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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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Author event in Clementina Black

27 July 1853

CB was born in Brighton.

Glage, Liselotte. Clementina Black: A Study in Social History and Literature. Carl Winter, 1981.

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Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.

10

Author event in Fredrika Bremer

January 1853

Sharpe's London Magazine carried an article in which FB described a visit to an agricultural show somewhere in the area of Windsor, including an enactment of a traditional custom: the doling out of cash...

Author event in Caroline Chisholm

August 1853

A meeting at the London Tavern raised ¥900 for CC as a public testimonial. Among the contributors were Florence Nightingale , the Countess of Pembroke , and other members of the aristocracy.

Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.

186-7

Author event in Mary Maria Colling

6 August 1853

MMC , poet, died in Tavistock from dropsy.

Wright, W. H. Kearley. West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works. Elliot Stock, 1896.

108

Author event in Florence Nightingale

12 August 1853-21 October 1854

FN served as superintendent of the Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen in London, which she moved from Chandos Street to 1 Upper Harley Street.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses, 1962.

99

Author event in Selina Bunbury

By 13 August 1853

SB 's account of her year-long visit to Scandinavia was published as Life in Sweden; With Excursions in Norway and Denmark.

Athenæum. J. Lection.

1346 (1853): 959

Author event in Caroline Chisholm

13 August 1853

Walter Savage Landor paid tribute in his ode To Caroline Chisholm, printed in The Examiner, to her arduous . . . heaven-guided enterprise.

qtd. in

Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.

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Author event in Caroline Norton

18 August 1853

A case was tried between George Norton and a creditor of CN 's (in essence a dramatic confrontation between husband and wife); this case heightened public feeling about married women's property law.

Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

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Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.

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Author event in Caroline Chisholm

20 August 1853

Punch published an anonymous verse tribute: A Carol on Caroline Chisholm.

Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.

164

20 August 1853

The Smoke Nuisance Abatement (Metropolis) Act regulated emissions in London.

Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.

220

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

20 August 1853

The London Hackney Carriage Act introducted restrictions on advertising.

Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.

59, 127

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

20 August 1853

The Public Libraries Act (1850) was extended to include Scotland and Ireland.

Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1975. 2nd ed., Library Association, 1977.

20

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

20 August 1853

The Customs Consolidation Act prohibited importing obscene books and pictures into Britain.

Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.

286

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

20 August 1853

The Vaccination Act made vaccination against smallpox compulsory for everyone in the United Kingdom, and provided for administering it gratis under the Poor Law.

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.

832

Williams, Gareth. Angel of Death. The Story of Smallpox. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

237

Author event in Susanna Moodie

By 23 August 1853

Responding to her publisher's request for more material to feed a market hungry for her work, SM quickly assembled Life in the Clearings versus the Bush.

Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.

221, 224

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.

1348 (27 August 1853): 1012-3

Author event in Caroline Chisholm

September 1853

The ship Caroline Chisholm made its inaugural voyage, transporting Family Colonisation Loan Society members from London and Plymouth to Melbourne and Sydney.

Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.

160-1

September 1853

A monthly penny periodical entitled The Female Missionary Intelligencer began publication in Dublin.

Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.

7

September 1853

The popular Methodist London Quarterly Review began publication.

Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.

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Author event in Fredrika Bremer

2 September 1853

FB's most famous book of travels, The Homes of the New World, which originated in letters home to her sister Agathe , was advertised in English translation (by Mary Howitt ) in three volumes...

Author event in George Bradshaw

6 September 1853

GB , of the self-named railway guides or timetables, died at Christiania in Norway.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Author event in Julia Constance Fletcher

7 September 1853

JCF, who later wrote as George Fleming, was born in Rio de Janeiro while her father, a US citizen, worked in Brazil for the American Christian Union .

Many sources, however, wrongly list her...

Author event in Antoinette Brown Blackwell

September 15, 1853

Antoinette Brown (later ABB ) was finally ordained, at a South Butler church by the Reverend Luther Lee , becoming the first woman in the United States to be ordained as a Christian minister.

Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.

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Author event in Charles Dickens

By 17 September 1853

Following its appearance in monthly parts, CD published in one volume Bleak House, a novel that anticipated the detective and sensation novels.

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.

Author event in Charlotte Brontë

19 September 1853

Elizabeth Gaskell visited CB at Haworth for four days.

Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.

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Author event in Anna Atkins: Biography

Probably late 1853

AA privately issued a Memoir of her father , including some unpublished poetry by his father and himself.

The Bodleian Library copy has an autograph letter from AA pasted in, dated 26 September.

Atkins, Anna, and John George Children. Memoir of J. G. Children, Esq. Privately printed by J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1853.

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