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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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Christina Rossetti: 8 April 1853

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Author event in Christina Rossetti

8 April 1853

CR and her parents moved from London to Frome in Somerset, where Christina helped her mother to set up a new day school.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996.
xi
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
143

Harriet Beecher Stowe: 10 April 1853

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Author event in Harriet Beecher Stowe

10 April 1853

HBS , now a literary celebrity because of Uncle Tom's Cabin, arrived in Liverpool for a visit in England and Scotland.
HBS took a steamer named the Canada to England in 1853, and about...

April 1853: Stage performer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield,...

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April 1853

Stage performer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield , an ex-slave from Mississippi and the first Black concert singer to win fame in both the US and Britian, arrived in Liverpool.
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and its Business. Oxford University Press, 1988.
219

16 April 1853: The first Indian railway opened, between...

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16 April 1853

The first Indian railway opened, between Bombay and Tannah.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 822
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
901

Sarah Josepha Hale: By 23 April 1853

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Author event in Sarah Josepha Hale

By 23 April 1853

SJH published her monumental Woman's Record, an international biographical dictionary containing over 2,500 entries, tactfully Inscribed to the Men of America.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Hale, Sarah Josepha. Woman’s Record. Facsimile of 2nd edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
v
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.
1330 (23 April 1853)

Elizabeth Gaskell: May 1853

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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell

May 1853

EG , along with her husband and their daughter Marianne , visited Paris; there she met Scottish hostess Mary Clarke Mohl , whose salons were at the hub of French political and literary life.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
347
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
345-7

Anna Mary Howitt: By 14 May 1853

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Author event in Anna Mary Howitt

By 14 May 1853

Anna Mary Howitt published An Art-Student in Munich, written on the advice of her mother, Mary Howitt , and of Elizabeth Gaskell .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
41
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1333 (1853): 584-5

Margaret Oliphant: 21 May 1853

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Author event in Margaret Oliphant

21 May 1853

MO 's eldest daughter, Margaret Wilson Oliphant, was born: she was to outlive three younger siblings before she was six.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986.
21
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
338

Charlotte Brontë: Late May 1853

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

Late May 1853

CB began a new story called Willie Ellin, which had elements in common with The Professor; it was never finished.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
731, 734

Charlotte Brontë: June 1853

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

June 1853

CB 's father suffered a second and quite debilitating stroke.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
731

Charlotte Dempster: Summer 1853

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Author event in Charlotte Dempster

Summer 1853

CD spent three months at Castle Leod in Strathpeffer in the Scottish Highlands.
Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920.
40-1

Elizabeth Gaskell: June 1853

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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell

June 1853

The linked stories of Cranford appeared in volume form, now divided into sixteen chapters. Following her death it became EG 's best-known and most beloved work.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
618

June 1853: William Makepeace Thackeray published The...

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June 1853

William Makepeace Thackeray published The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, compiled from a series of critical lectures given in England, Scotland, and the United States.
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.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
973
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

June 1853: The Act for the Better Prevention of Aggravated...

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June 1853

The Act for the Better Prevention of Aggravated Assault Upon Women and Children made wife assault punishable by up to six months imprisonment or a £20 fine.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
159
Cobbe, Frances Power. “Wife-Torture in England”. Contemporary Review, Vol.
32
, 1878, pp. 55-87.
76-7

Harriet Beecher Stowe: 4 June 1853

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Author event in Harriet Beecher Stowe

4 June 1853

HBS arrived in Paris after crossing the channel from England; on this trip she also spent time in Switzerland and Germany.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
250

5 June 1853: A Franco-British fleet was sent to Besika...

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5 June 1853

A Franco-British fleet was sent to Besika Bay south of the Dardanelles to counter Russian threats on Turkey.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
207
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
273

Mary Stockdale: 13 June 1853

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Author event in Mary Stockdale

13 June 1853

MS died at White Hall in Hayes, Middlesex, aged eighty, from erysipelas and debility. He was buried at Hayes three days later.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Ann Gomersall, Ann Hawkshaw, J. S. Anna Liddiard, Plumptre Sisters, Mary Ridgway Stockdale, Medora Gordon Byron. 8 Jan. 2016.

14 June 1853: A new Penal Servitude Act made women subject...

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14 June 1853

A new Penal Servitude Act made women subject to this form of punishment.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
178
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
171
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
276
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
(1853): 245

Caroline Frances Cornwallis : July 1853

Women writers item

July 1853

The Westminster Review carried CFC 's first article, Young Criminals, published with her initials.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Young Criminals”. Westminster Review, Vol.
60
, John Chapman, July 1853, pp. 137-64.
59 (July 1853)

July 1853: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum hosted diverting...

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July 1853

Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum hosted diverting games for inmates and close to two thousand visitors; such events aimed to reform the insane through a process of social and moral re-education.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
37-8, 40

July 1853: Tsar Nicholas I sent Russian troops into...

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July 1853

Tsar Nicholas I sent Russian troops into the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
204

8 July 1853: A visit by US Commodore Matthew Parry first...

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8 July 1853

A visit by US Commodore Matthew Parry first put imperial Japan in touch with western trade.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Japan

Richard Francis Burton: 17 July-23 September 1853

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Author event in Richard Francis Burton

17 July-23 September 1853

RFB made a pilgrimage from Egypt to Al-Madinah (Medina) and Mecca, wearing Arab disguise.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 582
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
863

By 23 July 1853: John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice,...

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By 23 July 1853

John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice, Volume the Second—The Sea Stories.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
(23 July 1853): 879-81

Harriet Jacobs: 25 July 1853

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Author event in Harriet Jacobs

25 July 1853

HJ first reached print, with Letter from a Fugitive Slave. Slaves Sold under Peculiar Circumstances, published in the New York Tribune.
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Editor Yellin, Jean Fagan, Harvard University Press, 1987.
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