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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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April 1848: In France, universal manhood suffrage enabled...
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April 1848
In France, universal manhood suffrage enabled a politically inexperienced peasantry to elect a minority of monarchists, but sent a large majority of conservatives to Paris.
: Following a tour of inspection of working...
Spring 1848
Following a tour of inspection of working class housing,
assumed a more active role in his presidency of the
.
Easter 1848: The Anglican Community of St Mary the Virgin...
Easter 1848
The Anglican
was founded after this festival by William John Butler, with
as mother superior, in Wantage, Berkshire.
By 1 April 1848: Charles Kingsley published The Saint's Tragedy,...
Writing climate item
By 1 April 1848
published The Saint's Tragedy, a blank verse drama on the life of
.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 8 April 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
8 April 1848
On attaining her majority, Barbara Leigh Smith, later
, received a settlement from her father that made her financially independent.
Anne Marsh: By 8 April 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Marsh
By 8 April 1848
published Angela, A Novel. She still did not put her name on the title-page, but referred instead to two earlier publications.
Caroline Norton: 8 April 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Caroline Norton
8 April 1848
, writing as Libertas, contributed to the Morning Chronicle a letter addressed to working men in which she argued that what they needed was not revolution but a truly benevolent upper class.
Frances Trollope: 10 April 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Trollope
10 April 1848
's only remaining daughter,
, died of tuberculosis, the third member of her immediate family to die of this disease.
John Ruskin: 10 April 1848
Writing climate item
Author event in John Ruskin
10 April 1848
Writer and artist
married
at her parental home in Bowerswell, near Perth, Scotland.
10 April 1848: A huge demonstration was held at Kennington...
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10 April 1848
A huge demonstration was held at Kennington Common in support of the Chartist National Petition which was to be submitted to parliament.
Elizabeth Cobbold: 13 April 1848
Author event in Elizabeth Cobbold
13 April 1848
Twenty-four years after his writer
's death,
delivered for the benefit of the
a lecture entitled The Character of Woman, printed the same year.
13 April 1848: The House of Commons rejected the third petition...
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13 April 1848
The
rejected the third petition for universal manhood suffrage.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 22 April 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
22 April 1848
Jane Francesca Elgee (later
) continued to publish her fervent Irish Nationalist verses in the Nation: on this date The Year of Revolutions appeared under the title Courage.
24 April 1848: The People's League was founded....
National or international item
24 April 1848
The
was founded.
25 April 1848: A constitution for the entire Austrian Empire...
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25 April 1848
A constitution for the entire Austrian Empire was proclaimed in Vienna; among its provisions was the abolition of serfdom.
Harriet Martineau: By 29 April 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Martineau
By 29 April 1848
published Eastern Life, Present and Past in three volumes: a combination of a travel book and a case against conventional Christianity.
Fredrika Bremer: Early 1848
Writing climate item
Author event in Fredrika Bremer
Early 1848
FB issued the first of two very different novels this year: Midsommarresan (englished first as Summer Journey, a Pilgrimage, and then as The Midnight Sun), which features two idealised female characters and a...
Emily Brontë: May 1848
Women writers item
Geraldine Jewsbury: May 1848
Women writers item
Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury
May 1848
Between the revolutions of February and June,
visited Paris with
and
.
May 1848: Charles Albert of Piedmont defeated the Austrians...
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May 1848
defeated the Austrians at Goito.
May-December 1848: The Constituent Assembly of Prussia, elected...
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May-December 1848
The Constituent Assembly of Prussia, elected by indirect universal suffrage, sat in Berlin.
1 May 1848: Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not...
1 May 1848
(a secondary, not a post-secondary institution) was founded in London to educate prospective governesses and improve girls' education generally.
About May 1848: Czechoslovakians claimed nationhood when...
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About May 1848
Czechoslovakians claimed nationhood when their spokesman refused to participate in the Frankfurt parliament at the invitation of German liberals.
7 May 1848: The Royal Academy exhibition presented 1474...
7 May 1848
The
exhibition presented 1474 works by 853 exhibitors; of these, only 126 works were by 77 female artists, a scant 10% of the total.
E. Owens Blackburne: 10 May 1848
Women writers item
Author event in E. Owens Blackburne
10 May 1848
was born Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey, in Slane, near the Boyne River, County Meath, Ireland.
Scholar
disagrees with other sources and reports her birth date as 10 May 1845.