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Events Timeline
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 Martha Sherwood: 17 May 1826
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17 May 1826
wrote in a letter that her experience in India had taught her to promote the spiritual and intellectual good of half civilized persons rather than their emancipation.
Queen Victoria: By May 1826
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By May 1826
By the age of seven,
was learning the classics, as well as history, scripture, and moral tales.
26 May 1826: The Criminal Law Act was introduced by Sir...
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26 May 1826
The Criminal Law Act was introduced by
. It was entitled An Act for Improving the Administration of Criminal Justice in England.
Augusta Ada Byron: June 1826-October 1827
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Author event in Augusta Ada Byron
June 1826-October 1827
travelled on the Continent with her mother,
, and a small entourage of friends.
Barbara Hofland: June 1826
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Anna Brownell Jameson: By June 1826
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By June 1826
A Lady's Diary (later Diary of an Ennuyée) by
appeared anonymously. Many thought the text and its reporting of the author's death authentic, until discovery of her authorship proved it to be a...
Jane Marcet: By June 1826
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By June 1826
An anonymous Conversations on the Evidences of Christianity, published in one volume by
, is usually ascribed to
, but also to
's son
Hannah Mary Rathbone: By late June 1852
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By late June 1852
edited a selection of her paternal grandfather's letters, with an introductory life of him: Letters of
with a Memoir of his Life
Mary Leadbeater: 27 June 1826
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27 June 1826
died at her home at Ballitore in County Kildare of dropsy (congestive heart failure).
Lucy Aikin: From 9 July 1826
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From 9 July 1826
wrote the letters to Dr
(an American Unitarian minister), which, as printed, are probably her best-known.
Elizabeth Fenton: 17 July 1826
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17 July 1826
Elizabeth Campbell (later
) departed from the British Isles with her new
for India.
Anne Katharine Elwood : 29 July 1826
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29 July 1826
arrived in Bombay after a largely overland journey from England which had lasted over nine months.
Anna Maria Porter: August 1826
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August 1826
dated (from Esher) the preface of her Honor O'Hara. A Novel, in three volumes, mentioning previous work on the title-page along with her name; the work was out by the end of...
Harriet Martineau: August 1826
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Author event in Harriet Martineau
August 1826
became engaged to divinity student
, whom she had met through her brother James in 1823. Worthington, however, was declared insane in December and died in May 1827.
By summer 1826: The Bank of England opened its first subsidiary...
By summer 1826
The
opened its first subsidiary branch, in Gloucester; this initiated the process which led to national banking systems.
Anne Lister: 17 August 1826-17 March 1828
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17 August 1826-17 March 1828
, in Paris, attended lectures at the Collège de France.
Mary Russell Mitford: August 1826
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August 1826
was pursuing the idea of dramatising
's posthumous novel, Gaston de Blondeville; two months later she had her version drafted.
Lydia Maria Child: September 1826
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September 1826
There appeared the first North American children's periodical: The Juvenile Miscellany, edited by
.
September 1826: The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing...
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September 1826
The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing
's Lives of the Novelists, omitted all mention of any female writer.
Fredrika Bremer: Autumn 1826
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Author event in Fredrika Bremer
Autumn 1826
A doctor's decree that FB's younger sister
should remain at Årsta for the winter, not move to Stockholm, because of her back trouble, rescued Fredrika from the social scene for the next two years...
Sojourner Truth: Fall 1826
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Fall 1826
The future
turned her back on the slavery into which she had been born (in the persons of the Dumont family), and took the first steps towards becoming a free woman and eventually a...
Mary Shelley: October 1826
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October 1826
The Westminster Review published
's review of
's The English in Italy, which includes an account of an improvisatore.
Elizabeth Meeke: Before October 1826
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Before October 1826
(now Mrs Rawlings) died at her home somewhere in rural England.
October 1826: William Bemrose began operating as a bookseller,...
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October 1826
began operating as a bookseller, printer, and bookbinder at Wirksworth in Derbyshire.
L. E. L.: 7 October 1826
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Author event in L. E. L.
7 October 1826
The scandalous satirical magazine The Wasp publicly linked
with the married
, editor of the Literary Gazette, implying that she had recently gone to the country to have his child.