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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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Henrietta Camilla Jenkin: 1846

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Author event in Henrietta Camilla Jenkin

1846

HCJ and her son moved from southern Scotland to Frankfurt in Germany.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx.
xxix-xxx

Geraldine Jewsbury: 1846-7

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Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury

1846-7

GJ wrote several articles on social issues, particularly class relations, for Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Anna Leonowens: Around 1846

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Around 1846

Fifteen-year-old Anna Harriett Emma Edwards (later AL ) embarked on lengthy travel in India and the Middle East with an East India Company chaplain, the Rev. George Percy Badger , and his wife.
She later...

Eliza Meteyard: Around 1846

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Author event in Eliza Meteyard

Around 1846

EM gained her pen name of Silverpen when Douglas Jerrold appended it to a leading article she contributed to his Weekly Newspaper.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Russell Mitford: 1846

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

1846

After a series of accidents, MRM became lame; she also became dependent on opium, first prescribed for pain.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 196

Mary Russell Mitford: 1846

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

1846

Even after her father's death lifted the pressing need for earnings, MRM edited a collection for young readers of fiction by Dumas the elder.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Anne Mozley: 1846

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Author event in Anne Mozley

1846

AM published her first, anonymous children's book, The Captive Maiden, a story set in the third century AD.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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.
Wordsworth, John, Bishop of Salisbury, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892, p. xii - xx.
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F. Henrietta Müller: 1846

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Author event in F. Henrietta Müller

1846

Frances Henrietta Müller , who later called herself Henrietta Müller , was born in Valparaiso, Chile, one of a family of at least four.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Georgina Munro: 1846-1851

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Author event in Georgina Munro

1846-1851

GM published in The People's Journal (later The People's and Howitt's Journal) over the whole of its run; her sixteen contributions are mainly short stories.
The People's Journal began in 1846 and Howitt 's...

Caroline Norton: 1846-1849

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Author event in Caroline Norton

1846-1849

CN took on editorship of Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrap-Book, a lavish annual or gift-book whose format was a succession of pictures each explicated by a poem on the facing page.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
188

1846: The Association for the Establishment of...

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1846

The Association for the Establishment of Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Poor was established.
Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
72-3

1846: Heinrich Völter purchased Keller 's patent...

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1846

Heinrich Völter purchased Keller 's patent for a pulp machine.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
145, 148

1846: A comprehensive 474-page directory of the...

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1846

A comprehensive 474-page directory of the British and Irish press began publication.
Hindley, Diana, and Geoffrey Hindley. Advertising in Victorian England 1837-1901. Wayland, 1972.
23-4
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
48

1846: Honoré de Balzac published La Cousine Be...

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1846

Honoré de Balzac published La Cousine Bette.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1846: Alexander Bain's method of sending telegraph...

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1846

Alexander Bain 's method of sending telegraph messages using punched paper tape greatly increased the speed of transmission.
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.
315

January-April 1846: A monthly three-penny periodical for women...

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January-April 1846

A monthly three-penny periodical for women entitled the Female's Friend began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
7

1846: US transcendentalist Theodore Parker published...

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1846

US transcendentalist Theodore Parker published Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
64

January 1846: An Anglican newspaper titled The Guardian...

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January 1846

An Anglican newspaper titled The Guardian began publication in London, supporting the Tractarian movement in the Church of England.
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.

1846: US writer Frances Osgood edited The Poetry...

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1846

US writer Frances Osgood edited The Poetry of Flowers and the Flowers of Poetry: to Which Are Added, a Simple Treatise on Botany, with Familiar Examples, and a Copious Floral Dictionary, which featured coloured...

1846: Carl Zeiss founded an optical factory in...

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1846

Carl Zeiss founded an optical factory in Jena, Germany.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.

1846: Edgar Allan Poe published The Philosophy...

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1846

Edgar Allan Poe published The Philosophy of Composition.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

: The first starvation deaths attributable...

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Winter 1845-6

The first starvation deaths attributable to the potato blight in Ireland were reported; the Great Famine began in earnest.
Adelman, Paul. Great Britain and the Irish Question 1800-1922. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
62
Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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1846: The Sons of Temperance, a popular friendly...

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1846

The Sons of Temperance , a popular friendly society for men, women, and children, was brought to England from the United States.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
178

1846: Richard M. Hoe, an American, patented the...

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1846

Richard M. Hoe , an American, patented the first successful rotary press, in which type and paper revolve together continuously on separate cylinders.
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
154
Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
5: 698

1846: The Bradford Long Pledge Association, a teetotal...

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1846

The Bradford Long Pledge Association , a teetotal society, constructed the Long Pledge Hall, after being denied access to Bradford's only other public building.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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