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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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Mary Boyle: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Boyle
1849
Privately printed,
's collection My Portrait Gallery, and Other Poems appeared; it could be obtained upon application to
, publishers, for 7s 6d.
Fredrika Bremer: 1849
Writing climate item
Author event in Fredrika Bremer
1849
FB used her experience of six months in Copenhagen to produce Lif i Norden, 1849, an account of Danish cultural life and its literary, artistic, philosophical, theological, and scientific richness.
Caroline Chisholm: 1849
Author event in Caroline Chisholm
1849
In London,
established the
which aimed to promote the emigration of entire families from Britain to Australia through the loan of part of the cost of passage.
Jane Hume Clapperton : 1849
Women writers item
Sara Coleridge: 1849
Women writers item
Harriet Corp: After 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Corp
After 1849
If
was still alive when her last known title was published, then she died some time in or after this year, having lived at least eighteen years in poverty.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: 1849
Writing climate item
Author event in Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
1849
was arrested for involvement with the
ist Petrashevski Socialists.
Emily Eden: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Emily Eden
1849
's health began to decline during the year in which her closest
and
both died, twenty years before her own eventual death.
Felicia Skene: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Felicia Skene
1849
again put her fiction to polemical use with the publication of The Inheritance of Evil; or, The Consequence of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister.
Mary Shelley: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Shelley
1849
moved from London to Field Place near Bournemouth, to live with her son and her daughter-in-law, born Jane St John.
Elizabeth Sewell: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Sewell
1849
The Child's First History of Rome, the first of several history texts written for children, was published by
.
Isabella Hamilton Robinson: From 1849 to 1855
Women writers item
Author event in Isabella Hamilton Robinson
From 1849 to 1855
In her personal diary during these years,
recorded her feelings about her frustrating home life and her uninspired marriage, but more especially her romantic longings, and her friendship, infatuation, and affair with
Adelaide Procter: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Adelaide Procter
1849
may have converted to
from Anglicanism by this date; certainly she had by 1851.
Sources conflict on the date of
's conversion, most of them dating it in 1851.
Elizabeth Mary Parker: About 1849
Women writers item
Julia Pardoe: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Julia Pardoe
1849
In The Court and Reign of
, King of France,
added another to her series of domestic biographies of denizens of the French court.
Barbara Hofland: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Barbara Hofland
1849
published some letters and poems of
in his Life and Literary Remains of her, including two sonnets written in April 1844.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
1849
titled her next work, again in three volumes, The Peer's Daughters: A Novel.
Anne Manning: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Manning
1849
's first major historical novel appeared anonymously: The Maiden & Married Life of . Framed as a journal kept by the poet
's first wife, it remains her best-known work.
Karl Marx: 1849
Writing climate item
Author event in Karl Marx
1849
Following his final expulsion from Germany,
settled with his family in London
Anne Mozley: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Mozley
1849
edited another anthology: Poetry Past and Present, A Collection for Every-day Reading and Amusement, as by the editor of Church Poetry.
Harriett Mozley: By January 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Harriett Mozley
By January 1849
and her family had moved to Guilford Street in London—while her
was writing full-time for the Times newspaper.
Margaret Oliphant: 1849
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Oliphant
1849
In the same year that her first book appeared, Margaret Wilson (later
) accompanied her brother
to London for three months, to stay with cousins there while Willie continued his studies for the ministry.
1849: Henry Cole and Richard Redgrave, members...
Writing climate item
1849
and
, members of the Society of Arts , created the Journal of Design and Manufactures.
1849: William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) coined...
1849
(later Lord Kelvin) coined the term thermodynamics in an account of
's earlier theory of heat.
1849: Rebecca Smith was the last woman to be hanged...
National or international item
1849
was the last woman to be hanged for infanticide.