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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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Frances Sarah Hoey: 6 February 1858

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6 February 1858

Frances Sarah Stewart entered into her second marriage, this time to John Cashel Hoey , an Irish Roman Catholic writer and lawyer.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Julia Kavanagh: By 6 February 1858

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By 6 February 1858

JK published another three-volume novel, Adèle, A Tale.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1580 (1858): 176

11 February 1858: At Lourdes in the French Pyrenees, a fourteen-year-old...

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11 February 1858

At Lourdes in the French Pyrenees, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous , saw a vision which others identified as the Virgin Mary.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
279
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
268
Bell, David A. “Who mended Pierre’s leg?”. London Review of Books, 11 Nov. 1999, pp. 30-1.
30-1

Caroline Clive: By 20 February 1858

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By 20 February 1858

CC published her second novel, Year after Year, as by the author of Paul Ferroll.
Mitchell, Charlotte. Caroline Clive, 1801-1873, A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queenland, 1999.
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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.

20 February 1858: The Earl of Derby, Edward Stanley, a Conservative,...

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20 February 1858

The Earl of Derby, Edward Stanley , a Conservative, formed the British government for a second time.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

22 February 1858: Dion Boucicault's Jessie Brown; or The Relief...

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22 February 1858

Dion Boucicault 's Jessie Brown; or The Relief of Lucknow was first performed at Wallack's Theatre , New York.
Boucicault, Dion. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Plays, edited by Peter Thomson, Cambridge University Press, 1984, p. Various pages.
7, 101

March 1858: William Morris published his first volume...

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March 1858

William Morris published his first volume of poetry, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems.
Henderson, Philip. William Morris: His Life, Work, and Friends. Thames and Hudson, 1967.
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March 1858: The English Woman's Journal, a monthly magazine...

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March 1858

The English Woman's Journal, a monthly magazine on the theory and practice of organised feminism, began publication in London, with financial support from Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and others, under the editorship of...

17 March 1858: The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) was...

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17 March 1858

The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) was established on St Patrick's Day in Dublin by James Stephens . It was popularly known for more than a decade as the Fenians. Later this year John O'Mahony

Harriet Martineau: By 20 March 1858

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By 20 March 1858

HM published through Smith, Elder and Co.Suggestions Towards the Future Government of India.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1586 (1858): 365

Eliza Lynn Linton: 24 March 1858

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24 March 1858

Eliza Lynn married William James Linton , a wood-engraver and writer, but they lived together for less than ten years.
Layard, George Somes. Mrs. Lynn Linton: Her Life, Letters, and Opinions. Methuen, 1901.
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By 27 March 1858: The Report of the Commissioners appointed...

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By 27 March 1858

The Report of the Commissioners appointed to Inquire into the Regulations affecting the Sanitary Conditions of the Army, the Organization of Military Hospitals, and the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded had been universally diffused...

Matilda Hays: April 1858

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April 1858

An article by MH on Florence Nightingale and the English Soldier appeared in the English Woman's Journal.
Rendall, Jane. “A Moral Engine? Feminism, Liberalism and the English Womans JournalEqual or Different: Womens Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 112-38.
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9 April 1858: Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving...

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9 April 1858

Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving London University (then comprised of two schools, University College and King's College ) the revolutionary power of offering courses and degrees externally.
MacLeod, Donald. “All aboard the London-Delhi express”. Guardian Weekly, 28 Mar. 2008, p. 43.
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10 April 1858: An advertisement for Mudie's Circulating...

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10 April 1858

An advertisement for Mudie's Circulating Library boasted of its vast holdings of popular titles.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
(10 April 1858): 453

Mrs Alexander: 15 April 1858

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15 April 1858

Annie French married explorer and merchantAlexander Hector , who had returned to England a wealthy man after some years travelling and opening up trade routes abroad.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

15 April 1858: The Waverley: A Journal of Literature, Science...

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15 April 1858

The Waverley: A Journal of Literature, Science and General Information, formerly The Waverley Journal, ceased publication in London and Glasgow.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Ethel Smyth: 23 April 1858

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23 April 1858

ES was born at Sidcup in Kent.
St John, Christopher. Ethel Smyth. Longmans, Green, 1959.
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Collis, Louise. Impetuous Heart: The Story of Ethel Smyth. William Kimber, 1984.
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Smyth, Ethel. Impressions that Remained. Longmans, Green, 1919, 2 vols.
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Pandita Ramabai: 23 April 1858

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23 April 1858

Ramabai Dongre (later known as PR ) was born, probably in the Gangamul forest within the Mangalore District of Karnataka in Southern India.
Ramabai, Pandita. Pandita Ramabai Through Her Own Words: Selected Works. Kosambi, MeeraEditor & translator , Oxford University Press, 2000.
115, 116
Blumhofer, Edith L. “From India’s Coral Strand: Pandita Ramabai and U. S. Support for Foreign Missions”. The Foreign Mission Enterprise at Home, edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker, University of Alamaba Press, 2003, pp. 152-70.
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Elizabeth Sewell: By 24 April 1858

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By 24 April 1858

ES published another novel, Ursula, A Tale of Country Life, as the author of Amy Herbert.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1591 (1858): 529-30

Charles Dickens: June 1858

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June 1858

CD and his wife Catherine were formally separated.
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins, 1990.
817-19
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Emily Gerard: 1858

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1858

EG , not yet ten years old, suffered a serious illness and was confined to bed for nearly six months; this further developed her passion for reading.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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Edith Somerville: 2 May 1858

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2 May 1858

ES was born on the island of Corfu, off the coast of Greece.
Lewis, Gifford. Somerville and Ross: The World of the Irish R. M. Viking, 1985.
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Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press, 1972.
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3 May 1858: Rosa Brett made her exhibition debut, showing...

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3 May 1858

Rosa Brett made her exhibition debut, showing The Hayloft at the Royal Academy , under the pseudonym Rosarius.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
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Henrietta Camilla Jenkin: By 8 May 1858

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By 8 May 1858

HCJ published, anonymously, a novel entitled Violet Bank and Its Inmates, often wrongly taken to be her first.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1593 (1858): 593