry Newman: 9 October 1845

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9 October 1845

The ex-Anglican leader and Tractarian JHN completed his conversion by being received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988.
316

Late 1845: Following Newman's example, Evangelical minister...

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Late 1845

Following Newman 's example, Evangelical minister Frederick Faber converted to Roman Catholicism; he later became the guiding spirit of Victorian popular Catholicism.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
232
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
232
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
232-3

Lydia Maria Child: By 11 October 1845

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By 11 October 1845

LMC 's Letters from New York: Second Series, was published to take advantage of the great success of the first series.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
937 (1845): 982
Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
16

11 October 1845: A translated edition of Emanuel Swedenborg's...

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11 October 1845

A translated edition of Emanuel Swedenborg 's work The Principia was published in London; this form of spiritualism soon became popular in elite intellectual circles.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
21
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.
937 (11 October 1845)

Eliza Meteyard: By 25 October 1845

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By 25 October 1845

EM 's first novel appeared in three volumes, five years after part of it was serialised, retitled Struggles for Fame.
Mitchell, Sally. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading 1835-1880. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.
43n22

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: 26 October 1845

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26 October 1845

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne , died at her family home, Gask House or Gask Old House (which had been pulled down and rebuilt since her childhood), in the care of her nephew James Blair Oliphant...

Robert Browning: 6 November 1845

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6 November 1845

RB published Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, the seventh part in his Bells and Pomegranates series.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Editorial Materials”. The Brownings’ Correspondence, edited by Philip Kelley et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, p. Various pages.
11: xiii

Lucy Knox: 9 November 1845

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9 November 1845

LK was born Lucy Spring Rice at Hither Green, Lewisham (now part of Greater London).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240

Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: 13 November 1845

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13 November 1845

Mary Anne Jevons died in the home of her brother Richard at 37 Alfred Place, Bloomsbury.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Agnes Giberne: 19 November 1845

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19 November 1845

AG was born at Belgaum in Karnataka, India (near the Western Ghats mountain range), one of several daughters in her family.
John Foster Kirk's Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary gives her birth-date as 1845...

19 November 1845: Edgar Allan Poe published The Raven and Other...

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19 November 1845

Edgar Allan Poe published The Raven and Other Poems.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Thomas, Dwight, and David Jackson. The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849. G. K. Hall, 1987.
496, 531, 591

Charlotte Grace O'Brien: 23 November 1845

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23 November 1845

CGOB was born at Cahirmoyle near the village of Ardagh, Limerick (where her father owned 5,000 acres of land), one of a family of five sons and two daughters.
Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, and Charlotte Grace O’Brien. “Introductory Memoir”. Charlotte Grace O’Brien, Maunsel, 1909, pp. 3-135.
9-10
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Ann Browne: December 1845-February 1846

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December 1845-February 1846

In its final two instalments of poetry by MAB , the Dublin University Magazine seemed bent on demonstrating that poetry was not a suitable avocation for a woman.
Dublin University Magazine. William Curry, Jun.
26 (December 1845): 683
Dublin University Magazine. William Curry, Jun.
27 (February 1846): 201

Harriet Martineau: 1845-1846

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1845-1846

HM issued through Moxon , in three volumes, a collection of eight stories, Forest and Game-Law Tales, which proved unsuccessful.
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
215
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.
947 (20 December 1845): 1214
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.
956 (21 February 1846): 198

Late 1845 to 1850: During the Great Famine caused by the failure...

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Late 1845 to 1850

During the Great Famine caused by the failure of the potato crop, nearly a million Irish people died of starvation or disease.
Adelman, Paul. Great Britain and the Irish Question 1800-1922. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
64
Fitzpatrick, David. Irish Emigration 1801-1921. Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1984.
18
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
56

4 December 1845: The position of Peel's Conservative government...

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4 December 1845

The position of Peel 's Conservative government was severely shaken by a report in the Times that it was about to repeal the Corn Laws.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
215-17