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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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Emma Marshall: 29 September 1828

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29 September 1828

EM was born Emma Martin at Northrepps Hill House near Cromer, Norfolk, the seventh and much the youngest in her family.
This birth-date appears in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and in the...

Grace Aguilar: After October 1828

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After October 1828

After the family moved to Devon, GA finished writing a drama titled Gustavus Vasa, which was never published.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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.

Harriette Wilson: Autumn 1828

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Autumn 1828

HW and her husband returned for the last time from Paris to London, where they settled at 16 Trevor Square in Knightsbridge.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Elizabeth Strutt: By October 1828

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By October 1828

ES , twice married, began her output of travel writing with A Spinster's Tour in France, the States of Genoa, &c. During the Year 1827.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
38 (1828): 603

1 October 1828: The Cambridge campaign to increase the study...

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1 October 1828

The Cambridge campaign to increase the study of science in universities resulted in the founding of University College, London , which emphasized science; this was the date of the inaugural lecture.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Harriet Tytler: 3 October 1828

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3 October 1828

Harriet Christina Earle (later HT ) was born in Secrora, Oudh, India.
Tytler, Harriet, and Philip Mason. An Englishwoman in India. Editor Sattin, Anthony, Oxford University Press, 1986.
5

Mary Russell Mitford: Early October 1828

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Early October 1828

MRM 's tragedy Rienzi opened at Drury Lane Theatre ; it ran for thirty-four nights, making her reputation as a dramatist.
Sullivan dates the opening 11 October, but MRM herself, as edited by L'Estrange, suggests...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 7 October 1828

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7 October 1828

Elizabeth Barrett 's mother died suddenly at Cheltenham
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
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Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
48

Lydia Maria Child: 18 October 1828

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18 October 1828

Lydia Maria Francis married journalist, lawyer, and idealist David Lee Child ; they had met by December 1824.
Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
15
Child, Lydia Maria, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Letters of Lydia Maria Child. Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969.
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27 October 1828: Nathaniel Hawthorne anonymously published...

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27 October 1828

Nathaniel Hawthorne anonymously published his first novel, Fanshawe, at his own expense.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Clark, C. E. Frazer. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Descriptive Bibliography. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978.
4-5

Frances Wright: 29 October 1828

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29 October 1828

FW , with a coeditor, issued the first issue of The Free Enquirer, New York (descendant of the New Harmony Gazette), which ran until 1835.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.

Mary Prince: November 1828

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November 1828

MP , on her own in London, came to the attention of the Anti-Slavery Society through the Moravian Missionaries, from whom she had sought help.
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
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Alicia Tyndal Palmer: November 1828

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November 1828

ATP made her last contact with the Royal Literary Fund , from Hammersmith, after a severe illness.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Jane Harvey: November 1828

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November 1828

JH left her old home for what she called a den—A House on Top of the Bank of Tynemouth, where she lived for six winter months.
Harvey, Jane. Fugitive Pieces. Currie and Bowman, 1841.
31, 53

Felicia Hemans: By autumn 1828

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By autumn 1828

FH moved from Rhyllon near St Asaph to Wavertree, a suburb of Liverpool, in an effort to improve her health.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

10 November 1828-25 May 1829: Charles Sturt conducted expeditions from...

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10 November 1828-25 May 1829

Charles Sturt conducted expeditions from Sydney into uncharted South Australia.
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A History of Australia. Melbourne University Press, 1981.
II: 98-101

Anna Eliza Bray: By late November 1828

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By late November 1828

AEB published her third novel, and her second that year, The Protestant: A Tale of the Reign of Queen Mary, in three volumes.
Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth. “Reviving the Reformation: Victorian women writers and the Protestant historical novel”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2005, pp. 73-83.
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Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 51
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.

Caroline Norton: Late 1828

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Late 1828

CN 's first collection of poems, The Sorrows of Rosalie, was published, with the date 1829 on the title-page.
Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing, 2012.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Fenton: By 16 December 1828

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By 16 December 1828

EF (about five months pregnant) was on board the Hamoud Shaw with her second husband , migrating from India, via Mauritius, to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901.
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Barbara Hofland: By 17 December 1828

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By 17 December 1828

BH published, with A. K. Newman (successor to the Minerva Press ) The Young Crusoe; or, The Shipwrecked Boy, dated 1829 on its title-page.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Eliza Fletcher: 20 December 1828

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20 December 1828

EF 's husband died at half-past two in the morning after only a few weeks in bed.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
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Charlotte Chanter: 24 December 1828

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24 December 1828

Charlotte Kingsley (later CC ) was born in a haunted room
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.
in Barnack near Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Chanter, John Mill. Wanderings in North Devon. Editor Chanter, Gratiana, Twiss and Son, 1887.
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Elizabeth Bentley: 1829

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1829

The Royal Literary Fund paid EB fifteen guineas (very generous according to its usually class-based scale of awards).
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Caroline Bowles: 1829

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1829

CB , as the authoress of Ellen Fitzarthur, published in two volumes her only collection of stories: Chapters on Churchyards.
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.

Lydia Maria Child: 1829

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1829

LMC 's The Frugal Housewife (undertaken both as a money-making venture and, like her children's books, to establish an American foothold in a hitherto British genre, this time the domestic advice manual) appeared as by...