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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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January 1824: The Ladies' Pocket Magazine, containing fiction,...

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January 1824

The Ladies' Pocket Magazine, containing fiction, light reading, and fashion, began publication in London.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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Bogenschneider, Duane R., editor. The Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History, 1543-1945: A Bibliographic Guide to the Microform Collection. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983, 3 vols.
30 P116
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.

1824: The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons,...

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1824

The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons, a monthly magazine on high culture and fashion, was founded in London by Mr and Mrs Bell .
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
29-30

1824: Timothy Burstall and John Hill built a prototype...

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1824

Timothy Burstall and John Hill built a prototype of a coach with an instantaneous steam generator.
Historians Montagu and Bird record that Burstall and Hill unsuccessfully tried to run this coach in 1825.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
79
Beaulieu, Edward, Lord Montagu of, and Anthony Bird. Steam Cars 1770-1970. Cassell, 1971.
51

1824: The House of Commons voted to spend £60,000...

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1824

The House of Commons voted to spend £60,000 to acquire the John Julius Angerstein art collection: this constituted the birth of the National Gallery .
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
203
Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.
324
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
31: 210

1824: William Henry James patented the first steam...

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1824

William Henry James patented the first steam carriage in England.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
79
Beaulieu, Edward, Lord Montagu of, and Anthony Bird. Steam Cars 1770-1970. Cassell, 1971.
52
Historians Montagu and Bird give the date as 1825.

1824: James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd published...

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1824

James Hogg , the Ettrick Shepherd published what is probably his best-known work, the novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner, a thriller which may be regarded as psychological, theological, or supernatural.
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.

Mid 1820s: Harsh economic conditions caused two-thirds...

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Mid 1820s

Harsh economic conditions caused two-thirds of established British publishing firms to crash: authors were ruined, like Sir Walter Scott , by the bankruptcy of Constable and Ballantyne in Edinburgh.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
215-16
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1824: William Prout proved that hydrochloric acid...

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1824

William Prout proved that hydrochloric acid is contained in the human digestive juices.
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
111-2

1824: The Manchester Mechanical Institute was ...

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1824

The Manchester Mechanical Institute was founded.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
783
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1997: 1563

1824: Sadi Carnot established the two laws of thermodynamics...

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1824

Sadi Carnot established the two laws of thermodynamics and published (on the second law) Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
291
Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
97-8

1824: Two daughters of American novelist Hannah...

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1824

Two daughters of American novelist Hannah Webster Foster published historical novels: Eliza Lanesford Cushing issued Saratoga; A Tale of the Revolution and Harriet Vaughan Cheney issued A Peep at the Pilgrims.
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.

1824: Mary, Lady Shepherd, published her first...

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1824

Mary, Lady Shepherd , published her first major philosophical work, An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, a critique of the fourth of David Hume 's Philosophical Essays.
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.
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
189

Between 1824 and 1828: Nine railway companies were given authorization...

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Between 1824 and 1828

Nine railway companies were given authorization by Parliament, together overseeing 110 miles of track.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
49

1824: The Lying-In Hospital in London began training...

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1824

The Lying-In Hospital in London began training monthly nurses.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
146

Julia Kavanagh: 7 January 1824

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Author event in Julia Kavanagh

7 January 1824

JK was born at Thurles in Tipperary, Ireland, an only child.
Weekes, Ann Owens. Unveiling Treasures. Attic Press, 1993.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.

Wilkie Collins: 8 January 1824

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Author event in Wilkie Collins

8 January 1824

WC , novelist, was born at 11 New Cavendish Street, Marylebone.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Hannah Kilham: 8 January 1824

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Author event in Hannah Kilham

8 January 1824

HK at last opened her longed-for schools for Africans at Bathurst (now Banjul) in Gambia.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
158-9

Anne Katharine Elwood : 9 January 1824

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Author event in Anne Katharine Elwood

9 January 1824

Anne Curteis , aged probably twenty-seven, was married to Colonel Charles William Elwood of the Bombay Army , who was about fifteen years older.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, 1978.
244

Anna Mary Howitt: 15 January 1824

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Author event in Anna Mary Howitt

15 January 1824

AMH was born, the first child of writers Mary and William Howitt to be delivered alive, though Mary had been four times pregnant since her marriage in 1821.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
95

Anna Margaretta Larpent: 18 January 1824

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Author event in Anna Margaretta Larpent

18 January 1824

John Larpent , husband of AML and Examiner of Plays as deputy to the Lord Chamberlain, died.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Ann Thicknesse: Biography: 20 January 1824

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20 January 1824

AT died at eighty-six, after more than thirty years of widowhood.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Loudon: 22 January 1824

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Author event in Jane Loudon

22 January 1824

Jane Webb (later JL ) dated her publication at Birmingham, with her name, of her first book: Prose and Verse, This was a project for earning some money.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

24 January 1824: The first issue of the radical Westminster...

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24 January 1824

The first issue of the radical Westminster Review was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 528
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 528-32
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Jane Porter: 26 January 1824

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Author event in Jane Porter

26 January 1824

JP , at Long Ditton in Surrey, dedicated her new novel, Duke Christian of Luneburg; or, Tradition from the Hartz, to George IV .
Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824, 3 vols., http://U of A, Special Collections.
1: v-viii

Katharine S. Macquoid: 26 January 1824

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Author event in Katharine S. Macquoid

26 January 1824

Catharine Sarah Thomas (later KSM ) was born in Kentish Town in north London; she was one of several children.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988.