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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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Mary Taylor: 20 May 1859
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Author event in Mary Taylor
20 May 1859
After fourteen years living in Wellington,
set sail aboard the Seagull for England.
Fanny Aikin Kortright: By 21 May 1859
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Author event in Fanny Aikin Kortright
By 21 May 1859
published The Dean; or, The Popular Preacher, A Tale, under the pseudonym Berkeley Aikin.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 22 May 1859
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Author event in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
22 May 1859
was born at 11 Picardy Place in Edinburgh; he was the third in a large family, and the eldest boy.
Sources differ about the number of children. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
Harriet Martineau: By 28 May 1859
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Author event in Harriet Martineau
By 28 May 1859
's England and Her Soldiers took up
's cause of sanitary reform in the army.
Ella Baker: 29 May 1859
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George Eliot: 30 May 1859
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Author event in George Eliot
30 May 1859
The editor of the Times learned
's identity; next month the secret was out, and by the end of the year she effectively abandoned her incognito as far as friends and literary acquaintances were...
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: June 1859
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Author event in Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
June 1859
exhibited her paintings at the French Gallery in London.
Georgiana Chatterton : 1 June 1859
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Author event in Georgiana Chatterton
1 June 1859
married her second husband,
, writer and former army officer.
Elizabeth Rigby: June-July 1859
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Author event in Elizabeth Rigby
June-July 1859
(Lady Eastlake) left London and travelled to the Baltic Provinces (now in Estonia, then in Russia) to visit her sister there, who was ailing.
June 1859: Alfred Tennyson published the first four...
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June 1859
published the first four poems in his sequence The Idylls of the King.
Isabella Beeton: 3 June 1859
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Author event in Isabella Beeton
3 June 1859
's second son, again named Samuel Orchart after his father, was born; he too died early, this time at the age of three.
Other biographers date this birth five months later.
4 June 1859: Household Words merged with Charles Dickens's...
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4 June 1859
Household Words merged with
's new periodical All the Year Round.
6 June 1859: Queensland was proclaimed a separate colony...
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6 June 1859
Queensland was proclaimed a separate colony from New South Wales.
Mary Cholmondeley: 8 June 1859
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Author event in Mary Cholmondeley
8 June 1859
was born in the rectory at Hodnet in Shropshire; she was the first daughter and third child in a family of eight.
George Sand: By 11 June 1859
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Author event in George Sand
By 11 June 1859
Two years after
's death,
published Elle et lui, detailing her side of her affair with him, and vividly recalling details from twenty-five years earlier.
June 12 1859: The Whig Party reformed under the leadership...
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June 12 1859
The
reformed under the leadership of
, as the
.
Catharine Parr Traill: 21 June 1859
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Author event in Catharine Parr Traill
21 June 1859
's husband
, who had never properly recovered from the loss of their home, died.
24 June 1859: The battle of Solferino was fought: journalist...
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24 June 1859
The battle of Solferino was fought: journalist
documented the agonies of wounded soldiers left to die on the battlefield, and set out to prevent such suffering for the future.
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 25 June 1859
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Author event in Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
25 June 1859
's niece
published, as its editor, her Principles of Beauty (reworked from her earlier Theory on Beauty), together with two shorter unpublished works.
Henrietta Camilla Jenkin: By June 1859
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Author event in Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
By June 1859
's anti-slavery novel Cousin Stella; or, Conflict, published as by the author of Violet Bank and set mostly in Jamaica in the early 1830s, was the one that made her name.
30 June 1859: The acrobat Blondin successfully crossed...
30 June 1859
The acrobat
successfully crossed the Niagara Falls on a tightrope 1,300 feet long.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: July 1859
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George Eliot: July 1859
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Author event in George Eliot
July 1859
's gothic tale The Lifted Veil appeared in Blackwood's, anonymously instead of under her pseudonym.
Mary Sewell: July 1859
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Author event in Mary Sewell
July 1859
published The Children of Summerbrook: Scenes of Village Life, Described in Simple Verse.
Village in this context connotes the affairs of the working classes, rather than all those connected with the village.
Geraldine Jewsbury: July 1859
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