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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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Henrietta Camilla Jenkin: From 1847 to early 1848

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From 1847 to early 1848

HCJ lived with her family in Paris for the sake of economising; there the February Revolution of 1848 caught them and they were at first excited, then alarmed.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx.
xxx-xxxi

Geraldine Jewsbury: 1847

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Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury

1847

GJ unsuccessfully proposed marriage to the doyen of the Saint-Simonian movement, Charles Lambert .
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
86

Jane Loudon: 1847

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Author event in Jane Loudon

1847

JL published The Amateur Gardener's Calendar.
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961.
175

1847: The liberals defeated the Catholics in elections...

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1847

The liberals defeated the Catholics in elections in Belgium.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
306

1847: The Fast Man's Phrase Book was published,...

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1847

The Fast Man's Phrase Book was published, offering a translation of the fop lexicon.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
23

1847: The Lancashire Public School Association...

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1847

The Lancashire Public School Association was founded.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
174

January 1847-July 1848: William Makepeace Thackeray's most famous...

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January 1847-July 1848

William Makepeace Thackeray 's most famous novel, Vanity Fair, was serialised in monthly instalments with illustrations by the author.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

1847: Factions of the teetotal movement began to...

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1847

Factions of the teetotal movement began to agitate against smoking.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
37

1847: Louisa Twining first visited the poor, around...

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1847

Louisa Twining first visited the poor, around her childhood home in the Strand.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
175

1847: A royal commission was appointed to inquire...

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1847

A royal commission was appointed to inquire into the issue of illegal marriages between a man and his deceased wife's sister, prohibited in Lord Lyndhurst 's Act of 1835.
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press, 2000.
106
Anderson, Nancy F. “The ’Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill’ Controversy: Incest Anxiety and the Defense of Family Purity in Victorian England”. Journal of British Studies, Vol.
21
, No. 2, 1982, pp. 67-86.
68

1847: Frances Osgood edited The Floral Offering,...

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1847

Frances Osgood edited The Floral Offering, a Token of Friendship, which included illustrations by I. Ackerman .
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.

1847: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers was...

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1847

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers was founded.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
315

1847: The Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University...

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1847

The Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University refused to admit Harriot Hunt .
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
29

1847: American astronomer Maria Mitchell was awarded...

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1847

American astronomer Maria Mitchell was awarded a gold medal by the King of Denmark for discovering a new comet.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
127, 129

1847: Frederick Bakewell invented a cylindrical...

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1847

Frederick Bakewell invented a cylindrical mechanism on which to place images intended for scanning.
McNeil, Ian, editor. An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology. Routledge, 1996.
743-4

1847: The Palæontographical Society was founded...

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1847

The Palæontographical Society was founded in London.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
393

1847: The kymograph, an important scientific recording...

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1847

The kymograph, an important scientific recording device, was introduced into medical science.
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
98-9

1847: Professor James Young Simpson first used...

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1847

Professor James Young Simpson first used chloroform to aid a woman in childbirth in London.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
249
Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.
165-67
Talbott, John H. A Biographical History of Medicine: Excerpts and Essays on the Men and Their Work. Grune and Stratton, 1970.
656

1847: The Friends First Day School Association...

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1847

The Friends First Day School Association was founded; this Quaker organization advocated literacy training for working-class adults.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
109

1847: The Band of Hope, the first children's temperance...

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1847

The Band of Hope , the first children's temperance organization, was founded at a meeting of the Leeds Temperance Society .
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
134-5

1847: Evangelical H. F. Lyte composed one of the...

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1847

Evangelical H. F. Lyte composed one of the most popular Victorian hymns, Abide with Me.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
64-5

1847: The Calotype Club was founded to practice...

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1847

The Calotype Club was founded to practice and promote Talbot 's method of photography.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
20, 67

1847: During this period of widespread hunger,...

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1847

During this period of widespread hunger, one third of the population in East and West Prussia ate only potatoes, owing to lack of bread.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
205

1847: Galoshes began to be used in Britain....

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1847

Galoshes began to be used in Britain.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
80

1847: During the Kaffir uprising of the Xhosa,...

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1847

During the Kaffir uprising of the Xhosa, Kaffraria, a native preserve in Eastern Cape Colony set up by the British in 1847, was annexed.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
620-1
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
885-7