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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: 23 January 1826

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23 January 1826

Colburn published MS 's fantasy novel The Last Man, as by the author of Frankenstein.
Her title had already been used, in 1806, for the English translation of a work by Jean-Baptiste François-Xavier Cousin de Grainville

Anne Lister: 26 January 1826

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Author event in Anne Lister

26 January 1826

AL inherited Shibden Hall, Halifax, Yorkshire.
Lister, Anne. Miss Lister of Shibden Hall. Editor Green, Muriel, Book Guild, 1992.
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Lister, Anne. “Introduction”. I Know My Own Heart, edited by Helena Whitbread, New York University Press, 1992, p. xxiii - xxix.
xxvi

30 January 1826: A wrought-iron suspension bridge opened across...

Building item

30 January 1826

A wrought-iron suspension bridge opened across the Menai Straits, linking Anglesey to mainland Wales by road.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
81
Henry, Dorothy, and Jack Jerome. Modern British Bridges. C. R. Books, 1965.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Mary Somerville: 2 February 1826

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Author event in Mary Somerville

2 February 1826

The results of MS 's first experimental investigation of the connection between light and magnetism were presented to the Royal Society by William Somerville ; they later appeared in the Society's Philosophical Transactions.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
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Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Walter Bagehot: 3 February 1826

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Author event in Walter Bagehot

3 February 1826

WB , economist and journalist, was born at Langport in Somerset.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Ann Hatton: 3 February 1826

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3 February 1826

AH dated her dedication of Deeds of the Olden Time. A Romance, published within a few months as Ann of Swansea.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 626-7

6 February 1826: James Fenimore Cooper published The Last...

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6 February 1826

James Fenimore Cooper published The Last of the Mohicans, the second of his Leather-Stocking Tales series, about the slow demise of a Native American Tribe.
Peck, H. Daniel, editor. New Essays on The Last of the Mohicans. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
3, 6-7
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
6 February 2008

Mary Howitt: 7 February 1826

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7 February 1826

Charles Botham , MH 's second child, was born; he died at two years old.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
224

11 February 1826: The present University College, University...

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11 February 1826

The present University College , University of London , was founded as the University of London.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
63-4, 127
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1619

Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: By March 1826

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By March 1826

EMA used a different publisher, Henry Colburn , for her two-volume Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, dedicated to the Duke of York , as by Elizabeth M. B. A. B. Princess Berkeley.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
33: 594
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Henry Colburn, 1826, 2 vols.
iv, title-page

Amelia Bristow: March 1826

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March 1826

AB published her first novel, Sophia de Lissau; or, A Portraiture of the Jews of the Nineteenth Century, as by the author of Elizabeth Allen; or, The Faithful Servant.
The second edition...

Anna Maria Porter: By March 1826

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By March 1826

AMP and her sister published Tales Round a Winter Hearth, a collection of short stories. Their note addressed to the reader is dated the month before this.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
33 (1826): 597
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 632

Mary Ann Kelty: By March 1826

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By March 1826

As the author of The Favourite of Nature, &c., MAK published another novel, The Story of Isabel, dedicated to Mrs Murray of Polmaise.
The manuscripts of the prominent Murray of Polmaise family are...

Harriet Taylor: 14 March 1826

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14 March 1826

Harriet Hardy , aged nineteen, married John Taylor , a wealthy druggist, political radical, and active Unitarian eleven years her senior.
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.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2026, 2 vols.
208
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 25 March 1826

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25 March 1826

Elizabeth Barrett 's philosophical poem An Essay on Mind appeared as the title piece in her anonymous An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Barbara Hofland: 25 March 1826

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25 March 1826

BH dated the dedication to William Beresford of The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred Campbell's Return to the East: her second Campbell geography textbook.
Feminist Companion Archive.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

April 1826: Benjamin Disraeli anonymously published his...

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April 1826

Benjamin Disraeli anonymously published his novel Vivian Grey; a continuation appeared in 1827.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
276
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Dinah Mulock Craik: 20 April 1826

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20 April 1826

Dinah Mulock (later DMC ) was born at Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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23 April 1826: In the ongoing Greek War of Liberation, Missolonghi...

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23 April 1826

In the ongoing Greek War of Liberation, Missolonghi in Greece fell to the Ottomans after a year of siege.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
45
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Anna Wheeler: May 1826

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May 1826

AW 's daughter Henrietta , who had inherited her husband's Irish estate, died in Paris.
Devey, Louisa. Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton. Second, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery, 1887, http://U. of Toronto.
35

Ann Radcliffe: By May 1826

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By May 1826

AR 's Gaston de Blondeville; or, The Court of Henry III appeared: a rather different kind of gothic novel together with other posthumous works, edited with an anonymous memoir by Thomas Noon Talfourd .
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
246, 248

Anna Brownell Jameson: May-October 1826

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May-October 1826

A series of articles by ABJ on late seventeenth-century court women appeared in the New Monthly Magazine; these were later published in book form as The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
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Maria Jane Jewsbury: May 1826 to later 1828

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May 1826 to later 1828

MJJ endured a protracted, life-threatening illness.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 105-18.
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Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
66
, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
194-5
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990.
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Elizabeth Fenton: 5 May 1826

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5 May 1826

Elizabeth Knox (later EF ) married the Scots Captain Neil Campbell , with whom she was intensely in love.
She spells his name Niel.
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.
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901.
126
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.

5 May 1826: The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the...

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5 May 1826

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway , the first modern railway system operated entirely by steam locomotives, was incorporated.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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Meek, James. “Trains in Space”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 9, 5 May 2016, pp. 23-9.
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