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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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Geraldine Jewsbury: 1858-autumn 1880

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Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury

1858-autumn 1880

GJ was a publisher's reader for the leading firm of Richard Bentley and Son , a position she held until she died.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1977.
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Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880: 1858

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Author event in Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880

1858

Sarah Lewis and her husband, Sylvanus D. Lewis , divorced; after that she began several years of extensive European travels.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.
13: 571

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: 1858

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1858

Rosina Bulwer Lytton (later Baroness Lytton) published The World and His Wife; or, A Person of Consequence, a Photographic Novel, in three volumes.
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
xxxv

Catherine Marsh : 1858

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Author event in Catherine Marsh

1858

Under the name the Author of English Hearts and English Hands and Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars, CM published a working-class railway biography, A Light for the Line; Or, The Story of Thomas Ward

Florence Nightingale : 1858

Women writers item
Author event in Florence Nightingale

1858

FN was elected to the Royal Statistical Society .
Dolan, Josephine A. Nursing In Society: A Historical Perspective. Saunders, 1973.
171

Florence Nightingale : 1858

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Author event in Florence Nightingale

1858

FN privately published her two-volume report Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army.
Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses, 1962.
50-2

Anne Ogle: 1858-9

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Author event in Anne Ogle

1858-9

AO left England and travelled through Europe with her family, making stops at various places in Italy.
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.

Adelaide O'Keeffe: 1858

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Author event in Adelaide O'Keeffe

1858

Lord Melbourne , who got Sydney Morgan her Crown pension of £300 a year, refused to increase AOK 's annual award of £50.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

1858: The Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, began the...

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1858

The Adelaide Hospital , Dublin, began the first secular training programme for nurses in Ireland.
Scanlan, Pauline. The Irish Nurse: A Study of Nursing in Ireland. Drumlin, 1991.
71

1858: Brothers William and Edward Tinsley formed...

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1858

Brothers William and Edward Tinsley formed a partnership as the Tinsley Brothers , publishers, at 18 Catherine Street, Strand, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 299-300

1858: George Washington Wilson produced the first...

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1858

George Washington Wilson produced the first snapshot photograph, of Princes Street in Edinburgh.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
76, 78

January 1858: In an unsuccessful assassination attempt,...

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January 1858

In an unsuccessful assassination attempt, Felice Orsini , a follower of Mazzini , threw a bomb at the carriage of Napoleon III and Eugénie as they made their way to the Opera House in Paris.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
229

1858: Charles Frederick Worth, founder of grande...

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1858

Charles Frederick Worth , founder of grande couture (later haute couture), opened a dressmaking business with Otto Gustaf Bobergh at 7 rue de la Paix, Paris.
Perrot, Philippe. Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Bienvenu, Richard, Princeton University Press, 1994.
184
de Marly, Diana. Worth: Father of Haute Couture. Elm Tree Books, 1980.
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1858: Blind Tom Bethune, later a popular black...

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1858

Blind Tom Bethune , later a popular black performer in British concert halls, gave his first public performance in Savannah, Georgia.
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and its Business. Oxford University Press, 1988.
218-19

1858: Dr John Brown published at Edinburgh his...

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1858

Dr John Brown published at Edinburgh his first volume of essays, entitled Horae Subsecivae.
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.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1858: Although English asylums were moving towards...

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1858

Although English asylums were moving towards a system of regulation based on mental control, in this year at least one provincial madhouse was still using mechanical restraints to subdue women inmates.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
31

1858: English Baptist Alfred Saker settled in the...

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1858

English Baptist Alfred Saker settled in the Cameroons to establish a mission.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
318

1858: The first British music hall agency was started...

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1858

The first British music hall agency was started by Ambrose Maynard .
Taylor, John Russell, editor. The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre. 3rd ed., Penguin, 1993.
77

January 1858: The first issue of The Atlantis was published,...

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January 1858

The first issue of The Atlantis was published, a scholarly journal edited by J. H. Newman (Rector of the new Catholic University of Ireland ), with William K. Sullivan .
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: 53-4, 55, 56, 59

1858: The Female Mission to the Fallen was organized...

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1858

The Female Mission to the Fallen was organized by the Reformatory and Refuge Union .
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
109

1858: After a terrible explosion in the ironworks...

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1858

After a terrible explosion in the ironworks at Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, a group of women opened an emergency hospital; this was later to become the Anglican Community of the Holy Rood .
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
371-2

1858: Louisa Twining became secretary of the newly-founded...

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1858

Louisa Twining became secretary of the newly-founded Workhouse Visiting Society .
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
176

1858: Arthur Russell Mowbray set up a bookshop...

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1858

Arthur Russell Mowbray set up a bookshop at 2 Cornmarket Street, Oxford.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 209

1858: The Ladies' Treasury, a monthly periodical,...

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1858

The Ladies' Treasury, a monthly periodical, began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1858: German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt began publishing...

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1858

German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt began publishing his influential Beiträge zur Theorie der Sinneswahrnehmung (Contributions to the Theory of Sensory Perception), completed in 1862.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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