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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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Harriet E. Wilson: By summer 1860

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By summer 1860

HEW may have died in the same year as her son, since she is not listed in the Massachusetts census records of this year. Alternatively, her death may not have been traced.

Julia Wedgwood: June 1860

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Author event in Julia Wedgwood

June 1860

JW published The Boundaries of Science in Macmillan's Magazine: a critique of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary thinking which was admired by Darwin (her uncle by marriage).
Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. “Introduction”. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed by Their Letters, edited by Richard Curle, Frederick A. Stokes, 1937, p. vii - xxiii.
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Wedgwood, Julia. “The Boundaries of Science”. Macmillan’s Magazine, June 1861, pp. 134-8.

Cecil Frances Alexander : 4 June 1860

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4 June 1860

CFA gave birth to her second daughter and fourth and last child, Dorothea Agnes Alexander , at Strabane, County Tyrone.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
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Mary Ann Kelty: By 9 June 1860

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By 9 June 1860

As the author of Visiting My Relations, MAK published The Real and the Beau-Ideal, a book of advice for a newly-married young woman.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
(9 June 1860): 788-9

Jessie White Mario: 10 June 1860

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10 June 1860

After returning to Italy from Switzerland, JWM and her husband sailed aboard the Washington from Genoa to Sicily as part of Garibaldi 's invading fleet.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
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Lady Charlotte Elliot: 16 June 1860

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16 June 1860

Charlotte Carnegie married her first husband, Thomas Frederick Scrymsoure Fothringham , at Kinnaird in Perthshire, Scotland.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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.
Burke, John. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke’s Peerage.

Eliza Meteyard: By 23 June 1860

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By 23 June 1860

EM published her second novel, Mainstone's Housekeeper, in three volumes under her name.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1704 (1860): 852

Florence Nightingale : 24 June 1860

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24 June 1860

The Nightingale School and Home for Nurses opened at St Thomas's Hospital in London with fifteen students.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press, 1990.
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Mary Somerville: 26 June 1860

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26 June 1860

MS 's husband, William , died at the age of ninety.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
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30 June 1860: T. H. Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce...

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30 June 1860

T. H. Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce clashed over evolution at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford.
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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Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
30 June 2011

Frances Power Cobbe: July 1860

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July 1860

FPC 's first published essay, about an Italian workhouse, appeared over the initial C in Louisa Twining 's Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Jessie White Mario: July 1860

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July 1860

JWM and others founded the London-based Ladies Association for the Relief of the Sick and the Wounded, Widows and Orphans of Garibaldi's Followers and the Sufferers at Palermo and Other Places.
O’Connor, Maura. The Romance of Italy and the English Political Imagination. St Martin’s Press, 1998.
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Margaret Oliphant: Summer 1861

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Summer 1861

MO called on Thomas and Jane (Welsh) Carlyle in London.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986.
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July 1860: The Indian Army was amalgamated with the...

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July 1860

The Indian Army was amalgamated with the British Army .
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 3 July 1860

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3 July 1860

Charlotte Anna Perkins (later Gilman) was born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Kessler, Carol Farley. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings. Syracuse University Press, 1995.
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Hill, Mary A. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Making of a Radical Feminist 1860-1896. Temple University Press, 1980.
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Florence Farr: 7 July 1860

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7 July 1860

FF was born near London, at Bickley in Kent.
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975.
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Florence Nightingale : 16 July 1860

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16 July 1860

FN 's paper Hospital Statistics was read for her at the International Statistical Congress in London.
Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses, 1962.
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27 July 1860: Constance Kent was tried and acquitted in...

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27 July 1860

Constance Kent was tried and acquitted in the brutal murder of her young half-brother. Five years later, however, she made a confession and was sentenced to death.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
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Jessie White Mario: August 1860

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August 1860

JWM and her husband crossed from Sicily to mainland Italy with a regiment of soldiers loyal to Italian nationalist Garibaldi .
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
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August 1860: Elizabeth Garrett began her work at Middlesex...

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August 1860

Elizabeth Garrett began her work at Middlesex Hospital as a nurse and unofficial student.
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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Anne Marsh: By 11 August 1860

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By 11 August 1860

The Nevilles of Garretstown, A Tale of 1760, actually by the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan , received a first, anonymous London edition with a preface by AM as the author of Emilia Wyndham.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
1711 (11 August 1860): 193-4

Wilkie Collins: 15 August 1860

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15 August 1860

The previously serialised volume edition of WC 's extremely popular sensation novel The Woman in White was published by Sampson Low . It had reached its sixth edition by 1 November.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Frances Power Cobbe: September 1860

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September 1860

FPC gave a paper, co-written with Margaret Elliot , at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science Congress in Glasgow, which then appeared as the 14-page pamphlet, Destitute Incurables in Workhouses.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Hannah Cullwick: Early September 1860

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Early September 1860

HC stayed overnight with Arthur Munby at his chambers in the Inner Temple; he recorded in his diary resisting sexual temptation.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
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Emily Faithfull: Later 1860

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Later 1860

EF and Bessie Parkes founded the Edinburgh branch 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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