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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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1828: The Tower of London armouries opened. These...

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1828

The Tower of London armouries opened. These displays of medieval armor and weapons attracted up to 40,000 visitors a year after the opening, indicating the extent of the interest in the Middle Ages.
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Late 1820s: Towards the end of this decade, the microscope...

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Late 1820s

Towards the end of this decade, the microscope was improved significantly by various lens makers, and became a central instrument in medical 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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Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
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1828: In the penal colony at New South Wales, Australia,...

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1828

In the penal colony at New South Wales, Australia, men outnumbered women three by to one: the actual figures were 26,611 men and 8,987 women.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
175-7
Smith, Babette. A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal. New South Wales University Press, 1988.
22, 61-2

1 January 1828: The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons expanded...

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1 January 1828

The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons expanded the requirements for membership to include two courses of lectures on obstretrics.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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1828: The Madhouse Act was passed, creating legislation...

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1828

The Madhouse Act was passed, creating legislation for the commitment of the insane and for the employment structure of asylums.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
26, 53-4
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
160-1

1828: The shilling monthly London and Paris Ladies'...

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1828

The shilling monthly London and Paris Ladies' Magazine began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1828: Metal eyelet holes for the laces on corsets...

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1828

Metal eyelet holes for the laces on corsets came into use, which improved the durability of corsets.
Waugh, Norah. Corsets and Crinolines. Theatre Arts Books, 1970.
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1828-1866: The number of London households receiving...

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1828-1866

The number of London households receiving water rose from 177,000 to 470,000; this increase marked the influence of the public health movement which began in the 1840s.
Hardy, Anne. “Parish Pump to Private Pipes: London’s Water Supply in the Nineteenth Century”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Insititute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 76-93.
78-80, 84

1828: The first public baths in England opened...

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1828

The first public baths in England opened in Liverpool.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
26: 233, 3: 519-20

1828: The first issue of the successful annual...

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1828

The first issue of the successful annual gift book The Keepsake appeared; lavish production and distinguished contributors raised the price of this and other such publications to a guinea.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
239-41, 280
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
381

1828: The phrenologist George Combe issued his...

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1828

The phrenologist George Combe issued his Constitution of Man, a guide to phrenology which also argued that the physical brain was the key to human disposition and identity.
Jay, Mike. “Like Cooking a Dumpling”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 22, 20 Nov. 2014, pp. 25-6.
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Elizabeth Charles: 2 January 1828

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2 January 1828

EC was born Elizabeth Rundle at a house named the Bank, at Tavistock in Devon.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

2 January 1828: The first issue of the Athenæum, founded...

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2 January 1828

The first issue of the Athenæum, founded by James Silk Buckingham , appeared.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Marchand, Leslie Alexis. The Athenæum: A Mirror of Victorian Culture. Octagon, 1971.
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Charlotte Yonge: 7 January 1828

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7 January 1828

CY , not yet five, began reading Sarah Trimmer 's Fabulous Histories (moral tales published in 1786 about baby birds, which later became The History of the Robins).
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: 13 January 1828

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13 January 1828

EMA died at the Villa Craven in Posillipo, Naples, at the age of seventy-eight, having caught a chill from digging in her garden in the rain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

22 January 1828: The Duke of Wellington, leader of the Tory...

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22 January 1828

The Duke of Wellington , leader of the Tory party, formed the government.
Arthur Wellesley was created Viscount Wellington in 1809, earl of Wellington in 1812, marquess in 1812, and duke in 1814.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Parry, Jonathan. The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain. Yale University Press, 1993.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
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Lady Caroline Lamb: 25 or 26 January 1828

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25 or 26 January 1828

LCL died at Melbourne House in London; she left to Sydney Morgan her portrait of Byron and some of his letters.
Her biographer Douglass dates her death as the 25th, while the Oxford Dictionary...

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 31 January 1828

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31 January 1828

The Times reported (under the heading Private Theatricals in High Life) a performance of a four-act comedy, Pomps and Vanities, written by BBBD and performed at The Hoo in Hertfordshire, in which...

Emma Roberts: February 1828

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February 1828

Following her mother's death, ER set out for India with her sister and her brother-in-law, Captain Robert Adair McNaghten , an officer in the 61st Bengal Infantry .
Spellings of her brother-in-law's name vary: ER

Caroline Herschel : 8 February 1828

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8 February 1828

The Astronomical Society awarded its gold medal to CH for her Catalogue of . . . Star-Clusters and Nebulae, which, although unpublished, was accessible to and very highly valued by astronomers.
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
207 and n91

8 February 1828: Novelist Jules Verne was born in Nantes in...

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8 February 1828

Novelist Jules Verne was born in Nantes in France.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Frances Trollope: 10 February 1828

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10 February 1828

FT arrived in Cincinnati, known at that time as the metropolis of the West.
qtd. in
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Anna Eliza Bray: 11 February 1828

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11 February 1828

AEB published her second novel, the historical romance The White Hoods, in three volumes.
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.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 49, 51

George Meredith: 12 February 1828

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12 February 1828

Poet and novelist GM was born at 73 High Street in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Maria Callcott: By March 1828

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By March 1828

MC published A Short History of Spain, designed for children.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
37 (1828): 580
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
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