Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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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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Harriet Martineau: December 1850
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Harriet Martineau: Late 1850
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Late 1850
shocked Victorian society by publishing (through
) the letters of questioning on religious subjects that she had exchanged with
: Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development.
December 1850-February 1852: Henry Mayhew serially published London Labour...
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December 1850-February 1852
serially published London Labour and the London Poor.
Elizabeth Gaskell: 2 December 1850
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2 December 1850
As the author of Mary Barton,
published as a Christmas book a pastoral love story, The Moorland Cottage, with illustrations by
.
Anna Leonowens: 10 December 1850
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10 December 1850
's first child, daughter Selina Louisa, was born in Bombay. She lived only twenty months.
Dinah Mulock Craik: By 14 December 1850
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By 14 December 1850
, then
, published her second three-volume novel, Olive, as the author of the Ogilvies.
It was reprinted along with The Half-Caste in 1996 with an introduction by Cora Kaplan...
Frances Notley: Late 1850
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Late 1850
The anonymous three-volume novel Pique, A Tale of the English Aristocracy was probably
's first; its authorship was alluded to two years later on the title page of her Agatha Beaufort; or, Family Pride...
Charlotte Brontë: 16 December 1850
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16 December 1850
visited
at her home The Knoll, in the Lake District, where she asked her host to mesmerize her.
Mary Cowden Clarke: 1850-2
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1850-2
published the work for which she is principally remembered, The Girlhood of
's Heroines; in a series of fifteen tales.
Grace Aguilar: 1851
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1851
's The Mother's Recompense, a popular sequel to her novel Home Influence, was posthumously published.
Caroline Bowles: 1851
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1851
Three years before
's death The Select Literary Works, Prose and Verse, of appeared at Hartford, Connecticut.
Caroline Frances Cornwallis : January 1851
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January 1851
The eighteenth in
's series Small Books on Great Subjects was advertised to be published, entitled The Philosophy of Ragged Schools.
Dinah Mulock Craik: 1851
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1851
published the novella The Half-Caste in
's Papers for the People.
Hannah Cullwick: 1851
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1851
and her family went to London for the season, taking
and a number of servants with them.
Emily Davies: 1851
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1851
travelled to Geneva in Switzerland with her father, mother, and sister.
Lucie Duff Gordon: 1851
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1851
Convinced that country air would be beneficial to
's health, the Duff Gordons moved to Belvedere House in Esher, Surrey, a charming and comfortable house atop a hill referred to affectionately by their...
George Eliot: January 1851
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January 1851
reviewed (anonymously, as was the usual practice) for the Westminster Review a learned work of comparative religious history,
's The Progress of the Intellect.
Charlotte Yonge: January 1851
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January 1851
The first number of The Monthly Packet, an Evangelical publication, appeared, edited by
: she retained her post as editor until 1890.
Mary Fortune: 1851
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1851
Around the age of eighteen, in a town named Melbourne in Quebec, Canada,
married a surveyor named
.
Margaret Gatty: 1851
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1851
was forty-two when she first published a book on her own: The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales, a collection of stories for children.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 1851
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1851
The mother of Jane Francesca Elgee, soon to be
, died earlier in the year in which her daughter married.
Augusta Webster: 1851
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1851
Augusta Davies (later
) moved to Cambridge (to Pendeen House, 65 Hills Road) with her family when her
was appointed chief constable of the region.
Anna Swanwick: 1851
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1851
published her blank-verse renderings into English of
's Faust (the first part), together with Egmont, and two plays by him reprinted from her first volume.
Elizabeth Strutt: By 1851
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By 1851
reported that
had returned finally from the Continent to England, yet in 1867 Strutt and her huusband died within months of each other, in Rome.
Felicia Skene: 1851
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1851
The Tutor's Ward, another novel by
(as the author of Wayfaring Sketches, Use and Abuse, etc.), appeared from
in two volumes.