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The Victorian Period ((1901: Queen Victoria dies, 1900: L. Frank Baum…
The Victorian Period
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1840: Margaret Fuller helps found The Dial, a U.S. Transcendentalists journal that publishes Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1846: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elope; during their courtship she writes poems included in Sonnets from the Portuguese
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1850: Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes poet laurete
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1852: Sojourner Truth delivers her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in Akron, Ohio
1857: Mary Ann Evans publishes stories in Blackwood's Magazine, using her pen name, George Eliot
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1832: First Reform Bill extends vote to omen who own property worth ten pounds or more in annual rent
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1845: Potato famine begins in Ireland; close to one million people die from starvation or famine-related diseases; massive emigration begins
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1848: In Seneca Falls 'New York, women's rights convention is led be Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
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1863: Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclomation declares slavery illegal in Confederate territories
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1867: Second Reform Act gives vote to most male industial workers, doubling the number of voters
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1889: Emmeline Pankhursts forms Women's Franchise League, arguing for British women's suffrage
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1862: In France, Victor Hugo publishes Les Miserables
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1869: In Russia, Leo Tolstoy publishes the complete text of *War and peace