Events Timeline

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.

15426 - 15450 of 43197

Search by

-
Event origin
Event type

30 June 1852: The first Pharmacy Act gave the Pharmaceutical...

National or international item

30 June 1852

The first Pharmacy Act gave the Pharmaceutical Society, founded in 1841, the legal right to examine candidates for a licence in pharmacology.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
69
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

Margaret Oliphant: July-November 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Oliphant

July-November 1852

MO 's novel Katie Stewart appeared as a serial (her first) in Blackwood's, to launch her long and fruitful relationship with William Blackwood , famous Edinburgh publisher.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
341
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.

1 July 1852: The first Metropolis Water Act introduced...

National or international item

1 July 1852

The first Metropolis Water Act introduced strict rules for domestic water storage and filtration.
Hardy, Anne. “Parish Pump to Private Pipes: London’s Water Supply in the Nineteenth Century”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Insititute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 76-93.
84
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

July 1852: The first Provincial Synod of the English...

National or international item

July 1852

The first Provincial Synod of the English Roman Catholic Church was held; the hierarchy had been restored two years previously.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
108, 201

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: July-October 1852

Women writers item

July-October 1852

EBB returned for another visit to London, and then went back to Florence, travelling via Paris.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
270, 274-5

By 7 July 1852: Nathaniel Hawthorne published The Blithedale...

Writing climate item

By 7 July 1852

Nathaniel Hawthorne published The Blithedale Romance, in two volumes.
Chamberlain, Jacob Chester, and Luther S. Livingston. A Bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Privately printed by De Vinne Press, 1908.
210
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Harriett Mozley: 17 July 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Harriett Mozley

17 July 1852

HM died, apparently of a heart attack, aged forty-eight.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
198

26-27 July 1852: The first Congress of Co-Operative Trades...

National or international item

26-27 July 1852

The first Congress of Co-Operative Trades Unions met in London.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
201

Mary Anne Barker : August 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Anne Barker

August 1852

MAB set sail from Jamaica with her still new husband , who had been recalled to London.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
43

Annie Besant: August 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Annie Besant

August 1852

AB 's father died of consumption, leaving no money for his family.
Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
3-4

Charlotte Brontë: August 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Brontë

August 1852

CB 's Shirley appeared in a cheap single-volume edition.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
701n45

Christina Rossetti: August 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Christina Rossetti

August 1852

CR worked in Staffordshire as an Italian language teacher.
Jones, Kathleen. Learning Not to Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti. Windrush Press, 1991.
57
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996.
xi

Maria Theresa Longworth : August 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Maria Theresa Longworth

August 1852

MTL met William Charles Yelverton, later fourth Viscount Avonmore , while crossing the Channel; they began corresponding shortly afterwards.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
126

August 1852: The first public lavatory in Britain was...

Building item

August 1852

The first public lavatory in Britain was opened, in Fleet Street, London, following the realisation that public toilets would improve hygiene and facilitate women's freedom of movement around the streets.
Meikle, James. “Campaigners raise stink on public lavatory’s 150th birthday”. The Guardian, 15 Aug. 2002, p. 6.
6

Louisa Stuart Costello: 9 August 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Louisa Stuart Costello

9 August 1852

LSC was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 per annum in recognition of her services to literature.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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.

Charlotte Godley: 9 August 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Godley

9 August 1852

CG wrote the last of the letters from New Zealand to her mother which reached print more than eighty years later.
Her limited published writing from 1853 comes from her journal.
Godley, Charlotte. Letters from Early New Zealand. Editor Kilbracken, John Raymond Godley, third Baron, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1951.
346
Godley, Charlotte. Letters from Early New Zealand. Editor Kilbracken, John Raymond Godley, third Baron, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1951.
337-8

Caroline Chisholm: By 21 August 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Caroline Chisholm

By 21 August 1852

Eneas Mackenzie 's laudatory biography, Memoirs of Mrs Caroline Chisholm , with an Account of her Philanthropic Labours in India, Australia and England, was published in London.
Mackenzie, Eneas. Memoirs of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm. Webb, Millington, 1852.
title-page
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.
1295 (21 August 1852): 890-1

Jane Welsh Carlyle: 18 November 1852

National or international item
Author event in Jane Welsh Carlyle

18 November 1852

JWC watched the Duke of Wellington 's elaborately staged funeral procession from Bath House.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
222
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
272

Mary Carpenter: September 1852

National or international item
Author event in Mary Carpenter

September 1852

MC opened Britain's first reformatory school in Kingswood, a small town located a few miles outside Bristol.
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.
138-39

Christina Rossetti: Autumn 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Christina Rossetti

Autumn 1852

CR 's short fairy-story Nick represented a significant step towards finding a distinctive voice.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
138, 140

Frances Ridley Havergal : Later 1852-December 1853

Women writers item
Author event in Frances Ridley Havergal

Later 1852-December 1853

FRH resumed her interrupted studies in Germany, beginning with a year at the Louisenschule in Düsseldorf.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
199

Elizabeth Gaskell: 2 September 1852

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell

2 September 1852

EG attended the opening of the Manchester Free Library , the first major, free public lending library in England, at which speakers included Charles Dickens , Edward Bulwer Lytton and William Makepeace Thackeray .
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
303-4

2 September 1852: The Manchester Free Library, the first major...

Building item

2 September 1852

The Manchester Free Library , the first major British public lending library, opened in Manchester.
Black, Alistair. A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Political Contexts, 1850-1914. Leicester University Press, 1996.
70
Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1975. 2nd ed., Library Association, 1977.
27
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
303-4

Harriet Beecher Stowe: By 3 September 1852

Writing climate item
Author event in Harriet Beecher Stowe

By 3 September 1852

The stage version of HBS 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Slave Life; or, Uncle Tom's Cabin, a Drama in three acts made its New York debut at the National Theatre ; two months later it...

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: By 11 September 1852

Women writers item

By 11 September 1852

In the year her first child was born, Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , translated under her married name Alexandre Dumas the elder's The Glacier Land, about his travels in Switzerland.
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.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 301
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
69
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.
1298 (11 September 1852): 968-70