Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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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By 1 October 1853: Charles Reade published his second novel,...
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By 1 October 1853
published his second novel, Christie Johnstone.
October 1853-August 1855: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes...
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October 1853-August 1855
's novel The Newcomes was serialised in monthly parts.
: Mary Russell Mitford complained satirically...
Autumn 1853
complained satirically of a
ite curate in Reading, admired (to her embarrassment) by other women.
Fanny Fern: By 22 October 1853
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Author event in Fanny Fern
By 22 October 1853
published Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, the first collection of her newspaper sketches and short stories.
By 22 October 1853: John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice....
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By 22 October 1853
published The Stones of Venice. Volume the Third—The Fall.
23 October 1853: The Sultan of Turkey declared war on Russia;...
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23 October 1853
The declared war on Russia; Turkish troops subsequently moved into the Danubian Principalities. This conflict began the Crimean War.
Harriet Martineau: Early November 1853
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Author event in Harriet Martineau
Early November 1853
published The Positive Philosophy of
, Freely Translated and Condensed; it appeared in two volumes from
.
November 1853: Matthew Arnold published Poems: A New Ed...
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November 1853
published Poems: A New Edition.
November 1853: On the orders of Tsar Nicholas I, a Russian...
National or international item
November 1853
On the orders of
, a Russian fleet attacked and destroyed a Turkish squadron of ships at Sinope on the Black Sea, killing 4000 Turkish sailors.
Annie Tinsley: By 5 November 1853
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Author event in Annie Tinsley
By 5 November 1853
published with
another novel, Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, and its Victims. An Autobiography, which she later defended with vigour against its critics who thought it derivative from other novels.
Anna Eliza Bray: By 19 November 1853
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Author event in Anna Eliza Bray
By 19 November 1853
published an illustrated collection of stories for children, A Peep at the Pixies; or, Legends of the West, with a date of 1854.
Lady Charlotte Bury: By 19 November 1853
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Author event in Lady Charlotte Bury
By 19 November 1853
After a nine-year silence
, as the author of The History of a Flirt, published a novel entitled The Roses.
Dinah Mulock Craik: By 19 November 1853
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Author event in Dinah Mulock Craik
By 19 November 1853
Avillion and Other Tales, published this year by
, was
's first collection of short fiction.
Volume One is available online at the Victorian Women Writers Project at http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/craik/avillion1.html.
Lydia Maria Child: December 1853
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Author event in Lydia Maria Child
December 1853
After other temporary homes in Massachusetts,
moved to Wayland in that state to care for her aged father; this remote place became a home for her and her
for the rest of their...
Frances Colenso: December 1853
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Author event in Frances Colenso
December 1853
After
's
was consecrated Bishop of Natal, the family sailed for South Africa, where they settled in a place called from them Bishopstowe near Pietermaritzburg.
Catherine Marsh : Probably about Christmas 1853
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Probably about Christmas 1853
published the first edition of her conversion narrative The Victory Won: A Brief Memorial of the Last Days of anonymously through
Amelia Opie: 2 December 1853
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Author event in Amelia Opie
2 December 1853
died in Norwich, after only a few months of decline and failing memory.
Mary Anne Duffus Hardy: By 3 December 1853
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By 3 December 1853
issued her first novel, Savile House: An Historical Romance of the Time of , in two volumes under the name Addlestone Hill (a coded reference to her home at Addlestone in...
Roxburghe Lothian: 15 December 1853
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Author event in Roxburghe Lothian
15 December 1853
Elizabeth Colville (who later wrote as
) married her second husband,
, after nearly three years as a widow.
Mary Catherine Hume: By 17 December 1853
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Author event in Mary Catherine Hume
By 17 December 1853
appeared before the public as a poet with her collection The Bridesmaid, Count Stephen, and Other Poems, which bore her name.
18 December 1853: Putnam's Magazine carried the second part...
Writing climate item
18 December 1853
Putnam's Magazine carried the second part of its two-part, anonymous serialization of the novella Bartleby, the Scrivener. A Story of Wall Street by
.
Julia Ward Howe: December 1853
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Author event in Julia Ward Howe
December 1853
's first book of poetry, titled Passion Flowers, was published by
. The name of the book was chosen by the publishers, the Christian symbolism associated with the passion flower...
Cecil Frances Alexander : 1854
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Author event in Cecil Frances Alexander
1854
published Poems on Subjects in the Old Testament: Part I: Genesis, Exodus, etc., the sequel to which appeared several years later.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 1854
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Author event in Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
1854
began campaigning against the married women's property laws.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 1854
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Author event in Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
1854
(later
) anonymously published a pamphlet entitled A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women.