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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.
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1853: The price of soap dropped more than 30% after...
1853
The price of soap dropped more than 30% after excise duty was removed.
January 1853: Napoleon III married Eugénie de Montijo,...
National or international item
January 1853
married
, daughter of a Spanish nobleman.
1853: The Mémoires du Général Toussaint L'Ouverture,...
Writing climate item
1853
The Mémoires du Général Toussaint L'Ouverture, the black leader who emerged from the rebellion in St Dominique (now Haiti), were published in Paris.
1853: The first children's hospital in Britain...
1853
The first children's hospital in Britain was opened in Great Ormond Street, London.
1853: The name of Van Diemen's Land, Australia,...
National or international item
1853
The name of Van Diemen's Land, Australia, was changed to Tasmania and the transportation of convicts to the region discontinued.
January 1853: Following Napoleon III's marriage to Eugénie...
January 1853
Following
's marriage to
, English female hairstyles followed the fashionable French example.
1853: The Advertising Duty pertaining to insertions...
Writing climate item
1853
The Advertising Duty pertaining to insertions in newspapers was abolished.
Charlotte Brontë: From 5 January 1853
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Brontë
From 5 January 1853
spent a month in London where she visited a range of institutions including prisons, hospitals, financial sights in the City, and the General Post Office.
Susanna Moodie: By 15 January 1853
Writing climate item
Author event in Susanna Moodie
By 15 January 1853
published
's Mark Hurdlestone, the Gold Worshipper, a novel grounded in Gothic and romantic traditions which fared best in the United States.
Charlotte Brontë: 28 January 1853
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Brontë
28 January 1853
's third novel, Villette, was published in three volumes, delayed at
's request to avoid simultaneous publication with Ruth.
Harriet Jacobs: February 1853
Writing climate item
Author event in Harriet Jacobs
February 1853
The year after she achieved liberation from slavery,
began to mull over the suggestion of
that she should tell her story of escape and emancipation.
George Henry Lewes: Perhaps early 1853
Writing climate item
Author event in George Henry Lewes
Perhaps early 1853
became the lover of Marian Evans, who was as yet neither a novelist nor , but simply a young woman courageously making her way in the London world of professional writing.
Florence Nightingale : 3 February 1853
Women writers item
Author event in Florence Nightingale
3 February 1853
left England for Paris, where she visited hospitals and served as a nursing apprentice at the
hospital.
Julia Kavanagh: By 19 February 1853
Women writers item
Author event in Julia Kavanagh
By 19 February 1853
published her three-volume novel Daisy Burns, A Tale.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Spring 1853
Writing climate item
Author event in Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Spring 1853
went on a lecture tour in the United States and Canada to raise money for The Provincial Freeman. She was away until at least the fall.
Caroline Leakey: March 1853
Women writers item
Author event in Caroline Leakey
March 1853
At the recommendation of her doctor,
departed from Tasmania on her way back to England.
March 1853: Tsar Nicholas I demanded that Russia be recognized...
National or international item
March 1853
demanded that Russia be recognized as the protector of Orthodox Christians in Turkey.
Catherine Marsh : From 13 March 1853
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Marsh
From 13 March 1853
After thousands of navvies (that is, itinerant labourers) were hired to work on the re-erection of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham near Beckenham,
took it upon herself to minister to their souls.
21 March 1853: The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed...
Writing climate item
21 March 1853
The thirty-year-old
addressed to
a classically misogynist letter about women writers, their works and their looks.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: 24 March 1853
Writing climate item
Author event in Mary Ann Shadd Cary
24 March 1853
founded and continued as editor-in-chief of The Provincial Freeman, a newspaper published out of Canada West. Shadd was the first female newspaper editor in Canada.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: By 26 March 1853
Writing climate item
Author event in Harriet Beecher Stowe
By 26 March 1853
published A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Spring of 1853
Writing climate item
Author event in Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Spring of 1853
Antoinette Brown (later
) accepted an offer to serve as the pastor of a small Congregational church in South Butler, New York, where she earned a yearly salary of $300.
Emily Shirreff: In spring 1853
Women writers item
Author event in Emily Shirreff
In spring 1853
met
; they remained close friends and intellectual companions until his death.
Eliza Lynn Linton: Spring 1853-Spring 1854
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Lynn Linton
Spring 1853-Spring 1854
, later Linton, spent nearly a year living in Paris, where she was working as a correspondent for an English newspaper. When she returned to England, it was to Keswick.
Queen Victoria: 7 April 1853
Women writers item
Author event in Queen Victoria
7 April 1853
gave birth to her eighth child,
; her use of chloroform during this birth popularized pain relief for women in labour.