Summerscale, Kate. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace. 1st ed., Bloomsbury USA, 2012.
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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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Isabella Hamilton Robinson: 2 August 1851
Women writers item
Author event in Isabella Hamilton Robinson
2 August 1851
Years before her diary was known to the world,
published in Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, under her initials, a poem titled Lines Addressed to a Miniature. By a Lady.
Lady Louisa Stuart: 4 August 1851
Women writers item
Frances Ridley Havergal : August-November 1851
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Ridley Havergal
August-November 1851
After attending
school near Worcester for a few months,
was forced to leave when she developed erysipelas, a painful skin infection.
8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...
National or international item
8 August 1851
The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the
) was abolished at the instigation of
(1790-1862).
16 August 1851: Harriet Brownlow Byron founded the Anglican...
16 August 1851
founded the
at 67 Mortimer Street in the town of London Colney in Hertfordshire.
By 23 August 1851: George Meredith published Poems, his first...
Writing climate item
By 23 August 1851
published Poems, his first collection.
Harriet Taylor: 28 August 1851
Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Taylor
28 August 1851
and
's article Wife Murder appeared in the Morning Chronicle under his name only.
Geraldine Jewsbury: By 30 August 1851
Women writers item
Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury
By 30 August 1851
published her industrial novel Marian Withers, which first appeared in serial form as commissioned by the Manchester Examiner and Times.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: By later 1851
Writing climate item
Author event in Mary Ann Shadd Cary
By later 1851
With the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in September 1850 threatening free blacks as well as actual runaway slaves,
moved with her brother
from the USA to Windsor in Canada...
Fredrika Bremer: 13 September 1851
Writing climate item
Author event in Fredrika Bremer
13 September 1851
After travelling northwards again through the USA, FB sailed from New York for Europe on the steamship Atlantic. She docked at Liverpool ten days later and spent six weeks in England.
14 September 1851: James Fenimore Cooper, US novelist, died...
Writing climate item
14 September 1851
, US novelist, died the day before his sixty-second birthday.
Mary Martha Sherwood: 22 September 1851
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood
22 September 1851
died at Twickenham near London, two years after her husband.
Margaret Sandbach: By October 1851
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Sandbach
By October 1851
was already suffering from breast cancer, which halted her writing career.
Christina Rossetti: From October 1851
Women writers item
Author event in Christina Rossetti
From October 1851
published some Italian lyrics and an unfinished, serialised, satirical, epistolary novel, Corrispondenzia Famigliare, in the women's magazine The Bouquet Culled from Marylebone Gardens.
By 4 October 1851: Chemistry professor William Gregory published...
By 4 October 1851
Chemistry professor
published an extended analysis of mesmerism entitled Letters to a Candid Inquirer on Animal Magnetism.
George Eliot: 6 October 1851
Women writers item
Author event in George Eliot
6 October 1851
Marian Evans (later
) first met her future partner
, as a member of the literary circles in which she now moved.
Harriet E. Wilson: 6 October 1851
Writing climate item
Author event in Harriet E. Wilson
6 October 1851
married
at a Congregational ceremony in Milford, New Hampshire.
10 October 1851: A month prior to the opening of the Calais-Dover...
10 October 1851
A month prior to the opening of the Calais-Dover telegraph cable,
established an office in London to provide stock information between London and Paris via telegraph; this service formed the basis of...
11 October 1851: The Great Exhibition closed....
National or international item
11 October 1851
The Great Exhibition closed.
18 October 1851: Herman Melville published Moby Dick in England...
Writing climate item
18 October 1851
published Moby Dick in England under the title The Whale.
November 1851: The United Kingdom and France signed a copyright...
Writing climate item
November 1851
The United Kingdom and France signed a copyright agreement.
November 1851: The first long-term undersea telegraph cable...
National or international item
November 1851
The first long-term undersea telegraph cable between Calais and Dover was opened to the public, although the first direct message from London to Paris was sent in 1852.
From late 1851: The trend of established drapers to expand...
From late 1851
The trend of established drapers to expand into department stores began after the Great Exhibition.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 12 November 1851
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
12 November 1851
, the Irish nationalist writer Speranza, married
, a physician specializing in the eye and ear, at St Peter's Church in Dublin.
Mary Ann Kelty: 15 November 1851
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Ann Kelty
15 November 1851
published Visiting My Relations, and Its Results: A Series of Small Episodes in the Life of a Recluse, a book of fictional reminiscences in the voice of a Cambridge, old-bachelor narrator.