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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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Margaret Holford, the younger : 11 September 1852

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11 September 1852

Margaret Hodson (formerly Holford) died at an address in Plantation Terrace at Dawlish in Devon.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Ellen Johnston: 14 September 1852

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14 September 1852

The teenaged EJ became the proud single mother of an illegitimate daughter, Mary Achenvole .
Johnston, Ellen. Autobiography, Poems, and Songs. William Love, 1867.
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Johnston, Ellen. Autobiography, Poems, and Songs. 2nd ed., William Love, 1869.
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14 September 1852: Augustus Pugin, architect and writer, died...

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14 September 1852

Augustus Pugin , architect and writer, died at Ramsgate, Kent.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 26 September 1852

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26 September 1852

Jane Francesca Wilde (Speranza) gave birth to her elder son, named Willie ; he died in 1899 while his brother Oscar was in prison.
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988.
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Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101-16.
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Elizabeth Rigby: 28 September 1852

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28 September 1852

ER and her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake , cut their holiday short and left Venice for London to attend the November funeral of the Duke of Wellington .
Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1: 299
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
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Mary Matilda Betham: 30 September 1852

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30 September 1852

MMB died at an address in Burton Street, London; she was in her mid-seventies.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
n.s. 34 (1852): 549

Grace Aguilar: October 1852

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October 1852

Sarah Aguilar dated her preface to her collection of her daughter GA 's short fiction, Home Scenes and Heart Studies, published the following year.
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 Martineau: October 1852

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October 1852

Marian Evans , later George Eliot, visited HM at her home in Ambleside.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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October 1852: Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice...

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October 1852

Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice of spiritualism across the ocean to England, where she advertised as a medium.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
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October 1852: Matthew Arnold published Empedocles on Etna,...

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October 1852

Matthew Arnold published Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems.
Neiman, Fraser. Matthew Arnold. Twayne, 1968.
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Catherine Sinclair: By 2 October 1852

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By 2 October 1852

CS published through Bentley in London a lengthy (three-volume) anti-Catholic novel entitled Beatrice, or, The Unknown Relatives.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1301 (2 October 1852): 1064

George Eliot: Late October 1852

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Late October 1852

The close relationship of Marian Evans (later GE ) with Herbert Spencer came to an end after it became clear that he was not interested in intimacy.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
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Frances Trollope: By 30 October 1852

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By 30 October 1852

FT published the novelUncle Walter.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1305 (1852): 1169-70

Bessie Rayner Parkes : November 1852

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November 1852

BRP published Poems, a volume dedicated to Barbara Leigh Smith .
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
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Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 184

Barbara Hofland: 1 November 1852

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1 November 1852

The publishers Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co. published an advertisement for their [Barbara] Hofland Library.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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3 November 1852: Richard Bentley agreed to publish Charles...

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3 November 1852

Richard Bentley agreed to publish Charles Reade 's first novel, Peg Woffington.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Elwin, Malcolm. Charles Reade. Russell and Russell, 1969.
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By 6 November 1852: William Makepeace Thackeray published his...

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By 6 November 1852

William Makepeace Thackeray published his historical novel, set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1306: 1199-1201
Peters, Catherine. Thackeray’s Universe: Shifting Worlds of Imagination and Reality. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Josephine Butler: 15 November 1852

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15 November 1852

JB 's son George , the eldest of her four children (three sons and a daughter), was born.
Bell, E. Moberly. Josephine Butler: Flame of Fire. Constable, 1962.
prelims
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001.
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Wilkie Collins: By 16 November 1852

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By 16 November 1852

WC published his first full-length contemporary novel, Basil, A Story of Modern Life.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1310 (1852): 1322-3

Mary Berry: 21 November 1852

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21 November 1852

MB died at 8 Curzon Street London at the age of eighty-nine, having survived her sister by ten months.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Guest: 26 November 1852

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26 November 1852

Sir John Guest died after several years of declining health. CG filled pages of her journal with expressions of passionate grief, and months later she stole away by herself to kiss and weep over his...

Augusta Ada Byron: 27 November 1852

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27 November 1852

AAB , Countess of Lovelace, died in London from cancer of the uterus.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Elizabeth Gaskell: December 1852

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December 1852

EG 's The Old Nurse's Story appeared in Household Words.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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1 December 1852: After a year as President of France, Louis...

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1 December 1852

After a year as President of France, Louis Napoleon proclaimed the Second Empire, becoming Emperor Napoleon III.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.

December 1852: The first examination for the Midwifery Licence...

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December 1852

The first examination for the Midwifery Licence of the College of Surgeons was held.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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