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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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Eliza Meteyard: By 21 September 1850

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By 21 September 1850

EM published her sentimental educational novel for the young, The Doctor's Little Daughter, bearing both her name and her former pseudonym, Silverpen.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1195 (1850): 996

Caroline Chisholm: 28 September 1850

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28 September 1850

CC 's Family Colonisation Loan Society launched its first sailing with two hundred and fifty British members travelling to Port Phillip and Port Adelaide, Australia.
Mackenzie, Eneas. Memoirs of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm. Webb, Millington, 1852.
175
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
149

29 September 1850: Rome gave official approval for the restoration...

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29 September 1850

Rome gave official approval for the restoration of the English Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
103, 205-6
These figures need to be treated with caution, since they were gathered by the Church itself.

Cecil Frances Alexander : By autumn 1850

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By autumn 1850

CFA with her sister Anne founded the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb .
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
48-9

Sojourner Truth: October 1850

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October 1850

At the national conference for women's rights in Worcester, Massachusetts (where Lucy Stone was present, though not Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Susan B. Anthony , ST gave one of the first of her well-known public addresses.
Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. W. W. Norton, 1996.
115
Dow, Bonnie J. “How the Battle of Memory Was Won”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2014, pp. 3-4.
3

7 October 1850: Nicholas Wiseman became the first British...

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7 October 1850

Nicholas Wiseman became the first British Cardinal and the first Westminster Metropolitan (i.e. spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Britain) since the Reformation, following the restoration of the Catholic hierachy there.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
101, 103, 106, 110

Iza Duffus Hardy: Probably 11 October 1850

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Probably 11 October 1850

IDH was born at Addlestone in Surrey (near Weybridge), the only (or at least the only surviving) child of writer Mary Anne Duffus Hardy .
Some sources give her date of birth as around...

Cecil Frances Alexander : 15 October 1850

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15 October 1850

Cecil Frances Humphreys married the Rev.William Alexander at Strabane Church, Strabane, County Tyrone.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
32, 99, 101
Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix.
viii

Caroline Bowles: 15 October 1850

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15 October 1850

CB wrote to Alexander Blackwood reminding him of the late Robert Blackwood 's promise to reprint her uncollected prose.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
213

Charlotte Guest: 22 October 1850

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22 October 1850

At a public dinner Lady CGset [her] heart on saying a few words among the speechmaking. She trembled as she waited her chance; her voice trembled in speaking; but her tones were distinct as...

23-4 October 1850: The first National Woman's Rights Convention...

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23-4 October 1850

The first National Woman's Rights Convention was held in the USA, at Worcester, Massachusetts.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
55-57, 302

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Late October 1850

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Late October 1850

Antoinette Brown (later ABB ), attending the first National Woman's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, at Lucy Stone 's request, delivered a speech refuting the Biblical argument that women should not speak in public.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
55-57, 302
Worcester Women’s History Project. http://www.wwhp.org/Resources/.
Historical Library

November 1850: Harriot Hunt was formally accepted into the...

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November 1850

Harriot Hunt was formally accepted into the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
34

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: 5 November 1850

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5 November 1850

Ella Wheeler (later EWW ) was born in Johnstown Center near Madison, Wisconsin, USA, the youngest of four children.
Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929–2026, 1-20.

Harriet Tytler: 5 November 1850

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5 November 1850

HT 's second child, also a son, died at only a few months old; she was inconsolable for several months.
Tytler, Harriet, and Philip Mason. An Englishwoman in India. Editor Sattin, Anthony, Oxford University Press, 1986.
77-8, 80

Elizabeth Rigby: 5 November 1850

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5 November 1850

ER 's husband, Charles Eastlake , was elected President of the Royal Academy ; he also received a knighthood that autumn, changing ER 's public name to Lady Eastlake.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
93
Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1: 259

Mary Martin: 7 November 1850

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7 November 1850

MM died ten days after reaching New York, as a result of complications from premature childbirth.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

9 November 1850: Helen MacFarlane's first English translation...

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9 November 1850

Helen MacFarlane 's first English translation of the Communist Manifesto began serialization in Harney 's weekly The Red Republican; it ran until 30 November. It was said to be written by Citizens Charles Marx

13 November 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist and travel...

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13 November 1850

Robert Louis Stevenson , novelist and travel writer, was born in Edinburgh.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

Charles Dickens: 15 November 1850

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15 November 1850

CD published his most autobiographical novel, David Copperfield, in one volume.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Isabella Hamilton Robinson: 15 November 1850

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15 November 1850

IHR was introduced to Edward Lane , then a handsome twenty-seven-year-old medical student, at a party. She was entranced, though she was ten years older than he was and he, like her, was married. She...

Julia Kavanagh: By 16 November 1850

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By 16 November 1850

JK published her novel Nathalie in three volumes.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1203 (1850): 1184-5

Alfred Tennyson: 19 November 1850

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19 November 1850

AT became poet laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth , who had died that April.
Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan, 1972.
232
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: November 1850

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November 1850

A new two-volume edition of EBB 's Poems was published by Chapman and Hall .
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
228
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.
1205 (30 November 1850): 1242-4

Agnes Strickland: Late 1850-1859

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Late 1850-1859

AS followed her lives of English queens with Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain (again with her sister Elizabeth as invisible collaborator).
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
210
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.