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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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Annie Tinsley: 16 April 1846

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16 April 1846

AT wrote a fervent Jacobite poem: Lines on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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Catherine Sinclair: By 18 April 1846

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By 18 April 1846

CS was said to have fictionalized her own life in a novel entitled Jane Bouverie, or Prosperity and Adversity, published by W. Whyte .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
964 (18 April 1846): 395

Anne Marsh: By 25 April 1846

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By 25 April 1846

AM , as the author of Two Old Men, published one of her best-known novels, Emilia Wyndham.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
965 (1846): 416

Caroline Frances Cornwallis : By late April 1846

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By late April 1846

CFC published her first and only novel, the historical Pericles, in two volumes as the Author of A Brief Sketch of Greek Philosophy.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Pericles. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846, 2 vols.
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“Multiple Advertisements and Notices”. The Standard, No. 6776, 29 Apr. 1846.
6776 (29 April 1846)

May 1846: A magazine called The Art Union published...

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May 1846

A magazine called The Art Union published a calotype photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot ; this involved printing about 7,000 photographs from several negatives and hand-pasting them into copies.
Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007.
200

Catherine Gore : By 4 May 1846

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By 4 May 1846

CG published one of her five novels to come out this year, Sketches of English Character.
Ray, Gordon Norton. Thackeray. Octagon Books, 1972, 9 vols.
329 and n35

Emily Brontë: 7 May 1846

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7 May 1846

The Brontë sisters, Charlotte , Anne , and Emily , received copies of their first publication: a collection of Poems published at their expense under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
Bell was the...

Sarah Wentworth Morton: 14 May 1846

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14 May 1846

SWM died at Quincy, Massachusetts.
Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931.
106

Elizabeth Rigby: 16 May 1846

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16 May 1846

ER published her collection of short stories entitled Livonian Tales, as the author of Letters from the Baltic.
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.
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.
968 (16 May 1846): 494-6

Queen Victoria: 25 May 1846

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25 May 1846

QV gave birth to Princess Helena Augusta Victoria , her fifth child, commonly known as Lenchen.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Camilla Crosland: 30 May 1846

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30 May 1846

Camilla Toulmin (later CC ) published a volume entitled Poems, which reprints much of her work from periodicals.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
970 (30 May 1846): 549-51

George Eliot: June 1846

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June 1846

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) began working as an assistant on the Coventry Herald, owned by her friend Charles Bray ; her duties included reviewing and writing articles on a wide range of subjects.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 6 June 1846

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By 6 June 1846

Marguerite Blessington issued The Memoirs of a Femme de Chambre. A Novel.
This bears no relation to Susanna Haswell Rowson 's Rebecca; or, The Fille de Chambre, 1792. It sounds, however, like a...

George Eliot: 15 June 1846

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15 June 1846

While she was still known as Mary Ann Evans, GE 's three-volume translation from David Friedrich Strauss , The Life of Jesus, appeared in print; her name did not appear.
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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16 June 1846: Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory...

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16 June 1846

Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory XVI on 1 June 1846. The new Pope's election was a victory for liberals in the Roman Catholic Church over the conservatives.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
115
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1094
Bury, John Bagnell, and Frederick Clifton Grant. History of the Papacy in the Nineteenth Century: Liberty and Authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Editor Murray, Robert Henry, Augmented edition, Schocken Books, 1964.
vi

26 June 1846: The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert...

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26 June 1846

The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert Peel 's Conservative government, after much agitation by groups such as the Anti-Corn Law League and in face of the growing urgency of the Great Famine in...

Anna Brownell Jameson: By 27 June 1846

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By 27 June 1846

ABJ published Memoirs and Essays Illustrative of Art, Literature, and Social Morals.
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.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
237

30 June 1846: Lord John Russell (a Whig or Liberal, later...

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30 June 1846

Lord John Russell (a Whig or Liberal, later created first Earl Russell) was invited to form the UK government following the resignation of Sir Robert Peel , a Conservative .
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

Charlotte Brontë: July 1846

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July 1846

CB sent the manuscripts of The Professor, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey to a series of six publishers, submitting them for joint publication; for a year no one expressed interest.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
503

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: Later 1846

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Later 1846

Charles Gavan Duffy , editor of the Irish nationalist periodical the Nation, visited contributor Jane Frances Elgee (later JFLW ) at her home in Dublin.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
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July 1846: The last independent issue of the Foreign...

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July 1846

The last independent issue of the Foreign Quarterly Review was published; in October it merged with the Westminster 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.
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Clara Balfour: By 4 July 1846

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By 4 July 1846

CB published a collection of improving exempla: Moral Heroism; or, The Trials and Triumphs of the Great and Good.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
975 (1846): 685

Louisa Stuart Costello: By 11 July 1846

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By 11 July 1846

LSC 's travel narrative A Tour to and from Venice, by the Vaudois and the Tyrol appeared.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
976 (1846): 705-6

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 12 July 1846

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12 July 1846

CET died of breast cancer at Ramsgate in Kent, where she is buried.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

By 18 July 1846: Lectures on Painting and Design by Benjamin...

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By 18 July 1846

Lectures on Painting and Design by Benjamin Robert Haydon (who had killed himself in June this year) appeared in print. It put forward influential new theories of art education, state patronage, and industrial design.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
977 (1846): 737