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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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1859: The Midnight Meeting Movement provided late...
1859
The
provided late night gospel services to prostitutes in London.
1859: A monthly periodical for women entitled the...
Writing climate item
1859
A monthly periodical for women entitled the What-Not, or Ladies' Handy-Book began publication in London.
1859: Albert Napper founded the first rural charity...
1859
founded the first rural charity hospital named the
; by the end of the century there were approximately 300 such hospitals.
1859: Future anti-slavery lecturer and Bedford...
1859
Future anti-slavery lecturer and
graduate
, an African American from the northern US, arrived in England.
1859: Augusta Jane Evans published Beulah, a popular...
Writing climate item
1859
published Beulah, a popular domestic novel or bildungsroman about an orphaned young woman in the southern USA.
1859: Artist James McNeill Whistler moved to L...
1859
Artist
moved to London.
1859: The public was shocked to hear that eminent...
1859
The public was shocked to hear that eminent physician and psychiatrist
had operated on a kickback system, receiving a 15% commission for each person he certified to confinement at
.
1859: The Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy...
National or international item
1859
The Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy stated that licences for private insane asylums would be granted only to qualified male medical practitioners.
Between 1859 and 1866: Mildred Holland, wife of the vicar William...
Between 1859 and 1866
, wife of the vicar William Holland, spent many hours during these years in the parish church of Huntingfield in Suffolk, gilding, lettering and painting th[e] most glorious of small church roofs...
1859: The Bradford Temperance Society, England's...
1859
The
, England's first temperance organization, was bailed out of debt by
, a prominent brewer.
8 January 1897: The magazine Country Life began publication...
Writing climate item
8 January 1897
The magazine Country Life began publication (titled at first Country Life Illustrated).
1859: The London Post Office Street Directory of...
1859
The London Post Office Street Directory of this year listed two businesses designating themselves as Servants' Bazaars, stores catering exclusively to the servant classes.
1859: American physician William Stout Chipley...
1859
American physician
offered the first description of sitomania, a phase of insanity characterized by an intense dread of food; the symptoms resembled what was later called anorexia nervosa.
January 1859: W. R. Greg's essay "False Morality of Lady...
Writing climate item
January 1859
's essay "False Morality of Lady Novelists" was published in the National Review in London.
Grace Elliott: By 8 January 1859
Women writers item
Author event in Grace Elliott
By 8 January 1859
published from manuscript
's Journal of My Life during the French Revolution, whose existence he had heard about from her grand-daughter.
Lydia Howard Sigourney: 21 January 1859
Writing climate item
Author event in Lydia Howard Sigourney
21 January 1859
's The Daily Counsellor was published at Hartford dated 1858. It provides a poem for each day of the year, each one based on a passage of scripture and therefore suitable for devotional meditation.
21 January 1859: Henry Hallam, historian and father of Arthur...
Writing climate item
21 January 1859
, historian and father of
, died.
Geraldine Jewsbury: By 22 January 1859
Women writers item
Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury
By 22 January 1859
published her last novel, Right or Wrong, in two volumes.
Katharine Tynan: 23 January 1859
Women writers item
Author event in Katharine Tynan
23 January 1859
was born at South Richmond Street, South Circular Road, Dublin.
Scholars of the 1970s, as well as entries in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, volumes 153 and 240, and Contemporary Authors...
Isa Craig: 25 January 1859
Women writers item
Author event in Isa Craig
25 January 1859
was awarded first prize of fifty guineas at the Burns Centenary Festival for her Ode on
.
Some sources give the year of this event wrongly.
Grace Elliott: 28 January 1859
Women writers item
Author event in Grace Elliott
28 January 1859
followed his edition of
's manuscript journals with a publicising letter about them in the Times.
George Eliot: 1 February 1859
Women writers item
Author event in George Eliot
1 February 1859
published her first novel, Adam Bede, in three volumes under her fairly new pseudonym of George Eliot.
Queen Victoria: February 1859
National or international item
Author event in Queen Victoria
February 1859
's eldest daughter,
, gave birth a year after her marriage to a son nicknamed Willie, who later became
.
February 1859: Richard Bentley began publishing the short-lived...
Writing climate item
February 1859
began publishing the short-lived Bentley's Quarterly Review.
Christina Rossetti: 15 February 1859
Women writers item
Author event in Christina Rossetti
15 February 1859
composed the desolate poem , which pays elegiac tribute to a female predecessor.