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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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21 December 1846: Robert Liston, a Scottish surgeon working...

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21 December 1846

Robert Liston , a Scottish surgeon working in England, performed a leg amputaton which was the first major operation in Britain under anaesthetic (which he called [t]his Yankee dodge).
Pennington, Hugh. “Can you close your eyes without falling over?”. London Review of Books, 11 Sept. 2003, pp. 30-1.
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“Time Machines Exhibition”. Museum of the History of Science,, Oxford, 2012.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 23 December 1846

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23 December 1846

Staying at Pisa with her new husband , EBB sent her dramatic monologue The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point to James Russell Lowell ; it appeared next year in the Boston abolitionist gift-book The Liberty...

Mary Howitt: By Boxing Day 1846

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By Boxing Day 1846

MH 's popular Ballads and Other Poems were out (dated 1847), dedicated to William Howitt as my Best Counseller and Teacher; my Literary Associate for a Quarter of a Century, my Husband, and my Friend...

Isabella Banks: 27 December 1846

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27 December 1846

Isabella Varley married George Linnaeus Banks at the Collegiate Church, Manchester.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969.
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Grace Aguilar: 1847

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1847

GA 's History of the Jews in England appeared anonymously in Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, the first such history by an Anglo-Jewish author.
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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Crosland, Camilla. Landmarks of a Literary Life, 1820-1892. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893.
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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.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 1847

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1847

Marguerite Blessington 's income from her late husband's estate was much reduced as a result of the Great Famine in Ireland, which had begun in winter 1845-46 and was still laying the land waste.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
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Frances Browne: 1847

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1847

At the height of the Great Famine in Ireland, FB and her younger sister, who worked as her reader and amanuensis, moved to Edinburgh.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Caroline Chisholm: 1847

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1847

Caroline Chisholm published Emigration and Transportation Relatively Considered; in a letter, dedicated, by permission, to Earl Grey.
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Caroline Chisholm: 1847

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1847

CC wrote a series of articles for Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper in London.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Moran, John, and Caroline Chisholm. “Introduction and Commentary”. Radical, in Bonnet and Shawl: Four Political Lectures, Preferential Publications, 1994, pp. 1 - 12, 30.
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Lady Anne Clifford: 1847

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1847

A selection of LAC 's later work (third-person version) was first edited and printed by Edward Hailstone in Memoirs illustrative of the history and antiquities of the county and city of York.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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Sara Coleridge: 1847

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1847

Thirty years after its first appearance in print, SC published a new edition of her father 's Biographia Literaria.
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Blanche Warre Cornish : About 1847

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About 1847

Blanche Ritchie (later BWC ) was born; her reminiscences sound as if she was born in India, one of a large family.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish. Editor Cornish, Blanche Warre, Houghton Mifflin, 1911.
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Dinah Mulock Craik: 1847

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1847

Stories by Dinah Mulock, later DMC , appeared in the Dublin University Magazine, in addition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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Charlotte Yonge: 1847

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1847

CY , as the author of Abbeychurch; or, Self Control and Self Conceit, published through James BurnsScenes and Characters; or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft.
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Emma Caroline Wood: By 1847

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By 1847

ECW 's firstborn son, Frederick , and her daughter Clarissa had both died.
Marlow, Joyce. The Uncrowned Queen of Ireland: The Life of ’Kitty’ O’Shea. Saturday Review Press, 1975.
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Queen Victoria: 1847

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1847

QV and her family bought Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Charlotte Maria Tucker : 1847

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1847

CMT took on the care of her widowed brother Robert 's three children.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 318

Frances Trollope: 1847

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1847

FT published the three-volume anti-Jesuit , arguably anti-Catholic novelFather Eustace: A Tale of the Jesuits.
Trollope, Frances. Father Eustace. Garland, 1975.
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Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: 1847

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1847

Almost thirty years after her most recent publication, Elizabeth Thomas issued another volume, The Georgian, or The Moor of Tripoli: and Other Poems.
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Harriet Smythies: 1847

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1847

HS published A Warning to Wives; or, The Platonic Lover as the author of Cousin Geoffrey.
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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.

Catherine Sinclair: 1847

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1847

CS published (in London through Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans ) The Journey of Life, a book of essays or rambling dialogues designed to offer life-advice and guidance.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Maria Grey: 1847

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1847

MG and her husband moved from Berkshire to her mother's home in Lowndes Square in London, where her sister Emily also lived.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Anna Maria Hall: 1847

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1847

AMH co-authored with Judith Ellen (Mrs Jonathan) Foster the two-volume Stories and Studies from the Chronicles and History of England.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Matilda Charlotte Houstoun: Probably about 1847

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Probably about 1847

MCH and her husband moved to County Mayo, Ireland, where they lived for over twenty years.
Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. Twenty Years in the Wild West. J. Murray, 1879.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Howitt: From January 1847

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From January 1847

William and MH edited under both of their names three numbers of the ambitious Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress, founded to publish both eminent and upcoming writers and to tackle burning social...