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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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1852: Douglas Jerrold took on the editorship of...

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1852

Douglas Jerrold took on the editorship of Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper.
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
25-6

1852: Cavour became Prime Minister of Piedmont,...

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1852

Cavour became Prime Minister of Piedmont, Italy.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
263

1852: In Paris, M. and Mme Bouçicaut opened what...

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1852

In Paris, M. and Mme Bouçicaut opened what is generally credited as the first department store; however, stores organized on the same principles had been operating in England since the 1830s.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
137

January 1852-April 1853: Charles Kingsley's Hypatia, Or Old Foes with...

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January 1852-April 1853

Charles Kingsley 's Hypatia , Or Old Foes with New Faces was serialised in Fraser's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
316, 355

1852: Victoria Stuart-Wortley (later Welby), future...

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1852

Victoria Stuart-Wortley (later Welby ), future philosopher, published her first book (which she wrote and illustrated) at the age of twelve: A Young Traveller's Journal of a Tour in North and South America During the...

1852: The trial of Jackson and Wife versus Roe...

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1852

The trial of Jackson and Wife versus Roe argued that the practitioner had used the speculum unnecessarily; the physician was found not guilty of the crime.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
122

By 1852: The Church Penitentiary Association was founded...

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The Church Penitentiary Association was founded to provide religious rescue homes for fallen women.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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January 1852: Publisher John Chapman purchased the Westminster...

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January 1852

Publisher John Chapman purchased the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly and began issuing it as the Westminster Review (which, twenty-eight years and several mergers back, had been its original name).
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 546-7, 617

By 1852: Hereford, Yeovil, and Weymouth were the only...

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By 1852

Hereford, Yeovil, and Weymouth were the only sizeable English towns still not served by a railway.
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
25

1852: The Amazon, a wooden mail ship, caught fire...

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1852

The Amazon, a wooden mail ship, caught fire on its maiden voyage, killing 37 of the 229 people aboard.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1852: Henry Cole was appointed director of the...

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1852

Henry Cole was appointed director of the Female School of Design.
Callen, Anthea. Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914. Astragal Books, 1980.
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1 January 1852: Leisure Hour: A Family Journal Of Instruction...

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1 January 1852

Leisure Hour: A Family Journal Of Instruction And Recreation began publication as an illustrated penny-weekly with didactic serial novels.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
370
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

1852: The shilling Ladies' Monthly Magazine began...

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1852

The shilling Ladies' Monthly Magazine began publication in London; it ran until 1897.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1852: The House of Correction at Brixton was purchased,...

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1852

The House of Correction at Brixton was purchased, and converted to provide 700-800 places for women sentenced to penal servitude.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
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1852: The Rev. Mr Bennet, Puseyite rector of St...

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1852

The Rev. Mr Bennet , Puseyite rector of St Barnabas in Pimlico, was immortalised in Madame Tussaud 's wax museum.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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1852: The US publisher Houghton Mifflin Company...

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1852

The US publisher Houghton Mifflin Company was founded by Henry Oscar Houghton as the printing firm of H. O. Houghton and Company .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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1852: Jane Euphemia Saxby (1811-1898) published...

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1852

Jane Euphemia Saxby (1811-1898) published as Aunt EffieAunt Effie's Rhymes for Little Children, with whimsical pictures by Hablôt K. Browne .
The book has often been ascribed either to Ann Hawkshaw , who...

1852-1860: The writing of Philip Gosse inspired a beachcombing...

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1852-1860

The writing of Philip Gosse inspired a beachcombing and aquarium craze.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
VII: 28
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
103-4

1852: Tolstoy's first published work, Childhood,...

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1852

Tolstoy 's first published work, Childhood, appeared in the Russian literary journal entitled Contemporary.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Noyes, George Rapall. Tolstoy. Dover Publications, 1968.
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Catherine Fanshawe: Early 1852

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Early 1852

Nearly twenty years after CF died, Mary Russell Mitford 's Recollections of a Literary Life supplied the first public comment on her; the publication also included four poems by Fanshawe that had previously appeared in...

Mary Russell Mitford: By 3 January 1852

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By 3 January 1852

MRM published in three volumes Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 195
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1262 (1852): 10-11

Josephine Butler: 8 January 1852

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8 January 1852

Exactly one year from the date of her engagement, Josephine Grey married George Butler at Dilston.
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001.
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Butler, Josephine. “Times: Obituary Notice of Mrs. Butler”. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade, Hyperion Press, 1989, p. vii - x.
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Josephine Butler: 1852-1857

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Author event in Josephine Butler

1852-1857

JB lived at 124 High Street in Oxford with her husband and children; during this period she helped him with his research.
Petrie, Glen. A Singular Iniquity: The Campaigns of Josephine Butler. Macmillan, 1971.
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Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001.
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Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: By 17 January 1852

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By 17 January 1852

The next work by Rosina Bulwer Lytton (later Baroness Lytton) was a novel or fictional biography: The School for Husbands; or, Molière 's Life and Times.
The title is multiply allusive. Molière's comedy L'école...

Robert Browning: Early 1852

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Author event in Robert Browning

Early 1852

RB 's Introductory Essay on Shelley appeared in Edward Moxon 's edition of Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Day, Aidan, and Robert Browning. “Introduction, Critical Commentary, and Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning: Selected Poetry and Prose, Routledge, 1991, pp. 1 - 21, 151.
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Browning, Robert. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism. Editor Loucks, James F., W. W. Norton, 1979.
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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.
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