1802 Born at Norwich
1818 school in Bristol with aunt; deafness appears
1821 Publishes "Female Writers of Practical Divinity" in Monthly Repository
1829 Family suffers severe financial loses
1832 Begins monthly Illustrations of Political Economy; becomes famous
1832 Moves to London
1832 Travels in America (until 1834)
1837 Publishes Society in America
1838 Publishes Retrospect of Western Travel and How to Observe Morals and Manners
1839 Publishes Guide to Service and novel Deerbrook
1839 Travels to Venice, becomes ill, recuperates (1839-1844)
1841 Publishes The Hour and the Man
1844 Publishes Life in the Sick-Room; writes on Mesmerism
1844 Buys land and builds house in the Lake Country
1846 Travels in Eygpt and Palestine
1848 Publishes Eastern Life, Present and Past
1849 (-1850) Publishes A History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace
1851 Translates Comte's Positive Philosophy
1851 Publishes with H. Atkinson, Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development
1852 Publishes Letters from Ireland, first work for the Daily News, writes editorials until 1869
1855 Becomes ill, writes Autobiography
1866 Signs parliamentary petition on women's suffrage
1869 (-1871) Campaigns against Contagious Diseases Acts, a leading feminist cause
1876 Dies at home in Ambleside, Lake District
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