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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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1827: Dr Richard Bright, working at Guy's Hospital...

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1827

Dr Richard Bright , working at Guy's Hospital in London, described the symptoms of a complex kidney disorder which became known as Bright's disease.
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
Shryock, Richard Harrison. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
186

1827: Jane Webb published The Mummy: A Tale of...

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1827

Jane Webb published The Mummy: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, a dystopia set in a technology-crazed society populated by robots, featuring steamships and a dirigible; Webb was later, as Jane Loudon an influential...

1827: German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine published...

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1827

German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine published his influential Book of Songs.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
448

Elizabeth Fenton: 7 January 1827

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Author event in Elizabeth Fenton

7 January 1827

Elizabeth Campbell (later EF ) began, at the request of a friend, keeping a journal documenting her travels around India. She probably sent the manuscript in instalments to friends and family at home in Ireland.
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: 9 January 1827

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9 January 1827

After a long endurance of ill-health, EOB died in London following only a short illness.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Aikin, Lucy, and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger. “Memoir of Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger”. Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, 3rd ed., Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827.
The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 33 vols.
1 n.s., 1827.127

Felicia Hemans: 11 January 1827

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11 January 1827

FH 's beloved mother died; this event appears to have affected her health.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
104
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
237

Mary Ann Browne: 17 January 1827

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17 January 1827

By this date, said MAB , she had completed the title poem of what became her second book of poetry to be published, Ada, and Other Poems.
Browne, Mary Ann. Ada. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; Hatchard and Son; and W. Benning, 1828.
prelims

Melesina Trench: 24 January 1827

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24 January 1827

The last extant letter that MT wrote was to the widower of Mary Leadbeater (the writer having died six months before).
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Second edition, revised, Parker and Bourn, 1862.
519

Joanna Baillie: February 1827

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February 1827

JB composed a poem of protest against cruelty to animals, especially horses, Verses written in February, 1827.
Baillie, Joanna. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851. Editor Breen, Jennifer, Manchester University Press, 1999.
121

Maria Callcott: 20 February 1827

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20 February 1827

Maria Graham married her second husband, landscape painter Augustus Wall Callcott ; she may have been engaged to him by the previous autumn.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
255
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lydia Becker: 24 February 1827

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24 February 1827

LB was born in Cooper Street, Manchester.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: Spring 1827

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Spring 1827

Marguerite Blessington met Alphonse de Lamartine and Walter Savage Landor in Florence.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
133, 141

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton: March 1827

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March 1827

Henry Colburn published Edward Bulwer 's first novel, Falkland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Christian Isobel Johnstone: By March 1827

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By March 1827

CIJ published at London and Edinburgh her second novel, Elizabeth de Bruce.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
35 (1827): 617

March 1827: Alfred and Charles Tennyson published Poems,...

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March 1827

Alfred and Charles Tennyson published Poems, by Two Brothers.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
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Sarah Tytler: 4 March 1827

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4 March 1827

Henrietta Keddie (who later wrote as ST ) was born at Cupar in Fife, Scotland.
The form given in the baptismal record on 30 March was Heneritty Gibb Keddy.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Caroline Leakey: 8 March 1827

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8 March 1827

CL was born at Exeter in Devon.
Mead, Jenna. “Caroline Leakey: Body and Authorship”. Auto/Biography Studies, Vol.
8
, No. 2, 1993, pp. 198-16.
200

Fredrika Bremer: 25 March 1827

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25 March 1827

FB sat through a sermon for the feast of the Annunciation by eminent Lutheran churchman Johan Olof Wallin entitled The Woman's Noble and Quiet Calling. She then composed and sent him an indignantly proto-feminist...

Mary Somerville: 27 March 1827

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27 March 1827

On behalf of the Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge , Henry, Lord Brougham , wrote to MS 's husband to propose that she translate into English the advanced French astronomical mathematics of Laplace 's Méchanique Céleste.
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.
211, 214
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
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Catherine Hutton: By 27 March 1827

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By 27 March 1827

CH published a piece in La Belle Assemblée (to which she was a regular contributor) about her autograph collection.
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
179

April 1827: The Regent's Park Zoo, or Zoological Gardens,...

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April 1827

The Regent's Park Zoo , or Zoological Gardens, opened, with restricted access and greater emphasis on science than on spectacle.
Jones, Robert W. “‘The Sight of Creatures Strange to Our Clime’: London Zoo and the Consumption of the Exotic”. Journal of Victorian Culture, No. 1, 1997, pp. 1-26.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Zoology

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: 8 April 1827

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8 April 1827

Barbara Leigh Smith , later BLSB , was born out of wedlock at Watlington in Sussex, the eldest child of five.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
1, 15

10 April 1827: George Canning, a Tory, became Prime Minister...

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10 April 1827

George Canning , a Tory, became Prime Minister after Lord Liverpool had a stroke.
Parry, Jonathan. The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain. Yale University Press, 1993.
44, 312
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
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Elizabeth Fenton: 23 April 1827

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23 April 1827

The first husband of Elizabeth Campbell (later EF ) died in India, less than a year after their marriage.
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901.
91

30 April 1827: Charles X of France disbanded the National...

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30 April 1827

Charles X of France disbanded the National Guard at Paris.
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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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.