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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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9 October 1849: Rufus Griswold (later editor and publicist...
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9 October 1849
(later editor and publicist of
) published Poe's now-famous poem Annabel Lee in the New York Daily Tribune in an obituary two days after the author's mysterious death.
Sarah Austin: 18 October 1849
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18 October 1849
received a
pension of £100 in consideration of the services which she has rendered to literature, especially by her translation of German works.
Dinah Mulock Craik: By 20 October 1849
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By 20 October 1849
's first novel, The Ogilvies, appeared anonymously in three volumes.
Charlotte Brontë: 26 October 1849
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26 October 1849
's Shirley, a novel about industrial strife, was published in three volumes under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton: By 27 October 1849
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Author event in Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
By 27 October 1849
published another successful novel: The Caxtons, A Family Picture, first serialised in Blackwood's Magazine.
Charlotte Brontë: November 1849
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November 1849
initiated her friendship with
by her sympathetic comments about the sickbed scenes in Shirley.
George Sand: November 1849
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November 1849
's dramatisation of her novel François le Champi enjoyed a successful run at the
.
Florence Nightingale : November 1849-April 1850
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November 1849-April 1850
toured Egypt and Greece with her friends
and
.
Margaret Oliphant: Around 10 November 1849
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Around 10 November 1849
Margaret Wilson (later
) published her first novel, Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of SunnysideWritten by Herself, in three volumes, with
of London.
13 November 1849: William Etty died: a genre painter, Etty...
13 November 1849
died: a genre painter, Etty was one few English artists of his time to concentrate almost exclusively on nudes.
Charlotte Guest: By mid-November 1849
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By mid-November 1849
Lady
completed the publication in three volumes of her transcription of Middle Welsh romances with new verse translations: titled The Mabinogion, though only four of the twelve tales are properly the Mabinogi.
Frances Hodgson Burnett: 24 November 1849
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24 November 1849
Frances Eliza Hodgson (later
) was born at what is now 358 Cheetham Hill Road in Manchester, the third child and first girl in a family of five.
Emma Robinson: By 24 November 1849
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By 24 November 1849
, as the author of Whitefriars, etc. but posing as an editor, published The Maid of Orleans, a historical novel about
.
Charlotte Brontë: 29 November-15 December 1849
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Author event in Charlotte Brontë
29 November-15 December 1849
visited London, where she met
and
, both of whom she admired.
Hannah Cullwick: End of 1849
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End of 1849
went to work in the family of a clergyman whose name was
, in Lincolnshire.
December 1849: Thomas Carlyle published his racist Occasional...
December 1849
published his racist Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question in Fraser's.
10 December 1849: Marian Rebecca Hughes received approval to...
10 December 1849
received approval to found the Anglican
in Little St Edward's, West Malvern, Worcestershire.
Charlotte Godley: 13 December 1849
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13 December 1849
and her family set sail from Plymouth in Devon, heading for New Zealand, where her
was to take up new employment.
15 December 1849: The weekly Domestic Journal and Home Miscellany...
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15 December 1849
The weekly Domestic Journal and Home Miscellany of Instruction and Amusement ended publication in London.
Anne Marsh: 23 December 1849
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Anna Leonowens: 25 December1849
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25 December1849
married
, a military pay clerk, at Poona. Her self-devised name,
, came later.
Most sources give his name as Thomas Leon Owens. The Oxford...
Jane Loudon: 31 December 1849
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31 December 1849
A new periodical, a weekly, The Ladies' Companion: At Home and Abroad, was launched with
as its editor. It continued until 1851.
Grace Aguilar: 1850
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1850
's domestic novel Woman's Friendship was issued posthumously. She had passionately defended her choice of topic by citing the authority of
.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 1850
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1850
and
travelled throughout Europe without a chaperone, visiting Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 1850
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1850
Barbara Leigh Smith (later
) and
met Dr
, then the western world's only qualified female physician.