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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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Caroline Frances Cornwallis : September 1857
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Author event in Caroline Frances Cornwallis
September 1857
The last article by
was Naval Education in Fraser's Magazine, presumably a follow-up to her Naval School on Board the Illustrious, which appeared in the same journal in April 1855.
Camilla Crosland: Autumn 1857
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Author event in Camilla Crosland
Autumn 1857
travelled to Italy with two female companions; she acted as a chaperone to a young heiress,
, who paid for their trip.
Harriet Tytler: September 1857
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September 1857
began painting and photographing the palace of the
, where she stayed following the British victory, because the buildings were scheduled for demolition.
Julia Stretton: By September 1857
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Author event in Julia Stretton
By September 1857
The widowed
(now author of three novels) married
, a former army lieutenant, who had acted as guardian to her children. She had probably already resigned the de Winton family...
Auguste Comte: 5 September 1857
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Jemima Tautphoeus: By 5 September 1857
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Author event in Jemima Tautphoeus
By 5 September 1857
(as the Baroness Tautphoeus) published her third novel, Quits, in three volumes; a
edition followed the next year.
Charlotte Riddell: 24 September 1857
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Author event in Charlotte Riddell
24 September 1857
married
, a civil engineer, whose family, though of Scottish origin, lived at Winson Green House in Staffordshire.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: By 26 September 1857
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Author event in Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
By 26 September 1857
, published, apparently anonymously, a book of verse entitled
, A Tale of the Italian Revolution.
Charlotte Yonge: Autumn 1857
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Author event in Charlotte Yonge
Autumn 1857
first left England when she travelled to Ireland to be a bridesmaid at the wedding of
.
October 1857: The National Association for the Promotion...
National or international item
October 1857
The
was organized in London.
Catherine Marsh : 7 October 1857
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7 October 1857
marked with a pamphlet, England's Sins and India's Martyrs, the Day of Humiliation set aside by the British government for prayer and fasting in response to the Indian Rebellion (or Mutiny) against...
Frances Isabella Duberly : 8 October 1857
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Author event in Frances Isabella Duberly
8 October 1857
embarked again with her
, this time from Queenstown (now Cobh or Cork) in Ireland, heading for Bombay in India after the Indian Mutiny. Again she was the only officer's wife...
Caroline Chisholm: November 1857
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November 1857
In deteriorating health,
moved with her husband, now Major
, from Melbourne to the village of Kyneton, Victoria.
Elizabeth Gaskell: November 1857
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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell
November 1857
Amidst scandal, and after months of revisions,
published her third edition of The Life of .
Susanna Moodie: November 1857
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Author event in Susanna Moodie
November 1857
became a medium, motivated partly by a desire to connect with her dead children, and began to receive mystical and political messages from an Anglo-Saxon Spirit supposedly born in London in 1025.
November 1857: Scottish missionary David Livingstone published...
Writing climate item
November 1857
Scottish missionary
published Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
November 1857-October 1859: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Virginians,...
Writing climate item
November 1857-October 1859
's novel The Virginians, sequel to Henry Esmond, appeared monthly, with Thackeray's illustrations.
5 November 1857: At a meeting of the London Philological Society,...
Writing climate item
5 November 1857
At a meeting of the London
,
(son of the poet and diarist
) proposed the compilation of what eventually became the Oxford English Dictionary.
9 November 1857: The first issue appeared of the US magazine...
Writing climate item
9 November 1857
The first issue appeared of the US magazine Atlantic Monthly. It set out to provide articles of an abstract and permanent value, while not ignoring the healthy appetite of the mind for entertainment in...
Frances Power Cobbe: 11 November 1857
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Emma Robinson: By 28 November 1857
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Author event in Emma Robinson
By 28 November 1857
Following the Matrimonial Causes Bill, the author of Whitefriars, etc. (that is,
) published Mauleverer's Divorce, A Story of a Woman's Wrongs, bearing the date 1858.
Catherine Marsh : December 1857
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Author event in Catherine Marsh
December 1857
At least some of the editions dated 1858 of
's most popular work, English Hearts and English Hands, or, The Railway and the Trenches, appeared in time for Christmas 1857. She published as...
Joseph Conrad: 3 December 1857
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3 December 1857
Novelist
was born in Berdyczew, in Russian-occupied Poland (now in Ukraine) an only child.
Mary Cowden Clarke: By 19 December 1857
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Author event in Mary Cowden Clarke
By 19 December 1857
completed a commission from
of New York to write World-noted Women; or, Types of Womanly Attributes of all Lands and Ages. This illustrated book was published in 1858.
Georgiana Craik: By later December 1857
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By later December 1857
published her first book, Riverston, in three volumes. It may be regarded as a novel or as a series of interconnected tales.