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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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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton: May 1828

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May 1828

Edward Bulwer published his second novel, the phenomenally successful portrait of a dandy titled Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, a three-volume silver-fork novel that introduced the custom of dark suits for men.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1828

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Author event in Jane Welsh Carlyle

1828

Jane and Thomas Carlyle moved to the family farm at Craigenputtoch, in Dumfriesshire.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 55. Gale Research, 1987.
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George Eliot: 1828

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Author event in George Eliot

1828

Mary Anne Evans (later GE ) moved to Mrs Wallington's boarding school near Nuneaton, where the evangelical teacher Maria Lewis became an important influence on her.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: 1828

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Author event in Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson

1828

SSW , her career drawing to a close, was writing poetry to be set to music.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Susanna Watts: 1828

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Author event in Susanna Watts

1828

SW founded a Society for the Relief of Indigent Old Age in Leicester, of which she was the first Treasurer and Secretary.
Watts, Susanna. Hymns and Poems of the late Mrs. Susanna Watts. 1842.

Susanna Watts: 1828

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Author event in Susanna Watts

1828

SW published at London, with her name, The Insects in Council, Addressed to Entomologists, with 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.

Catharine Parr Traill: 1828

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1828

Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published another book for children: The Keepsake Guineas; or, The Best Use of Money, as by the author of The Juvenile Forget-me-not, Tell-Tale, Tales of the School, &c.
The...

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1828

Women writers item

1828

Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) published her first proselytizing religious pamphlet, A Friendly Address to Converts from the Roman Catholic Church.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
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Mary Somerville: January-May 1828

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Author event in Mary Somerville

January-May 1828

MS and her family took up residence for the season at 6 Curzon Street, London, next to their friends Mary and Agnes Berry .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Mary Shelley: 1828-34

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1828-34

MS contributed to every number of the newly-founded annual The Keepsake during these years; she needed the money.
During the first two of these years, verse translations from French and German appeared in The Bijou...

Elizabeth Sewell: 1828-1830

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Author event in Elizabeth Sewell

1828-1830

ES had her final two years of education as a boarder at the Misses Aldridge's School at Bath.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
24, 31, 40
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1828

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Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson

1828

SHR 's sequel to her cult novel Charlotte Temple was posthumously published as Charlotte's Daughter; or, The Three Orphans, with a memoir by Samuel L. Knapp .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Amelia Opie: 1828

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Author event in Amelia Opie

1828

AO published an odd and rather bleak book entitled Detraction Displayed.
Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Catalogue of Books By, For, and About Women of the British Isles, 1696-1892. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts, Feb. 2007.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
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Sarah Josepha Hale: January 1828

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January 1828

SJH edited her first number of the new Ladies' Magazine, the first successful periodical for women in the USA. She continued as editor when Louis Godey bought it in 1837 and transmuted it...

Elizabeth Heyrick: 1828

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1828

EH published, anonymously at Leicester, a 16-page pamphlet: Appeal to the Hearts and Consciences of British Women.
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Appeal to the Hearts and Consciences of British Women. A. Cockshaw, 1828.
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Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: 1828-1832

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1828-1832

Mary Anne Jevons published her poetry in annuals such as The Winter's Wreath, The Juvenile Keepsake, and The Remembrance.
Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle, 1967.
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Maria Jane Jewsbury: 1828

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1828

MJJ published her second full-length work, a volume of Letters to the Young adapted from actual letters, some if not all addressed to her younger sister Geraldine .
It used to be thought that all...

Christian Isobel Johnstone: 1828-32

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1828-32

CIJ published two books of tales for children: Diversions of Hollycot; or, The Mother's Art of Thinking, and a sequel, Nights of the Round Table; or, Stories of Aunt Jane and her Friends.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Fanny Kemble: January 1828

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Author event in Fanny Kemble

January 1828

FK admitted to throwing into the fire an 800-page manuscript.
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Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
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Florence Nightingale : 1828-1830

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Author event in Florence Nightingale

1828-1830

Between the ages eight and ten, FN composed her autobiography, La vie de Florence Rossignol, written in French.
Dossey, Barbara Montgomery. Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer. Springhouse Corporation, 2000.
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1828: Samuel Taylor Coleridge published The Wanderings...

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1828

Samuel Taylor Coleridge published The Wanderings of Cain, a poem originally written in 1798.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Wanderings of Cain. 1828.
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1828: The East London Theatre reopened as the Brunswick...

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1828

The East London Theatre reopened as the Brunswick Theatre , only to collapse completely three days later.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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1828: Thomas Moore published his satirical and...

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1828

Thomas Moore published his satirical and (Irish) nationalist Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1828: Andrew Halliday argued that because England...

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1828

Andrew Halliday argued that because England was the most civilized, industrialized and advanced country in the world, it also exhibited the highest incidence of insanity.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
24, 254

1828: Friedrich Wöhler successfully synthesized...

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1828

Friedrich Wöhler successfully synthesized urea; his discovery inaugurated organic chemistry as a scientific discipline with rich opportunities for future research.
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Shryock, Richard Harrison. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
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