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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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Frances Wright: June 1828

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Author event in Frances Wright

June 1828

FW left Nashoba once more, this time for Robert Owen 's colony of New Harmony in Indiana.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Mary Shelley: June-July 1828

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Author event in Mary Shelley

June-July 1828

MS convalesced, following smallpox, in Dover and then in Hastings.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xviii

Dorothy Wordsworth: 26 June-19 July 1828

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Author event in Dorothy Wordsworth

26 June-19 July 1828

DW wrote up the last of her travel-journals, on a tour to the Isle of Man.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
2: 401, 419

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: 27 June 1828

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27 June 1828

The first of the two children of Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton ), Emily Bulwer , was born.
Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.
136

27 June 1828: Joseph Grimaldi, famous clown of English...

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27 June 1828

Joseph Grimaldi , famous clown of English pantomime, gave a farewell performance at Drury Lane , aged forty-eight.
Roose-Evans, James. London Theatre from the Globe to the National. Phaidon, 1977.
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Roose-Evans, James. London Theatre from the Globe to the National. Phaidon, 1977.
98
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
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Selina Bunbury: July 1828

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Author event in Selina Bunbury

July 1828

SB set another publication in Ireland: a novel entitled The Abbey of Innismoyle: A Story of Another Century, which she issued as the Author of Early Recollections, A Visit to my Birth-Place, etc.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 660
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Gaskell: After July 1828

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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell

After July 1828

Sailor John Stevenson , the only surviving sibling of the future EG , disappeared, either at sea or somewhere in India.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Caroline Scott: By July 1828

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By July 1828

CS published her first, anonymous novel, A Marriage in High Life, which was billed as edited by the authoress of Flirtation—meaning Scott's cousin the successful novelist Lady Charlotte Bury .
It was a...

Regina Maria Roche: By July 1828

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By July 1828

RMR published through A. K. Newman , this time by subscription in an attempt to relieve her desperate financial situation, another three-volume novel, Contrast.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
38 (1828): 303
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Barbara Hofland: July 1828

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

July 1828

Katherine. A Tale, a four-volume novel published anonymously by Newman , is generally ascribed to BH , but bibliographer Dennis Butts doubts her authorship.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 666
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
80-1

Maria Jane Jewsbury: Summer 1828

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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury

Summer 1828

MJJ rented a cottage outside Rhyl near St Asaph in Wales, for herself, her sister Geraldine , and her brothers, intending to cultivate her friendship with Felicia Hemans , who lived about a mile away.
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
66
, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
198
Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, 1877, pp. 323-39.
328
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Frances Wright: 4 July 1828

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4 July 1828

FW delivered what was said to be the first public address by a woman on a public occasion before a large mixed audience
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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in New Harmony, Indiana.
That is, the first public address...

4 July 1828: The House of Lords affirmed Lord Eldon's...

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4 July 1828

The House of Lords affirmed Lord Eldon 's epoch-making decision which awarded custody of three children whose mother was dead to the mother's sisters instead of to the father.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
39 (1829): 183-209

4 July 1828: Following the death of John VI on 10 March...

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4 July 1828

Following the death of John VI on 10 March 1826, his son Dom Miguel (after a New Year visit to London seeking British support) assumed the title of King of Portugal.
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
67
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Mary Cowden Clarke: 5 July 1828

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5 July 1828

Mary Novello was married at Bloomsbury Church to Charles Cowden Clarke , a family friend more than twenty years her senior.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
62

5 July 1828: The Spectator was launched as a weekly in...

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5 July 1828

The Spectator was launched as a weekly in London; it was still running in the early twenty-first century.
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.

5 July 1828: Daniel O'Connell was returned to parliament...

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5 July 1828

Daniel O'Connell was returned to parliament as member for County Clare.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
325
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Ann Browne: By August 1828

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Author event in Mary Ann Browne

By August 1828

MAB published her second poetry volume, Ada, and Other Poems.
Blain, Virginia. “’Thou with Earth’s Music Answerest to the Sky’: Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
2
, No. 3, 1995, pp. 251-69.
268n27

Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins: 8 August 1828

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8 August 1828

EST died of an apparent fainting fit at Chaldon in Surrey. She had had a fall from a pony the day before, and may probably have died of concussion.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

18 August 1828: William Corder was hanged at Bury Gaol for...

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18 August 1828

William Corder was hanged at Bury Gaol for the murder of Maria Marten ; the execution attracted an audience of ten thousand.
Haydn's Dictionary of Dates lists the date of Corder's execution as the 11th...

28 August 1828: Novelist Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born...

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28 August 1828

Novelist Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born at Iasnaia Poliana, an estate (which is variously transliterated) near Tula in Russia.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
238

Grace Aguilar: September 1828

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Author event in Grace Aguilar

September 1828

GA and her family moved from Hackney in North London to Devon.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
138
Aguilar, Sarah, and Grace Aguilar. “Memoir of Grace Aguilar”. Home Influence, Hickling, Swan, and Brewer, 1857, p. ix - xvii.
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Frances Trollope: Late September 1828

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Author event in Frances Trollope

Late September 1828

FT 's husband and their eldest son, Thomas Anthony Trollope and Thomas Adolphus , joined her in Cincinnati, where she had been living for almost a year.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 116
Johnston, Johanna. The Life, Manners, and Travels of Fanny Trollope: A Biography. Hawthorn Books, 1978.
87
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
62

Jane Porter: September 1828

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Author event in Jane Porter

September 1828

The Navaland Military Magazine carried the first part of JP 's article on Simón Bolívar as Liberator of the South American Independent States. The second part followed in December.
McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 1825–1846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
20
, No. 2, 1 June 2009–2026, pp. 45-62.
53

September 1828: Catherine McAuley opened in Baggot Street,...

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September 1828

Catherine McAuley opened in Baggot Street, Dublin, her first House of Mercy , a centre for charity and teaching.
Atkinson, Norman. Irish Education: A History of Educational Institutions. Allen Figgis, 1969.
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