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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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George Eliot: January 1852-December 1853

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January 1852-December 1853

Marian Evans (later GE ) worked as editor of the Westminster Review (just purchased by Chapman ), which gave her an entrée into London intellectual life, but for which she was paid very little.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall, 1989.
29, 38

Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1852

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1852

The London Missionary Society commissioned SSE 's husband, William Ellis , to travel to Madagascar, where a campaign against British Christian missionaries was producing hundreds of grisly deaths.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Ellis

Charlotte Yonge: 1852

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1852

CY , as the author of Henrietta's Wish, Kenneth, etc., published The Two Guardians; or, Home in This World.
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 Fortune: 1852

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1852

One year after her first marriage MF gave birth to a son who was named Joseph George , and baptised in a Protestant church in Canada.
Sussex, Lucy. “’Shrouded in Mystery’: Waif Wander (Mary Fortune)”. A Bright and Fiery Troop: Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin, 1988, pp. 117-31.
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Sussex, Lucy, and Mary Fortune. “A Woman of Mystery”. The Detectives’ Album, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, Apr. 2003, pp. 3-18.
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Sarah Tytler: 1852

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1852

ST 's first novel, The Kinnears: A Scottish Story, appeared anonymously in three volumes at London, but not in time for her father (who took a keen interest in her emergence as an...

Charlotte Maria Tucker : 1852

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1852

Under the pseudonym A.L.O.E., which she used for all of her publications, CMT released her first children's book, The Claremont Tales.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 316
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.

Alfred Tennyson: 1852

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1852

AT was taught the art of mesmerism while on holiday in Malvern.

Agnes Strickland: 1852

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1852

AS edited a literary annual for Routledge : The Birth-day Gift: a Christmas and New Year's present.
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.

Menella Bute Smedley: 1852

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1852

MBS published, still as S. M., a Christmas story entitled The Use of Sunshine.
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.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
611

Felicia Skene: 1852

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1852

FS published a devotional work, The Divine Master.
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.

Catherine Sinclair: 1852

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1852

CS 's Popish Legends, or, Bible Truths, a religious, didactic publication with a strong anti-Catholic bias, was published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Siddal: By 1852

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By 1852

ES was modelling for and studying informally with Dante Gabriel Rossetti ; many have speculated that they became lovers.
Marsh, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. Quartet Books, 1985.
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Elizabeth Sewell: 1852

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1852

For financial reasons, ES began to teach children, with her sister Ellen, in their own home.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
116-17

Elizabeth Sewell: 1852

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1852

ES , as the author of Amy Herbert, published A Journal Kept During a Summer Tour for the Children of a Village School, her first travel book.

Anne Thackeray Ritchie: 1852-1853

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1852-1853

Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) and her sister spent an unhappy period with their grandparents in Paris during their father 's first American lecture tour.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie: 1852

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1852

Thackeray forbade his teenaged daughter Anne to waste [her] time [on] any more scribbling and instructed her to read others' writing instead.
qtd. in
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages.
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Anna Maria Hall: 1852

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1852

AMH edited Sharpe's London Magazine for the course of this year.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

Anna Maria Hall: 1852

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1852

AMH published Stories of the Governess.
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.

Harriet Jacobs: 1852

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1852

HJ was working as a free servant for Cornelia G. Willis of New York, when her fear of being rounded up under the provisions of the Runaway Slave Act of 18 September 1850 made...

Anna Brownell Jameson: 1852

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1852

ABJ examined the life of the Virgin Mary in Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts, the third volume of her series Sacred and Legendary Art.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
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George Henry Lewes: 1852-1853

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1852-1853

GHL serially published Comte 's Philosophy of the Sciences in The Leader.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press, 1991.
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Harriet Martineau: 1852

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1852

HM began contributing anonymous leading articles to the London liberal Daily News, sometimes as often as six times a week; she retired from this work in April 1866.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
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Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. University of Michigan Press, 1980.
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Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960.
358

Louisa Anne Meredith : 1852

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1852

LAM published another autobiographical account of her trials in the new colony: My Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years.
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.

Florence Nightingale : 1852

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1852

FN composed a powerful work of feminist sage writing, the fragment known as Cassandra (published eight years later in her Suggestions for Thought).
Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press, 1990.
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Landow, George P. “Aggressive (Re)interpretations of the Female Sage: Florence Nightingale’s Cassandra”. Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power, edited by Thaïs E. Morgan, Rutgers University Press, 1990, pp. 32-45.
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1852: Dr Elizabeth Blackwell published The Laws...

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1852

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell published The Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.