Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Caroline Chisholm: By April 1847
Author event in Caroline Chisholm
By April 1847
In her effort to unite families separated by immigration,
arranged for the passage of thirty wives (and their children) from Britain to Australia to join their husbands.
April 1847: Two of Elizabeth Fry's daughters, Katherine...
Women writers item
April 1847
Two of
's daughters,
and
, completed their account of the activist's life in the two-volume Memoir of the Life of
; with Extracts from Her Journals and Letters.
April 1847: Adams and Company of London patented the...
April 1847
of London patented the first double decker bus.
Flora Annie Steel: 2 April 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Flora Annie Steel
2 April 1847
Flora Annie Webster (later
) was born at Sudbury Priory (then in Sudbury Park) near Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex, the sixth child and second daughter among eleven (or ten surviving) children.
6 April 1847: Covent Garden Theatre re-opened (with a performance...
6 April 1847
re-opened (with a performance of
's Semiramide) as
.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 20 April 1847
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Caroline Chisholm: 20 April 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Caroline Chisholm
20 April 1847
presented her views on immigration to the parliamentary
.
Mary Martin: 23 April 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Martin
23 April 1847
At her
's death,
inherited 200,000 acres in Galway, particularly Connemara, along with heavy debts.
Grace Aguilar: By 24 April 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Grace Aguilar
By 24 April 1847
published her most popular novel to appear in her lifetime: Home Influence: A Tale for Mothers and Daughters, which she had completed a decade earlier.
Anne Marsh: By 24 April 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Marsh
By 24 April 1847
published a work of history, The Protestant Reformation in France; or, History of the Hugonots, as by the author of Father Darcy.
By 24 April 1847: Captain Frederick Marryat published Children...
Writing climate item
By 24 April 1847
Captain
published Children of the New Forest, his last and most popular novel.
Early 1847: Canterbury established the first rate-aided...
Early 1847
Canterbury established the first rate-aided library in England.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 1 May 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
By 1 May 1847
The final publication of
's lifetime appeared: the three-volume novel Marmaduke Herbert; or, the Fatal Error. A Novel Founded on Fact.
Frances Power Cobbe: May 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Power Cobbe
May 1847
The agnostic
wrote her best-known hymn, beginning For life, for health I bless Thee; it was popular later in the century in
and non-denominational hymn books.
Fanny Kemble: By 1 May 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Fanny Kemble
By 1 May 1847
A Year of Consolation: Travels in Italy, by Mrs. Butler, late , was published by
.
Early 1847: John Mitchell founded the United Irishman,...
National or international item
Early 1847
founded the United Irishman, a publication advocating armed rebellion against British rule.
May 1847: David Joy designed a popular high-pressure...
May 1847
designed a popular high-pressure engine; the first one of which was called
after the popular singer, leading these locomotives to be known as Jennies.
4 May 1847: Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, gave...
4 May 1847
, the Swedish Nightingale, gave her first London performance at
.
Eleanor Sleath: 5 May 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Eleanor Sleath
5 May 1847
, who for nearly twenty-five years had been by her second marriage Mrs Dudley, died of liver disease at home in the vicarage at Sileby at the age of seventy-seven.
Caroline Bowles: By 15 May 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Caroline Bowles
By 15 May 1847
published the dramatic epic poem Robin Hood, A Fragment, by herself and her late husband,
.
15 May 1847: The death of Daniel O'Connell (in Genoa in...
National or international item
15 May 1847
The death of
(in Genoa in the course of a pilgrimage to Rome for his failing health) left Irish politics in disarray.
Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 20 May 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847
20 May 1847
died at 41 Alpha Road, St John's Wood, aged eighty-three.
gives this address as number 41, while
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives number 40.
Matilda Hays: By 22 May 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Matilda Hays
By 22 May 1847
A multi-volume series titled The Works of George Sand appeared, edited by
and translated by both her and
; this first series of English translations of
's novels ended in December...
B. M. Croker: 28 May 1847
Women writers item
Author event in B. M. Croker
28 May 1847
Bithia May Sheppard (later
) was born in Ireland, the only daughter in her family and the second child.
This date comes from the index to Find a Grave (available online at ancestry.co.uk)...
Dorothy Boulger: 30 May 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Dorothy Boulger
30 May 1847
Dorothy Henrietta Havers (later
) was born at Thelton Hall in Norfolk.