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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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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1858: The Foreland lighthouse in Kent was the first...
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1858
The Foreland lighthouse in Kent was the first to be equipped with electrically powered arc lights.
1858: King Frederick William IV of Prussia had...
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1858
had a stroke which incapacitated him; his brother
became Regent.
1858: The innovative Female Mission to the Fallen...
1858
The innovative
was organized and funded by the
.
1858: Alexander Strahan, in partnership with William...
Writing climate item
1858
, in partnership with
, founded
in Edinburgh.
1858: F. W. Farrar, at that time a master at Harrow...
Writing climate item
1858
, at that time a master at
, published Eric, or Little by Little, a more Evangelical rival to Tom Brown's Schooldays by
, issued the previous year.
1858: Francis Hessey published Hints to District...
1858
published Hints to District Visitors, as a conduct manual for visitors on missions of charity.
1858: The Hogarth Club, a social and exhibiting...
1858
The
, a social and exhibiting club for Pre-Raphaelite artists, was founded in London.
1858: Jews in Britain first received full political...
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1858
Jews in Britain first received full political rights.
1858: The Anglican Community of St Mary the Virgin...
1858
The Anglican
was founded in Wymering, Hampshire.
1858: Rachel Felix, the celebrated tragic actress,...
1858
, the celebrated tragic actress, died of pulmonary consumption.
1858: The wharfdale stop-cylinder printing machine,...
Writing climate item
1858
The wharfdale stop-cylinder printing machine, invented by
, was introduced.
1858: Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to become the...
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1858
chose Ottawa to become the capital of Canada.
By 2 January 1858: Matthew Arnold's Merope: a Tragedy was p...
Writing climate item
By 2 January 1858
's Merope: a Tragedy was published.
George Eliot: 5 January 1858
Women writers item
Author event in George Eliot
5 January 1858
's Scenes of Clerical Life was published in two volumes composed of three short fictions already issued serially and anonymously in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
Caroline Frances Cornwallis : 8 January 1858
Women writers item
Author event in Caroline Frances Cornwallis
8 January 1858
Having been chronically ill for most of her life,
died at her home at Lidwells, near Goudhurst in Kent.
The ODNB wrongly gives the name of her house as Sidwells.
Beatrice Webb: 22 January 1858
Women writers item
Author event in Beatrice Webb
22 January 1858
Beatrice Potter (later
) was born at Standish House in Gloucestershire.
Constance Naden: 24 January 1858
Women writers item
Author event in Constance Naden
24 January 1858
was born at 15 Francis Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, the only child of her parents.
Queen Victoria: 25 January 1858
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Emily Davies: 1858
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Author event in Emily Davies
1858
met
and
in Algiers, and found in the latter the first person I had ever met who sympathized with my feeling of resentment at the subjection...
February-May 1858: Arthur Hugh Clough's epistolary poem Amours...
Writing climate item
February-May 1858
's epistolary poem Amours de Voyage was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
February 1858: Bessie Rayner Parkes described to George...
February 1858
described to
, in a letter, the limited company established by the Langham Place group to support The English Woman's Journal.
Eliza Fletcher: 5 February 1858
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Author event in Eliza Fletcher
5 February 1858
died in Edinburgh at eighty-eight, from the exhaustion of nature.
Constance Naden: 5 February 1858
Women writers item
Author event in Constance Naden
5 February 1858
's mother,
, died less than two weeks after giving birth: she scarce had time to greet the babe she bore, as her daughter later put it in a poem.
Dinah Mulock Craik: By 6 February 1858
Women writers item
Author event in Dinah Mulock Craik
By 6 February 1858
, as the author of John Halifax, Gentleman, advocated in A Woman's Thoughts About Women (now a monograph) wider opportunities and better education.
Adelaide Procter: 6 February 1858
Women writers item
Author event in Adelaide Procter
6 February 1858
A week before Valentine's Day,
's poem A Woman's Question appeared anonymously in Household Words. It manages both to evoke and critique the unequal ideal of bourgeois Victorian marriage.