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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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Louisa Anne Meredith : Between 1829 and 1838

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Between 1829 and 1838

The galleries of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists , of which Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM ) was a member, exhibited twenty-six of her pictures.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 260

Eliza Meteyard: 1829-1842

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1829-1842

EM lived with her family at Thorpe near Norwich, having moved there from Shrewsbury.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1829: The British Association for Promoting Co-operative...

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1829

The British Association for Promoting Co-operative Knowledge was founded.
Goodway, David. London Chartism, 1838-1848. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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1829: Professor Robert Christenson became one of...

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1829

Professor Robert Christenson became one of the first scientists to publish a systematic investigation into the effects of drug use, in his Treatise on Poisons.
Berridge, Virginia, and Griffith Edwards. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England. St Martin’s Press, 1981.
83-5

By 1829: The publishing house of Truettel and Würtz...

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By 1829

The publishing house of Truettel and Würtz opened the West London Foreign Circulating Library, providing foreign books to those unable to afford to buy them.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 130

1829-30: French socialist Charles Fourier published...

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1829-30

French socialist Charles Fourier published Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

About 1829: Alfred Novello, brother of Mary Cowden Clarke,...

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About 1829

Alfred Novello , brother of Mary Cowden Clarke , launched the family music-publishing business at the family home, then 67 Frith Street, London.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
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1829: The steel busk front fastening first appeared...

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1829

The steel busk front fastening first appeared on corsets.
Waugh, Norah. Corsets and Crinolines. Theatre Arts Books, 1970.
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Aphra Behn had once celebrated in verse the noble fate of a tree cut down to make wooden busks.

1829: Gerald Griffin published his novel The Collegians...

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1829

Gerald Griffin published his novel The Collegians (which was later used by Dion Boucicault as source for his play The Colleen Bawn; or, The Brides of Garryowen, October 1860).
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1829: Ten novels about Ireland were published this...

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1829

Ten novels about Ireland were published this year: the largest number for any year in a decade which, with fifty-two Irish novels published, scored highest in the century so far.
Belanger, Jacqueline. “Some Preliminary Remarks on the Production and Reception of Fiction Relating to Ireland, 1800-1829”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
4
, May 2000.
Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
7
, Dec. 2001.

1829: Construction of Southend Pier in Essex—the...

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1829

Construction of Southend Pier in Essex—the world's largest pier—began.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1829-31: Abby Jane Morrell accompanied her husband,...

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1829-31

Abby Jane Morrell accompanied her husband, Benjamin Morrell , on a voyage of exploration in the US schooner Antarctic, about which she then published a book.
Druett, Joan. Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail. Simon and Schuster, 1998.
63-4, 246-7

1829: Louis Braille, then a twenty-year-old blind...

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1829

Louis Braille , then a twenty-year-old blind instructor at the Institution Royale pour les Jeunes Aveugles in Paris, perfected his system of reading by feeling 63 different combinations of six raised dots.
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 347-8
Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
306

1829: Karl Baedeker began the publication of his...

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1829

Karl Baedeker began the publication of his guide-books with a guide to Koblenz in Germany.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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.
Garland, Henry, and Mary Garland, editors. The Oxford Companion to German Literature. 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1997.

9 January 1829: Playwright Thomas William Robertson was born...

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9 January 1829

Playwright Thomas William Robertson was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Leah Sumbel: 23 January 1829

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23 January 1829

LS died in London, in her sixties.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.

Mary Bryan: Early 1829

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Early 1829

MB published through Whittaker a three-volume novel entitled Longhollow; A Country Tale; on the title-page she used both her married names: Mrs Bryan Bedingfield.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.

Harriet Beecher Stowe: By February 1829

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By February 1829

Harriet Beecher, later HBS , was in her first job, teaching rhetoric and composition at the Hartford Female Seminary , where she had recently been a pupil.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Catherine Sinclair: February 1829

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February 1829

While also working as her father's secretary, CS anonymously published a horror story titled The Murder Hole: An Ancient Legend in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
Sinclair, Catherine. “The Murder Hole: An Ancient Legend”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
25
, William Blackwood, Feb. 1829, pp. 189-92.
25 (February 1829): 189-192

12 February 1829: At a meeting held at the Dublin Rotunda,...

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12 February 1829

At a meeting held at the Dublin Rotunda, the Catholic Association voted to dissolve itself, since its object, Catholic Emancipation, was as good as achieved.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 273, 275

Harriette Wilson: 15 February 1829

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15 February 1829

HW was arrested for assaulting her French maid, Julia la Toille (whom her brother was courting).
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton, 1936.
252
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
270

Sarah Flower Adams: 17 February 1829

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17 February 1829

Sarah Flower (later SFA ) suffered the death of her father .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Benjamin Flower
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
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Sarah Flower Adams: 1829

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1829

Following the death of their father, Sarah Flower (later SFA ) and her sister Eliza were placed in the guardianship of the Reverend W. J. Fox , South Place Unitarian minister and editor of the...

20 February 1829: The first issue of the provocative London...

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20 February 1829

The first issue of the provocative London Review was published by Oxford intellectuals.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 522-5

14 March 1829: Captain Frederick Marryat anonymously published...

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14 March 1829

Captain Frederick Marryat anonymously published his first novel, The Naval Officer; or, Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Frank Mildmay.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.