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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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Caroline Chisholm: 9 November 1854

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9 November 1854

CC gave a well-attended public lecture in Melbourne concerning the needs of the gold miners.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Charlotte Yonge: By 18 November 1854

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By 18 November 1854

CY published in two volumes, as the author of The Heir of Redclyffe, Heartsease; or, The Brother's Wife: it went through ten editions by 1868.
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1412 (1854): 1396-7

Anna Brownell Jameson: By 18 November 1854

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By 18 November 1854

ABJ published A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, Original and Selected, featuring favourite authors and letters from Lady Byron and Ottilie von Goethe .
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.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
238
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Frances Isabella Duberly : 27 November 1854

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27 November 1854

FID sent her sister a letter designed to reveal the utter neglect & mismanagement
Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press, 2007.
111
of the British command in the Crimean war, with explicit permission to publish it if she wished.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press, 2007.
109-11

27 November 1854: A craze for photographic cartes-de-visite...

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27 November 1854

A craze for photographic cartes-de-visite began when André Disderi of Paris patented the inexpensive portrait process.
Davis, Phil. Photography. 3rd ed., W. C. Brown, 1979.
9
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
71

Caroline Chisholm: 28 November 1854

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28 November 1854

The Argus newspaper in Melbourne published a letter from CC , Immigration, which attacked the Wakefield system of land allotment as a means to make the rich man richer and the poor man poorer.
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Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Louisa May Alcott: December 1854

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December 1854

LMA 's first major publication, a collection of children's stories entitled Flower Fables, appeared.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
239
Alcott, Louisa May, and Madeleine B. Stern. The Journals of Louisa May Alcott. Editors Myerson, Joel and Daniel Shealy, Little, Brown, 1989.
xix

Hannah Cullwick: December 1854

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December 1854

HC spent Christmas with her aunt in Shropshire.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
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Hannah Cullwick: December 1854

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December 1854

HC wrote her first diary while visiting with her aunt; she produced seventeen in all before ceasing in 1873.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
8, 299

Fanny Fern: December 1854

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December 1854

FF published her first novel, Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time, with Mason Brothers .
Walker, Nancy A. Fanny Fern. Twayne, 1993.
xiv

Harriet Taylor: Winter 1854-5

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Winter 1854-5

For health reasons, HT and John Stuart Mill spent the winter months apart: she was too ill to travel with him to warmer European climates.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
138

Harriet Martineau: December 1854

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December 1854

HM began to experience heart palpitations and dizziness; London doctors found a large pear-shaped abdominal tumour pressing against her vital organs.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. University of Michigan Press, 1980.
200
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 430

Margaret Oliphant: December 1854-December 1855

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December 1854-December 1855

MO published serially in Blackwood'sZaidee: A Romance. She was determined not to associate this with any of her previous works, which she felt it did not resemble.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
341, 242

December 1854: William Makepeace Thackeray, as Mr. M. A....

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December 1854

William Makepeace Thackeray , as Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, published The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children.
Benjamin, Lewis Saul. Life of William Makepeace Thackeray. Hutchinson, 1890.
II: 296

December 1854: The quality of the New Monthly Magazine began...

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December 1854

The quality of the New Monthly Magazine began rapidly to decline when Henry Colburn 's control ceased.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 169, 302

December 1854: The last issue of Ainsworth's Magazine: A...

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December 1854

The last issue of Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 52

December 1854: William Henry Fox Talbot lost the case by...

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December 1854

William Henry Fox Talbot lost the case by which he tried to retain control over all photographic innovations stemming from his early discoveries: freed from licensing, photography now proliferated rapidly.
Davis, Phil. Photography. 3rd ed., W. C. Brown, 1979.
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Harriet Smythies: Late 1854

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Late 1854

HS (as Mrs. Yorick Smythies) published Sebastopol. A Poem.
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.

Susanna Moodie: By 2 December 1854

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By 2 December 1854

SM gathered and published Matrimonial Speculations, a volume of stories.
Moodie, Susanna. Matrimonial Speculations. R. Bentley, 1854.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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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.
1414 (2 December 1854): 1462

8 December 1854: Pope Pius IX declared the dogma of Immaculate...

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8 December 1854

Pope Pius IX declared the dogma of Immaculate Conception in the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus; this dogma declared the Virgin Mary free from the taint of original sin.
Brantl, George, editor. Catholicism. George Braziller, 1962.
78, 251n12

9 December 1854: Alfred Tennyson's famous poem about the Crimean...

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9 December 1854

Alfred Tennyson 's famous poem about the Crimean War, The Charge of the Light Brigade, appeared in The Examiner.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
125, 143-4

Annie Tinsley: By 23 December 1854

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By 23 December 1854

AT , as the author of Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, published a novel with a female first-person protagonist, Women as They Are. By One of Them.
The title of Women as They...

Lydia Becker: 1855

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1855

LB 's mother, Mary Becker , died.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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Mathilde Blind: 1855

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1855

MB began attending the Ladies' Institute in St John's Wood, which was run by a clergyman's widow.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
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Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, pp. 1-43.
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Mathilde Blind: Between 1855 and 1858

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Between 1855 and 1858

MB and her schoolgirl friends at the Ladies' Institute in St John's Wood collaborated in writing poetry, a periodical, and even novels.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
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