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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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Elizabeth Grant: 5 June 1829

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5 June 1829

EG was married in the cathedral at Bombay (now Mumbai) to Colonel Henry Smith , younger son of an Irish land-owning family.
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Tod, Andrew, Canongate, 1988, 2 vols.
2: 264
Grant, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Memoirs of a Highland Lady, edited by Andrew Tod, Canongate, 1988.
vii
Corely, Jim. “History Articles. Elizabeth Smith—from Bombay to Baltiboys”. Blessington.info.

8 June 1829: Douglas William Jerrold's play Black-Ey'd...

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8 June 1829

Douglas William Jerrold 's play Black-Ey'd Susan premiered at the Surrey Theatre in London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
333
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Bessie Rayner Parkes : 16 June 1829

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Author event in Bessie Rayner Parkes

16 June 1829

BRP was born in Birmingham, the second of two children.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
37
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 183

Mary Prince: 19 June 1829

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19 June 1829

The Anti-Slavery Society submitted a petition to parliament on MP 's behalf, for her freedom.
Alexander, Ziggi et al. “Introduction; Supplement; Appendices”. The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, edited by Moira Ferguson, Pandora, 1987, pp. 1-41.
116

19 June 1829: Sir Robert Peel's Metropolis Police Improvement...

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19 June 1829

Sir Robert Peel 's Metropolis Police Improvement Bill received royal assent: it gave the new police force, under government control, jurisdiction for thirty miles around London (except in the financial centre of the City).
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
144

Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: After late June 1829

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After late June 1829

According to an advertisement, HRM published the last of her novels, The Blandfords; or, Fate and Fortune, dedicated to Louisa, Marchioness Cornwallis , who had offered Mosse financial support.
She was the widow of...

Elizabeth Fenton: 28 June 1829

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28 June 1829

EF and her nearly-three-month-old daughter were on board the Denmark Hill, headed onwards from Mauritius towards Van Diemen's Land.
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901.
336

Felicia Hemans: July 1829

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July 1829

FH took the first of two trips to Scotland, where she made a visit like an old familiar friend
qtd. in
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
180
with Sir Walter Scott . She also met Francis Jeffrey , who significantly shaped...

Barbara Hofland: July 1829

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July 1829

Longman published BH 's Beatrice, a Tale Founded on Facts, in an edition of 500 copies, with Shakespeare quotations on its title-page.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
83

Frances Jacson: July 1829

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July 1829

FJ recorded a visit to her friend Lady Broughton at Hoole House near Chester, who like her sister was well known as a keen gardener.
Percy, Joan. “Maria Elizabeth Jacson and her ’Florist’s Manual’”. Garden History, Vol.
20
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1992, pp. 45-56.
49

Harriett Mozley: July 1829

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July 1829

Harriett Newman (later HM ) and her family moved from Brighton to the village of Horspath just south of Oxford.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
31

4 July 1829: George Shillibeer's horse-drawn omnibus began...

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4 July 1829

George Shillibeer 's horse-drawn omnibus began service in London: from Paddington to the Bank.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
79
Barker, Theodore Cardwell, and Dorian Gerhold. The Rise and Rise of Road Transport, 1700-1990. Macmillan, 1993.
66
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Eliza Fenwick: 21 July 1829

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21 July 1829

EF 's estranged son-in-law, William Rutherford , died in London by suicide, having drunk a large quantity of laudanum in a moment of mental derangement.
Paul, Lissa. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Eliza Fenwick. 8 Oct. 2008.

Sarah Harriet Burney: July-November 1829

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July-November 1829

SHB took the bold step of travelling alone from London to Rome.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
xlix

23 July 1829: Greek independence was established with Russian...

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23 July 1829

Greek independence was established with Russian and British help; a Greek National Assembly began sitting at Argos. The independence of Greece was recognized at the London conference in 1830.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
104
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
45
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Elizabeth Siddal: 25 July 1829

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25 July 1829

ES was born, the third of seven children in her London family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
65

14 August 1829: King's College, University of London, was...

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14 August 1829

King's College, University of London , was founded and given a charter; it opened its doors two years later.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
61-80
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1618
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

2 September 1829: Fatality, a play written by Caroline Boaden,...

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2 September 1829

Fatality, a play written by Caroline Boaden , premiered at the Theatre Royal .
Moody, Jane. “Illusions of authorship”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 99-124.
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Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
106
Newey, Katherine. Women’s Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
197

Sara Coleridge: 3 September 1829

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3 September 1829

SC married her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge , who for a brief period before his own early death became her father 's literary executor.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
50

Frances Isabella Duberly : 27 September 1829

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27 September 1829

Frances Isabella Locke (later Duberly) was born at Rowdeford House in the village of Rowde, near Devizes in Wiltshire. She was the youngest by some years in a family of nine children.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. “Editor’s Introduction”. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, edited by Christine Kelly, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - xlviii.
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Anne Bannerman: 29 September 1829

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29 September 1829

AB died at Portobello near Edinburgh.
Kushigian, Nancy, and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.

L. E. L.: October 1829

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October 1829

LEL 's The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems appeared.
L. E. L. “Introduction”. Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon "L.E.L.", edited by Francis Jacques Sypher, Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1990, pp. 9-22.
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Mary Russell Mitford: October 1829

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October 1829

MRM , having remarked in company that she had never been fox-hunting, was taken out following the hounds (not on horseback but in a pony-carriage); to her surprise she loved it.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 97-8

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 5 October 1829

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5 October 1829

A letter in the Age insinuated that the recently widowed Marguerite Blessington , Count D'Orsay , and his wife (still in Paris) made up a scandalous mènage à trois.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
189

Fanny Kemble: 5 October 1829

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5 October 1829

FK , not yet twenty, made a triumphant Covent Garden Theatre debut as Shakespeare 's Juliet, saving her father 's company from bankruptcy.
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.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
42-3
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.