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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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Frances Browne: By 8 January 1848

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By 8 January 1848

FB published her second volume of poetry, Lyrics and Miscellaneous Poems, again under her own name.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1054 (8 January 1848): 33

Julia Kavanagh: Late 1847 or early 1848

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Late 1847 or early 1848

Probably but not certainly before the turn of the year, JK published her first book, The Three Paths, A Story for young people, designed for the Christmas market but dated 1848.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1054 (1848): 37
“PGIL EIRData (Electronic Irish Records Dataset)”. The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco).

Caroline Herschel : 9 January 1848

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9 January 1848

CH died in Hanover, a couple of months short of her ninety-eighth birthday. The Athenæum printed a respectful obituary.
Lubbock, Constance A., editor. The Herschel Chronicle; The Life-story of William Herschel and his sister, Caroline Herschel. Macmillan, 1933.
376
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
216

Annie Tinsley: By 15 January 1848

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By 15 January 1848

When she was already well into her novel-writing career, AT (as Mrs Charles Tinsley) published a second poetry volume, Lays for the Thoughtful and the Solitary.
Peet dates this volume 1847 but standard...

Ann Hawkshaw: 1847

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1847

AH 's Poems for My Children appeared when her eldest was about six years old.
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1055 (15 January 1848): 57

George Sand: 18 January 1848

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18 January 1848

Charlotte Brontë , signing as C. Bell, expressed to G. H. Lewes both praise and criticism for GS : It is poetry, as I comprehend the word, which elevates that masculine George Sand, and...

Catherine Crowe: By 22 January 1848

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By 22 January 1848

CC published the collection for which she is now best known, The Night Side of Nature; or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers, in two volumes.
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1056 (1848): 79-80

24 January 1848: The discovery of gold at Sutter's Creek,...

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24 January 1848

The discovery of gold at Sutter's Creek, California, led to the first gold rush (which is popularly named from the year following this one).
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
199
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
270

Caroline Leakey: 28 January 1848

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28 January 1848

At the age of twenty CL arrived in Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (which was already colloquially and soon to be officially known as Tasmania), having travelled there to help her sister Eliza .
The...

29 January 1848: Insurgency in Sicily resulted in the declaration...

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29 January 1848

Insurgency in Sicily resulted in the declaration of Sicily's independence and the granting on this date, by Ferdinand II of Naples, of a constitution.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
183-184

Sarah Austin: 1848

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1848

The political upheavals in Paris (which experienced two revolutions this year, in February and June) spurred SA and her husband to move back to England: to Weybridge in Surrey.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985.
138

Caroline Chisholm: February 1848

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February 1848

CC persuaded the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission ers to finance the transport of seventy-five children who had been left in the UK when their parents emigrated to Australia.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
105

February 1848: Riots occurred in Munich when students protested...

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February 1848

Riots occurred in Munich when students protested Ludwig I 's association with Lola Montez , a Scottish dancer.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
169-70

February 1848: Tuscany was granted a constitution by its...

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February 1848

Tuscany was granted a constitution by its Grand Duke.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
273

Ann Batten Cristall: 9 February 1848

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9 February 1848

ABC died at approaching eighty years old
The ODNB puts her death and burial at Lewisham, but this may be confusion with Lewisham Hill at Blackheath.
MacKenzie, Charlotte. “Cornish connections with 1790s radical and literary circles: Part 1”. Cornish Story, 7 Apr. 2019.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

C. E. Plumptre: 12 February 1848

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12 February 1848

Constance (who later wrote as C. E.) Plumptre was christened at a church called St James Norlands in St James Gardens, Notting Hill, London. Constance was just the first of her four given...

Christina Fraser-Tytler : 13 February 1848

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13 February 1848

CFT was born at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, India (the Indian state now known for the dominance of the megacity Mumbai).
Some sources, including the Feminist Companion, erroneously place her birth in Morayshire in Scotland.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

21 February 1848: Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx published...

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21 February 1848

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx published their Manifesto of the Communist Party, often known as the Communist Manifesto.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
319
Nairn, Tom. “History’s Postman”. London Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2006, pp. 11-13.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 February 2011

22-24 February 1848: An insurrection occurred in Paris, which...

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22-24 February 1848

An insurrection occurred in Paris, which became known as the February Revolution.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
213
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
87
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
85-6

23 February 1848: Eminent radicals hosted a ceremony for William...

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23 February 1848

Eminent radicals hosted a ceremony for William Lovett .
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
168-9

23 February 1848: Fourteen-year-old Fleeming Jenkin (son of...

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23 February 1848

Fourteen-year-old Fleeming Jenkin (son of the writer Henrietta Camilla Jenkin and a future distinguished scientist), caught up in the February Revolution, noted the number and variety of women among the street mobs.
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.
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Grant Allen: 24 February 1848

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24 February 1848

GA , novelist and popular scientist, was born at Alwington near Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

24 February 1848: The Second Republic was declared in France...

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24 February 1848

The Second Republic was declared in France after Louis-Philippe abdicated and fled to England.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
85

John Burke: 27 March 1848

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27 March 1848

JB , genealogist and heraldic writer, died at Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Boyle: 1848

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1848

MB returned to London from her travels abroad to find it in a ferment of Chartists and special constables.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
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