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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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July 1859: Napoleon III of France and Francis Joseph...

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July 1859

Napoleon III of France and Francis Joseph of Austria signed the Treaty of Villafranca.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
230, 234

July-October 1859: Charles Reade's historical sensation novel...

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July-October 1859

Charles Reade 's historical sensation novel The Cloister and the Hearth was serialised as A Good Fight in Once A Week.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
133, 523

Anna Eliza Bray: By 2 July 1859

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By 2 July 1859

AEB edited the Poetical Remains, Social, Sacred, and Miscellaneous of her late second husband, Edward Atkyns Bray .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 50
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

Adelaide Procter: Early July 1859

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Author event in Adelaide Procter

Early July 1859

The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (for which AP , with Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and others, had opened an office) met for the first time.
Thomas, Leesther. A Poetry of Deliverance with Tractarian Affinities: A Study of Adelaide A. Procter’s Poetry. Florida State University, 1994.
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2 July 1859: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...

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2 July 1859

William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans began publishing a sixpenny periodical entitled Once a Week.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
79, 479-80
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.

James Malcolm Rymer: Biography: July 6th 1859

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July 6th 1859

JMR married his second wife, Sarah Rebecca (1824-1909). She was a former governess and the daughter of well-known Chartist and journalist William Carpenter .
Collins, Dick. “James Malcolm Rymer (1814 - 1884)”. The Literary Encyclopedia, 18 June 2008.

7 July 1859: The first meeting of the Society for Promoting...

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7 July 1859

The first meeting of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women was held in London; founding members included Anna Jameson , Emily Faithfull , Jessie Boucherett , Adelaide Procter , Bessie Rayner Parkes , Isa Craig , and Sarah Lewin .
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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Caroline Chisholm: 8 July 1859

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8 July 1859

CC delivered a public lecture at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Sydney;it was printed the next day in the Empire and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Chisholm, Caroline. Radical, in Bonnet and Shawl: Four Political Lectures. Editor Moran, John, Preferential Publications, 1994.
13-29

Caroline Chisholm: 8 July 1859-10 December 1860

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8 July 1859-10 December 1860

CC 's novellaLittle Joe was serialized in the Empire in Sydney.
Moran, John, and Caroline Chisholm. “Introduction and Commentary”. Radical, in Bonnet and Shawl: Four Political Lectures, Preferential Publications, 1994, pp. 1 - 12, 30.
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Annie S. Swan: 8 July 1859

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8 July 1859

ASS was born, probably at Leith, on the Scottish coast just north of Edinburgh; she was the middle one of seven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
339

Annie Keary: By 9 July 1859

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By 9 July 1859

AK published her first adult novel, Through the Shadows.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1654 (1859): 48

By 9 July 1859: George Meredith published his first major...

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By 9 July 1859

George Meredith published his first major novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1654 (9 July 1859): 48
Collie, Michael. George Meredith: A Bibliography. University of Toronto Press, 1974.
19-20

Selina Davenport : A little before mid-July 1859

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A little before mid-July 1859

SD died at Knutsford, aged eighty. She was buried in the parish church there on 14 July.
Watkins, Louise. “Selina Davenport”. Corvey ’Adopt an Author’, May 1998.

Jessie White Mario: 25 July 1859

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25 July 1859

JWM and her husband arrived in Milan at about the time that fighting broke out between the forces of Austria (the governing power) and Garibaldi 's regiments.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
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Frances Isabella Duberly : By 30 July 1859

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By 30 July 1859

FID published her second book of travel and military history, Campaigning Experiences in Rajpootana and Central India during the Suppression of the Mutiny, 1857-1858.
What was formerly known as Rajputana is now Rajasthan.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1657 (30 July 1859): 141

Julia Frankau: 30 July 1859

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Author event in Julia Frankau

30 July 1859

Julia Davis (later JF , who wrote as Frank Danby) was born in Dublin, the sixth among eight children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: August 1859

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August 1859

BLSB wrote to the Education Commission on the need to reform the education of women and girls of the middle class.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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Emily Faithfull: August-November 1859

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August-November 1859

EF served as secretary of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW).
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: 3 August 1859

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3 August 1859

HBS set out on a third European trip, again for the purpose of securing international copyright (for her novel The Minister's Wooing); she sent reports to The Independent from Italy.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
292
Adams, John R. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Twayne, 1989.
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Dinah Mulock Craik: By 6 August 1859

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By 6 August 1859

Dinah Mulock published her three-volume novel A Life for a Life anonymously, but her authorship was known. Mudie's Library carried 2,500 copies.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1658 (1859): 173-4
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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Harriet E. Wilson: 18 August 1859

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18 August 1859

HEW entered the copyright of her startlingly-titled novel Our Nig at the Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts .
Wilson, Harriet E. “Introduction”. Our Nig, edited by Henry Louis, Jr Gates, Vintage Books, Random House, 1983, p. xi - lix.
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Elizabeth Strutt: By 20 August 1859

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By 20 August 1859

More than half a century after her debut, ES published, with her name, The Curate and the Rector, A Domestic Story.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1660 (1859): 241

Emily Eden: By 27 August 1859

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By 27 August 1859

Emily Eden published her successful anonymous novel The Semi-Detached House; the title-page claim that it was edited by Lady T. Lewis resulted in the common ascription of its authorship to Lady Theresa .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1661 (1859): 272; 2018 (1866): 857

Leigh Hunt: 28 August 1859

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28 August 1859

Poet and essayist LH died at Putney, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

28 August 1859: American Edwin Laurentine Drake struck oil...

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28 August 1859

American Edwin Laurentine Drake struck oil at the world's first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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