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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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31 March 1829: Pius VIII was chosen Pope after the death...

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31 March 1829

Pius VIII was chosen Pope after the death of Leo XII .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1094
Bury, John Bagnell, and Frederick Clifton Grant. History of the Papacy in the Nineteenth Century: Liberty and Authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Editor Murray, Robert Henry, Augmented edition, Schocken Books, 1964.
vi

Dorothy Wordsworth: Early April 1829

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Author event in Dorothy Wordsworth

Early April 1829

DW had an intensely painful illness (now thought to have been probably cholicystitis with gall-stone);
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 488n2
though she was not, as her family thought, dying, this apparently began an irreversible decline in her health.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 488

Mary Shelley: April 1829 to May 1833

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Author event in Mary Shelley

April 1829 to May 1833

MS lived in Portman Square, London; she then moved to Harrow, so that her son, who had entered Harrow School , should not have to board (and pay extra fees).
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xviii
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45.
10

Anna Maria Hall: April 1829

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April 1829

AMH published Sketches of Irish Character, in two 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.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
ix, 20

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 6 April 1829

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6 April 1829

Sydney Morgan and her husband left Ireland again to visit England, then France; they returned through the present Belgium and Holland.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 282
Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan the Novelist. Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses, 1990.
10
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
209

Mary Ann Browne: By 8 April 1829

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By 8 April 1829

MAB , still not yet seventeen, issued her third volume, Repentance, and Other Poems.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
76 (1830): 213

13 April 1829: The Catholic Emancipation Act at last received...

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13 April 1829

The Catholic Emancipation Act at last received the royal assent, allowing limited civil rights, for the first time, to Catholics in Britain.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
885
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
278-9, 333
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
21
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
8
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
65
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
“Our history in Britain”. The Jesuits in Britain.

Frances Wright: 26 April 1829

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26 April 1829

FW gave the opening address at the Hall of Science in New York, which she had established as a meeting place for the city's liberals.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
191

Harriet Downing: 29 April 1829

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29 April 1829

After the death of her first husband HD (as Harriet Camilla Downing) married Charles Martin Oliver , an upholsterer, who was then living in Alie Street, Whitechapel, but had until recently been resident in Jamacia.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: April 1829

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April 1829

Sydney Morgan published a collection of essays and shorter observations which she ironically entitled The Book of the Boudoir.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 282

30 April 1829: John Lindley gave his inaugural lecture as...

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30 April 1829

John Lindley gave his inaugural lecture as the first professor of botany at the newly established London University .
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
157
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
155-7

May 1829: A Ladies' Bazaar to benefit Spanish refugees,...

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May 1829

A Ladies' Bazaar to benefit Spanish refugees, held at the Hanover Square Rooms in London, patron the Duke of Wellington , raised the remarkable sum of £2,000.
“Deaprtments. Travel. Stanhope, Lady Caroline”. Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

4 May 1829: The Earl of Surrey (heir to the Duke of Norfolk)...

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4 May 1829

The Earl of Surrey (heir to the Duke of Norfolk) became the first Roman Catholic elected to the House of Commons since the Reformation.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
68

Eliza Fletcher: 21 May 1829

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21 May 1829

Five months after her husband's death, EF began on a Memoir of Archibald Fletcher , Advocate, with a sketch of the political state of feeling in Edinburgh, from 1791 to 1815.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
313

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 23 May 1829

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23 May 1829

When Marguerite Blessington 's husband , still in his forties, died of apoplexy in Paris, she found his bequest to her of £2,000 a year was nowhere near enough for her lifestyle.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
185
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
148

Maria Jane Jewsbury: 26 May 1829

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26 May 1829

MJJ paid a second visit to Dora and William Wordsworth at Rydal Mount.
Gillett, Eric, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. “Maria Jane Jewsbury: A Memoir”. Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, Oxford University Press, 1932, p. xiii - lxvii.
li

Charlotte Brontë: June 1829

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June 1829

CB began producing a miniature periodical called the Young Men's Magazine, filled with fantastic narratives and reportage. A month later she took over her brother Branwell 's imitation of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
159-60

Jane Welsh Carlyle: Late 1829

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Late 1829

JWC was very ill with what was suspected to be diphtheria.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
89

Amelia Opie: June 1829

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June 1829

AO made another visit to Paris, where she regarded the restored monarchical government with, on balance, distaste. She stayed, nevertheless, for four months.
Scharnhorst, Gary. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Bibliography. The Scarecrow Press, 1985.
liii
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
32

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: June 1829

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June 1829

Mary Lamb 's poem To Emma , Learning Latin, and Desponding appeared in Blackwood's Magazine.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
419n30
Prance, Claude Annett. Companion to Charles Lamb: A Guide to People and Places, 1760-1847. Mansell, 1983.
188

Harriet Martineau: June 1829

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June 1829

After struggling for four years, HM 's family was forced to close its manufacturing business. She, her sisters, and her mother thereby lost the income from the money they had invested in the enterprise.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
1: 142
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
564
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
xxi

10 June 1829: The second and final issue of the London...

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10 June 1829

The second and final issue of the London Review appeared.
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

Lady Eleanor Butler: 2 June 1829

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2 June 1829

LEB died at Plas Newydd, Llangollen; her companion Sarah Ponsonby survived her by two years, dying in early December 1831.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
186, 192

Susanna Moodie: 2 June 1829

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2 June 1829

Susanna Strickland (later SM ) sent Mary Russell Mitford a poetic eulogy; of herself she wrote humbly: Never for me will lyre like thine be strung.
qtd. in
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 196-7

3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - ­1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871