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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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Anne Marsh: By 15 November 1851

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By 15 November 1851

AM published another novel, Ravenscliffe, as the author of Emilia Wyndham.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1255 (1851): 1198

Dinah Mulock Craik: December 1851

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December 1851

Dinah Mulock 's original fairy tale Alice Learmont went on sale for the Christmas market.
The imprint date is 1852.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
82

Elizabeth Rigby: December 1851

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December 1851

The Quarterly published ER 's Physiognomy, which comprised reviews of several works combined with her throughts on feminine beauty and artistic representation.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 735
qtd. in
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
114

December 1851: Emperor Francis Joseph revoked the constitution...

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December 1851

Emperor Francis Joseph revoked the constitution of the Austrian Empire, rendering his rule absolute.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
162

2 December 1851: A coup d'état by Louis Napoleon abolished...

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2 December 1851

A coup d'état by Louis Napoleon abolished the Republic of France.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
149
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
200-01

Mary Carpenter: 9 December 1851

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9 December 1851

The first conference concerning MC 's plan for ragged schools was held in Birmingham. Carpenter attended but did not speak.
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.
125-126

Elizabeth Gaskell: 13 December 1851

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13 December 1851

The first story of what became EG 's Cranford, linked tales of a female community which draw on her youth in Knutsford, appeared in Household Words.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Margaret Sandbach: By 13 December 1851

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By 13 December 1851

MS , as the Author of Hearts in Mortmain, published her last work, the novel Spiritual Alchemy; or, Trials Turned to Gold, in two volumes.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1259 (1851): 1306

19 December 1851: English landscape painter Joseph Turner ...

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19 December 1851

English landscape painter Joseph Turner died.
Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.
32-4
Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.
475
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
275

Mary Howitt: By 20 December 1851

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By 20 December 1851

Mary Howitt published Jacob Bendixen, the Jew. Adapted from the Danish of Goldschmidt.
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.
1260 (1851): 1338-9
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Alice Dixon Le Plongeon: 21 December 1851

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21 December 1851

Alice Dixon (later Le Plongeon) was born at 83 Stanhope Street in the Regent's Park district of London, the second of nine children.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico, 2009.
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Anna Eliza Bray: By 27 December 1851

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By 27 December 1851

AEB , as Mrs. Bray, published a biography of her former father-in-law, The Life of Thomas Stothard with illustrations from Stothard's own work.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.

Anna Atkins: Biography: 1852

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1852

AA published her first novel, The Perils of Fashion, anonymously with Colburn ; it belongs to the silver-fork school, but is unconventional in offering no happy ending.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Clara Balfour: 1852

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1852

CB 's Sketches of English Literature, from the Fourteenth to the Present Century appeared.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Mary Anne Barker : Early 1852

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Early 1852

Mary Anne Stewart was married in the cathedral at Spanish Town, Jamaica, to George Robert Barker (fourteen years her senior), a captain in the Royal Artillery who had been her father's aide-de-camp for about...

Mary Berry: January 1852

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January 1852

MB 's sister Agnes died, having been failing for some time. Mary was heartbroken, but after a while she continued to entertain the little circle of their shared friends.
Berry, Mary, and Agnes Berry. The Berry Papers. Editor Melville, Lewis, John Lane, 1914.
440

Mathilde Blind: 1851 or 1852

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1851 or 1852

After spending time in exile in Paris and Belgium, Karl Blind and his family, including the young MB , were expelled from Belgium and fled to England.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Karl Blind
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
29
Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, pp. 1-43.
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Probably 1852 to 1860

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Probably 1852 to 1860

Under the stage name of Mary Seyton, MEB pursued a career as a stage actress, first in the provinces and then in London.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press, 2000.
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Frances Browne: 1852

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1852

FB moved from Edinburgh to London with her sister.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Frances Browne: 1852

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1852

FB wrote two stories for children and published them together in one volume: The Ericksons. The Clever Boy; or, Consider Another. Two Stories for My Young Friends.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
199

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: 1852

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1852

Mary A. Shadd issued A Plea for Emigration; or, Notes of Canada West, in its moral, social, and political aspect: with suggestions respecting Mexico, West Indies, and Vancouver's Island, for the information of colored emigrants.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Georgiana Chatterton : 1852

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1852

GC and her husband (having lost money by the Irish potato famine) moved from the first home they had chosen for cheapness to a second: from Bloxworth in Dorset to Rolls Park at Chigwell in...

Caroline Chisholm: 1852

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1852

CC toured England, Scotland, and Ireland, publicizing the Family Colonisation Loan Society .
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Dinah Mulock Craik: 1852

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1852

Dinah Mulock 's third novel, The Head of the Family, appeared both in London and the US as by the author of Olive and The Ogilvies.
An OCLC listing of a New York...

Harriet Downing: 1852

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1852

HD 's Remembrances of a Monthly Nurse, which had first appeared in Fraser's Magazine in 1836, were posthumously published in book form.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.