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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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1846: The short-lived Republic of Cracow abolished...

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1846

The short-lived Republic of Cracow abolished peasant burdens and promised national workshops to the urban poor.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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1846: Britain's international copyright law was...

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1846

Britain's international copyright law was first used in agreement with Prussia.
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.
160

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: Early 1846

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Early 1846

Marguerite Blessington agreed to write a society gossip column for Dickens 's Daily News (launched on 21 January).
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
410

Caroline Chisholm: February 1846

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February 1846

A committee was formed in Sydney to acknowledge the signal advantage to the community
qtd. in
Mackenzie, Eneas. Memoirs of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm. Webb, Millington, 1852.
129
represented by the work of CC .
Mackenzie, Eneas. Memoirs of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm. Webb, Millington, 1852.
128-9

February 1846-February 1847: William Makepeace Thackeray's The Snobs of...

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February 1846-February 1847

William Makepeace Thackeray 's The Snobs of England was serialised in Punch.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

February 1846: When noblemen in Poland attempted to incite...

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February 1846

When noblemen in Poland attempted to incite a nationalist revolt against Austrian officials, Polish and Ukrainian serfs rose instead against the Polish gentry, killing more than a thousand noblemen.
Deák, István. “Lawful Revolutions and the Many Meanings of Freedom in the Habsburg Monarchy”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 280-14.
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Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Harriet Taylor: 10 February 1846

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10 February 1846

HT and John Stuart Mill published an article in the Morning Chronicle on the trial of Captain George Johnstone for an incident in naval warfare.
Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press, 1998.
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Frances Sarah Hoey: 14 February 1846

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14 February 1846

On her sixteenth birthday Frances Sarah Johnston (later FSH ) married Adam Murray Stewart .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 21 February 1846

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21 February 1846

As Speranza, Jane Francesca Elgee (later JFLW ) published her first work in the Nation: a translation of the German poem The Holy War.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
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26 February 1846: Herman Melville published his first book,...

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26 February 1846

Herman Melville published his first book, Typee; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
The Life and Works of Herman Melville. http://www.melville.org/.

Caroline Chisholm: 28 February 1846

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28 February 1846

Robert Lowe 's poem To Mrs Chisholm, which commended her as The guardian angel of her helpless sex,
qtd. in
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
vi
was printed in the Sydney Spectator.
qtd. in
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
vi

Catherine Hutton: 13 March 1846

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13 March 1846

CH died, aged ninety, eight months after the death of her brother and three months after becoming paralysed.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
1 (1846): 436

Caroline Chisholm: 14 March 1846

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14 March 1846

Protestant minister John Dunmore Lang 's bitter anti-Catholic denunciation of CC 's immigration work prompted lively correspondence in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Kate Greenaway: 17 March 1846

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17 March 1846

KG was born at 1 Cavendish Street, Hoxton, London. She was the second of four children.
Spielmann, Marion Harry, and George Somes Layard. Kate Greenaway. Adam and Charles Black, 1905.
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“Kate Greenaway (1846–1901)”. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria.

Lucie Duff Gordon: By 21 March 1846

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By 21 March 1846

Lucie Duff Gordon published her English translation of P. J. A. von Feuerbach 's Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
960 (1846): 285

By 28 March 1846: George Grote published the first volume of...

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By 28 March 1846

George Grote published the first volume of his History of Greece; the eighth and last volume followed a decade later.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
961 (1846): 309
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Georgiana Fullerton: Passion Sunday, 29 March 1846

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Passion Sunday, 29 March 1846

GF , hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland , was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Wiseman, Nicholas, editor. The Dublin Review. Burns and Oates.
20 (October 1888): 324

Anne Brontë: Spring 1846

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Spring 1846

AB completed her first novel, Agnes Grey.

Charlotte Brontë: April 1846

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April 1846

By this time, the Brontë sisters were planning to publish their fiction.

Catharine Parr Traill: April 1846

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April 1846

CPT and her family moved into Wolf Tower at Gore's Landing, Upper Canada, a six-floor octagonal house built and left to them by an admirer of CPT 's writing.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Elizabeth Rigby: Spring 1846

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Spring 1846

ER stayed with the Murray s (her publisher and his family) in London.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
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Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages.
1: 185

Marion Moss: April 1846

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April 1846

In Philadelphia, Isaac Leeser 's The Occident, and American Jewish Advocate printed (along with works by Celia Moss and Grace Aguilar ) The Return of David by MM (under her married name).
Leeser, Isaac, editor. The Occident, and American Jewish Advocate.
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Harriet Martineau: 7 April 1846

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7 April 1846

HM moved into The Knoll, the house she had built at Ambleside in the Lake District.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 256
Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. University of Michigan Press, 1980.
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Robert Browning: 13 April 1846

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13 April 1846

RB completed the eight-part Bells and Pomegranates series with the publication of two verse dramas, Luria and A Soul's Tragedy.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Editorial Materials”. The Brownings’ Correspondence, edited by Philip Kelley et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, p. Various pages.
12: xi
Furnivall, Frederick James. A Bibliography of Robert Browning from 1833 to 1881. Burt Franklin, 1968.
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Caroline Chisholm: 14 April 1846

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14 April 1846

CC and her family set sail for England from Australia.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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