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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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Lydia Howard Sigourney: 11 December 1852

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Author event in Lydia Howard Sigourney

11 December 1852

The London edition of LHS 's The Faded Hope (a memoir of her nineteen-year-old son Andrew) was reviewed in the Athenæum; the New York edition came out the next year.
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.
Blanck, Jacob et al., editors. Bibliography of American Literature. Yale University Press, 1955–1991, 9 vols.
7: 469
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
73
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Geraldine Jewsbury: By December 11, 1852

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Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury

By December 11, 1852

GJ published her first children's story, The History of an Adopted Child, with a date of 1853.
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.
1311 (1852): 1357
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.

Charlotte Brontë: 13 December 1852

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

13 December 1852

Arthur Bell Nicholls asked CB to marry him; she declined, and her father violently opposed the match.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
710-12

Frances Wright: 13 December 1852

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Author event in Frances Wright

13 December 1852

FW died in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
294

Flora Shaw: 19 December 1852

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Author event in Flora Shaw

19 December 1852

FS was born at 2 Dundas Terrace in Woolwich.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

19 December 1852: George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen,...

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19 December 1852

George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen , a Peelite, became Prime Minister of a Liberal-Peelite coalition government .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Harriet Martineau: Late 1852

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

Late 1852

HM 's Letters from Ireland were published by John Chapman , having first appeared in the Daily News.
Martineau, Harriet. Letters from Ireland. John Chapman, 1852.
title-page, iv
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 406

20 December 1852: Britain annexed South Burma during the Second...

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20 December 1852

Britain annexed South Burma during the Second Burmese War.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
287
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
200
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
170, 535
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
166

Charlotte Godley: 22 December 1852

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Author event in Charlotte Godley

22 December 1852

CG and her family left New Zealand to return to England, where they arrived, after a side trip to Australia, on 16 June 1853.
Kilbracken, John Raymond Godley, third Baron, and Charlotte Godley. “Introduction”. Letters from Early New Zealand, edited by John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken and John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1951, p. xi - xv.
xv
Godley, Charlotte. Letters from Early New Zealand. Editor Kilbracken, John Raymond Godley, third Baron, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1951.
338, 376
Kilbracken, Arthur Godley, first Baron. Reminiscences of Lord Kilbracken. Macmillan, 1931.
9

Mary Russell Mitford: Late 1852

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

Late 1852

MRM became an invalid, unable to move from her bed or chair, after her pony chaise overturned and she was thrown into the road.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 323

Dinah Mulock Craik: By 25 December 1852

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By 25 December 1852

Dinah Mulock 's A Hero appeared with the date of 1853 on its title-page; it exemplifies masculine virtues through short stories treating everyday events in the lives of boys.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
81
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.

Harriett Mozley: By 25 December 1852

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By 25 December 1852

Ten years after HM 's previous publication, her final children's book, Family Adventures, appeared posthumously as by the author of The Fairy Bower.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1313 (1852): 1425

Georgina Munro: By 25 December 1852

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Author event in Georgina Munro

By 25 December 1852

GM published her fourth novel, The White Rose of the Huron, in three volumes under her own name.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1313 (1852): 1424

Grace Aguilar: 1853

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Author event in Grace Aguilar

1853

GA 's contributions to periodicals on Jewish subjects, including the first sermons published by a Jewish woman, appeared six years after her death as Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings.
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.
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
140

Grace Aguilar: 1853

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1853

Essays and Miscellanies, Choice Cullings from the Manuscripts of Grace Aguilar appeared posthumously in Philadelphia; its contents overlapped with those of her Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings, also dated this year.
Aguilar, Grace, and Sarah Aguilar. Essays and Miscellanies. A. Hart, 1853.
National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield, 1956.

Clara Balfour: 1853

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Author event in Clara Balfour

1853

CB published the first edition of Morning Dew Drops, a novel which later also became known as The Juvenile Abstainer, with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe .
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.

Charlotte Barnard: 1853

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Author event in Charlotte Barnard

1853

CB 's father had her French and German songsMarche de la Vivandière and Die Alpen-Rosen Wälzerpublished to benefit the Louth Mechanics' Institute .
Fuller, Sophie. The Pandora Guide to Women Composers. Pandora, 1994.
86

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 1853

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1853

Barbara Leigh Smith , Christina Rossetti , Elizabeth Siddal , Bessie Rayner Parkes , Anna Mary Howitt , and Mary Howitt conducted a series of seances at the Hermitage, the Howitt family home.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
97

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 1853-1854

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1853-1854

Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB ) and Anna Mary Howitt were engrossed in painting and poetry.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
96

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Mid-1850s

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Mid-1850s

Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB ) built her own country house, Scalands Cottage, on the family estate in Robertsbridge near Hastings; her design of the interior anticipated the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
98-100

Kathleen Caffyn: 1853

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Author event in Kathleen Caffyn

1853

Kathleen Hunt (later KC ) was born at Waterloo House in Co. Tipperary.
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.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2026, Many volumes.

Mary Carpenter: Early 1853

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Author event in Mary Carpenter

Early 1853

MC continued in Juvenile Delinquents: Their Condition and Treatment the project of her previous book: inducing the authorities to treat criminal children in a more lenient and constructive way which she believed to be capable...

Caroline Chisholm: 1853

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Author event in Caroline Chisholm

1853

CC travelled through Germany, France and Italy, where Pope Pius IX presented her with a portrait bust of herself and a papal medal.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
155
Walker, Carole, and Jane L. Littlewood. “A Second Moses in Bonnet and Shawl: Caroline Chisholm, 1808-1877”. Recusant History, Vol.
22
, No. 3, 1995, pp. 409-23.
410

Mary Cowden Clarke: 1853-6

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Author event in Mary Cowden Clarke

1853-6

MCC edited The Musical Times, for which her own contributions included a series entitled Music among the Poets.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Dinah Mulock Craik: By 1 January 1853

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By 1 January 1853

Dinah Mulock published Agatha's Husband, her fourth novel.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Agatha’s Husband. Chapman and Hall, 1853.
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.