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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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Julia Kavanagh: By 24 January 1852

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By 24 January 1852

JK 's work Women of Christianity, Exemplary for Acts of Piety and Charity, appeared.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1265 (1852): 104

Selina Davenport : 25 January 1852

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Author event in Selina Davenport

25 January 1852

Richard Alfred Davenport , long-estranged husband of SD , was found near death from laudanum at his home, Brunswick Cottage in Camberwell. The coroner's jury compassionately ruled that the overdose was accidental.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Alfred Davenport

George Sand: 29 January 1852

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Author event in George Sand

29 January 1852

GS met with Louis Napoléon to plead successfully for the release of political prisoners captured during his coup d'état.
Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001.
324-6

Elizabeth Siddal: Early 1852

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Author event in Elizabeth Siddal

Early 1852

ES modelled for John Everett Millais ' Ophelia, for which she spent hours lying in a bathtub filled with water.

Ellen Johnston: Early 1852

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Author event in Ellen Johnston

Early 1852

Sixteen-year-old EJ , again fleeing her abusive stepfather, wandered homeless until she found sympathising friends in Airdrie, where she spent six weeks.
Johnston, Ellen. Autobiography, Poems, and Songs. William Love, 1867.
9-10

Harriet Martineau: About February 1852

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

About February 1852

Charlotte Brontë 's publisher, Smith, Elder and Co. , rejected HM 's pro-Catholic novel entitled Oliver Weld, which Charlotte had persuaded her friend to write because of her admiration for Deerbrook.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 382
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
692

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 15 February 1852

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15 February 1852

EBB visited George Sand (whom she had long admired) at her home in Paris.
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
252
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
260-1

Susanna Moodie: By 15 February 1852

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By 15 February 1852

Susanna Moodie published her personal narrative Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, dedicated to her sister Agnes Strickland , Author of the Lives of the Queens of England.
Moodie, Susanna, and Susan Glickman. Roughing It in the Bush. McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
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23 February 1852: The Earl of Derby, Edward Stanley, formed...

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23 February 1852

The Earl of Derby, Edward Stanley , formed a conservative minority government.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Parry, Jonathan. The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain. Yale University Press, 1993.
332
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

Thomas Moore: 25 February 1852

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25 February 1852

TM , Irish poet, died at his home, Sloperton Cottage near Calne in Wiltshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

26 February 1852: The Birkenhead, a 1,400-ton paddle-wheel...

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26 February 1852

The Birkenhead, a 1,400-ton paddle-wheel steamer carrying troops and civilians from England to South Africa, ran aground and sank; about five hundred men died, almost all of them soldiers.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
100
Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
171
Albion, Robert G. Five Centuries of Famous Ships: From the Santa Maria to the Glomar Explorer. McGraw-Hill, 1978.
205-6

1852: In the wake of the success of Stowe's Uncle...

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1852

In the wake of the success of Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Richard Hildreth 's retitled novel The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive appeared in an English edition with illustrations by Charles Kean

4 March 1852: Alice Liddell, the original recipient of...

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4 March 1852

Alice Liddell , the original recipient of Lewis Carroll 's Alice works, was born on this date.
Gardner, Martin, and Lewis Carroll. “Introduction and Notes”. The Annotated Alice, Wings Books, 1960.
96

Mary Ann Kelty: By 13 March 1852

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By 13 March 1852

More than twenty-five years after her latest novel before this, MAK published, anonymously, Alice Rivers; or, Passages in the Life of a Young Lady.
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.
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.
1272 (13 March 1852): 300

Augusta Gregory: 15 March 1852

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15 March 1852

Isabella Augusta Persse (later AG ) was born just after midnight in Roxborough House, near Loughrea in Galway, Ireland.
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
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Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum, 1985.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: 20 March 1852

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20 March 1852

HBS 's sentimental novel Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was published by John P. Jewett in both Boston and Cleveland; a British edition and German translation followed the same year.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
223
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.

Jane West: 25 March 1852

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Author event in Jane West

25 March 1852

JW died at her home in Little Bowden in Northamptonshire, in her early nineties.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Charlotte Brontë: By 29 March 1852

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By 29 March 1852

CB had drafted the first volume of Villette.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
695

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: By spring 1852

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By spring 1852

EBB became interested in spiritualism, and attempted table-moving, spirit-rapping, and automatic writing with friends and her maid Wilson .
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
255-6
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
289

Dinah Mulock Craik: Spring 1852

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Spring 1852

Dinah Mulock (as the author of Olive) published the short novel Bread upon the Waters; A Governess's Life, issued in support of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution .
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Bread upon the Waters; A Family in Love; A Low Marriage; The Double House. B. Tauchnitz, 1865.
96
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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Ann Taylor Gilbert: Spring 1852

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Spring 1852

ATG wrote a poem entitled The Last Dying Speech of the Crocuses—the annual flood of wild flowers in the meadows beside the Trent, now threatened with enclosure and industrialisation.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
108-9

Spring 1852: Clark, Beeton and Company was founded after...

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Spring 1852

Clark, Beeton and Company was founded after the London publishing house of Charles Henry Clark went into partnership with Samuel Orchart Beeton .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 19, 20, 21
Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
70-1

Mary Howitt: By 10 April 1852

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By 10 April 1852

MH and her husband William Howitt published The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe.
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.
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.

13 April 1852: The Northern Star, a major chartist paper,...

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13 April 1852

The Northern Star, a major chartist paper, ceased publication.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
78, 135

Caroline Chisholm: 28 April 1852

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Author event in Caroline Chisholm

28 April 1852

Trelawney Saunders of Charing Cross published CC 's autobiographical account, The Story of the Life of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm, the Emigrant's Friend, and Her Adventures in Australia.
Chisholm, Caroline. The Story of the Life of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm, the Emigrant’s Friend, and Her Adventures in Australia. Trelawney Saunders, 28 Apr. 1852.