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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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Agnes Strickland: 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Agnes Strickland

1830

AS published the pamphlet Patriotic Songs with her younger sister Susanna (later Susanna Moodie).
Moodie, Susanna et al. Patriotic Songs, 1830. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/moodie-traill/027013-5007-e.html.
prelims
Peterman, Michael. “Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland”. Bulletin, July/August 2002, Vol.
34
, No. 4, National Library of Canada.

Mary Somerville: 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Somerville

1830

MS became a friend and mathematical advisor to Ada Byron ; Ada probably met Charles Babbage (whose calculating machine she became the first to programme) through the Somervilles.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
148-9, 180

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood

1830

Ward and Lock 's new and improved edition is the earliest known of MMS 's anti-Catholic novel The Monk (some of whose later editions, including one published in Manchester, 1847) are titledThe Monk of Cimiés.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Shelley: 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Shelley

1830

A poem in The Keepsake for 1831, signed Mary S., is probably by MS ; a manuscript of it survived until the late nineteenth century.
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24.
422n9

Elizabeth Sewell: 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Sewell

1830

ES was confirmed into the Anglican Church.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
40, 63

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1830

Women writers item

1830

MAS published a translation from a French pamphlet by Henri Louis Empaytaz dating from two years before: Some Particulars relating to the late Emperor Alexander.
Tsar Alexander died in 1825. He had begun as...

Emma Roberts: 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Emma Roberts

1830

ER published at Cawnpore her Oriental Scenes, Dramatic Sketches and Tales, with Other Poems.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Bessie Rayner Parkes : 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Bessie Rayner Parkes

1830

While BRP was still a baby, her family moved from Birmingham to London, settling in Great George Street, Westminster.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
37

Catherine Gore : 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Gore

1830

The title of CG 's anonymous novel Women as They Are; or, The Manners of the Day, linked it to a reformist tradition running from Robert Bage in 1792, through Barbara Hofland in 1815...

Maria Grey: 1830

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Author event in Maria Grey

1830

Maria Shirreff (later Grey) moved with her family to Gibraltar when her naval father was made captain of the port of Gibraltar.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
9

Anna Maria Hall: 1830

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Author event in Anna Maria Hall

1830

AMH published Chronicles of a Schoolroom, one of her several works for children.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
8, 234
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Geraldine Jewsbury: 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury

1830

GJ went to London with her sister Maria Jane in order to perfect her languages and drawing.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
14

Maria Jane Jewsbury: After 1830

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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury

After 1830

MJJ travelled to Edinburgh, where she met Walter Scott .
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995.
28

Maria Jane Jewsbury: 1830-1832

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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury

1830-1832

MJJ contributed reviews, essays, and poetry to the Athenæum. At first the only woman on its staff, she used her position as reviewer to promote other women writers.
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.
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
67
, No. 1, The Library, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 450-73.
462-4

Mary Ann Kelty: January 1830

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Author event in Mary Ann Kelty

January 1830

MAK dated the preface to Times of Trial: Being a Brief Narrative of the Progress of the Reformation, and of the Sufferings of Some of the Reformers, published that year with her name.
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.

L. E. L.: 1830

Women writers item
Author event in L. E. L.

1830

Friends of LEL began receiving anonymous letters suggesting that she was having an adulterous affair with William Maginn .
Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
39

Harriet Martineau: 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Martineau

1830

After struggling with her deafness for over a decade, HM finally resorted to the use of an ear trumpet.
Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. University of Michigan Press, 1980.
10

Harriet Martineau: 1830

Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Martineau

1830

HM 's Traditions of Palestine was published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green as edited by herself.
Martineau, Harriet. Traditions of Palestine. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830.
title-page
Rivlin, Joseph B. Harriet Martineau: A Bibliography of Her Separately Printed Books. New York Public Library, 1947.
141

Harriet Martineau: 1830-1831

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

1830-1831

HM won all three prizes in an essay competition held by the British and Foreign Unitarian Association (later the Unitarian Association); the essays were published as The Essential Faith of the Universal Church.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
xxi
Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. University of Michigan Press, 1980.
170
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Russell Mitford: 1 January 1830

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

1 January 1830

MRM 's motherpassed away easily and quietly
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: 103
after suffering strokes; she had had some years of mental incapacity which sounds like Alzheimer's disease.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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: 52

Mary Russell Mitford: From January 1830

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

From January 1830

MRM worked at selecting and editing a collection: Stories of American Life, by American Writers, commissioned because of the popularity of Our Village in the USA.
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: 111
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 192

From 1830: Inexpensive portable microscopes became widely...

Building item

From 1830

Inexpensive portable microscopes became widely available.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
33

1830: Footwear began to be sold ready-made....

Building item

1830

Footwear began to be sold ready-made.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
31-2

1830-1834: The Owenite socialist movement flourished...

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1830-1834

The Owenite socialist movement flourished in Britain.
Jones, Gareth Stedman. Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
57

1830: William Kidd founded his own bookselling...

Writing climate item

1830

William Kidd founded his own bookselling and publishing firm at 6 Old Bond Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 162-3