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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 Shelley: From August 1824

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From August 1824

MS received an allowance of £200 a year from her father-in-law, Sir Timothy Shelley; it was designed, however, to support her son rather than herself.
Shelley, Mary. “Chronology”. The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, p. xxxvii - xlii.
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August 1824: Henry Hickman, surgeon at Ludlow in Shropshire,...

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August 1824

Henry Hickman , surgeon at Ludlow in Shropshire, published A Letter on Suspended Animation, which details his surgical experiments on anaesthetized animals and speculates about extending them to humans.
Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
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Youngson, A. J. The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine. Holmes and Meier, 1979.
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Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Mary Bryan: 3 August 1824

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3 August 1824

MB (now Bedingfield) sent an anguished appeal to Scott for an actual gift of money—fifteen pounds—to enable her to see a London specialist about her sight.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.

Georgiana Chatterton : 3 August 1824

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3 August 1824

Georgiana Iremonger married Sir William Abraham Chatterton of Castle Mahon, County Cork, a baronet twelve years her senior.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Brontë: 10 August 1824

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10 August 1824

CB arrived at the strict and parsimonious Clergy Daughters' School in Cowan Bridge, Tunstall parish, the original of Lowood School in Jane Eyre.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Eleanor Anne Porden: September 1824

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September 1824

Married for fifteen months, EAP and her husband were staying at Vale Cottage in Tunbridge Wells, no doubt for the benefit of her health.
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols.
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16 September 1824: The restored Bourbon king Louis XVIII of...

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16 September 1824

The restored Bourbon king Louis XVIII of France died and was succeeded by his brother, Charles X .
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

Anna Maria Hall: 20 September 1824

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20 September 1824

Anna Maria Fielding married journalist and editor Samuel Carter Hall , who was her mentor in publication and who was even more prolific than she was.
Hall, Samuel Carter. Retrospect of a Long Life: From 1815 to 1883. D. Appleton, 1883.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: By September 1824

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By September 1824

After years of moving around Liverpool, Mary Anne Roscoe (soon to be Jevons) and her family settled into a more permanent home at 180 Lodge Lane.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Roscoe

28 September 1824: Francis Turner Palgrave, poet, critic, and...

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28 September 1824

Francis Turner Palgrave , poet, critic, and anthologist, was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Clara Balfour: 29 September 1824

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29 September 1824

Clara Lucas , who was not yet sixteen, married James Balfour , who worked in the Ways and Means Office in the House of Commons .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.

Mary Charlton: By October 1824

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By October 1824

MC published Grandeur and Meanness; or, Domestic Persecution, A Novel, in which social critique is again well to the fore; it appears to be her last publication.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 573
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.

Anne Lister: Autumn 1824-Spring 1825

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Autumn 1824-Spring 1825

AL spent seven months in Paris on her own; she thoroughly enjoyed the sense of freedom this gave her, while developing, in contrast, her satisfied feeling of Englishness.
Rowanchild, Anira. “’Everything done for effect’: Georgic, Gothic and picturesque in Anne Lister’s self-production”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 89-104.
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Elizabeth Cobbold: 17 October 1824

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17 October 1824

EC died at Holywells in Ipswich, after a week unconscious, of an unnamed alarming illness
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
which had struck her down in July.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
94 (1824): 569

Sara Coleridge: Late 1824-1825

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Late 1824-1825

The physical and psychological problems that had plagued SC since childhood began to worsen significantly.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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Barbara Hofland: November 1824

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November 1824

Longman published Decision. A Tale, another of BH 's stories named after the virtue it inculcates; again the edition was a thousand copies.
This is not to be confused with The Decision; a Novel...

Anne Marsh: By late 1824

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By late 1824

The London banking firm of Marsh, Stacey, and Graham collapsed, following the gross misconduct
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
of a junior partner; this was a heavy financial blow to AM and her husband .
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Meeke: By November 1824

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By November 1824

EM appears to have married a gentleman named Benjamin Rawlings .
Macdonald, Simon. “Identifying Mrs Meeke: Another Burney Family Novelist”. Review of English Studies, Oxford University Press, 8 Feb. 2013.

L. E. L.: 18 November 1824

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18 November 1824

LEL 's father died, leaving the family in poor economic circumstances.
L. E. L. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages.
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Emily Brontë: 25 November 1824

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25 November 1824

EB , aged six, joined her elder sisters as a pupil at the Clergy Daughters' School in Cowan Bridge, Yorkshire.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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30 November 1824: A banker, Henry Fauntleroy, was hanged for...

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30 November 1824

A banker, Henry Fauntleroy , was hanged for forgery at Newgate Prison in London, before a crowd of 100,000. The bank he had worked for was that of Anne Marsh 's husband's family.
Reader, John. “Scram from Africa”. London Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2000, pp. 31-4.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Maria Callcott: Before December 1824

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Before December 1824

MC published at LondonJournal of a Residence in Chile, during the year 1822, and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
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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.

Eliza Fenwick: Winter 1824-March 1825

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Winter 1824-March 1825

The school run by EF and her daughter at New Haven was the object of a hate campaign.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Dorothy Wordsworth: December 1824-early 1835

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December 1824-early 1835

DW intermittently kept rather scrappy diaries recording odd points of interest in her daily life.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. “Preface”. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by Ernest De Selincourt, Macmillan, 1941, p. 1: v - xix.
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Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 490

Susanna Watts: December 1824-July 1825

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December 1824-July 1825

SW ran, wrote (in the several editorial personae of Truth, Common Sense, and Philanthropy), and published at Leicester the two numbers of an anti-slavery periodical, The Humming Bird.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004.
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