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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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Maria Theresa Kemble: 5 October 1829

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5 October 1829

MTK returned to the stage to play Lady Capulet to her daughter's Juliet in Fanny Kemble 's acting debut.
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.
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6 October 1829: George Stephenson's Rocket won the Liverpool...

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6 October 1829

George Stephenson 's Rocket won the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 's competition to select the best locomotive currently in the field.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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Isabel Hill: 10 October 1829

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10 October 1829

IH 's comedy The First of May was first performed, at Covent Garden Theatre in London.
Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Feb. 1842.
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Maria Elizabetha Jacson: 10 October 1829

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10 October 1829

Maria Jacson (botanical writer and sister of novelist Frances Jacson ) died of a fever while on a visit at Astle Hall, Chelford, Cheshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1997, pp. 81-97.
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Regina Maria Roche: November 1829

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November 1829

RMR 's husband died, after being disabled by paralysis following a severe stroke in December 1825.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Grant: 4 November 1829-23 April 1830

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4 November 1829-23 April 1830

Elizabeth Smith (formerly EG ) and her husband sailed from India in the Childe Harold, to arrive in Portsmouth on their way to Ireland.
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Tod, Andrew, Canongate, 1988, 2 vols.
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30 November 1829: Douglas Jerrold's play Thomas à Becket was...

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30 November 1829

Douglas Jerrold 's play Thomas à Becket was performed at the Surrey Theatre .
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
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Mary Prince: December 1829

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December 1829

MP went to work for the family of Thomas Pringle , secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society .
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
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December 1829: The Grand General Union of Spinners was founded...

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December 1829

The Grand General Union of Spinners was founded by John Doherty at an Isle of Man conference.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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7 December 1829: The Governor General of India, Lord William...

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7 December 1829

The Governor General of India, Lord William Bentinck , officially outlawed the practice of sati or suttee, the self-immolation of a Hindu widow at her husband's funeral, generally by burning.
Mani, Lata. Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. University of California Press, 1998.
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Mary Howitt: 15 December 1829

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15 December 1829

MH and her husband set out for London, where they were introduced into literary circles.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
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Cecil Frances Alexander : 1830

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1830

Cecil Frances Humphreys (later CFA ), still quite young, was a Sunday School teacher.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton: 1830

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1830

Edward Bulwer , as the author of Pelham, published his fifth novel, Paul Clifford, in three volumes; this story of a genteel highwayman was the first of the Newgate or crime novels and...

Selina Bunbury: 1830

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1830

SB and her family moved from Dublin to Liverpool.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Augusta Ada Byron: 1830

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1830

AAB became friendly with and sought mathematical guidance from Mary Somerville .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Catherine Cuthbertson: 1830

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1830

CC , as the author of Santo Sebastiano, published her last and shortest historical novel: Sir Ethelbert; or, The Dissolution of Monasteries. A Romance, in three volumes.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The New Monthly Magazine. H. Colburn; Chapman and Hall; John Bale and Sons.

Lucie Duff Gordon: 1830

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1830

Facing financial retrenchment after John Austin resigned from his teaching job, the parents of Lucie Austin (later LDG ) moved with her from their house in Queen Square to 26 Park Road in Regent's Park.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1830

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1830

Sarah Stickney, later SSE , anonymously published her first work, The Negro Slave. A Tale. Addressed to the Women of Great Britain (whose stance is, of course, anti-slavery).
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Yonge: From 1830

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From 1830

From early childhood until her death, CY taught Scripture to children at the Otterbourne church school.
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Frances Wright: 1830

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1830

FW published a 12-page pamphlet, An Address to the Industrious Classes; A Sketch of a System of National Education as number three in Robert Dale Owen 's Popular Tracts series, 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.

Frances Wright: 1830

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1830

C. N. Baldwin of New York published a slim volume or leaflet that claimed to be the third edition of FW 's Biography, Notes and Political Letters. No earlier edition is known, and this...

Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: 1830

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1830

EPW published at Lichfield her Fairy Tales in Verse.
The title-page of the Bodleian Library copy (bound into the composite volume mentioned above, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059) says this work was published at...

Harriette Wilson: January 1830

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January 1830

HW published, anonymously, her second roman à clef, Clara Gazul; or, Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1830

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1830

The popularity of Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) as a children's writer resulted in the publication of an American two-volume collected edition of her Works.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
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Harriet Taylor: 1830

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1830

HT met John Stuart Mill through her Unitarian minister, William Fox .
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.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2026, 2 vols.
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