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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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Jane Welsh Carlyle: June 1850

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Author event in Jane Welsh Carlyle

June 1850

JWC attended a party given by Thackeray for Charlotte Brontë .
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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Elizabeth Gaskell: June 1850

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell

June 1850

EG and her husband moved to 42 Plymouth Grove in Manchester, a large house with a garden where they kept poultry, pigs, cows, and vegetables.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
84-5, 260, 262

Queen Victoria: June 1850

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Author event in Queen Victoria

June 1850

A fifth attempt to assassinate QV was made by an ex-lieutenant of the 10th Hussars .
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xv
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Queen Victoria in her Letters and Journals, edited by Christopher Hibbert, Penguin, 1985, p. various pages.
80

Anna Mary Howitt: June 1850-May 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Anna Mary Howitt

June 1850-May 1852

AMH studied painting with Wilhelm von Kaulbach in Munich.
Howitt, Anna Mary. An Art-Student in Munich. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854.
1-2, 468-70
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
149

1 June 1850: Alfred Tennyson anonymously published his...

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1 June 1850

Alfred Tennyson anonymously published his poetic sequence In Memoriam.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
108-11
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
1 June 2010

Julia Kavanagh: June 1850

Women writers item
Author event in Julia Kavanagh

June 1850

Charlotte Brontë called on JK at her home in London.
Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press, 1980, 4 vols.
III: 118

Alfred Tennyson: 13 June 1850

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Author event in Alfred Tennyson

13 June 1850

After a long relationship, which included a nine-year separation, AT married Emily Sellwood .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By June 15 1850: Leigh Hunt's Autobiography was published,...

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By June 15 1850

Leigh Hunt 's Autobiography was published, edited by his son Thornton Leigh Hunt .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1181(1850): 631
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

17 June 1850: The South Wales Railway opened between Chepstow...

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17 June 1850

The South Wales Railway opened between Chepstow and Swansea. Lady Charlotte Guest , one of the travellers on it, reported wonderful speed by the first train on her journey, which covered the distance between...

Elizabeth Sewell: By 22 June 1850

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Author event in Elizabeth Sewell

By 22 June 1850

Now successful as a writer and educator, ES (as the author of Amy Herbert) published The Earl's Daughter, her third novel, this time intended for a juvenile audience.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1182 (22 June 1850): 655

Jane Loudon: 22 June 1850

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Author event in Jane Loudon

22 June 1850

JL 's last number of The Ladies' Companion: At Home and Abroad appeared: the final issue before the publishers, Bradbury and Evans , forcibly replaced her as editor against her will, with Henry F. Chorley .
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961.
121

Charlotte Brontë: 25 June 1850

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

25 June 1850

CB went from London to her friend Ellen Nussey 's in Yorkshire; from there she went on to Edinburgh to join her friends George Smith and his sister Eliza for a couple of days.

Jane Welsh Carlyle: July 1850

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Author event in Jane Welsh Carlyle

July 1850

John Ruskin and his wife, Effie , paid a visit to the CarlylesThomas Carlyle in Cheyne Row.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
211-13

Dinah Mulock Craik: Summer 1850

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Author event in Dinah Mulock Craik

Summer 1850

DMC 's brother Benjamin emigrated to Australia.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
10

Dinah Mulock Craik: Later 1850

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Author event in Dinah Mulock Craik

Later 1850

Following her surviving brother's emigration, Dinah Mulock began living with her friend Frances Martin .
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
10

Margaret Sandbach: By July 1850

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Author event in Margaret Sandbach

By July 1850

As Mrs. Henry R. Sandbach, MS published a work of fiction: Hearts in Mortmain; and, Cornelia, two titles sharing a single volume.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1187 (1850): 789

Summer 1850: The phenomenally popular hippopotamus Obaysch,...

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Summer 1850

The phenomenally popular hippopotamus Obaysch, who became a national institution, arrived at Regent's Park Zoo .
Jones, Robert W. “‘The Sight of Creatures Strange to Our Clime’: London Zoo and the Consumption of the Exotic”. Journal of Victorian Culture, No. 1, 1997, pp. 1-26.
14-5

July 1850: William Allingham published Poems....

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July 1850

William Allingham published Poems.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
19
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

July-October 1850: A shilling quarterly for women entitled The...

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July-October 1850

A shilling quarterly for women entitled The Christian Lady's Library: A Quarterly Journal of Religious and Moral Instruction began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
3

July 1850: The Westminster Review published W. R. Greg's...

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July 1850

The Westminster Review published W. R. Greg 's Prostitution; the article argued for state control of prostitution, as practised on the Continent.
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.
108
Greg, William Rathbone. “Prostitution”. Westminster Review, Vol.
53
, July 1850, pp. 448-06.
448-506

July 1850: The early version of William Wordsworth's...

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July 1850

The early version of William Wordsworth 's Prelude, written between 1799 and May 1805, was posthumously published.
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.
Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
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Mary Martin: By 6 July 1850

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Author event in Mary Martin

By 6 July 1850

Irish novelist MM , then living in France, published Julia Howard, A Romance, her second novel, in London.
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.

Charlotte Brontë: Mid-July 1850

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Brontë

Mid-July 1850

CB returned home after visiting London, Yorkshire, and Edinburgh.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
648

Margaret Fuller: 19 July 1850

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Author event in Margaret Fuller

19 July 1850

MF drowned in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, within sight of land, as she sailed with her husband and child from Italy to the United States.
qtd. in
Mehren, Joan von. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
334
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
183
Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol.
29
, No. 22, 15 Nov. 2007, pp. 16-18.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 28 July 1850

Women writers item

28 July 1850

EBB suffered the last and most serious of her four miscarriages.
Hewlett, Dorothy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Cassell, 1953.
244
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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