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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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Isa Craig: 1853-1857

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1853-1857

IC worked as a journalist at The Scotsman, a newspaper to which she had already been contributing verse for several years.
Onslow, Barbara. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Macmillan, 2000.
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McCrone, Kathleen E. “The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and the Advancement of Victorian Women”. Atlantis, Vol.
8
, No. 1, 1982, pp. 44-66.
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Catherine Crowe: 1853

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1853

CC 's humanitarian interests (probably influenced by George Combe ) led to her publish The Juvenile Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abridged version for young readers of Harriet Beecher Stowe 's famous work.
Kunitz, Stanley J., editor. British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. H. W. Wilson Company, 1936.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Emily Dickinson: By the mid 1850s

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By the mid 1850s

ED began writing poetry.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Knopf, 1986.
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Amelia B. Edwards: 1853

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Author event in Amelia B. Edwards

1853

A story by ABE , her earliest adult publication, appeared in Eliza Cook's Journal and earned her some money. She decided this year to shift from a career in music to one in writing.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Yonge: January 1853

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January 1853

CY 's best-selling novel The Heir of Redclyffe was published in London by John Parker and in New York by Appleton .
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983.
18: 308, 313
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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Elizabeth Gaskell: January 1853

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January 1853

Ruth, EG 's sympathetic portrayal of a fallen woman, was published as by the author of Mary Barton; the novel was promptly banned by Bell's Library in London and created fierce debate country-wide.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
338, 618

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 1853

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1853

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , probably either translated or revised an earlier translation of philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg 's Heaven and Hell, with the new title The Future Life.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
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Charlotte Maria Tucker : 1853

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1853

Encouraged by her previous success, CMT (A.L.O.E.) quickly published another children's book, Angus Tarlton; or, Illustrations of the Fruits of the Spirit.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 316

Harriet Taylor: 1853

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1853

HT and John Stuart Mill were ordered abroad by their doctor.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Harriet Taylor: 1853

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1853

HT and her husband anonymously published a pamphlet, Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy 's Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children.
Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1994.
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Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924.
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Jemima Tautphoeus: 1853

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1853

JT , as the author of The Initials published her second novel, Cyrilla, a Tale, in England and in Germany in three volumes.
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.

Catherine Sinclair: 1853

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1853

CS wrote about her father 's life in Memoir of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair.
Sinclair, Catherine. Memoir of Sir John Sinclair. William and Roberts Chambers, 1853.
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Emily Shirreff: 1853

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1853

ES and her sister published a novel entitled Passion and Principle, designed to enforce their own beliefs about these qualities.
The Feminist Companion, the Dictionary of National Biography (both the old and new...

Elizabeth Sewell: 1853

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1853

ES published her highly autobiographical and popular novel, The Experience of Life, again identifying herself only as the author of her first novel.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.

Mary Seacole: 1853

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1853

MS returned to Jamaica after her several years in Panama. She stayed there for some months before heading for England with a brief stop in Panama to wrap up her affairs there.
Seacole, Mary, and William L. Andrews. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands. Oxford University Press, 1988.
59, 63

Anne Thackeray Ritchie: 1853-1854

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1853-1854

Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) travelled to Italy with her father and sister.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
85, 89

Bessie Rayner Parkes : 1853

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1853

BRP joined the Committee for the Ladies' Address to their American Sisters on Slavery, a group that, motivated by Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, collected over 500,000 signatures for their anti-slavery petition.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 186

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1853

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1853

The year after her husband's death, ATG published Biographical Sketch of the Rev. Joseph Gilbert.
qtd. in
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
2: 249

Frances Sarah Hoey: 1853

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1853

FSH began her literary career writing art reviews and articles for the Freeman's Journal and the Nation.
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.

Mary Howitt: By 1 January 1853

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By 1 January 1853

Mary Howitt published The Dial of Love, a Christmas Book for the Young, comprising the first six issues of a children's magazine she had been editing (the last issue from December 1852).
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1314 (1853): 17
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.

Anna Leonowens: 1853

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1853

In Australia, AL 's second child was born, but died soon after birth.
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
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Morgan, Susan, and Anna Leonowens. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Romance of the Harem, University Press of Virginia, 1991, pp. ix - xxxix; 279.
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Charlotte Montefiore: 1853

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1853

CM anonymously published her collection of essays, A Few Words to the Jews. By one of themselves.
All known library catalogues date the first edition 1853. A second edition appeared in 1855. The few...

Georgina Munro: 1853

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1853

GM published her last book, The Little Emigrant's Birthday; and, The Children of the Alps as the first in Addey 's Little Story Books series..
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.
Munro, Georgina. The Little Emigrant’s Birthday; and, The Children of the Alps. Addey, 1853.
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1853: In London, 3,000 horse-drawn omnibuses shuttled...

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1853

In London, 3,000 horse-drawn omnibuses shuttled close to 900,000 commuters around the city every day.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1853: The formal association of the Pre-Raphaelite...

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1853

The formal association of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was dissolved; however, the movement persisted in various forms until the end of the century.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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