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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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1830: The British Ladies' Lying-In Institution...

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1830

The British Ladies' Lying-In Institution opened this year in the fashionable district of Mayfair, and trained a few women to become midwives.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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1830-1836: Some periodical publishers protested against...

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1830-1836

Some periodical publishers protested against the Stamp Act by selling their periodicals unstamped.
Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader. 2nd ed., Ohio State University Press, 1998.
379

1830: Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans's Dartmoor,...

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1830

Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans 's Dartmoor, a poem, Sophie Dixon published at Plymouth two journals, in prose and verse, of excursions around the moor.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Landry, Donna. “Coleridge’s Boots and Sophie Dixon’s Books: Problems in Construing Literary Evidence for a New Cultural History”. British Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 15 Mar. 2001.

1830-49: Douglas Jerrold consolidated his career as...

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1830-49

Douglas Jerrold consolidated his career as a journalist and short-story writer while continuing to write for the theatre.
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
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1830: Railways began carrying letters for the Post...

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1830

Railways began carrying letters for the Post Office .
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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1830: Political theorist Jeremy Bentham published...

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1830

Political theorist Jeremy Bentham published his Constitutional Code; for the use of all nations, and all governments professing liberal opinions, in one volume.
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.
Bentham, Jeremy. Constitutional Code: Vol. I. Editors Rosen, Frederick and James Henderson Burns, Clarendon Press, 1983.
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Early 1830: Edward Chapman and William Hall established...

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Early 1830

Edward Chapman and William Hall established a bookselling business at 186 Strand, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 95

1830: Scottish merchant Henry Forbes established...

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1830

Scottish merchant Henry Forbes established England's first temperance society, in Bradford.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
4, 11-12
This date has been extrapolated from Shiman's assertion that temperance was inaugurated in England in 1830, and her further assertion that...

1830: By this date, there is evidence that some...

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1830

By this date, there is evidence that some articles of dress were being sold part-made to drapers and dressmakers.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1830: Physician John Conolly popularized the concept...

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1830

Physician John Conolly popularized the concept of moral management, in his Inquiry Concerning the Indications of Insanity.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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1830s: Retailers such as Kendal, Milne, and Faulkner...

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1830s

Retailers such as Kendal, Milne, and Faulkner began to display price tickets on merchandise.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1830s: Graham's Family Linen Warehouse at 207 Regent...

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1830s

Graham's Family Linen Warehouse at 207 Regent Street specialized in Marriage and Outfitting articles, or, trousseaux and undergarments.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1830: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...

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1830

William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans went into partnership and established the publishing firm of Bradbury and Evans in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 62

1830: The Geographical Society was founded, with...

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1830

The Geographical Society was founded, with the help of prominent Astronomical Society members.
Cannon, Susan Faye. Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period. Dawson; Science History Publications, 1978.
162

By 1830: An estimated 1,400,000 children in England...

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By 1830

An estimated 1,400,000 children in England and Wales were regularly attending Sunday schools, which numbered almost 6,000.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
226

1830: A process for manufacturing India rubber...

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1830

A process for manufacturing India rubber in fibres was invented; these fibres were used to replace spiral brass wires in corsets and shoulder straps of women's underclothing.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1830: William Cobbett published his most famous...

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1830

William Cobbett published his most famous work, Rural Rides (a report on the conditions of the poor especially, of whom he was an unflagging advocate).
Colley, Linda. “I am the Watchman”. London Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2003, pp. 16-17.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1830: Physicians and social reformers began pushing...

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1830

Physicians and social reformers began pushing for changes to the Poor Law regarding workhouse and hospital administration in the United Kingdom.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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1 January 1830: J. W. Croker for the first time used the...

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1 January 1830

J. W. Croker for the first time used the word Conservative to refer to the party which for a century and half had been called Tory.
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Compact Edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.
under Liberal
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Compact Edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.
under Conservative

1830: Charles Babbage published Reflections on...

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1830

Charles Babbage published Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, an excoriating attack on the Royal Society and a call for science to be given a leadership role in British society, with proper...

1830-42: Auguste Comte published Cours de philosophie...

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1830-42

Auguste Comte published Cours de philosophie positive in six volumes.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

By 1830: Barthélemy Thimmonier, a tailor at Lyons...

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By 1830

Barthélemy Thimmonier , a tailor at Lyons in France, produced the first chain-stitch sewing machine to specifications invented by himself.
Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
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Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1830: Henri Beyle published his famous novel Le...

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1830

Henri Beyle published his famous novel Le Rouge et Le Noir: Chronique du XIXe Siècle, under the pseudonym Henri Stendhal.
Haig, Stirling. Stendhal: The Red and The Black. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
xii

1830: The T. H. Lacy publishing firm of London...

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1830

The T. H. Lacy publishing firm of London was founded by actor Thomas Hailes Lacy .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 138

1830s: Women's fashionable dress expanded; sleeves...

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1830s

Women's fashionable dress expanded; sleeves puffed outward and upward, and petticoats and bustles increased ladies' diameters considerably.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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