1850s

English Noun p The decade from 1850 to 1859. en 1952-12 R. C. Riley By Rail to Kemp Town Railway Magazine 832 Many years elapsed before the success of Kemp Town as a residential district was assured; the foundations of the estate were laid in 1823, but some houses remained untenanted until the 1850s. en 2007-01-09 Anne Midgette Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd w:The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/arts/music/09oper.html Born as a French satiric form with the bouffes of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s, it moved on, like most Parisian fashions, to Vienna, where it was embraced as a native product, albeit still following French models; even “Die Fledermaus” was based on a play by Offenbach’s librettists, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. https://web.archive.org/web/20210126170811/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/arts/music/09oper.html en 2010 Susan Cayleff Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health Temple University Press 88 Before the 1850s, when women figured most prominently in textile employment, the reasons that caused women to seek paid labor—a ne'er-do-well husband, economic distress of the natal family, or a belief that factory work was a road to self-betterment—often precluded their considering an away-from-home cure. en Mimi Vu How a 19th-Century Workman’s Cottage Became a Family Home w:The New York Times Style Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/t-magazine/workstead-cottage-gallatin-new-york.html 2019-06-10 But for Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith, the husband-and-wife co-founders of the Brooklyn-based design firm Workstead, the recent revamp of an 1850s residence in upstate New York not only presented them with a thrilling challenge, it also marked a celebratory homecoming after a few years spent living in the South. https://web.archive.org/web/20190703103757/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/t-magazine/workstead-cottage-gallatin-new-york.html See also en Decades