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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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Jessie White Mario: 19 December 1857

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19 December 1857

After their release from jail in Italy for involvement in a nationalist plot, Jessie White married Alberto Mario , Italian scholar, journalist, and liberationist, in a civil ceremony at Portsmouth in England.
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.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
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O’Connor, Maura. The Romance of Italy and the English Political Imagination. St Martin’s Press, 1998.
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Later 1857: R. M. Ballantyne published his hugely popular...

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Later 1857

R. M. Ballantyne published his hugely popular boys' story The Coral Island; the title-page bore the following year's date.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
63
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
147
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Wife Overboard”. London Review of Books, LRB, 20 Jan. 2000, pp. 35-6.
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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 1858-1864

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1858-1864

BLSB was involved with The English Woman's Journal, helping with various activities while in England and assisting it financially, in addition to contributing articles.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
134-5, 144

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 1858

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1858

On her trip to America, BLSB visited the Englewood School at Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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Fredrika Bremer: 1858

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1858

FB's final novel, Father and Daughter, written during her two months in Rome, was published.
Stendahl, Brita K. The Education of a Self-Made Woman. The Edwin Mellen Press, 1994, https://archive.org/details/educationofselfm0000sten/mode/2up?q=%22geijer%22+%22stina%22+%22boklin%22.
155-56, Chronology

Richard Francis Burton: 1858-1859

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1858-1859

With John Speke and sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society , RFB sought in Africa for the source of the Nile, covering what is now Sudan and Uganda.
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols.

Charlotte Chanter: 1858

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1858

CC and her husband, John Mill Chanter , published under their initials an illustrated collection of children's tales, Jack Frost and Betty Snow.
Chanter, John Mill. Wanderings in North Devon. Editor Chanter, Gratiana, Twiss and Son, 1887.
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Isa Craig: 1858

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1858

Annual Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science began to appear under IC 's editorship, including some of the earliest reports of women's public, modern political speech in Britain.
For...

Emily Davies: 1858

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1858

ED went to Algiers to care for her brother Henry .
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
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Elizabeth Gaskell: January 1858

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January 1858

EG 's gothic family tale of several generations The Doom of the Griffiths, which she had started in the 1830s, was one of several of her stories to appear in Harper's Magazine.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
122, 618

Anna Letitia Waring : 1858

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1858

ALW 's second, smaller volume appeared, entitled Additional Hymns and containing fourteen pieces.
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.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 306

Mary Augusta Ward: 1858-1860

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1858-1860

Mary Augusta Arnold (later MAW ) attended the school for girls at Ambleside run by Anne Clough (later first Principal of Newnham ).
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Annie Louisa Walker: 1858

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1858

ALW moved from Pointe-Lévy, Lower Canada (Quebec), where she had been brought up, to Sarnia, Upper Canada (Ontario), with her parents and sisters.
Pointe-Lévy, now the name of a district, was then used to signify...

Charlotte Maria Tucker : 1858

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1858

CMT , as A.L.O.E., published a religious children's book, Precepts in Practice; or, Stories illustrating the Proverbs.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Anthony Trolllope: Between 1858 and 1867

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Between 1858 and 1867

AT continued to extend the Chronicles of Barsetshire series: during these years he added to it four more novels.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
191, 232, 362, 584

Annie Tinsley: 1858

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1858

AT published three works this year: The Cruelest Wrong of All, in one volume (8 May), Fellow Travellers, in three volumes, and Rising in the World, serialised in the Family Herald.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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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.
1593 (8 May 1858): 592-3

Harriet Taylor: By 1858

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By 1858

HT , whose health had long been in decline, was recognized as having advanced tuberculosis.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2026, 2 vols.
209

Mary Sewell: 1858

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1858

MS and her family moved to Blue Lodge in Wick, a small village near both Bath and Bristol.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Sewell: 1858

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1858

MS published Homely Ballads for the Working Man's Fireside, for private circulation.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

James Malcolm Rymer: Biography: 1858

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1858

JMR 's The Life Raft: a Tale of the Sea was serialized under the pseudonym M. J. Errym in Reynolds's Miscellany, which became a major outlet for him in his new partnership with its...

Charlotte Riddell: Early 1858

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Early 1858

CR published another novel, The Rich Husband, as by the author of The Ruling Passion, with the publisher Charles Skeet (who chose the book's title).
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press, 1931.
323, 276
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Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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Hannah Mary Rathbone: 28 August 1858

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28 August 1858

HMR published, with her name and a reminder of her famous fictional diary, a poetry volume entitled The Strawberry Girl, with other thoughts and fancies in verse.
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.
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.

Anna Maria Hall: 1858

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1858

AMH published in one volume The Governess. A Tale from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
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.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
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Frances Ridley Havergal : 1858

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1858

FRH composed I Gave my Life for Thee, the first of her hymns to be published; it appeared in Good Words two years later.
Chappell, Jennie. Women Who Have Worked and Won. Pickering and Inglis, 1928.
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“Like a River Glorious by Frances R. Havergal”. Havergal Trust: Products.
Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham, and Frances Ridley Havergal. Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal. J. Nisbet, 1883.
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Mary Catherine Hume: 1858

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1858

MCH stayed for several months in Florence with her friend Countess Sophia Cottrell , daughter of Charles Augustus Tulk .
Sophia Tulk married Henry Cottrell , whose position as chamberlain to the Duke of Lucca...