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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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1850: US poet Frances Osgood issued at Philadelphia...
Writing climate item
1850
US poet
issued at Philadelphia her final publication, Poems (a different collection from the one published at New York in 1846 under the same title).
3 January-28 March 1850: A weekly periodical entitled The Domestic...
Writing climate item
3 January-28 March 1850
A weekly periodical entitled The Domestic Economist and Advertiser in Every Branch of the Family Establishment began publication in London.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 5 January 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
By 5 January 1850
's Country Quarters. A Novel was published posthumously with a memoir of the author by her niece
.
Charlotte Godley: 7 January 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Godley
7 January 1850
wrote the first in the series of travel letters to her
that span the period of her years in New Zealand; she began by describing her voyage on board the Lady Nugent.
Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe: 17 January 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
17 January 1850
died at Wolford Lodge near Honiton in Devon, the house that she and her husband had built.
19 January 1850: A series of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Writing climate item
19 January 1850
A series of lectures by
was published under the title Representative Men.
Emily Jane Pfeiffer: 26 January 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Emily Jane Pfeiffer
26 January 1850
married German tea merchant
.
Some sources give his occupation as banking. There is also difference among sources on the spelling of his name.
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun: 26 January 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
26 January 1850
's second travel narrative, Hesperos; or, Travels in the West, appeared.
Charlotte Brontë: February 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Brontë
February 1850
News of Currer Bell's identity spread as a result of her London appearances, and by early the next year
's authorship became known in Haworth.
Hannah Cullwick: Early 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Cullwick
Early 1850
began employment as an under housemaid for
at Aqualate Hall near Newport in Shropshire.
Aqualate Hall is an early-ninetenth-century gothic-style house built by
.
Catherine Hubback: 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Hubback
1850
published her first book, a novel entitled The Younger Sister, which recapitulates and completes her aunt
's unfinished, unpublished early novel The Watsons.
February 1850: Frederick William IV of Prussia established...
National or international item
February 1850
of Prussia established by royal edict his own constitution, which remained in effect until 1918.
February 1850: Dante Gabriel Rossetti published The Blessed...
Writing climate item
February 1850
published The Blessed Damozel in The Germ.
Kate Chopin: 8 February 1850
Writing climate item
Author event in Kate Chopin
8 February 1850
was born Catherine O'Flaherty in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
A number of sources give her birth date as 8 February 1851.
, however, places it a year earlier, on the basis...
Mary Howitt: 20 February 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Howitt
20 February 1850
received from
a letter asking her to consider writing for his new journal, Household Words; she contributed a number of articles to it.
Frances Isabella Duberly : 21 February 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Isabella Duberly
21 February 1850
, aged twenty, was married at New Alresford in Hampshire to an army paymaster (with the rank of lieutenant) named
, whom she had first met four years earlier.
Caroline Chisholm: 26 February 1850
Women writers item
Wilkie Collins: 28 February 1850
Writing climate item
Author event in Wilkie Collins
28 February 1850
's first published novel, the historical romance Antonina; or, The Fall of Rome, A Romance of the Fifth Century, was released in London.
Jane Loudon: March 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Loudon
March 1850
In a painful interview with
, head of the
,
learned that sales of her
's books had plummeted in the six years or so since his death, and...
Julia Kavanagh: By 2 March 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Julia Kavanagh
By 2 March 1850
published Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century, in two volumes.
5 March 1850: Robert Stephenson's tubular Britannia Bridge...
National or international item
5 March 1850
's tubular Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits opened for rail traffic to Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey, off the coast of Wales.
Charlotte Brontë: 16 March 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Brontë
16 March 1850
declined
's invitation to write for the Leader, which he was starting with
.
16 March 1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel about a female...
Writing climate item
16 March 1850
's novel about a female adulteress, The Scarlet Letter, was published.
22 March 1850: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev completed his play...
Writing climate item
22 March 1850
completed his play A Month in the Country.
Henrietta Euphemia Tindal: By 23 March 1850
Women writers item
Author event in Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
By 23 March 1850
Having already published poems in periodicals,
issued a collection, Lines and Leaves, under her married name of Mrs. Acton Tindal.