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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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13 May 1848: Henry and Augustus Mayhew published the satiric...

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13 May 1848

Henry and Augustus Mayhew published the satiric novel Whom to Marry and How to Get Married—it included the author credit By one who has refused twenty excellent offers at least.
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.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1072 (13 May 1848): 481-2

Mary Cowden Clarke: 15 May 1848

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15 May 1848

A production of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Charles Dickens 's Amateur Company opened at the Haymarket Theatre , with MCC as Mistress Quickly, wearing Elizabethan costume she had made herself.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
136-7

18 May 1848-March 1849: The National Assembly of Germany, comprised...

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18 May 1848-March 1849

The National Assembly of Germany , comprised of newly-elected delegates, sat at Frankfurt, debating the terms of the constitution it was developing.
Sheehan, James J. “The German States and the European Revolution”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 246-79.
270-2

Dinah Mulock Craik: By 20 May 1848

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By 20 May 1848

How to Win Love; or, Rhoda's Lesson, Dinah Mulock 's second book for children, appeared.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
80
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

George Sand: By 20 May 1848

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By 20 May 1848

GS published François le Champi, a novel greeted with enthusiasm in England.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1073 (1848): 502

John Stuart Mill: By 27 May 1848

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By 27 May 1848

JSM published Principles of Political Economy in two volumes, with substantial input from Harriet Taylor .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1074 (1848): 525-7
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Hannah Cullwick: June 1848

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Author event in Hannah Cullwick

June 1848

HC left her nurserymaid job at the vicarage because of the odd conduct of her mistress.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
298
Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press, 1984.
37

Hannah Cullwick: Summer1848

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Author event in Hannah Cullwick

Summer1848

HC worked as a nurserymaid at Newport in Shropshire.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
298

June 1848: Serbs in southern Hungary revolted against...

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June 1848

Serbs in southern Hungary revolted against the new Hungarian government.
Deák, István. “Lawful Revolutions and the Many Meanings of Freedom in the Habsburg Monarchy”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 280-14.
298

June-July 1848: Elections were held in Austria, following...

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June-July 1848

Elections were held in Austria, following protests in Vienna that resulted in a revision of the suffrage laws to abolish property qualifications.
Deák, István. “Lawful Revolutions and the Many Meanings of Freedom in the Habsburg Monarchy”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 280-14.
300-2

June 1848: The Habsburg army put down a radical insurrection...

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June 1848

The Habsburg army put down a radical insurrection in Prague.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
26

June 1848: Widespread arrests of Chartist leaders followed...

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June 1848

Widespread arrests of Chartist leaders followed uprisings in protest of the rejection of the third petitionpetition for universal manhood suffrage.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
247

: After an abortive Bradford rising,183 local...

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Summer 1848

After an abortive Bradford rising,
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
183
local women mounted a kind of charivari to punish a witness against local Chartists.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
183, 247

: A National Victim Fund was established to...

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Summer 1848

A National Victim Fund was established to deal with the effects of increased government intolerance of Chartism.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
147

June 1848: The radical Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine...

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June 1848

The radical Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine ceased publication, though Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper continued under various titles until May 1851.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
195
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Eliza Cook: 21 June 1848

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21 June 1848

EC 's poem Address to the Freemasons was delivered at a Freemason festival to raise funds for an Asylum for the Poor and Aged Masons .
Cook, Eliza. The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook. F. Warne, 1870.
396

23-26 June 1848: An insurrection of 20,000 workers in Paris...

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23-26 June 1848

An insurrection of 20,000 workers in Paris was defeated and the workers were massacred.
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.
143-4
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
191
Historian Eric Hobsbawm gives higher figures for those killed and punished, saying that 3,000 of those who fought...

Anne Brontë: Late June 1848

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Late June 1848

AB 's second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was published in three volumes by Thomas Cautley Newby under the pseudonym Acton Bell.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
557

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Summer 1848

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Summer 1848

EBB travelled to Fano,Ancona, and Ravenna to escape the heat of Florence. The summer migration from Florence became an annual event.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
225-6

Mary Russell Mitford: July 1848

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

July 1848

MRM visited Taplow in Buckinghamshire, twenty miles from her home.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 293-4

Eliza Ogilvy: July 1848-1852

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Author event in Eliza Ogilvy

July 1848-1852

EO and her family lived abroad, partly in Florence and partly in Paris.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

July 1848: In the shadow of the Great Famine, the Young...

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July 1848

In the shadow of the Great Famine, the Young Irelanders staged a revolt or rebellion against British rule and suffered ignominious defeat.
Adelman, Paul. Great Britain and the Irish Question 1800-1922. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
67

July-December 1848: Charles Kingsley's first novel, Yeast, A...

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July-December 1848

Charles Kingsley 's first novel, Yeast, A Problem, appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
684

1 July 1848: John Cassell established the publishing firm...

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1 July 1848

John Cassell established the publishing firm of John Cassell in London with the first issue of a weekly newspaper, the Standard of Freedom.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 72, 82

July 1848: After a fierce struggle, Austrian general...

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July 1848

After a fierce struggle, Austrian general Radetzky regained control of Milan, from which he had retreated four months earlier.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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