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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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Elizabeth Rigby: 1827-1829

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Author event in Elizabeth Rigby

1827-1829

After her bout of typhoid, ER convalesced at Heidelberg in Germany, where she made an extended stay.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
5
qtd. in
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages.
1: 5-6

Amelia Opie: 1827

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Author event in Amelia Opie

1827

AO wrote commemorative Lines to the Memory of Reginald Heber , Bishop of Calcutta, in fifteen quatrains.
This is not included in Opie's Collected Poems.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
53

Anne Grant: 1827

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Author event in Anne Grant

1827

AG 's last surviving daughter, Mary, died of consumption. An unnamed friend described her as supported and strengthened by the power of God
qtd. in
Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, 1972, p. ix - xxxvi.
xxix
in this severe trial.
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
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Sarah Josepha Hale: 1827

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Author event in Sarah Josepha Hale

1827

SJH won an award for her second book, the novel Northwood, A Tale of New England, which treats, with a good deal of authorial moralising, the quiet lives of traditional women.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Heyrick: 1827

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Author event in Elizabeth Heyrick

1827

EH published another pamphlet, entitled Observations on the Offensive and Injurious Effect of Corporal Punishment.
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Observations on the Offensive and Injurious Effect of Corporal Punishment. Hatchard and Son; Hurst, Chance, 1827.
title-page

Mary Howitt: 1827

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Author event in Mary Howitt

1827

MH and her husband published jointly, with their initials, The Desolation of Eyam; The Emigrant, A Tale of the American Woods, and Other Poems.
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.

Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: Between 1827 and 1841

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Between 1827 and 1841

Mary Anne Jevons bore four daughters and seven sons, only six of whom survived past infancy.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Stanley Jevons

Mary Ann Kelty: 1827

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Author event in Mary Ann Kelty

1827

As author of four novels, MAK set out in a new direction with Religious Thoughts, published with her name. Like many of her texts, this is now very rare, but a copy survives at...

Fanny Kemble: 1827-1829

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Author event in Fanny Kemble

1827-1829

FK 's stay in Edinburgh with her actress cousin Harriet Siddons was among the happiest periods of her life.
Scullion, Adrienne, editor. Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Century. J. M. Dent; C. E. Tuttle, 1996.
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Hannah Kilham: 1827

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Author event in Hannah Kilham

1827

HK issued another language-teaching book, African Lessons: Mandingo and English, and African School Tracts.
Robertson, Fiona, and Fiona Robertson, editors. “Hannah Kilham (1774-1832)”. Women’s Writing 1778-1838, An Anthology, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 485-7.
485

Jane Loudon: 1827

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Author event in Jane Loudon

1827

Jane Webb (later JL ) chose anonymous publication for her only novel, The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, a melodramatic, futuristic fantasy in the newly popular mode which is now called science fiction.
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.

Harriet Martineau: 1827

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

1827

HM 's short story The Rioters, presaging some of her later writings, marked a decisive step towards industrial fiction or the social problem novel; initially anonymous, it appeared in a later issue with her name.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
1: 136
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
xxi

Mary Russell Mitford: 1827

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

1827

MRM published Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets, and Other Poems.
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: 64-6
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 192

1827: Publishers Hunt and Clarke reprinted both...

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1827

Publishers Hunt and Clarke reprinted both Charlotte Charke and Mary Robinson in its series entitled Autobiography. A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives ever published.
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.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
49 (II): 37

1827: The weirdly distorted benefit of clergy was...

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1827

The weirdly distorted benefit of clergy was abolished; this was the legal exemption from capital punishment of those who could read a verse of the Bible—once, such people would normally have been clergymen.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
302 n22

1827: The Church Missionary Society founded an...

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1827

The Church Missionary Society founded an institution in Africa, Fourah Bay College , to train native African teachers and missionaries.
Church Missionary Society Archive: Section IV: Africa Missions. Adam Matthew.

1827: John James Audubon began publishing his landmark...

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1827

John James Audubon began publishing his landmark Birds of America.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
140
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.

1827: Scottish botanist Robert Brown discovered,...

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1827

Scottish botanist Robert Brown discovered, with the help of a microscope, Brownian motion.
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.
291

1827: French novelist Honoré de Balzac began publishing...

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1827

French novelist Honoré de Balzac began publishing his series of ninety-one interconnected novels and stories, the Comédie humaine.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1827: British builder and businessman Goldsworthy...

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1827

British builder and businessman Goldsworthy Gurney operated the first public motor vehicle.
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.
62
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
81-2

1827: Henry Hallam published The Constitutional...

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1827

Henry Hallam published The Constitutional History of England, his influential history extending to the death of George II .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1827: Giuseppe Gioachino Belli began to publish...

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1827

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli began to publish I Sonetti; the last of them appeared in 1849.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1827: Constable's Miscellany, a prolific series...

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1827

Constable's Miscellany, a prolific series of affordable books, was established.
Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader. 2nd ed., Ohio State University Press, 1998.
379
Bennett, Scott. “Revolutions in Thought: Serial Publication and the Mass Market for Reading”. The Victorian Periodical Press: Soundings and Samplings, edited by Joanne Shattock and Michael Wolff, University of Leicester Press; University of Toronto Press, 1982, pp. 225-57.
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1827: Using a substantial inheritance, Catherine...

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1827

Using a substantial inheritance, Catherine McAuley commissioned a building in Dublin which became schools and a residence for unemployed women.
Scanlan, Pauline. The Irish Nurse: A Study of Nursing in Ireland. Drumlin, 1991.
63

1827: Joseph Niépce, improving on his earlier experiments,...

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1827

Joseph Niépce , improving on his earlier experiments, produced the first permanent photograph.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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