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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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Mary Boyle: 1850

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1850

MB met Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli at Burghley House in Stamford, when, despite their repeal four years earlier, the strife over the Corn Laws was still raging.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
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Mary Carpenter: 1850

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Author event in Mary Carpenter

1850

MC (as a Worker) published a volume entitled Ragged Schools: Their Principles and Modes of Operation at the insistence of Joseph Fletcher , an inspector with the national school inspection system, after he had...

Elizabeth Charles: 1850

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Author event in Elizabeth Charles

1850

Elizabeth Rundle (later EC ) published her didactic Tales and Sketches of Christian Life, in Different Lands and Ages.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Caroline Chisholm: 1850

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Author event in Caroline Chisholm

1850

Caroline Chisholm published a pamphlet, The A. B. C. of Colonization.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Caroline Frances Cornwallis : 1850

Women writers item

1850

Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Twelfth Century, the seventeenth in CFC 's series Small Books on Great Subjects, was published.
Hunt, Leigh, editor. The Examiner. John Hunt.
2420 (17 June 1854)

Lucie Duff Gordon: 1850

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Author event in Lucie Duff Gordon

1850

LDG made a foray into fiction with her translation of Léon de Wailly 's Stella and Vanessa, a French novel based on Jonathan Swift 's life.
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Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1850

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Author event in Sarah Stickney Ellis

1850

SSE developed a monthly periodical for women entitled Mrs Ellis's Morning Call: A Table Book of Literature and Art.
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Charlotte Yonge: 1850

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Author event in Charlotte Yonge

1850

CY , as the author of Scenes and Characters, published with Joseph MastersHenrietta's Wish; or, Domineering. A Tale.
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Frances Wright: 1850

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Author event in Frances Wright

1850

Back in the United States once more, FW filed for divorce from her husband, D'Arusmont .
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 1850

Women writers item

1850

Jane Francesca Elgee (soon to be JFLW ) translated, Pictures of the First French Revolution by Marie Louis Alphonse de Lamartine de Prat .
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Anna Letitia Waring : 1850

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Author event in Anna Letitia Waring

1850

ALW published, with her initials, Hymns and Meditations.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Charlotte Maria Tucker : 1850

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Maria Tucker

1850

CMT travelled to Brussels to attend her youngest brother 's wedding; this was her first trip abroad.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 318

Sojourner Truth: 1850

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Author event in Sojourner Truth

1850

ST told her autobiography to Olive Gilbert , who wrote it down and had it printed in Boston that year as Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state...

Mary Taylor: 1850

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Author event in Mary Taylor

1850

MT and her cousin Ellen Taylor opened a successful draper's shop in Wellington, New Zealand.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Elizabeth Stone: 1850

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Author event in Elizabeth Stone

1850

ES 's novel Mr. Dalton's Legatee, a Very Nice Woman was published.
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Mary Shelley: 1850

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Author event in Mary Shelley

1850

MS suffered from nervous attacks and partial paralysis.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Mary Seacole: Around 1850

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Around 1850

MS left Jamaica for a gold-prospecting town on the Isthmus of Panama, in the country then called New Granada (the present-day Panama). She went there to visit her brother, who was not strong and needed...

Margaret Sandbach: 1850

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Author event in Margaret Sandbach

1850

MS , as Mrs. H. R. Sandbach, published a third book of poetry, a collection of lyrics entitled Aurora and Other Poems.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jessie Russell: 1850

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Author event in Jessie Russell

1850

JR was born in GlasgowScotland.
This date is cited by a number of critics; Florence S. Boos , however, implies an earlier one when she says Russell was thirty when her poems were...

Christina Rossetti: January 1850

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Author event in Christina Rossetti

January 1850

CR , although not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , published two poems, Dream-land and An End, anonymously in the inaugural issue of the group's periodical, the Germ.
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press, 1979–1990, 3 vols.
1: 237, 241
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996.
xi
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
106

Christina Rossetti: 1850

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Author event in Christina Rossetti

1850

CR finished writing her juvenile mixed-genre novella for girls entitled Maude, A Story for Girls; it was published posthumously in 1897.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996.
xi
Jones, Kathleen. Learning Not to Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti. Windrush Press, 1991.
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Hannah Mary Rathbone: 1850

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Author event in Hannah Mary Rathbone

1850

HMR published both her religious novel Life's Sunshine, and probably the pious-didactic The Way to Make Home Comfortable; or, The History of Mary Barker.
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.

Dora Greenwell: 1850-1854

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Author event in Dora Greenwell

1850-1854

DG and her parents lived at Golbourne Rectory, Lancashire, where her brother Alan was rector.
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.
Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885.
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Elizabeth Ham: About 1850

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Author event in Elizabeth Ham

About 1850

EH , at sixty-six, began to trace out the influences that were most active in forming the present individual Me out of the little neglected girl of my earliest remembrance.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
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Mary Anne Duffus Hardy: January 1850

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Author event in Mary Anne Duffus Hardy

January 1850

Mary Anne MacDowell became the second wife of Thomas Duffus Hardy .
Entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography give two different years for this marriage: 1850 under Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, 1848 under Mary Anne.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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