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.
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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Eliza Ogilvy: By 5 April 1851
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Author event in Eliza Ogilvy
By 5 April 1851
Following her poems based on the folklore of her native Scotland,
published a collection in a similar style about Italy: Traditions of Tuscany, in Verse.
9 April 1851: Nathaniel Hawthorne published in Boston The...
Writing climate item
9 April 1851
published in BostonThe House of the Seven Gables, a novel exploring Puritan guilt.
By 12 April 1851: Herbert Spencer published his first book,...
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By 12 April 1851
published his first book, Social Statics, on social philosophy.
Harriet Taylor: 21 April 1851
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Author event in Harriet Taylor
21 April 1851
married
on Easter Monday at a registry office outside London, nearly two years after the death of her first
.
Ouida: After 1 May 1851
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Author event in Ouida
After 1 May 1851
visited London for the Great Exhibition. She found it beautiful and overwhelming, calling the exhibition in her diary a noble idea.
Ann Taylor Gilbert: About May 1851
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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert
About May 1851
At nearly seventy,
greeted the Great Exhibition in both prose and poetry.
Mary Russell Mitford: Summer 1851
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1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...
National or international item
1 May 1851
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by
in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
Before May 1851: The Royal Academy accepted several Pre-Raphaelite...
Before May 1851
The
accepted several
works for its annual exhibition (which opened on 5 May), despite the volley of criticism which had followed the Brotherhood's previous public displays.
From May 1851: At the Great Exhibition, Bax and Company...
From May 1851
At the Great Exhibition,
exhibited their newly invented waterproof, flexible, breathable fabric called Aquascutum.
Caroline Norton: By 3 May 1851
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Author event in Caroline Norton
By 3 May 1851
published the novel Stuart of Dunleath, A Story of Modern Times; it took her four years to write, because her sons were occupying much of her time and attention.
Mary Carpenter: After 7 May 1851
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Author event in Mary Carpenter
After 7 May 1851
published a volume entitled Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders: she wrote this date at the end of her text.
13 May 1851: John Ruskin published a letter in The Times...
13 May 1851
published a letter in The Times lauding the works of the
.
Eliza Mary Hamilton: 14 May 1851
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Author event in Eliza Mary Hamilton
14 May 1851
died in Dublin, having left the Observatory after her brother's marriage.
Charlotte Brontë: Late May 1851
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Author event in Charlotte Brontë
Late May 1851
visited London, where her relationship with her publisher and friend
turned away from intimacy.
Sojourner Truth: 29 May 1851
Author event in Sojourner Truth
29 May 1851
gave her most famous speech, now known by the catch-phrase Ar'n't I a Woman?, at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, USA.
: The Anglican Community of St John the Baptist...
Ascension day 1851
The Anglican
was established in Clewer, near Windsor.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 31 May 1851
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Author event in Elizabeth Barrett Browning
31 May 1851
published her poetic account of the recent events in the Italian Risorgimento in Florence, Casa Guidi Windows: A Poem.
Jessie White Mario: 31 May 1851-28 June 1851
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Author event in Jessie White Mario
31 May 1851-28 June 1851
Jessie White (later
) was the probable author of an anonymous, serialized story, Lilly Crossland, apparently one of her many contributions to Eliza Cook's Journal.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Summer 1851
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Author event in Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Summer 1851
and family travelled through Venice, Padua, Milan, Lucerne (she was awed by the Alps), and Paris on their way to London.
Augusta Ada Byron: June 1851
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Author event in Augusta Ada Byron
June 1851
, Countess of Lovelace, discovered that she had cancer of the uterus; it claimed her life by agonising degrees the following year.
Jane Williams: By summer 1851
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Author event in Jane Williams
By summer 1851
became a member of the literary circle of
(who is known as a patron of Lady
and as editor of
's autobiography and correspondence).
Charlotte Maria Tucker : Earlier 1851
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Author event in Charlotte Maria Tucker
Earlier 1851
began regularly visiting the destitute inmates of the
with one of her sisters.
Eliza Mary Hamilton: June 1851
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Author event in Eliza Mary Hamilton
June 1851
's poem Poetesses was published posthumously in the Dublin University Magazine.
June 1851: Henry Manning converted to Roman Catholicism...
June 1851
converted to Roman Catholicism after seeing several of his Oxford colleagues do so; he became a Cardinal fourteen years later and was a strong proponent of the Ultramontanist side of the Roman Catholic...