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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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Dora Greenwell: After May 1854

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After May 1854

Following the death of her father , DG and her mother went to live in Durham, where they remained until 1872.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885.
40

By 30 May 1854: William Edmonstoune Aytoun published his...

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By 30 May 1854

William Edmonstoune Aytoun published his parody of the poems of the Spasmodic school, Firmilian, in Blackwood's Magazine.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1405 (30 September 1854): 1165
Masson, Rosaline Orme. Pollok and Aytoun. Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, 1898.
139
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.

Isabella Bird: June 1854

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Author event in Isabella Bird

June 1854

IB sailed from Liverpool to travel to Canada and the United States.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications, 1994.
26

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Summer 1854

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Summer 1854

Barbara Leigh Smith began an affair with the married John Chapman , editor of the Westminster Review.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
106-7

Anna Brownell Jameson: Early 1854

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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson

Early 1854

ABJ 's mother died.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
194

Margaret Oliphant: June 1854

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Author event in Margaret Oliphant

June 1854

MO , as the author of Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland, published Magdalen Hepburn: A Story of the Scottish Reformation.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography wrongly spells Magdelen.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996.
159: 250
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.

After June 1854: The dinosaur sculpture park around the Crystal...

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After June 1854

The dinosaur sculpture park around the Crystal Palace at its new home in Sydenham, the work of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, took hold at once of the public imagination.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
117
Gooding, Francis. “Feathered, Furred or Coloured”. London Review of Books, Vol.
40
, No. 4, 22 Feb. 2018, pp. 14-16.
14

Sarah Grand: 10 June 1854

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Author event in Sarah Grand

10 June 1854

Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke (who later wrote as SG) was born in Bally Castle, Donaghadee, County Down, Ireland. She was the fourth of five children: three girls and two boys.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
ix, 17

10 June 1854: Queen Victoria reopened the Crystal Palace...

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10 June 1854

Queen Victoria reopened the Crystal Palace on its new site in Sydenham just south of London.
Beaver, Patrick. The Crystal Palace 1851-1936: A Portrait of Victorian Enterprise. Hugh Evelyn, 1970.
69, 99, 141

11 June 1854: Mrs Mary Ann Brough's six children were found...

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11 June 1854

Mrs Mary Ann Brough 's six children were found murdered, their throats slit as they lay sleeping; the mother was later judged guilty by reason of insanity.
Smith, Roger. Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials. Edinburgh University Press, 1981.
157-8

Florence Marryat: 13 June 1854

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Author event in Florence Marryat

13 June 1854

Shortly before her sixteenth birthday, FM was married at Penang in Malaya to Thomas Ross Church , a lieutenant and later a colonel in the Madras staff corps.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

June 1854: Arguing for his Divorce Bill but against...

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June 1854

Arguing for his Divorce Bill but against a husband's adultery as grounds for divorce, Lord Chancellor Cranworth remarked that it would be too harsh to bring the law to bear against a husband who was...

23 June 1854: Ebenezer Ward and George Lock established...

Writing climate item

23 June 1854

Ebenezer Ward and George Lock established the publishing house of Ward and Lock at 158 Fleet Street, London, the former premises of David Nutt .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 321

Charlotte Brontë: 29 June 1854

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

29 June 1854

CB married curate Arthur Bell Nicholls . They honeymooned in Wales and his native Ireland.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
757

Caroline Frances Cornwallis : July 1854

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July 1854

CFC 's article Wycliffe and His Times was published under the initials C.F.C. in The Westminster Review.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Wycliffe and His Times”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
62
, July 1854, pp. 145-73.
61 (July 1854)
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co., 1864.
443

George Eliot: July 1854

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Author event in George Eliot

July 1854

A translation of Ludwig Feuerbach , The Essence of Christianity, was published by the future GE , the only work to appear in print during her lifetime under the name of Marian Evans.
Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall, 1989.
40
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
174

Elizabeth Sewell: By 1 July 1854

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Author event in Elizabeth Sewell

By 1 July 1854

ES , as the author of Amy Herbert, published Katharine Ashton, a two-volume novel about a happily independent woman.
The title is spelled Katherine Ashton in some library catalogues.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1392 (1 July 1854): 812

July 1854: Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria sent an...

National or international item

July 1854

Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria sent an ultimatum to Russia, demanding the evacuation of Russian troops from the Danubian Principalities.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
207

Charlotte Montefiore: 2 July 1854

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Author event in Charlotte Montefiore

2 July 1854

CM died after giving birth at her home in Westbourne Terrace in Hyde Park, to a short-lived son. She was still in her mid thirties.
“Jewish Encyclopedia”. JewishEncyclopedia.com, 2002.

Sarah Austin: By 8 July 1854

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Author event in Sarah Austin

By 8 July 1854

SA published her best known original work, a social and intellectual history, Germany, from 1760 to 1814; or, Sketches of German Life, from the Decay of the Empire to the Expulsion of the French...

Charlotte Maria Tucker : By 8 July 1854

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Author event in Charlotte Maria Tucker

By 8 July 1854

A.L.O.E. (CMT ) published a book of poetry, Glimpses of the Unseen, Poems. She had originally chosen The White Shroud as title, but changed it for fear it would obscure the collection's religious nature.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1393 (1854): 845

Harriet Smythies: By 8 July 1854

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Author event in Harriet Smythies

By 8 July 1854

HS expressed her patriotism in The Prince and the People. A Poem under the name Mrs. Yorick Smythies.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1393 (1854): 845

Harriet Beecher Stowe: By 15 July 1854

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By 15 July 1854

HBS published a volume of travel writing, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands.
Adams, John R. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Twayne, 1989.
44
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1394 (1854): 869-71

John Ruskin: 15 July 1854

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Author event in John Ruskin

15 July 1854

The marriage of Euphemia Chalmers Gray to JR was annulled on the grounds of non-consummation.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Frances Ridley Havergal : 17 July 1854

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Author event in Frances Ridley Havergal

17 July 1854

FRH was confirmed in the Anglican Church ; her particular views were Evangelical.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.