Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. On the State of Man Before the Promulgation of Christianity. William Pickering, 1848.
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Caroline Frances Cornwallis : 1848
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Author event in Caroline Frances Cornwallis
1848
Number fourteen of
's Small Books (the second this year) was published: On the State of Man Before the Promulgation of Christianity.
Dinah Mulock Craik: 1848
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Author event in Dinah Mulock Craik
1848
wrote for popular annuals, reviewed regularly for the Athenæum, and published stories in Sharpe's London Magazine, Fraser's Magazine, and Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine.
Maria Edgeworth: 1848
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1848
published at Edinburgh her last work, Orlandino, a children's story written for the benefit of the
during the famine years.
Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1848-49
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1848-49
, as Mrs Ellis, published her novel Social Distinction; or, Hearts and Homes, in three volumes.
Emily Faithfull: 1848
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1848
At thirteen
was sent to a girls' boarding school in Kensington.
Elizabeth Fenton: 1848
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1848
's settler home, Fenton Forest near the present New Norfolk, Tasmania, burned down.
Eliza Fletcher: From about 1848
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From about 1848
's retrospective autobiographical narrative gives way to intermittent journal entries and letters.
Elizabeth Gaskell: 1848
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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell
1848
became more involved in the
, through the encouragement of
, a Unitarian minister who moved from the paid ministry to devote himself to home missionary work.
Jane Williams: 1848
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Author event in Jane Williams
1848
anonymously published Artegall; or, Remarks on the Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales.
Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: 1848
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Author event in Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
1848
The year after the
had printed excerpts, the seventeenth-century diary of
, appeared in entirety for the first time, published for the
, an antiquarian group.
Sarah Tytler: 1848
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Author event in Sarah Tytler
1848
Along with three of her sisters, Henrietta Keddie (later
) founded a school in Cupar, the Scottish town of their birth, where they instructed the daughters of local professionals and farmers.
Charlotte Maria Tucker : 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Maria Tucker
1848
, who later published as A. L. O. E., formally converted to the Evangelical wing of the
.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1848
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Author event in Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
1848
A posthumous collection appeared of The Minor Poems of
, Written Especially for Juvenile Readers.
Lady Louisa Stuart: After early 1848
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After early 1848
composed a poem on the California gold rush: since this began in January this year, she was in her nineties at the time.
George Sand: 1848
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Hannah Mary Rathbone: 1848
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1848
The same year of the second instalment of Lady Willoughby,
published The History of a Prayer Book, a pious example of the genre of life-story of an inanimate object.
Dora Greenwell: 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Dora Greenwell
1848
Following her family's bankruptcy,
and her parents left Durham and went to live at Ovingham Rectory in Northumberland where her brother
held the church living.
Fanny Aikin Kortright: 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Fanny Aikin Kortright
1848
published her first book under her own name (as Fanny Kortright): Dreams of My Youth, Poems.
Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880: 1848
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Author event in Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880
1848
The American
published her second volume of poetry, Child of the Sea and Other Poems, which was heavily promoted by
.
1848: American George Washington Bethune published...
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1848
American
published his anthology The British Female Poets.
1848: The electric carbon-arc light was used for...
1848
The electric carbon-arc light was used for the first time in theatre.
1848: The Family Economist magazine began publ...
Writing climate item
1848
The Family Economist magazine began publication.
1848: Organizers of a teetotal meeting at Exeter...
1848
Organizers of a teetotal meeting at Exeter Hall in London attempted to demonstrate that sobriety did not reduce a labourer's capacity for hard work.
January 1848: The Plymouth Times reported, in connection...
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January 1848
The Plymouth Times reported, in connection with the publicly perceived perception of surplus women in the population, that the recently developed resort of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset had forty single ladies for every single man.
1848: Astronomer Maria Mitchell was the first woman...
1848
Astronomer
was the first woman elected a member of the
.