Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
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15 May 1858: The third Covent Garden Theatre of the century...
15 May 1858
The third
of the century was opened.
Anna Steele: 27 May 1858
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27 May 1858
, probably still in her teens, married Lieutenant-Colonel
of the
.
Margaret Oliphant: 28 May 1858
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28 May 1858
's fifth, and third surviving, child, Stephen Thomas, died at nine weeks old.
Mathilde Blind: Mid 1858
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Mid 1858
was expelled from school for atheism, having come to disbelieve the Biblical version of creation for a scientific one based on geology.
Caroline Chisholm: By June 1858
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By June 1858
Suffering from kidney disease,
had become seriously ill and moved to Sydney for medical treatment from Dr
.
Elizabeth Gaskell: June-September 1858
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June-September 1858
Household Words carried
's short historical novel My Lady Ludlow; the stories The Sin of a Father (later retitled Right at Last) and A House to Let (later The Manchester Marriage) appeared later that year.
Margaret Oliphant: June 1858
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June 1858
Blackwood's published
's Religious Memoirs, a review containing an early expression of her dislike of pious deathbed scenes which play on the reader's feelings.
June 1858: The appointment of Potatau Te Wherowhero...
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June 1858
The appointment of
initiated the King Movement for Maori federation, with the aim of co-ordinating opposition to British forces and land encroachment during the ongoing New Zealand wars.
Emily Shirreff: By 5 June 1858
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By 5 June 1858
published her lengthy essay Intellectual Education and Its Influence on the Character and Happiness of Women.
Adelaide Procter: By 5 June 1858
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By 5 June 1858
The first series of
's Legends and Lyrics appeared, dedicated to her beloved sister feminist
.
Many but not all of the poems had been previously published in Household Words.
Catherine Gore : By early June 1858
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Isabella Hamilton Robinson: 14 June 1858
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14 June 1858
's court case claiming divorce from his wife,
, on grounds of her adultery, based largely on her diary, opened in
, London. It was presented over five days.
F. Mabel Robinson: 16 June 1858
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16 June 1858
was born at Milverton near Leamington in Warwickshire, the younger of two daughters.
Jane Loudon: 18 June 1858
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18 June 1858
spent the entire day in her library, sorting and burning private papers. She destroyed every scrap of paper marked with her handwriting.
Amelia B. Edwards: By 19 June 1858
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By 19 June 1858
set her novel Hand and Glove in the French countryside.
Elizabeth Stone: By 19 June 1858
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By 19 June 1858
published God's Acre; or, Historical Notices relating to Churchyards.
One of the two copies in the
has a new leaf replacing the original pages 187-8, which were cancelled.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: 21 June 1858
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21 June 1858
Rosina Bulwer Lytton (later
) was committed to a lunatic asylum by her estranged husband,
, after she made a public speech in Hertford against his candidacy for parliament as...
Maria Theresa Longworth : 26 June 1858
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26 June 1858
Less than a year after his Irish marriage to
,
repudiated it and married, with all proper forms,
, the widow of naturalist Edward Forbes.
Jane Marcet: 28 June 1858
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28 June 1858
died in her late eighties, at her daughter's house at 14 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, London.
End of June 1858: A heatwave combined with the discharge of...
End of June 1858
A heatwave combined with the discharge of raw sewage into the Thames brought to a climax terrible conditions of water pollution in London which became known as the Great Stink.
1 July 1858: Papers on the theory of natural selection...
1 July 1858
Papers on the theory of natural selection by
and
were read at a meeting of the
.
July 1858: Napoleon III and Cavour met secretly at Plombières...
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July 1858
and
met secretly at Plombières in the Vosges to plot war against Austria.
Anne Manning: By 3 July 1858
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By 3 July 1858
's The Ladies of Bever Hollow, A Tale of English Country Life, another novel as by the author of Mary Powell, is one of her books with a contemporary setting; it was...
Jane Loudon: 13 July 1858
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13 July 1858
died at her home, 3 Porchester Terrace, London, of heart disease.
Emmeline Pankhurst: 14 July 1858
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14 July 1858
According to her own account, generally accepted,
, later
, was born on this day in Manchester, the eldest of ten children. Her birth certificate, however, says the 15th.