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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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Harriet Corp: January 1829

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January 1829

HC , as the author of An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life and other works, published Tales Characteristic, Descriptive, and Allegorical.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 681

Anne Evans: Biography: 1829

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1829

AE 's family moved from Britwell Court in Buckinghamshire to Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, where her father had been appointed headmaster of the grammar school.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, 1880, p. vii - xxix.
x-xi

Ann, Lady Fanshawe: 1829

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1829

Ann Fanshawe 's Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, begun in 1676, were published for the first time, by Henry Colburn , from an original manuscript, anonymously edited by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicholas .
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, p. v - xxi.
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Frances Wright: January 1829

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January 1829

FW settled on New York as her base of operations, setting up a commune on the edge of the city.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
184, 190

Frances Wright: 1829

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1829

FW published A Course of Popular Lectures; the same year saw the printing of her opening address at the Hall of Science in New York.
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.

Ellen Weeton: Biography: 1829

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1829

EW was reunited with her daughter Mary , whom she had not seen in any privacy for seven years; Mary was received this year into the church congregation that her mother had joined two years...

Frances Trollope: 1829

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1829

FT 's Bazaar in Cincinnati opened and closed in three short months, leaving her and her husband destitute.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
67, 274
Johnston, Johanna. The Life, Manners, and Travels of Fanny Trollope: A Biography. Hawthorn Books, 1978.
100-1

Flora Tristan: 1829

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1829

In an attempt re-establish a connection with her father's family, FT contacted her uncle Pio de Tristan in Peru.
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
21, 222

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1829

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1829

MMS published Emancipation, through Houlston at Wellington: her topic is not slavery, but the Catholic Emancipation Act which received royal assent on 13 April this year.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. Emancipation. Houlston, 1829.
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Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1829

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1829

MAS published with her name Select Memoirs of Port Royal . . . , third edition, which incorporates her earlier Port Royal publications.
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.

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1829

Women writers item

1829

MAS followed up her interest in the idea of religious orders for women by publishing at BristolManual of la mère Agnès ; or, A gift from an abbess to her nuns.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

George Sand: 1829

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1829

Aurore Dudevant (later GS ) wrote her first novel to cheer up a friend who was ill. A chapter of this, La marraine (The Godmother), was published posthumously.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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Catherine Gore : By early 1829

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By early 1829

CG , as the author of the Lettre de Cachet, published her first three-decker: Hungarian Tales; it seems in fact have been out before the end of 1828.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 683
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
50.1: 67

Sarah Josepha Hale: 1829

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1829

SJH published Sketches of American Character, a volume of essays purporting to document the types that constituted a national identity.
qtd. in
Tonkovich, Nicole. Domesticity with a Difference. University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
130

Anna Maria Hall: January 1829

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January 1829

AMH published an Irish sketch, Master Ben, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, a periodical edited by her husband Samuel Carter Hall .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Anna Maria Hall: 1829

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1829

In the year that she first appeared in print, AMH published five stories in the annual The Amulet: some of the many stories that she placed in annuals, which became an established market for...

Anna Maria Hall: 1829-1837

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1829-1837

AMH edited The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not, an annual gift book for which she produced nine successive volumes in all.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

Isabel Hill: 1829

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1829

IH published a collection of her poems (deft and entertaining light verse), stories, and essays, entitled Holiday Dreams; or, Light Reading in Poetry and Prose.
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.

Isabel Hill: 1829-38

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1829-38

Between these years IH published at least thirty-four stories in seven different annuals.
Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle, 1967.
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Barbara Hofland: 1829

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1829

BH published The Stolen Boy at London; it was published the following year as Little Manuel, the Captive Boy at Boston by B. Franklin Emands , as the first volume in their Lilliputian Quarto series.
Feminist Companion Archive.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Anna Brownell Jameson: 1829

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1829

Robert Jameson was appointed puisne judge in Dominica; ABJ remained in England.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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Anna Brownell Jameson: 1829

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1829

ABJ published a literary study, The Loves of the Poets as the author of the Diary of an Ennuyée.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
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Maria Jane Jewsbury: 1829

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1829

MJJ published her second volume of poetry, Lays of Leisure Hours, dedicated to Felicia Hemansin remembrance of the summer passed in her society.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. Lays of Leisure Hours. J. Hatchard, 1829.
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.

Jane Loudon: 1829

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1829

Jane Webb, later Loudon , followed her single novel with a volume of tales, Stories of a Bride.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Jane Marcet: 1829

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1829

JM , as the author of Conversations on Chemistry, published Conversations on Vegetable Physiology, illustrated with plates.
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.