Craig, Isa. “Infant Seamstresses”. English Woman’s Journal, Vol.
4
, Sept. 1859, pp. 25-34. 25
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Isa Craig: September 1859
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Author event in Isa Craig
September 1859
anonymously published an article in the English Woman's Journal entitled Infant Seamstresses, on the exploitation of child needleworkers.
Elizabeth Rigby: Later 1859
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Author event in Elizabeth Rigby
Later 1859
Taking a big sweep westwards,
and her husband,
, left London again and travelled via Vienna, over the Alps to Venice, and back through Milan and Marseilles to Madrid.
Jessie White Mario: September 1859-May 1860
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Author event in Jessie White Mario
September 1859-May 1860
After their release from prison in Bologna,
and her
left Italy for Switzerland, where they lived above a post office in Lugano.
Harriet E. Wilson: 5 September 1859
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Author event in Harriet E. Wilson
5 September 1859
published her sentimental autobiographical novel Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North, Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There.
13 September 1859: The Englishwoman's Review and Drawing Room...
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13 September 1859
The Englishwoman's Review and Drawing Room Journal of Social Progress, Literature and Art ceased publication in London.
Louisa Catherine Shore: By 17 September 1859
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Author event in Louisa Catherine Shore
By 17 September 1859
A second joint volume by
and
appeared under the initials A. and L., titled for the latter's long narrative poem: Gemma of the Isles, A Lyrical Drama, and Other Poems...
Eliza Lynn Linton: From at least 17 September 1859 to 13 October 1860
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Author event in Eliza Lynn Linton
From at least 17 September 1859 to 13 October 1860
contributed a number of reviews to the Athenæum. They bore various forms of her name: E. Linton, Mrs. Linton, and Linton.
Isabella Beeton: Late September 1859
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Author event in Isabella Beeton
Late September 1859
The first of 24 parts of The Book of Household Management, by the young
, appeared.
Cecil Frances Alexander : By 1 October 1859
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By 1 October 1859
published another volume of poetry, The Legend of the Golden Prayers, and Other Poems.
Jessie Boucherett: October 1859
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October 1859
and
delivered papers at the Congress of the
at Bradford, addressing issues relating to women's employment.
George Eliot: October 1859
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October 1859
Unscrupulous publisher
took advantage of
's work to advertise a spurious Adam Bede, Junior: A Sequel.
Elizabeth Gaskell: October 1859
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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell
October 1859
's short story Lois the Witch appeared in Dickens's new magazine All the Year Round.
Fanny Kemble: October 1859
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October 1859
's elder daughter,
, married
, a Quaker doctor from Philadelphia.
Katharine S. Macquoid: Late 1859
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Late 1859
first reached print with a short story in a recently-launched periodical, The Welcome Guest, A Magazine for All.
Her publications here and later in Temple Bar and Belgravia magazines suggest a sustained connection...
October 1859: The Society for Promoting the Employment...
National or international item
October 1859
The
officially joined with the
.
Anna Brownell Jameson: 10 October 1859
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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson
10 October 1859
made her final public appearance at the Bradford meeting of the
, where her comments on papers on women's employment were heard with awe.
Caroline Norton: 13 October 1859
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13 October 1859
's elder surviving son,
, died of consumption, aged thirty, at Paris en route to a new posting at Athens.
16 October 1859: The Harpers Ferry Insurrection took place,...
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16 October 1859
The Harpers Ferry Insurrection took place, led by white abolitionist
who, along with roughly twenty other men, attempted to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Anna Mary Howitt: 18 October 1859
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Author event in Anna Mary Howitt
18 October 1859
married
(1825-1901, great-nephew of writer
); his courtship was of long standing and apparently little encouraged at first.
Margaret Oliphant: 20 October 1859
Women writers item
Late 1859: The offices of The English Woman's Journal...
Women writers item
Late 1859
The offices of The English Woman's Journal moved from Cavendish Square to 19 Langham Place, where a ladies' club was also planned.
1 November 1859: Alexander Macmillan began publishing Macmillan's...
Writing climate item
1 November 1859
began publishing Macmillan's Magazine, the first major monthly magazine priced at a shilling.
Mathilde Blind: Probably November 1859
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Author event in Mathilde Blind
Probably November 1859
The first writing by
to become public was an ode she wrote in German to mark the centenary of
, which was recited at commemorations in Bradford.
Mabel Birchenough: By late 1859
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Author event in Mabel Birchenough
By late 1859
was born in Wiltshire, in or near Marlborough. She was baptised on 11 November, the third daughter in a family of seven children.
Anna Atkins: Biography: By 19 November 1859
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Author event in Anna Atkins: Biography
By 19 November 1859
, as the author of The Colonel, published Murder Will Out, a shift towards the emerging genre of the sensation novel (a genre which, however, she later disavowed).