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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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: The Female School of Design was abruptly...

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Summer 1848

The Female School of Design was abruptly moved to 330 The Strand, near Drury Lane.
Callen, Anthea. Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914. Astragal Books, 1980.
30-2

July 1848: Charles Albert of Piedmont negotiated a short-lived...

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July 1848

Charles Albert of Piedmont negotiated a short-lived Italian union between the territories of Piedmont and Lombardy, Venice, Parma, Modena, and Lucca.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
185-6, 273

Anne Brontë: 7 July 1848

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7 July 1848

Newby 's advertisement of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the US as the work of Currer Bell prompted Charlotte and AB to make a sudden trip to London to refute the claim.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
557

Charlotte Brontë: 7 July 1848

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7 July 1848

CB travelled to London with her sister Anne to refute the claim that Currer , Ellis , and Acton Bell were a single author.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
557

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 8 July 1848

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8 July 1848

The Nation published an anonymous review of a biography of Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell by Jane Francesca Elgee (later JFLW ): she called for the overthrow of English rule in Ireland.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 300

Jane Loudon: By 8 July 1848

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By 8 July 1848

JL broke new ground for her with Facts from the World of Nature: Animate and Inanimate.
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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 9 July 1848

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9 July 1848

Charles Duffy , editor and friend of Jane Francesca Elgee (later JFLW ), was arrested at his home for sedition on account of contributions to the Nation, probably including hers.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995.
292
Ó Broin, León. Charles Gavan Duffy, Patriot and Statesman. James Duffy, 1967.
59

18 July 1848: The Sisters of St John's House was established...

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18 July 1848

The Sisters of St John's House was established at King's College Hospital for the newly founded Anglican nursing order, the Community of Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine .
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
205
Poovey, Mary, and Florence Nightingale. “Introduction”. Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought, edited by Mary Poovey and Mary Poovey, New York University Press, 1993.
xix
Cartwright, Frederick F. et al. The Story of King’s College Hospital and its Medical School. Editor Britten, D. J., Farrand Press, 1991.
21
Abel-Smith, Brian. A History of the Nursing Profession. Heinemann, 1960.
19
Williams, Katherine. “From Sarah Gamp to Florence Nightingale: A Critical Study of Hospital Nursing Systems from 1840 to 1897”. Rewriting Nursing History, edited by Celia Davies, Barnes and Noble, 1980, pp. 41-75.
46, 51

19 July 1848: The first women's rights convention in the...

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19 July 1848

The first women's rights convention in the United States met in Seneca Falls, New York.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
251
Dow, Bonnie J. “How the Battle of Memory Was Won”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2014, pp. 3-4.
3

Camilla Crosland: 22 July 1848

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22 July 1848

Camilla Dufour Toulmin and Newton Crosland were married at New St Pancras Church in London.
Crosland, Newton. Rambles Round My Life. 2nd edition, E. W. Allen, 1898.
127

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 22 July 1848

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22 July 1848

Speranza or Jane Francesca Elgee (later JFLW ), in an anonymous, fighting editorial (or leader) in the Nation, The Hour of Destiny, claimed that Ireland's long pending war with England has actually commenced.
qtd. in
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988.
8
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 300

Frances Trollope: 23 July 1848

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23 July 1848

FT travelled to Mallow in Ireland to visit her son Anthony and her daughter-in-law Rose .
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
II: 153

July 1848: Austrian troops restored the Grand Duke to...

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July 1848

Austrian troops restored the Grand Duke to his throne in Tuscany, having successfully suppressed the republic there.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
189

28 July 1848: Frederick Douglass in The North Star reported—and...

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28 July 1848

Frederick Douglass in The North Star reported—and praised—the recent women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York.
Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. Editor Foner, Philip S., Greenwood Press, 1976.
49-51

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 29 July 1848

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29 July 1848

Irish nationalist Jane Francesca Elgee (later JFLW ) anonymously published her second polemical leader, Jacta Alea Est (that is the die [literally the javelin] is cast), in the Nation. The paper was at once suppressed.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
46
Wyndham, Horace. Speranza. T. V. Boardman, 1951.
33-4

Eliza Lynn Linton: August 1848-April 1851

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August 1848-April 1851

As the first salaried woman journalist in England,
Broomfield, Andrea. “Much More Than an Antifeminist: Eliza Lynn Linton’s Contribution to the Rise of Victorian Popular Journalism”. Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol.
29
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 267-83.
267
Eliza Lynn, later ELL , wrote regularly for the Morning Chronicle.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

August 1848: American William Henry Lane, Master Juba,...

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August 1848

American William Henry Lane , Master Juba, arrived in England; his exceptional dancing skills brought him fame and popularity in Britain as in the States.
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and its Business. Oxford University Press, 1988.
169-70

9 August 1848: Captain Frederick Marryat, novelist and father...

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9 August 1848

Captain Frederick Marryat , novelist and father of Florence Marryat , died at Langham, Norfolk.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
21

Sarah Flower Adams: 14 August 1848

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14 August 1848

SFA died of consumption in London. She was forty-three.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
67-8
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 7

14 August 1848: The Act of Union (Upper and Lower Canada)...

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14 August 1848

The Act of Union (Upper and Lower Canada) was amended to repeal the clause which declared English the sole official language.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 465

Eliza Lynn Linton: By 26 August 1848

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By 26 August 1848

Eliza Lynn (later Linton) published a scholarly, quasi-feminist historical novel: Amymone, A Romance of the Days of Pericles. She called herself the author of Azeth the Egyptian and signed the preface with her name...

Charlotte Guest: 29 August 1848

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29 August 1848

CG finished and dated her introduction to her translation of The Mabinogion, published late the following year.
Guest, Charlotte. The Mabinogion. Everyman’s Library, J. M. Dent; E. P. Dutton, 1906.
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31 August 1848: The Public Health Act was passed, establishing...

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31 August 1848

The Public Health Act was passed, establishing the new General Board of Health as a first step towards a strong national health authority in Britain.
Kearns, Gerry. “Cholera, Nuisances and Environmental Management in Islington 1830-1855”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 94-125.
95
Woods, Robert, and John Woodward. “Mortality, Poverty and the Environment”. Urban Disease and Mortality in Nineteenth-Century England, edited by Robert Woods and John Woodward, St Martin’s Press, 1984, pp. 19-36.
78
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
198-200
Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
90

Mary Somerville: 2 September 1848

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2 September 1848

John Murray of London published MS 's most successful book, an explanatory textbook in two volumes entitled Physical Geography.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
214
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.
1088 (2 September 1848): 877-9

4 September 1848: A UK order in council made Cape Colony a...

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4 September 1848

A UK order in council made Cape Colony a penal settlement.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 620