Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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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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Helen Blackburn: 1859
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Mathilde Blind: 1859
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1859
delighted in the bodily freedom and aesthetic pleasures of a solitary walking tour through the Swiss Alps.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 1859
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1859
A New York edition of
's Women and Work appeared, with a preface by
.
Jessie Boucherett: 1859
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Author event in Jessie Boucherett
1859
moved to London, where she became involved with the women who were active in the English Woman's Journal.
Selina Bunbury: 1859
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1859
published her earliest travel-book in final form: My First Travels: Including Rides in the Pyrenees, Scenes During an Inundation at Avignon, Sketches in France and Savoy, Visits to Convents and Houses...
Jessie Ellen Cadell: 1859
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1859
Jessie Ellen Nash (later
) left England for India with her
and
while she was still in her teens.
Ada Cambridge: About 1859
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About 1859
and her family moved to Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and shortly thereafter to Egremont Street in Ely, Cambridgeshire, when her
began making a living through travelling sales.
Mary Carpenter: Early 1859
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Author event in Mary Carpenter
Early 1859
In The Claims of Ragged Schools to Pecuniary Educational Aid from the Annual Parliamentary Grant,
expounded the conditions of ragged schools and the difficulties faced by those in charge of them.
Frances Power Cobbe: 1859
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1859
began visiting workhouses and became interested in the plight of workhouse girls.
Dinah Mulock Craik: 1859
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1859
moved to a house named Wildwood, close to Hampstead just north of London.
Dinah Mulock Craik: 1859
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Author event in Dinah Mulock Craik
1859
first published a collected volume of her Poems; this preceded further collections of Poems which appeared in 1880 and 1888.
The text of the 1866 Boston edition is available online at the...
Catherine Crowe: 1859
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Charlotte Yonge: 1859-1874
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1859-1874
undertook the advising of a group of girls and young women calling themselves the goslings; she periodically met with some of them in London.
Mary Somerville: From 1859
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From 1859
, having lived in Italy for more than twenty years, sympathised with the movement for Italian unification.
Christina Rossetti: Early 1859
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Early 1859
worked with reformed prostitutes as an associate of the
, at Park House in Highgate.
Bessie Rayner Parkes : 1859
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Author event in Bessie Rayner Parkes
1859
received a legacy of £150 per annum and began gradually to amass considerable wealth; by the end of four years she had become the primary shareholder of the English Woman's Journal.
Julia Pardoe: 1859
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1859
's final novel, and also her final publication, was A Life-Struggle, which appeared this year..
Ouida: By January 1859
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By January 1859
was living at Bessborough House, Ravenscourt Park, Hammersmith, where she met her first publisher,
(then editor of Bentley's Miscellany).
Frances E. W. Harper: 1859
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Author event in Frances E. W. Harper
1859
The Two Offers by Frances Watkins (later
), carried this year in the Anglo-African Magazine, is considered the first short story published by an African-American woman.
Mary Howitt: 1859
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1859
published with Marion's Pilgrimage, A Fire-side Story, and Other Poems.
Ellen Johnston: 1859
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Harriet Hamilton King: Around 1859
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Around 1859
began work on her first significant poem, The Execution of , which paid homage to the Italian nationalist movement.
John Stuart Mill: 1859
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1859
published the first two volumes of his Dissertations and Discussions.
Hannah More: 1859
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1859
Even as late as this the title of
's novel seems still to have had selling power: a comic narrative poem appeared entitled Coelebs the Younger in Search of a Wife; or the Drawing-Room...
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 1 January 1859
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Author event in Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
1 January 1859
published Passages from My Autobiography, edited by
from her diaries and letters.