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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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Mary Berry: January 1831

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January 1831

MB 's final and most ambitious book of cultural history was a sequel to (or a second volume of) that of 1828, which brought the story almost up to the present moment: Social Life in...

Mid 1833 to 1842: Archibald Alison published History of Europe...

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Mid 1833 to 1842

Archibald Alison published History of Europe during the French Revolution.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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.

March 1835: Madame Tussaud, now in her mid-seventies,...

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March 1835

Madame Tussaud , now in her mid-seventies, established her waxworks exhibition at the Bazaar on Baker Street in London, after touring England, Ireland, and Scotland for over thirty years.
Altick, Richard D. The Shows of London. Belknap Press, 1978.
333, 336-7
Pilbeam, Pamela. Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks. Hambledon and London, 2003.
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By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...

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By 20 May 1837

Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
499 (1837): 353
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...

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1838

Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria 's Scottish ancestry.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Gordon, Miss. A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History. 2nd ed., John Souter, 1838, p. 60 pp.
The Bodleian catalogue ascribes this to L. Gordon.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton: By 26 February 1842

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By 26 February 1842

Edward Bulwer , as the author of Night and Morning, published Zanoni, his romance of the occult set in during the French Revolution, in three volumes.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Crosland, Camilla. Landmarks of a Literary Life, 1820-1892. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893.
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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.

Anne Marsh: By mid-September 1849

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By mid-September 1849

AM published Tales of the First French Revolution; she writes as the author of Emilia Wyndham but as the collector (that is, translator, not the originator) of these tales.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 1850

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1850

Jane Francesca Elgee (soon to be JFLW ) translated, Pictures of the First French Revolution by Marie Louis Alphonse de Lamartine de Prat .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Grace Elliott: By 8 January 1859

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By 8 January 1859

Richard Bentley published from manuscript GE 's Journal of My Life during the French Revolution, whose existence he had heard about from her grand-daughter.
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.

Sarah Tytler: 1865

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1865

ST published (under this pseudonym) the historical novel Citoyenne Jacqueline: A Woman's Lot in the Great French Revolution.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Tytler, Sarah. Citoyenne Jacqueline. Chatto and Windus, 1886.

Frances Browne: 1869

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1869

FB published The Exile's Trust: A Tale of the French Revolution and Other Stories.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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John Strange Winter : 1870

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1870

Henrietta Palmer (who later wrote as JSW ) attempted to publish her first literary venture, a story entitled either Clotilde's Vengeance or The Story of the French Revolution, at the age of fourteen...

Georgiana Fullerton: 1881

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1881

GF published her final novel, A Will and A Way, a tale of the French Revolution.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth De la Pasture: By December 1887

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By December 1887

Elizabeth Bonham married, in London, the Roman Catholic Count Henry De la Pasture , whose grandfather had fled to England as a displaced aristocrat at the French Revolution.
The Trustees of FreeBMD. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
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.

Annie Besant: July 1889

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July 1889

AB went to Paris as one of the Social Democratic Federation 's delegates commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution.
Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Emmuska, Baroness Orczy: By 20 October 1921

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By 20 October 1921

Emma, Baroness Orczy , set her novel, or historical romance, Castles in the Air in France, spannning the period of the French Revolution through the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1031 (20 October 1921): 679

Eva Mary Bell: After May 1928

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After May 1928

EMB published a historical novel set in India at the time of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon. She titled it The Foreigner, and dated her preface in this month.
Bell, Eva Mary. The Foreigner. Hodder and Stoughton, 1928.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Hannah Arendt: 15 March 1963

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15 March 1963

HA 's On Revolution explored the unfolding of the American and the French Revolutions, and the nature of Marxist theory, its translation into revolutionary action, and its distortion under Stalin into totalitarianism.
“Books and Authors”. The New York Times, 25 Feb. 1963.
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Sara Maitland: 1988

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1988

SM edited Very Heaven: Looking Back at the 1960s, a collection of essays on women in this radical decade whose title draws on William Wordsworth 's memory of being young and idealistic at the...

1995: Marie Curie became the first woman honoured...

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1995

Marie Curie became the first woman honoured by burial as a national figure in the Panthéon in Paris.
Laqueur, Thomas. “In and Out of the Panthéon”. London Review of Books, 20 Sept. 2001, pp. 3-8.
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Hilary Mantel: 27 March 2006

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27 March 2006

HM 's The Woman Who Died of Robespierre was published: a historical study of a woman destroyed by her obsession with writing a novel about Robespierre .
Her protagonist is an actual woman, whose trilogy...