Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Elizabeth Sewell: By 25 July 1846
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By 25 July 1846
, as the author of Amy Herbert, published Laneton Parsonage, A Tale for Children on the Practical Use of Portions of the Church Catechism.
Henrietta Euphemia Tindal: 30 July 1846
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Charlotte Brontë: August 1846
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August 1846
, while in Manchester for her father's cataract operation, began writing Jane Eyre.
Mary Carpenter: 1 August 1846
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1 August 1846
opened her own ragged school in Lewin's Mead, Bristol, and became its supintendent.
Margaret Fuller: 1 August 1846
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1 August 1846
sailed for Europe as a foreign correspondent for the New York Daily Tribune.
Harriet Smythies: By 1 August 1846
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By 1 August 1846
, again as the author of The Jilt, published a novel entitled The Life of a Beauty.
Jane Loudon: By August 1846
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By August 1846
moved beyond the garden's walls in British Wild Flowers, with colour plates by
.
By August 1846: There was widespread consternation over potato...
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By August 1846
There was widespread consternation over potato blight in the Western Highlands of Scotland, which earlier in the year had been free of disease and exporting seed potatoes.
August-September 1846: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Rebecca...
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August-September 1846
's novel Rebecca and Rowena, a sequel to
's Ivanhoe, was serialised in Fraser's Magazine.
August 1846: The potato blight continued for a second...
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August 1846
The potato blight continued for a second season in Ireland; British aid was haphazard and limited, owing to parliament's adherence to policies of economic laissez-faire.
Julia Kavanagh: By August 1846
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By August 1846
, under her initials, published an essay, The Montyon Prizes, which appeared in Chambers's Miscellany.
The British Library Catalogue also lists John Kavanagh as the author of this piece.
Anne Marsh: 10 August 1846
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10 August 1846
's surviving son,
, died at the age of twenty in Athens, where he had gone to study Greek antiquities.
10 August 1846: The £100,000 bequest of English chemist and...
10 August 1846
The £100,000 bequest of English chemist and mineralogist
(announced on 17 December 1835) established the
, Washington, DC.
Christina Rossetti: 11 August to 13 September 1846
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11 August to 13 September 1846
enjoyed a seaside holiday, taken on her own for the sake of her health, at Folkestone in Kent, where she did lots of reading and writing.
Anne Marsh: By 15 August 1846
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By 15 August 1846
In the middle of the most productive period of her career (though one marked by personal tragedy),
, as the author of Mount Sorel, published an historical romance, Father Darcy.
18 August 1846: The Gauge Act standardized the width of British...
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18 August 1846
The Gauge Act standardized the width of British rail lines at four feet eight and a half inches.
By 29 August 1846: Cecilia Tilley (a daughter of Frances Trollope,...
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By 29 August 1846
(a daughter of
, who died two years later, at thirty-one, of tuberculosis) published Chollerton: a tale of our times, as by a Lady.
Charlotte Brontë: Autumn 1846
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Autumn 1846
began a downward spiral of drinking, debts, and dissipation that hastened his death.
Christina Rossetti: 11 September 1846
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11 September 1846
In , as also in another poem on the Greek lyricist written two years later, fifteen-year-old
signalled her interest in the female poetic tradition.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 12 September 1846
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Author event in Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12 September 1846
secretly married
at St Marylebone Church, London.
Anna Brownell Jameson: By 15 September 1846
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By 15 September 1846
and her niece
departed for Paris, where they encountered the
, who had just eloped, and all four travelled together to Pisa.
Anna Kingsford: 16 September 1846
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16 September 1846
was born
at Stratford in Essex (now in East London), the youngest of twelve children.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 19 September 1846
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19 September 1846
After being secretly married the previous week,
and
left London for their honeymoon in Paris.
Eliza Ogilvy: By 19 September 1846
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By 19 September 1846
's A Book of Highland Minstrelsy was her first commercially published work, a series of historical Scottish anecdotes developed into poems.
23 September 1846: The planet Neptune was discovered as a result...
23 September 1846
The planet Neptune was discovered as a result of work by English and French astronomers (the latter using a telescope in Berlin).