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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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11 December 1845-29 March 1849: The Anglo-Sikh wars were fought; they concluded...

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11 December 1845-29 March 1849

The Anglo-Sikh wars were fought; they concluded with formal annexation of the Punjab to India.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 821
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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16 December 1845: The foundation-stone was laid for the Whitechapel...

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16 December 1845

The foundation-stone was laid for the Whitechapel Public Baths in a poor area of East London, as part of the movement for public hygiene.
“The Women’s Library”. London Metropolitan University.

Harriet Smythies: By 27 December 1845

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Author event in Harriet Smythies

By 27 December 1845

HS , as the author of The Jilt, published another novel, The Breach of Promise.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
948 (1845): 1244
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Cecil Frances Alexander : 1846

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Author event in Cecil Frances Alexander

1846

The first book by Cecil Frances Humphreys , later CFA , Verses for Holy Seasons, appeared under her initials.
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.

Mary Bailey: 1846

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Author event in Mary Bailey

1846

MB began teaching private pupils at her home in Hobart.
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.

Mary Bailey: 1846-1849

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Author event in Mary Bailey

1846-1849

MB published over eighty poems in the Colonial Times of Hobart in Tasmania, which was the colony's leading newspaper at the time.
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.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Early spring 1846

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Early spring 1846

Antoinette Brown (later Blackwell) began studying in the literary programme at Oberlin Collegiate Institute , one of the few post-secondary schools at this time that allowed female students.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Later 1840s

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Later 1840s

Bessie Rayner Parkes ' family took a sea-side house at Hastings next to Barbara Leigh Smith 's family.

Caroline Frances Cornwallis : 1846

Women writers item

1846

CFC published two more works in her Small Books series: On the Principles of Criminal Law and Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century, in a series of letters to a lady.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. On The Principles of Criminal Law. William Pickering, 1846.
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Louisa Stuart Costello: 1846

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Author event in Louisa Stuart Costello

1846

LSC 's mother died at Munich in Bavaria.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Dinah Mulock Craik: 1846

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Author event in Dinah Mulock Craik

1846

Short stories and further poems by Dinah Mulock appeared in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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Dinah Mulock Craik: 1846

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Author event in Dinah Mulock Craik

1846

The Religious Tract Society published Dinah Mulock 's first book, Michael the Miner, after the tradition of Hannah More 's Cheap Repository Tracts.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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Emma Jane Worboise: 1846

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Author event in Emma Jane Worboise

1846

At the age of about twenty-one EJW published her first novel, Alice Cunningham.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Frances Trollope: 1846

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Author event in Frances Trollope

1846

FT published The Attractive Man, one of her several novels with morally dubious women as central characters.
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.

Harriet Smythies: 1 January 1846

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Author event in Harriet Smythies

1 January 1846

The first of HS 's five children, her only surviving daughter, Ellen , was born.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Summers, Montague. “Mrs. Gordon Smythies”. Modern Language Notes, Vol.
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, No. 6, June 1945, pp. 359-64.
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George Sand: 1846

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Author event in George Sand

1846

GS published La mare au diable, a novel dedicated to Chopin .
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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Cate, Curtis. George Sand. Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
792

James Malcolm Rymer: Biography: 1846

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1846

First published in Lloyd 's The People's Periodical and Family Library, JMR 's story then called A String of Pearls but later more usually Sweeney Todd, went on to become possibly the most...

James Malcolm Rymer: Biography: 1846

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1846

When highwaymen stories were still in demand, Lloyd Presses began the serial publication of JMR 's Gentleman Jack, a tale of two orphans. It ran for four years in weekly serial parts before being...

Emma Robinson: 1846

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Author event in Emma Robinson

1846

ER , as the author of Whitefriars, published Caesar Borgia , An Historical Romance: the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library though not the British Library hold copies of this edition.
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.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Bessie Rayner Parkes : 1846

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Author event in Bessie Rayner Parkes

1846

While visiting Hastings, the teenage BRP began a lifelong friendship with Barbara Leigh Smith .
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2026, 2 vols.
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.
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Julia Pardoe: 1846

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Author event in Julia Pardoe

1846

JP published her most popular novel, the triple decker The Confessions of a Pretty Woman.
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.

Julia Pardoe: 1846

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Author event in Julia Pardoe

1846

JP published Louis the Fourteenth , and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century, the first of her three biographies of French royalty.
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.

Catherine Gore : 1846

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Author event in Catherine Gore

1846

CG 's husband, Charles Gore , died at Brussels.
Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Dissertation Thesis, University of Arkansas, May 1992.
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Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Catherine Gore : 1846

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Author event in Catherine Gore

1846

CG published five novels this year: Sketches of English Character, Peers and Parvenus, The Debutante, or The London Season, Men of Capital, and The Queen of Denmark (the last translated).
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.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Matilda Hays: 1846

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Author event in Matilda Hays

1846

MH 's first novel, the proto-feminist kunstlerroman Helen Stanley, appeared.
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.