Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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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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Sara Coleridge: March 1848
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Author event in Sara Coleridge
March 1848
published a lengthy review (anonymous, according to custom) of
's The Princess in the Quarterly Review.
Henrietta Camilla Jenkin: From 1848 to 1851
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Author event in Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
From 1848 to 1851
and her family lived at Genoa in Italy, where they had settled as refugees from the revolution in Paris, and where her son
became the first Protestant admitted to study at the university.
Fanny Kemble: March 1848
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Author event in Fanny Kemble
March 1848
At ,
gave a formal reading of
; she abandoned acting altogether this month to make her living exclusively through readings.
Fanny Kemble: After March 1848
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Author event in Fanny Kemble
After March 1848
drafted a sixty-page defense for the court of her conduct as a mother, known as The Answer of Frances Anne Butler, or Mrs. Butler's Narrative.
March 1848: Chartist uprisings took place in London,...
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March 1848
Chartist uprisings took place in London, Glasgow, and Manchester.
March 1848: Germany and Denmark clashed over Schlesw...
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March 1848
Germany and Denmark clashed over Schleswig-Holstein.
March 1848: Six men were killed when troops opened fire...
March 1848
Six men were killed when troops opened fire on riots against the Poor Law in Glasgow.
After March 1848: The Austrian nationalist uprising was overthrown...
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After March 1848
The Austrian nationalist uprising was overthrown by
.
Julia Ward Howe: 2 March 1848
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Author event in Julia Ward Howe
2 March 1848
's third child and elder son,
, was born. She named him after her two brothers.
2 March 1848: A revolution began in south-west Germany,...
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2 March 1848
A revolution began in south-west Germany, where the Grand Duchy of Baden's population demonstrated against the
System and the Carlsbad Decrees.
Harriet Tytler: Around 3 March 1848
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Author event in Harriet Tytler
Around 3 March 1848
Nineteen-year-old
married
, a Captain of the 38th Native Infantry with years of military service behind him, at Lucknow in India, after he had proposed to her repeatedly.
Jane Harvey: 4 March 1848
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6 March 1848: A revolution occurred in Bavaria. Another...
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6 March 1848
A revolution occurred in Bavaria. Another took place in Berlin on the 11th.
George Sand: 7 March 1848
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Author event in George Sand
7 March 1848
published the first of her Lettres au peuple, a pamphlet in support of the provisional government of the February Revolution.
13 March 1848: A revolution took place in Vienna, where...
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13 March 1848
A revolution took place in Vienna, where protesters—both students and urban working-class people—successfully urged the Emperor
to dismiss
.
Queen Victoria: 18 March 1848
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Author event in Queen Victoria
18 March 1848
,
's sixth child, who was commonly known as Loosy, was born.
Geraldine Jewsbury: By 18 March 1848
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Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury
By 18 March 1848
's second novel, The Half Sisters, featuring an actress as heroine, appeared under her own name in two volumes.
18-22 March 1848: A revolution occurred in Milan, where Italian...
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18-22 March 1848
A revolution occurred in Milan, where Italian civilians clashed with the (Austrian) military of the ruling Hapsburgs before driving the soldiers out.
18 March 1848: The unemployed rioted in Berlin, the capital...
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18 March 1848
The unemployed rioted in Berlin, the capital of Prussia.
21 March 1848: Frederick William IV committed himself to...
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21 March 1848
committed himself to German nationalism and unification, promising to summon a Constituent Assembly to create a united Prussian Diet, which in turn would consider establishing a national German parliament.
22 March 1848: London moderates formed the People's Charter...
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22 March 1848
London moderates formed the
, aiming to obtain the Charter by peaceable means.
24 March 1848: King Charles Albert of Piedmont declared...
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24 March 1848
of Piedmont declared war on Austria; the outcome was his abdication.
Fanny Kemble: 28 March 1848
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Author event in Fanny Kemble
28 March 1848
's
served her with divorce papers this day; she was subsequently kept from her daughters for ten years.
Elizabeth Strickland: April 1848
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Author event in Elizabeth Strickland
April 1848
The final volume appeared of
's best-known work (produced jointly with her sister Agnes but bearing Agnes's name alone): the twelve-volume Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest.
Sarah Lewis: : April 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Lewis:
April 1848
The English
, as the author of Woman's Mission, published her only other identified work, a short article On the Social Position of Governesses, in Fraser's Magazine.