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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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Adelaide Procter: March 1860

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March 1860

A Lost Chord, popular poet AP 's best-loved lyric, appeared in the English Woman's Journal. Set to music in 1877 by Arthur Sullivan , it became very popular in performance and also as a hymn.
Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate, 1998.
264
Maison, Margaret. “Queen Victoria’s Favorite Poet”. The Listener, Vol.
73
, 29 Apr. 1965, pp. 636-7.
636
The Cyber Hymnal. http://www.cyberhymnal.org.

March 1860: John Anderson, a former slave who had fled...

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March 1860

John Anderson , a former slave who had fled from Missouri to Canada in 1853, was recognised and arrested at Windsor, Ontario, for killing a man during his escape. He applied for habeas corpus...

March 1860: Following their war with Austrialink to 3916,...

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March 1860

Following their war with Austria, Savoy and Nice were ceded to France, and Lombardy was ceded to Piedmont.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
274

Mary Elizabeth Braddon: 12 March 1860

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12 March 1860

The young MEB 's comedietta The Loves of Arcadia, set during the eighteenth century in the reign of the French king Louis XV , opened at the Strand Theatre in London.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
75

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 12 March 1860

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12 March 1860

EBB 's fiercely political collection Poems Before Congress was published; a pirated edition appeared in the USA as Napoleon III in Italy, and Other Poems.
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
371
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
117

Margaret Roberts: By 17 March 1860

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By 17 March 1860

MR was in her twenties when she published, anonymously, her earliest success, Mademoiselle Mori, which she had first written in Italian and then translated.
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.
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.
1690 (17 March 1860): 373

Anna Brownell Jameson: 17 March 1860

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17 March 1860

ABJ died of pneumonia in London.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
215

Amelia Bristow: 18 March 1860

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18 March 1860

A death certificate for AB records that she died on this day of bronchitis and chronic congestion, in Upper Albany Street, which runs along the east side of Regent's Park in London.
qtd. in
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Amelia Bristow. 8 Jan. 2016.

Ellen Wood: By 24 March 1860

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By 24 March 1860

EW published the first novel she wrote, Danesbury House, for which she received a £100 prize from the Scottish Temperance League , who were also its publishers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1691 (1860): 407

Emily Faithfull: 25 March 1860

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25 March 1860

The opening for business of the Victoria Press (in Russell Square, London) was a triumph for EF .
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
51-2

25 March 1860: Emily Faithfull established the Victoria...

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25 March 1860

Emily Faithfull established the Victoria Press at 9 Great Coram Street, near Russell Square, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 311, 313

April 1860: A monthly periodical for women entitled Magdalen's...

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April 1860

A monthly periodical for women entitled Magdalen's Friend and Female Homes' Intelligencer began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
14

April 1860: Mazzini's supporters instigated revolt among...

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April 1860

Mazzini 's supporters instigated revolt among nationalists in Sicily.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
267

April-December 1860: Thomas Love Peacock's satirical novel Gryll...

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April-December 1860

Thomas Love Peacock 's satirical novel Gryll Grange was serialised in Fraser's magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.

April 1860: As Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton...

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April 1860

As Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published his successful verse novel Lucile.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
32

George Eliot: 4 April 1860

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4 April 1860

GE published The Mill on the Floss in three volumes; she earned more than £4,200 for this novel by the end of the year.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
204
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 12 April 1860

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12 April 1860

BLSB was devastated by the loss of her father .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
145

16 April 1860: King Victor Emmanuel II made his triumphal...

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16 April 1860

King Victor Emmanuel II made his triumphal entry into Florence.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
110

Harriet Tytler: May 1860-November 1861

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May 1860-November 1861

Nearly a decade after their previous leave, HT and her husband again had eighteen months' furlough to spend in England.
“Appendix A: Pioneer Biographies of the British Period to 1947”. Lonely Islands: The Andamanese, 1997.

Anne Thackeray Ritchie: May 1860

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May 1860

Anne Thackeray 's first publication, the articleLittle Scholars, appeared anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages.
xxiii

May 1860: Garibaldi and 1,500 volunteers sailed from...

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May 1860

Garibaldi and 1,500 volunteers sailed from Genoa to Marsala, Sicily, where they occupied the town in the name of Victor Emmanuel II and raised the Italian tricolour flag.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
268

Sir J. M. Barrie: 9 May 1860

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9 May 1860

James Matthew Barrie , playwright and novelist, was born in Kirriemuir, near Paisley in Renfrewshire. He was the ninth child in a poor family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Siddal: 23 May 1860

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23 May 1860

ES , pre-Raphaelite model-turned-artist, married writer and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti at St Clement's Church in Hastings.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
72
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Cecil Frances Alexander : Early 1860-1867

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Early 1860-1867

CFA 's husband was the rector of Camus-juxta-Mourne, Strabane, County Tyrone.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
126-7, 142

Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Summer 1860

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Summer 1860

MEB completed the penny parts of her first novel, Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath, in the ground-breaking genre of the detective novel. Begun in February of this year, it was...