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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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Margaret Fuller: 24 September 1846-13 February 1850

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Author event in Margaret Fuller

24 September 1846-13 February 1850

MF published a series of columns, Letters from England and then Things and Thoughts in Europe, in the New York Daily Tribune.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Mehren, Joan von. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
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Charlotte Godley: 29 September 1846

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Author event in Charlotte Godley

29 September 1846

Charlotte Wynne or Griffith-Wynne married John Robert Godley at Voelas, now in Conwy.
Godley, Eveline C., and Charlotte Godley. “Charlotte Godley—An Impression”. Letters from Early New Zealand, edited by John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken and John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1951, p. xvii - xx.
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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/.

October 1846: A monthly English edition of the French newspaper...

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October 1846

A monthly English edition of the French newspaper for women entitled Le Follet began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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October 1846: The Westminster Review changed its name to...

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October 1846

The Westminster Review changed its name to the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly.
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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Autumn 1846: The recently-married Duchess of Marlborough...

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Autumn 1846

The recently-married Duchess of Marlborough was reputed to have shot eight deer by her own hand; this qualified her as a fast woman.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

October 1846: Queen Isabella of Spain married her cousin,...

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October 1846

Queen Isabella of Spain married her cousin, despite machinations by British and French diplomats to arrange a marriage that would be politically opportune for them.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: October 1846

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October 1846

EBB and her new husband Robert Browning , travelling on from Paris to Italy, settled for the time being at Pisa.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
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Sarah Stickney Ellis: 21 October 1846

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21 October 1846

For a bazaar held on this day at Union Chapel in Islington to raise funds for a new chapel at Hoddesdon (where SSE then lived), she composed a poem entitled The House of Prayer.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The House of Prayer. 1846.

Michael Field: 27 October 1846

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27 October 1846

Katharine Harris Bradley (who was later known, along with Edith Cooper , as MF ) was born at the address 10 Digbeth in Birmingham, the much younger one of two girls in her family...

George Eliot: 30 October 1846-February 1847

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30 October 1846-February 1847

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) published a number of anonymous articles in the Coventry Herald, at this time owned by her friend Charles Bray .
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie: November 1846

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Author event in Anne Thackeray Ritchie

November 1846

With her sister and father , the child Anne Thackeray moved from Paris (where the girls had been living with their paternal grandparents) to 13 Young Street, Kensington.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
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7 November 1846: G. W. M. Reynolds and J. Dicks launched the...

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7 November 1846

G. W. M. Reynolds and J. Dicks launched the weekly Reynolds's Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science and Art. It ran until 14 June 1869, in a new series from 1848.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Harriet Martineau: 20 November 1846

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20 November 1846

HM arrived by ship in North Africa, on the beginning of her trip through Egypt and the Holy Land.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. University of Michigan Press, 1980.
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Barbara Hofland: By 21 November 1846

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By 21 November 1846

BH 's Daniel Dennison; or, The Autobiography of A Country Apothecary (inspired by George Crabbe 's Annals of the Parish) and The Cumberland Statesman were posthumously published together as Daniel Dennison; and, The Cumberland Statesman.
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.
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.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Coventry Patmore: 24 November 1846

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Author event in Coventry Patmore

24 November 1846

With help from his friends Adelaide Procter and Richard Monckton Milnes , CP was taken on as a supernumerary assistant in the department of printed books at the British Museum .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 28 November 1846

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By 28 November 1846

The novel Lionel Deerhurst; or, Fashionable Life under the Regency appeared as written by Barbara Hemphill but as edited by Marguerite Blessington .
Hemphill published two further works in the 1850s, one with her name...

Grace Aguilar: Late 1846

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Late 1846

GA published another treatise on her religion: The Jewish Faith, Its Spiritual Consolation, Moral Guidance, and Immortal Hope.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
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, 1952, pp. 137-48.
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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Winter 1846-7

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Winter 1846-7

During Oberlin 's winter break, ABB taught female students at Rochester Academy in Rochester, Michigan. There she gave her first public speech in the village church.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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Frances Eleanor Trollope : By December 1846

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By December 1846

FET 's actor father died in the Bethnal Green Lunatic Asylum in East London (where he had been an inmate for two years) when his eldest daughter was about ten years old.
The Trustees of FreeBMD. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press, 1945.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Frances Eleanor Jarman

Catherine Marsh : December 1846

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Author event in Catherine Marsh

December 1846

During the famine in Ireland and part of the Scottish Highlands, CM and her family became in this month one of the private sources providing money to a famine fund.
O’Rorke, Lucy. The Life and Friendships of Catherine Marsh. Longmans, Green & Co., 1917.
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Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 5 December 1846

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5 December 1846

The Nation published a political poem, The Lament, by Jane Francesca Elgee (later JFLW ), under her pseudonym Speranza.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
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Sarah Flower Adams: 12 December 1846

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12 December 1846

SFA 's sister, Eliza Flower , died of consumption.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Eliza Flower
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
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Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
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Harriet Martineau: By 12 December 1846

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By 12 December 1846

HM published through Charles Knight a one-volume historical tale or short novel entitled The Billow and the Rock.
Martineau, Harriet. The Billow and the Rock. Charles Knight, 1846.
title-page
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.

Elizabeth Sewell: By 19 December 1846

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By 19 December 1846

ES published her second novel, the mildly anti-Tractarian Margaret Percival, as the author of Amy Herbert.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
999 (1846): 1298

21 December 1846: The second anesthetized operation in history...

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21 December 1846

The second anesthetized operation in history was performed at University College Hospital in London.
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Youngson, A. J. The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine. Holmes and Meier, 1979.
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