Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press, 1984.
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Events Timeline
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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Hannah Cullwick: Autumn1847
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Charles Dickens: November 1847
Author event in Charles Dickens
November 1847
, under the patronage of
, opened
, a home for fallen women.
Elizabeth Gaskell: November 1847
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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell
November 1847
and her husband were part of the huge audience crowded into the Manchester Athenæum to hear
speak.
November 1847: Alfred Tennyson published The Princess: A...
Writing climate item
November 1847
published The Princess: A Medley.
15 November 1847: Dr James Young Simpson of Edinburgh published...
15 November 1847
Dr
of Edinburgh published a pamphlet describing how he had proved in practice that chloroform was a successful anaesthetic for obstetrics; his pamphlet sold 1,500 copies within fourteen days.
Mary Anne Barker : December 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Anne Barker
December 1847
Sixteen-year-old
(later
) returned from England to live with her parents in Jamaica.
Camilla Crosland: 5 December 1846
Women writers item
Author event in Camilla Crosland
5 December 1846
Camilla Toulmin (later
) published her novelette Partners for Life: A Christmas Story.
Anna Maria Hall: Late 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Maria Hall
Late 1847
published her novel Midsummer Eve: A Fairy Tale of Love, bearing the date 1848.
The novel's title and cast of fairies suggest that the work was inspired by
's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 13 December 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
13 December 1847
set the tone for her correspondence with
in her earliest surviving letter, writing your Gods are my Gods about her favourite modern living poets,
and
, who...
December 1847: Frederick Douglass launched his anti-slavery...
December 1847
launched his anti-slavery periodical, North Star, in Rochester, New York, substantially aided by British abolitionist women.
Anne Brontë: Early December 1847
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Author event in Anne Brontë
Early December 1847
and
Brontë's first novels, Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights respectively, were published together in three volumes.
Celia Moss: 15 December 1847
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Author event in Celia Moss
15 December 1847
married
, who held the position as shochet or ritual butcher at the New Synagogue in St Helen's, City of London.
The Jewish Encyclopedia gives her husband's name as Lewis.
Emily Dickinson: 24 December 1847
Writing climate item
Author event in Emily Dickinson
24 December 1847
refused to take part in a Fast Day at
, on grounds of dissenting from the Christian faith professed there.
Anne Brontë: 25 December 1847
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Author event in Anne Brontë
25 December 1847
A review of Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights in the Athenæum characterized the work of the
in terms of painful and exceptional subjects:—the misdeeds and oppressions of tyranny—the eccentricities of woman's fantasy and...
Julia Kavanagh: Late 1847
Women writers item
Author event in Julia Kavanagh
Late 1847
(by this time herself a published author) wrote a letter to
in praise of Jane Eyre.
Cecil Frances Alexander : 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Cecil Frances Alexander
1848
Among the books published this year by
, later
, was Hymns for Little Children with a preface by
; this contains the hymns with which her name is still associated.
Cecil Frances Alexander : 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Cecil Frances Alexander
1848
, later
, published a Christian prose allegory, The Lord of the Forest and His Vassals, in the same year as her more famous Hymns for Little Children.
Isabella Banks: 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Isabella Banks
1848
When
's
took up the position of editor of the Harrogate Advertiser, she had to leave her beloved Manchester for Harrogate in Yorkshire.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Around 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Around 1848
Needing to economise after her son Edward's departure for India,
's mother moved her daughters to the poorer London suburb of Camberwell, where they took in a lodger.
Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1848
Writing climate item
Author event in Jane Welsh Carlyle
1848
attended a dinner party given by
; she felt it to be ostentatious.
Mary Carpenter: 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Carpenter
1848
published for the
her Memoir of
, D.D., of Boston (U.S.); it was quickly reprinted in the USA.
Elizabeth Charles: 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Charles
1848
The first published work of Elizabeth Rundle (later
) was the religious pamphlet Rest in Christ; or, The Crucifix and the Cross.
Georgiana Chatterton : 1848-1854
Women writers item
Author event in Georgiana Chatterton
1848-1854
The potato famine in Ireland, described as a calamity by
in her diary, meant that her husband
did not receive his accustomed rents and they had to retrench.
Sara Coleridge: January 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Sara Coleridge
January 1848
began writing reviews to help alleviate her financial difficulties.
Caroline Frances Cornwallis : 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Caroline Frances Cornwallis
1848
published Sketches of Geology, volume thirteen of Small Books on Great Subjects, and the first to emerge this year.