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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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January 1849-March 1850: Frank Smedley's Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes...

Writing climate item

January 1849-March 1850

Frank Smedley 's Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil was serialised, in monthly parts, in Sharpe's London Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Smedley, Frank. Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. A. Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1850.
prelims

1849: Socialist Robert Owen published The Revolution...

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1849

Socialist Robert Owen published The Revolution in Mind and Practice of the Human Race.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
727

1849-1856: During this period, only 6.5% of the patients...

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1849-1856

During this period, only 6.5% of the patients in lock hospitals were younger than sixteen.
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
16-7

1849: M. Jolly-Bellin of Paris accidentally invented...

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1849

M. Jolly-Bellin of Paris accidentally invented dry-cleaning.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1849: The Old Bailey (now the Central Criminal...

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1849

The Old Bailey (now the Central Criminal Court ) became a fashionable scene of entertainment during the murder trial of the Mannings.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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1849: Robert Stephenson built a cast-iron High...

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1849

Robert Stephenson built a cast-iron High Level Bridge over the Tyne River at Newcastle.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
4: 461

1849: J. A. Froude, writing as Zeta published his...

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1849

J. A. Froude , writing as Zeta published his novel The Nemesis of Faith.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
377
Clough, Arthur Hugh. The Correspondence of Arthur Hugh Clough. Editor Mulhauser, Frederick L., Clarendon, 1957, 2 vols.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1849: Bedford College, initially known as the Ladies'...

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1849

Bedford College , initially known as the Ladies' College in Bedford Square, or Mrs Reid's Ladies College , was founded.
Tuke, Margaret Janson. A History of Bedford College for Women, 1849-1937. Oxford University Press, 1939.
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Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
16, 112, 254, 283

1849: Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland, founded the...

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1849

Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland , founded the Golspie Society , a rural Arts and Crafts group, in northern Scotland.
Cumming, Elizabeth, and Wendy Kaplan. The Arts and Crafts Movement. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
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Richards, Eric. Debating the Highland Clearances. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
4, 23, 221

1849: Henry David Thoreau published the first edition...

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1849

Henry David Thoreau published the first edition of his study Civil Disobedience as Resistance to Civil Government in Aesthetic Papers.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1849: Mary Sheil, a British ambassador's wife on...

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1849

Mary Sheil , a British ambassador's wife on a three-and-a-half-month journey via Russia to Persia, noted that in Circassia slaves were sold openly, the most expensive goods being nubile young women.
Hickman, Katie. Daughters of Britannia: The Life and Times of Diplomatic Wives. Flamingo, 2000.
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1840s: E. W. Thomas and Lieutenant Blackmore founded...

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1840s

E. W. Thomas and Lieutenant Blackmore founded the Moonlight Mission to the Fallen , an organization to reclaim prostitutes.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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1849: The weekly magazine Family Friend began ...

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1849

The weekly magazine Family Friend began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
217

1849: Elizabeth Blackwell earned a medical degree...

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1849

Elizabeth Blackwell earned a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York State, becoming the first woman to graduate from an American medical school.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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1849: Henry Charles Harrod took over the small...

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1849

Henry Charles Harrod took over the small grocery shop of a friend in Brompton Road, London; this was the birth of Harrods department store.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1849: Thomas Grainger designed the first train...

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1849

Thomas Grainger designed the first train ferry; he used it to transport rail cars across the Firth of Forth.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1849: The British Female Emigrant Society was founded...

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1849

The British Female Emigrant Society was founded to aid displaced women.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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January 1849-April 1851: Robert Smith Surtees' fox-hunting novel Mr...

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January 1849-April 1851

Robert Smith Surtees ' fox-hunting novel Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour was serialised in the New Monthly Magazine; it appeared in one volume in 1853.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

1849: Prince Albert joined the Geological Society...

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1849

Prince Albert joined the Geological Society of London .
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
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1849: Following the death of Charlotte Elizabeth...

Writing climate item

1849

Following the death of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna , the monthly Christian Lady's Magazine ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
216
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1849: Following on the great famine, Poor Law Boards...

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1849

Following on the great famine, Poor Law Boards of Guardians in Ireland began to subsidize emigration for those on their rolls.
Fitzpatrick, David. Irish Emigration 1801-1921. Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1984.
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January 1849: Radicals ascended to power in Rome (centre...

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January 1849

Radicals ascended to power in Rome (centre of the Papal States) and established a Roman Republic.
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.
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1849: Sir David Brewster invented the stereosc...

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1849

Sir David Brewster invented the stereoscope.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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1849: Bronterre O'Brien founded the National Reform...

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1849

Bronterre O'Brien founded the National Reform League .
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Sara Coleridge: 6 January 1849

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6 January 1849

SC was shaken by the death of her brother Hartley Coleridge .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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