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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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Catherine Crowe: 1860

Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Crowe

1860

CC 's husband, John Crowe , died.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Charlotte Despard: 1860

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Despard

1860

Margaret French (born Eccles), mother of Charlotte French (later CD ), was committed to a lunatic asylum after six years as a widow; Charlotte was already at that date living with relatives.
Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life. Hutchinson, 1980.
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Emily Faithfull: 1860-1864

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Author event in Emily Faithfull

1860-1864

EF acted as director of an employment register for 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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Millicent Garrett Fawcett: 1860-1863

Women writers item

1860-1863

From twelve to fifteen, Millicent Garrett (later MGF ) was sent to a boarding school at Blackheath in Kent, run by a Miss [Louisa] Browning, who was an aunt of the poet Robert Browning .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
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Charlotte Yonge: 1860

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Yonge

1860

CY 's The Pigeon Pie, set during the English Civil War, was printed at Derby but published at London.
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 Anthony Froude: 1860-74

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Author event in James Anthony Froude

1860-74

JAF held the editorship of Fraser's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Ellen Wood: January 1860 - September 1861

Women writers item
Author event in Ellen Wood

January 1860 - September 1861

EW 's phenomenally popular novel East Lynne was serialised in the New Monthly Magazine.
Wood, Ellen. “Introduction”. East Lynne, edited by Andrew Maunder, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-38.
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Mary Augusta Ward: 1860-1864

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Author event in Mary Augusta Ward

1860-1864

Mary Augusta Arnold (later MAW ) attended the Rock Terrace School for Young Ladies at Shifnal in Shropshire.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Charlotte Maria Tucker : 1860

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Author event in Charlotte Maria Tucker

1860

CMT published two books this year, both as A.L.O.E.: The Lost Jewel and Pride and His Prisoners, intended for older children.
Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm, 1981.
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Elizabeth Stone: 1860

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Author event in Elizabeth Stone

1860

Elizabeth Stone published A Handbook to the Christian Year, for Young People.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.

Anna Steele: 1860

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Author event in Anna Steele

1860

AS issued at the nearby town of Braintree a book of poetry under the pseudonym C. Entitled Thoughts Versified, the volume is now certainly known to be hers.
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.

Elizabeth Sewell: 1860

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Sewell

1860

ES again spent five months abroad, this time in Italy and Germany.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Caroline Scott: 1860

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Author event in Caroline Scott

1860

A book of Bible-based pedagogy by Caroline Scott appeared posthumously, with her name: Incentives to Bible Study. Scripture Acrostics. A Sabbath Pastime for Young Persons.
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.

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1860

Women writers item

1860

MAS 's Sacred Musings on Manifestations of God to the Soul of Man with thoughts on the symbolic language of Scripture, the destiny of woman, and other subjects . . . was posthumously published.
Feminist Companion Archive.
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.

Margaret Roberts: 1860

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Author event in Margaret Roberts

1860

In the same year that she launched her career as a novelist for adults, MR published another story for young people, Banning and Blessing.
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.

Dora Greenwell: 1860

Women writers item
Author event in Dora Greenwell

1860

One of DG 's most popular works appeared, a volume of religious essays titled The Patience of Hope, dedicated to Josephine Butler ; she referred to herself allusively as the author of A Present...

Jean Ingelow: 1860

Women writers item
Author event in Jean Ingelow

1860

JI became a member of the Portfolio Society , to which Adelaide Procter , Emily Faithfull , and several other members of the Langham Place Group also belonged.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.
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Mary Ann Kelty: 1 January 1860

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Ann Kelty

1 January 1860

MAK wrote the first entry in Eventide: A Devotional Diary for the Close of Day, published with her name that year (like her 1854 diary).

Louisa Anne Meredith : 1860

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Author event in Louisa Anne Meredith

1860

Charles Meredith introduced at his wife 's instigation the bill to protect the black swan in Tasmania.
Rae-Ellis, Vivienne. Louisa Anne Meredith: A Tigress in Exile. St David’s Park, 1990.
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Florence Nightingale : 1860

Women writers item
Author event in Florence Nightingale

1860

FN privately published her anonymous work Notes on Causes of Deterioration of Race.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 266

Florence Nightingale : 1860

Women writers item
Author event in Florence Nightingale

1860

FN 's anonymous work Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers After Truth was privately printed in three volumes.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 266

1860: Maria Rye and Isa Craig established the Telegraph...

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1860

Maria Rye and Isa Craig established the Telegraph School for Women , to train women for work in telegraph offices where messages handed in and sent.
Onslow, Barbara. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Macmillan, 2000.
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January 1860: The English Woman's Journal published Elizabeth...

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January 1860

The English Woman's Journal published Elizabeth Blackwell 's article entitled Letter to Young Ladies Desirous of Studying Medicine.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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1860: Charles Frederick Worth introduced in Paris...

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1860

Charles Frederick Worth introduced in Paris a short crinoline for walking which exposed the wearer's ankles.
Carter, Ernestine. Magic Names of Fashion. Prentice-Hall, 1980.
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1860: The Family Economist magazine ceased pub...

Writing climate item

1860

The Family Economist magazine ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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