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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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Anna Brownell Jameson: 1825

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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson

1825

After their marriage, ABJ and her husband lived in Chenies Street, Tottenham Court Road, London.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
27

Fanny Kemble: 1825

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Author event in Fanny Kemble

1825

Sixteen-year-old FK met thirty-year-old Harriet St Leger , and a life-long friendship and correspondence ensued.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
21
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
30

L. E. L.: 1825

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Author event in L. E. L.

1825

LEL moved out of the family house and into her grandmother's residence in Sloane Street.
L. E. L. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages.
32
Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
33

Elizabeth Meeke: Probably 1825

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Author event in Elizabeth Meeke

Probably 1825

What seems to be the last publication by EM (now Mrs Rawlings) appeared with her name the year before her death: an anthology for children entitled The Parent's Offering to a Good Child: A Collection...

Susanna Moodie: 1825

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Author event in Susanna Moodie

1825

Susanna Strickland, later SM , began to publish in La Belle Assemblée.
Thurston, John. “‘The Casket of Truth’: The Social Significance of Susanna Moodie’s Spiritual Dilemmas”. Canadian Poetry, Vol.
35
, 1 Sept. 1994–28 Feb. 1995.
2

Hannah More: 1825

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Author event in Hannah More

1825

HM calculated that she had made over £30,000 from her writings; this, she said, made her almost ashamed.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
186
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.

1825: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin published his...

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1825

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin published his historical drama Boris Godunov.
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
283, 446
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
52
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

By about 1825: The number of commercially-produced Valentine...

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By about 1825

The number of commercially-produced Valentine cards or messages sent in mid-decade in London alone had reached about 200,000.
Flynn, Amanda. “Sweet and Sour Commodities: Nineteenth-Century Valentines in the John Johnson Collection of Ephemera”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
23
, No. 1, Apr. 2010, pp. 64-9.
65

By 1825: Three British annuals (the Forget-me-not,...

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By 1825

Three British annuals (the Forget-me-not, Friendship's Offering, and the Literary Souvenir) had abandoned the prototypical diary format in favour of offering literary and pictorial contents.
Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle, 1967.
Collins, Arthur Simons. The Profession of Letters: A Study of the Relation of Author to Patron, Publisher, and Public, 1780-1832. George Routledge and Sons, 1928.
Eliot, George, and Felicia Bonaparte. Middlemarch. Editor Carroll, David, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Brown, Susan I. “The Victorian Poetess”. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 180-02.
Renier, Anne. Friendship’s Offering: An Essay on the Annuals and Gift Books of the Nineteenth Century. Private Libraries Association, 1964, http://University of Toronto (Robarts).
Linley, Margaret. “A Centre That Would Not Hold: Annuals and Cultural Democracy”. Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities, St Martin’s Press, 2000, pp. 54-74.
Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle, 1967.

1825: Alexander Dyce, then a twenty-seven-year-old...

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1825

Alexander Dyce , then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
210-11
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 81
Salzman, Paul. “How Alexander Dyce Assembled Specimens of British Poetesses: A Key Moment in the Transmission of Early Modern Women’s Writing”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
26
, No. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 88-105.
88-9, 91, 95-6, 97, 98, 101

1825: Walter Hamilton in A Hand-book or Concise...

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1825

Walter Hamilton in A Hand-book or Concise Dictionary of Terms Used in the Arts and Sciences defined the waltz as a riotous and indecent German dance.
Stovel, Nora Foster. “’Every Savage Can Dance’: Choreographing Courtship”. Persuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 29-49.
33

1825-27: Alessandro Manzoni published I promessi sposi...

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1825-27

Alessandro Manzoni published I promessi sposi (the early Italian novel known in English as The Betrothed).
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1825: Frances Parkes (Mrs. William Parkes 1786-1842),...

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1825

Frances Parkes (Mrs. William Parkes 1786-1842), published a highly successful domestic conduct book whose lengthy title begins Domestic Duties; or, Instructions to Young Married Ladies.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1825: Justus von Liebig established the first university...

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1825

Justus von Liebig established the first university research laboratory for chemistry, at Giessen in Germany.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
279

1825: Michel-Eugène Chevreul and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac...

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1825

Michel-Eugène Chevreul and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac patented a way of making candles from fatty acid; this improvement on tallow candles was widely celebrated.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
286

1825-1839: Catherine Gilbert, daughter of Davies Gilbert...

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1825-1839

Catherine Gilbert , daughter of Davies Gilbert (President of the Royal Society from 1828-1831), conducted most of the work of the small private printing press established by her father in their home at Eastbourne.
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
122-4

1825: Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life...

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1825

Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
96

1825: Lord Braybrooke edited and published the...

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1825

Lord Braybrooke edited and published the first selection from Pepys 's diary, written between 1 January 1660 and 31 May 1669, deciphered by John Smith.
Pepys, Samuel. The Shorter Pepys. Editor Latham, Robert, Penguin, 1987.
xlvi

1825: Sir Goldsworthy Gurney invented limelight,...

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1825

Sir Goldsworthy Gurney invented limelight, a brilliant white light produced by heating lime; it came into use in theatres a dozen years later.
Fuchs, Theodore. Stage Lighting. Benjamin Blom, 1963.
42
Rees, Terence. Theatre Lighting in the Age of Gas. Society for Theatre Research, 1978.
64

1825: William Hazlitt published The Spirit of the...

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1825

William Hazlitt published The Spirit of the Age, a history of the present of the Romantic period.
Hazlitt, William. The Spirit of the Age. H. Colborne, 1825.
2
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.

1825: Martha Pocock became the first woman to fly...

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1825

Martha Pocock became the first woman to fly beneath a kite.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
80

Harriette Wilson: 6 January 1825

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Author event in Harriette Wilson

6 January 1825

Newspapers advertised the first instalment of HW 's Memoirs as due next day—but the promised contents (a list of names headed by the king and three dukes) was an obvious invitation to buy out.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
200

Anna Jane Vardill: 24 January 1825

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Author event in Anna Jane Vardill

24 January 1825

Anna Jane Niven (formerly Vardill) bore her daughter, Agnes Vardill Niven , at Kirkcudbright in Kincardineshire, Scotland.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
2nd series 28
, 1970, pp. 57-88.
75

February 1825: Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard...

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February 1825

Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel began work on the first underwater tunnel under the River Thames in London.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Hannah More: Early 1825

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Author event in Hannah More

Early 1825

HM 's The Spirit of Prayer, her final publication, appeared (two more religious works had intervened between it and Moral Sketches).
Stott, Anne. Hannah More: The First Victorian. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
274