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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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Jean Ingelow: By 23 March 1850

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By 23 March 1850

JI 's first published work, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings, appeared anonymously, with Edward Harston 's name listed as editor.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
35
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1169 (1850): 305

Caroline Chisholm: 30 March 1850

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Author event in Caroline Chisholm

30 March 1850

Household Words included in its opening issue A Bundle of Emigrant's Letters, the first in a series of articles CC and Charles Dickens jointly authored to promote the Family Colonisation Loan Society .
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
142

Charles Dickens: 30 March 1850

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30 March 1850

CD 's weekly miscellany of literature, Household Words, began publication in London. His own industrial novel, Hard Times, was the first fiction serialised there to reach book publication (in August 1854).
Schlicke, Paul, editor. Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens. Oxford University Press, 1999.
281

Elizabeth Gaskell: 30 March-April 1850

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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell

30 March-April 1850

EG 's mournful tale of prostitution, Lizzie Leigh, began serialisation anonymously as the lead piece in the first issue of Household Words.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
250-1, 617

Isabella Bird: Spring 1850

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Author event in Isabella Bird

Spring 1850

IB had a fibroid tumour (source of many childhood illnesses) removed from the region of her spine.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications, 1994.
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Julia Pardoe: By April 1850

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By April 1850

Her father 's death left JP responsible for the care of her mother, who frequently suffered from ill-health.
Szladits, Lola. “A Victorian Literary Correspondence: Letters from Julia Pardoe to Sir John Philippart, 1841-1860”. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol.
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, 1951, pp. 367-78.
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4 April 1850: The North London Collegiate School for Ladies,...

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4 April 1850

The North London Collegiate School for Ladies , founded by Frances Mary Buss as her own venture, re-opened with its new and enduring name at its new address, 46 Camden Street.
Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
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Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Buss
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

William Lisle Bowles: 7 April 1850

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7 April 1850

WLB , clergyman, poet, and editor, died at The Close in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Charlotte Godley: 12 April 1850

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12 April 1850

Charlotte Godley and her family reached Lyttelton (also called Port Cooper) in New Zealand; the voyage from Plymouth had lasted four months.
Kilbracken, John Raymond Godley, third Baron, and Charlotte Godley. “Introduction”. Letters from Early New Zealand, edited by John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken and John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1951, p. xi - xv.
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Jemima Tautphoeus: By 20 April 1850

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By 20 April 1850

JT 's first novel, The Initials, was published in three volumes, as by the Baroness Tautphoeus.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1173 (1850): 415

Amelia Opie: 20 April 1850

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20 April 1850

AO sent off to the organizers of an anti-slavery bazaar, to be used anonymously, the latest of her poems which her editors have been able to date. It begins: Oh ye! who come this show...

William Wordsworth: 23 April 1850

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Author event in William Wordsworth

23 April 1850

WW , Poet Laureate, died at his house, Rydal Mount, at Grasmere in Westmorland.
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Charlotte Brontë: Early May 1850

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Early May 1850

CB 's Jane Eyre was re-issued in a cheap, one-volume edition.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
640

Charlotte Yonge: May 1850

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May 1850

CY received from her close friend Marianne Dyson some notes for a story which Dyson had been trying unsuccessfully to get written: this story became The Heir of Redclyffe.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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Queen Victoria: 1 May 1850

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1 May 1850

QV gave birth to Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught , her seventh child.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Frances Trollope: May 1850

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May 1850

FT moved in with her son Thomas Adolphus and daughter-in-law Theodosia at Villino Trollope in Florence.
Johnston, Johanna. The Life, Manners, and Travels of Fanny Trollope: A Biography. Hawthorn Books, 1978.
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Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Christina Rossetti: May 1850

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May 1850

CR 's engagement to James Collinson ended, some time after he had returned to the Roman Catholic faith .
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
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Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable, 1981.
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Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996.
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May 1850: The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society...

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May 1850

The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society fiercely debated the use of the speculum.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
113-5

May 1850: Reynolds's Weekly News was launched by George...

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May 1850

Reynolds's Weekly News was launched by George Reynolds as a radical Sunday paper of international news, designed to serve the cause of freedom and democracy.
University of Bradford, Learning Support Services. http://www.bradford.ac.uk/library/special/reynolds.php.

Maria Grey: By 4 May 1850

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By 4 May 1850

MG and her sister Emily Shirreff collaborated on the essay Thoughts on Self-Culture, Addressed to Women.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1175 (1850): 474
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.

Selina Davenport : 16 May 1850

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16 May 1850

SD appealed to the Royal Literary Fund for financial aid of thirty pounds, while her husband , who himself had been receiving money from the fund since 1809 without her knowing it, tried to block...

Jane Porter: 24 May 1850

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24 May 1850

JP died in Bristol, having outlived her younger sister, Anna Maria , by nearly twenty years, and having been some time in bad health.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1899.
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Charlotte Brontë: End of May 1850

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End of May 1850

CB again visited the Smith s in London, where she met a number of young female writers, among others Anne Thackeray and Adelaide Procter .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Isa Blagden: Summer 1850

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Summer 1850

IB became acquainted with the BrowningsElizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence.
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, 1970, p. xix - xxxiii.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1 June 1850

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1 June 1850

Following Wordsworth 's death (on 23 April), the Athenæum proposed EBB as his successor for poet laureate.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1179 (1850): 585