Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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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Maria Abdy: 1856
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Mrs Alexander: 1856
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Author event in Mrs Alexander
1856
Billeted in Boulogne, a story by Annie French Hector (later
) appeared in Household Words.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell: January 1856
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Author event in Antoinette Brown Blackwell
January 1856
and
were married in Henrietta. The ceremony was performed by Antoinette's
.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Early 1856
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Author event in Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Early 1856
A second edition of appeared of A Brief Summary of women's legal position by
(soon to be Barbara Bodichon).
Mary Cowden Clarke: 1856 - 1861
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Author event in Mary Cowden Clarke
1856 - 1861
, her
, and her brother
(now retired) lived at Nice (which then meant living in Italy), with her widowed
and her sister Sabilla.
Mary Cowden Clarke: 1856
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Author event in Mary Cowden Clarke
1856
published a parody of Hiawatha by
: The Song of Drop o' Wather by Harry Wandsworth Shortfellow.
Mary Cowden Clarke: 1856
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Author event in Mary Cowden Clarke
1856
published A Treatise upon Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration, translated from the French of
.
Caroline Frances Cornwallis : January 1856
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Author event in Caroline Frances Cornwallis
January 1856
's historical article History of the House of Savoy was published anonymously under her initials in The Westminster Review.
This was a topical subject: two years after this
was planning to...
Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1856
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Author event in Sarah Stickney Ellis
1856
in her novel The Mother's Mistake entreats mothers to attend closely to their children's inborn temperaments.
Ellen Wood: 1856
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1856
Upon their return from France,
and her family settled temporarily in a furnished house at Upper Norwood, a suburb of London.
Jane Williams: 1856
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Author event in Jane Williams
1856
moved from Wales to London, where she had spent her earliest years and where she now lived until her death in 1885.
Jane Williams: 1856
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Author event in Jane Williams
1856
published The Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Paper People, with illustrations by
, which describes the world of paper people created by herself and her siblings during her childhood.
Charlotte Maria Tucker : 1856
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Author event in Charlotte Maria Tucker
1856
, under her pseudonym A.L.O.E., published the allegorical children's book The Giant-Killer; or, The Battle which All Must Fight; further editions or reprints soon followed..
Frances Trollope: 1856
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Author event in Frances Trollope
1856
's thirty-fourth and final novel, Fashionable Life; or, Paris and London, appeared.
Helen Taylor: Probably later 1856
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Author event in Helen Taylor
Probably later 1856
At twenty-five, despite her
's disapproval,
set out to attempt a career as an intellectual actress.
Elizabeth Strickland: 1856
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Author event in Elizabeth Strickland
1856
bought a house at Tilford in Surrey. Her sister
visited often during the next decade, but did not live there.
Elizabeth Stone: 1856
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Author event in Elizabeth Stone
1856
published her last novel, this time intended for children, Ellen Merton; or, The Pic-nic.
Menella Bute Smedley: 1856
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Author event in Menella Bute Smedley
1856
, as S. M., published her first volume of poetry: Lays and Ballads from English History.
Caroline Scott: 1856
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1856
In the same year as her final novel,
published under her name the first of her religious writings: a book of theological piety, Exposition of the Types and Antitypes of the Old and New...
Emma Robinson: 1856
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Sarah Josepha Hale: 1856
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Author event in Sarah Josepha Hale
1856
edited both The Letters of
, to Her Daughter and Friends and The Letters of
.
Anna Mary Howitt: 1856
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Author event in Anna Mary Howitt
1856
published a short novel with a frontispiece and a didactic aim, entitled The School of Life.
Mary Howitt: 1856
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1856
's friendship with
came to an end; her biography blames this on the mutual coldness of their respective husbands.
was alienated on hearing stories that William took surreptitious notes...
Geraldine Jewsbury: 1856
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Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury
1856
met scientist and explorer
; a passionate friendship and correspondence ensued after he returned to New Zealand.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: 1856
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Author event in Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
1856
published another novel, Very Successful!, in three volumes.