Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
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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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June 1851: Ingomar the Barbarian; or, the Son of the...
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June 1851
Ingomar the Barbarian; or, the Son of the Wilderness, adapted from German by
, premiered at
.
2 June 1851: The first prohibition law was passed, in...
2 June 1851
The first prohibition law was passed, in Maine: across the Atlantic in England this inaugurated the third phase of temperance reform, the push for a legislative solution to the perceived evils of drink.
Jane Williams: Shortly after 4 June 1851
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Shortly after 4 June 1851
had an accident of an unknown nature, and was for a time both very ill and crippled.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: 5 June 1851-1 April 1852
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Author event in Harriet Beecher Stowe
5 June 1851-1 April 1852
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, The Man That Was a Thing, by
, appeared serially in the USA in the National Era.
Jessie Fothergill: 7 June 1851
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Mary Augusta Ward: 11 June 1851
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Author event in Mary Augusta Ward
11 June 1851
was born Mary Augusta Arnold in Hobart Town, Tasmania. She was the eldest of eight children.
Eliza Lynn Linton: By 14 June 1851
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By 14 June 1851
's Realities, A Tale appeared; it advocated divorce reform and professions for women.
Sojourner Truth: 21 June 1851
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Author event in Sojourner Truth
21 June 1851
's speech at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, was printed in a single long paragraph in the Anti-Slavery Bugle at Salem, Ohio.
Charlotte Brontë: 27 June 1851
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Caroline Clive: By 1 July 1851
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Author event in Caroline Clive
By 1 July 1851
published her poem The Valley of the Rea; it was followed eighteen months later (by 22 January 1853) by The Morlas.
The River Rea rises in Shropshire and flows past Birmingham...
Caroline Frances Cornwallis : Earlier 1851 to mid 1854
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Earlier 1851 to mid 1854
's last four Small Books were issued within a three-year span as a mini-series of its own, On the State of Man Subsequent to the Promulgation of Christianity: on periods from the first...
Julia Wedgwood: Summer 1851
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Summer 1851
visited
at her home, The Knoll, in Ambleside. They paid a call on
, whom Julia found conceited and disagreeable.
Harriet Taylor: July 1851
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Author event in Harriet Taylor
July 1851
's essay Enfranchisement of Women appeared anonymously in the Westminster Review.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: July 1851
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Author event in Harriet Beecher Stowe
July 1851
wrote to a man she had never met,
, for information about life on a southern cotton plantation to help her in writing her periodical serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Mary Russell Mitford: By 1 July 1851
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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford
By 1 July 1851
undertook for
to provide a series of Readings of Poetry, Old and New: selected extracts with her commentary.
July 1851: A monthly shilling periodical for women entitled...
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July 1851
A monthly shilling periodical for women entitled The Bouquet from Marylebone Gardens began publication in London.
July 1851: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum opened in Middlesex...
July 1851
opened in Middlesex with a potential capacity of 1,250 patients; this institution came to epitomize progressive Victorian psychiatry.
Florence Nightingale : 6 July-7 October 1851
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6 July-7 October 1851
returned to the
in Kaiserswerth to train as a nurse.
Jane Loudon: By 12 July 1851
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By 12 July 1851
branched out again with Domestic Pets: Their Habits and Management; With Illustrative Anecdotes, with engravings from drawings by
.
17 July 1851: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...
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17 July 1851
, historian and
priest, died at Hornby in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Isabella Beeton: Probably summer 1851
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Probably summer 1851
, having attended a local school for a short time, was enrolled in a boarding school run by the
at Heidelberg in Germany.
Selina Bunbury: 1851-1852
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Author event in Selina Bunbury
1851-1852
travelled through Germany, Denmark, and Norway before arriving in Stockholm in the autumn of 1851. There she spent the winter observing the social life of Sweden.
Charlotte Yonge: August 1851
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Author event in Charlotte Yonge
August 1851
finished writing the novel which was to make her name, The Heir of Redclyffe; it was not published for two more years.
Harriet Lee: 1 August 1851
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1 August 1851
died of heart failure at Clifton, having long outlived all her sisters.
Helen Mathers, 1851 - 1920: Probably August 1851
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Probably August 1851
Ellen Mathews (who later wrote as
) was born in Misterton, near Crewkerne in Somerset, according to the date given in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Earlier sources (like The...