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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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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Hannah Cullwick: August 1856-March 1861
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August 1856-March 1861
worked for the Jacksons, who lived at Carlton Villas in Kilburn.
Florence Nightingale : August 1856
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August 1856
People in England became convinced that
was critically ill in Crimea;
composed an obituary celebrating her life and achievements.
Jessie White Mario: 2 August 1856
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2 August 1856
Jessie White (later
) published her translation of the Italian revolutionary
's graphic The Austrian Dungeons in Italy, which had not yet reached print.
Orsini was later executed after making an...
By 2 August 1856: Jane Margaret Strickland published a novel,...
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By 2 August 1856
published a novel, Adonijah, a tale of the Jewish Dispersion; it was shortly attacked by
in Silly Novels by Lady Novelists as one of the deplorable types of fiction...
Harriet Beecher Stowe: 23 August 1856
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23 August 1856
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp,
's second anti-slavery novel, was published in England; Stowe had travelled to that country to secure the British copyright in order to protect her royalties.
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 29 August 1856
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Charlotte Chanter: By 30 August 1856
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By 30 August 1856
's first publication was Ferny Combes: A Ramble after Ferns in the Glens and Valleys of Devonshire, about the country of her childhood and also of her married life.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Autumn 1856
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Autumn 1856
Barbara Leigh Smith, later
, suffered a second nervous breakdown; she went to Algiers to recover.
Charlotte Riddell: By 6 September 1856
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By 6 September 1856
Charlotte Cowan (later
) published Zuriel's Grandchild, A Novel, under the pseudonym of R. V. M. Sparling: it was her second book, but her first to appear at London.
15 September 1856: Marie Wilton made her London stage debut...
15 September 1856
made her London stage debut at the
, aged seventeen.
George Eliot: 22 September 1856
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22 September 1856
began work on her first published fiction, The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton, which in due course became part of Scenes of Clerical Life.
Christina Rossetti: 30 September 1856
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30 September 1856
completed The Lowest Room, a poem that has been considered paradigmatic of her self-positioning; it appeared in Macmillan's in March 1864.
Caroline Frances Cornwallis : October 1856
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October 1856
's article The Property of Married Women appeared under her initials in The Westminster Review; it was the first of her two influential pieces on the inequities suffered by women.
Isa Craig: October 1856
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October 1856
's earliest contributions to the Waverley Journal (precursor of the English Woman's Journal) were made in conjunction with
, whom she had recently met when Parkes visited Edinburgh.
George Eliot: October 1856
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October 1856
published anonymously in the Westminster Review her most notorious essay, and a major critical statement on fiction: Silly Novels by Lady Novelists.
Mary Augusta Ward: October 1856-1858
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October 1856-1858
Mary Augusta Arnold (later
) lived with her paternal grandmother and her aunt
at Fox How, Ambleside, in the Lake District, after her parents settled in Dublin.
Bessie Rayner Parkes : October 1856
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October 1856
and
began writing for the Waverley Journal, by ladies for the cultivation of the memorable, the progressive and the beautiful, which in 1857 was succeeded by the English...
October 1856: Kentucky-born white woman Mattie Griffith...
Writing climate item
October 1856
Kentucky-born white woman
published her fictionalised Autobiography of a Female Slave.
1 October-15 December 1856: Gustave Flaubert serially published his first...
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1 October-15 December 1856
serially published his first novel, Madame Bovary, in the Revue de Paris.
Mary Ann Kelty: 4 October 1856
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4 October 1856
addressed her little poetry volume Waters of Comfortto the thoughtful and suffering.
8 October 1856: War between Britain and China followed the...
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8 October 1856
War between Britain and China followed the Chinese seizure of the British ship Arrow.
Vernon Lee: 14 October 1856
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14 October 1856
Violet Paget (later
) was born at the St Léonard chateau near Boulogne-sur-Mer in France.
28 October 1856: The Anglican Sisterhood of Mercy of Devonport...
28 October 1856
The Anglican
was amalgamated with the
to found
.
The...
Mary Fortune: Late 1856
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Author event in Mary Fortune
Late 1856
gave birth to a second and perhaps illegitimate son in Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia; the father is unlikely to have been her husband
.
Elizabeth Gaskell: November 1856
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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell
November 1856
While researching her biography of
,
was warned by
that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors.