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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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29 April 1852: Physician and polymath Peter Mark Roget published...

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29 April 1852

Physician and polymath Peter Mark Roget published his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases; it went through 25 editions in its first two decades, and remained an influential writing tool into the twenty-first century...

Grace Aguilar: Around May 1852

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Author event in Grace Aguilar

Around May 1852

GA 's early historical romance in the style of Scott , The Days of Bruce, was published posthumously by her mother .
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
139
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Selina Bunbury: Spring 1852

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Author event in Selina Bunbury

Spring 1852

SB returned to her home at Oxford from her Scandinavian tour.
Bunbury, Selina. Life in Sweden. Hurst and Blackett, 1853, 2 vols.
2: 335-6

Matilda Hays: Late 1852

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Author event in Matilda Hays

Late 1852

MH , along with her partner Charlotte Cushman , sculptor Harriet Hosmer , journalist Grace Greenwood and several other women, travelled to Rome to live like jolly female bachelors.
Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press, 1999.
169, 171

May 1852: Canterbury Hall was opened as the first building...

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May 1852

Canterbury Hall was opened as the first building specifically designed and built as a music hall.
Taylor, John Russell, editor. The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre. 3rd ed., Penguin, 1993.
73

May 1852: The National Woman's Rights Association was...

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May 1852

The National Woman's Rights Association was established.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
248, 254

Spring 1852: Samuel Orchart Beeton (later the husband...

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Spring 1852

Samuel Orchart Beeton (later the husband of Isabella Mary Beeton) began publishing the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, which stimulated the spread of home dressmaking.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
273
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
44-6
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
13
Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
70-1, 75
Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
75-9, 133

Sara Coleridge: 3 May 1852

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Author event in Sara Coleridge

3 May 1852

SC died of breast cancer in London.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
176
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.

Margaret Oliphant: 4 May 1852

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Author event in Margaret Oliphant

4 May 1852

Margaret Wilson married her cousin Francis (called Frank) Oliphant , an artist and stained-glass designer, at Birkenhead.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986.
9, 16

John Henry Newman: 10 May-7 June 1852

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Author event in John Henry Newman

10 May-7 June 1852

JHN delivered five lectures in which he began to articulate his vision for higher education, as future Rector of Ireland's first Catholic university.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988.
376-80

Charlotte Brontë: Late May-Late June 1852

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

Late May-Late June 1852

CB returned to Filey, near Scarborough, to try to improve her health and to visit Anne 's grave.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
696-9

Sophia Woodfall: 14 May 1852

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Author event in Sophia Woodfall

14 May 1852

The former SW died at the age of seventy-one from decay of nature, at 55 Great Ormond Street in Bloomsbury. Her death was listed under her married name, McGibbon.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Sophia Woodfall. 23 Nov. 2016.

Mary Howitt: June 1852

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Author event in Mary Howitt

June 1852

MH 's nearly sixty-year-old husband and their two sons sailed for Australia to look for new opportunities.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
217-18

Mary Ann Kelty: By June 1852

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Author event in Mary Ann Kelty

By June 1852

MAK , as the author of Visiting My Relations, published Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling, which concludes with an autobiographical sketch.
Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Catalogue of Books By, For, and About Women of the British Isles, 1696-1892. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts, Feb. 2007.

June 1852: The National Charter Association was discredited...

National or international item

June 1852

The National Charter Association was discredited when Feargus O'Connor was declared insane.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
49

June 1852: Protestant rioters in Stockport plundered...

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June 1852

Protestant rioters in Stockport plundered and desecrated two Roman Catholic chapels.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
203

Anna Jane Vardill: 4 June 1852

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Author event in Anna Jane Vardill

4 June 1852

Anna Jane Niven , formerly Vardill, died in Yorkshire.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
2nd series 28
, 1970, pp. 57-88.
75

Lucas Malet: 4 June 1852

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Author event in Lucas Malet

4 June 1852

LM was born Mary St Leger Kingsley at Eversley Rectory in Eversley, Hampshire, the youngest but one in a family of four..
Chitty, Susan. The Beast and The Monk: A Life of Charles Kingsley. Hodder and Stoughton, 1974.
160
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2026, Many volumes.
3

Cecil Frances Alexander : 11 June 1852

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Author event in Cecil Frances Alexander

11 June 1852

CFA gave birth to her eldest son, Robert Jocelyn Alexander , at Killeter, County Tyrone.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
108

Camilla Crosland: By 12 June 1852

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Author event in Camilla Crosland

By 12 June 1852

Camilla Crosland published her novel Lydia: A Woman's Book, giving her name as Mrs Newton Crosland.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1285 (1852): 651

Julia Pardoe: 12 June 1852

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Author event in Julia Pardoe

12 June 1852

In The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, a biography that reads like a historicalnovel, JP aimed to counter the current, highly critical, arguably antifeminist opinion of this powerful queen.
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1285 (1852): 645-6

Susanna Moodie: 16 June 1852

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Author event in Susanna Moodie

16 June 1852

In a Canadian review of Roughing It, Charles Lindsay accused SM of being an ape of the aristocracy, too poor to lie on a sofa and too proud to labour for a living...

Margaret Sandbach: 23 June 1852

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Author event in Margaret Sandbach

23 June 1852

MS died in her sleep after a long, painful battle with breast cancer.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Rigby, Elizabeth, editor. Life of John Gibson, R.A., Sculptor. Longmans, Green, 1870.
200

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 29 June 1852

Women writers item

29 June 1852

Barbara Leigh Smith was introduced to George Eliot by Bessie Rayner Parkes ; they soon became close.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
106

George Eliot: 29 June 1852

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Author event in George Eliot

29 June 1852

Bessie Rayner Parkes (already a friend of Marian Evans—later GE ) introduced her to Barbara Leigh Smith , who became her close confidant and supporter.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
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