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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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Dorothy Boulger: 1854

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1854

The child Dorothy Havers (later DB ) was taken to the Falkland Islands (a British colonial territory) off the coast of Argentina when her father was posted there.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2026, Many volumes.

Elizabeth Charles: 1854-1856

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Author event in Elizabeth Charles

1854-1856

EC and her husband lived in Tavistock Square, London.
Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray, 1896.
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Sara Coleridge: 1854

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Author event in Sara Coleridge

1854

A new edition of The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S.T. Coleridge appeared. Again SC and her brother Derwent had collaborated as editors.
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.

Lucie Duff Gordon: 1854

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Author event in Lucie Duff Gordon

1854

LDG involved herself with the cause of Azimullah Khan , who visited England seeking to have an East India Company pension restored to Nana Sahib , the adopted son of Indian prince Baji Rao II .
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
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Sir James George Frazer: 1 January 1854

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1 January 1854

James George Frazer , a founder of modern anthropology, was born in Glasgow, where he also had his early education.
Bullock, Alan et al., editors. Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought. Collins, 1983.

Jane Williams: 1854-5

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1854-5

JW published The Literary Remains of the Rev. Thomas Price , Carnhuanawc, in two volumes edited by herself.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
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Catharine Parr Traill: 1854

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1854

CPT published an addendum to The Backwoods of Canada: The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping; it was republished the following year as The Canadian Settler's Guide.
New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
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Felicia Skene: 1854

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Author event in Felicia Skene

1854

FS published another devotional work, The Ministry of Consolation. A Guide to Confession for the Use of Members of the Church of England.
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Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1854 to her death

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1854 to her death

MAS dictated the autobiography of her early years (to 1793) to her niece Christiana C. Hankin , who published it posthumously.
Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858, 2 vols.
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Emma Robinson: 1854

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1854

ER published another historical novel, Westminster Abbey; or, The Days of the Reformation.
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Bessie Rayner Parkes : 1854

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1854

BRP published a short collection, Summer Sketches and Other Poems.
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Bessie Rayner Parkes : 1854

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Author event in Bessie Rayner Parkes

1854

In Remarks on the Education of Girls, Parkes surveyed what was currently available and called for something better.
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Frances E. W. Harper: 1854

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1854

Frances Watkins (later FEWH ), aged not yet twenty, published Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects.
Graham, Maryemma, and Frances E. W. Harper. “Introduction”. Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. xxxiii - lvii.
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Ann Hawkshaw: 1854

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1854

Twelve years after her first collection, AH published her second and final volume of historical poetry, Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History.
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Anna Mary Howitt: January 1854

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January 1854

AMH submitted her large painting Gretchen at the Fountain to the British Institution , which, to the disgust of Dante Gabriel Rossetti , rejected it.
Gretchen is a diminutive of Margaret in German: this is...

Geraldine Jewsbury: Perhaps 1854

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Perhaps 1854

GJ moved from Manchester to 3 Oakley Street, King's Road, Chelsea to be near her intimate friend Jane Welsh Carlyle .
Many sources give the date of her move to Chelsea as 1854, but biographer...

Annie Keary: 1854

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Author event in Annie Keary

1854

On leaving Staffordshire, AK moved with her parents and a sister to live in London: in Addison Road, Kensington.
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882.
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Mary Ann Kelty: 1 January 1854

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1 January 1854

MAK dated the first entry in A Devotional Diary, published with her name that year.
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Anne Marsh: 1854

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1854

AM published a work outside her usual range, a translation from the recent, abridged modern French version of the The Song of Roland, as chanted before the Battle of Hastings by the Minstrel Taillefer.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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Harriet Martineau: 1854

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1854

HM published at the village of Windermere a Guide to Windermere, With Tours to the Neighbouring Lakes and Other Interesting Places.
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Jean Middlemass: Around 1854

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Around 1854

Following her father 's death, JM 's family moved from London to Brighton.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
265

Florence Nightingale : 1854

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Author event in Florence Nightingale

1854

FN published her anonymous travel book Letters from Egypt.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
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Charlotte Grace O'Brien: 1854-1856

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Author event in Charlotte Grace O'Brien

1854-1856

CGOB 's family lived in Brussels after her father returned from his transportation to Tasmania; it was a condition of his reprieve that he should live outside Britain, which included Ireland.
Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, and Charlotte Grace O’Brien. “Introductory Memoir”. Charlotte Grace O’Brien, Maunsel, 1909, pp. 3-135.
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Anne Ogle: 1854

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Author event in Anne Ogle

1854

AO published her first novel, A Lost Love, under the pseudonym Ashford Owen.
Myers, Alan. “Myers Literary Guide to North-East England”. Northumbria University: Centre for Northern Studies, 2004.
Handley, Graham. “George Eliot and A Lost LoveThe George Eliot Fellowship Review, Vol.
14
, 1983, pp. 32-7.
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1854-1860: During this period, established shops began...

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1854-1860

During this period, established shops began to experiment with the sale of ready-made goods.
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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