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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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Frances Wright: 19 January 1830

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19 January 1830

FW travelled to Haiti with William S. Phiquepal D'Arusmont ; with them went the black labourers from Nashoba, whose new home this was to be.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
211

Jane Loudon: After January 1830

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After January 1830

Jane Webb, later Loudon , turned away from belles lettres towards scientific pedagogy in her final publication before her marriage: Conversations upon Comparative Chronology.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Jane Marcet: Early 1830

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Early 1830

A three-volume anonymous work appeared from John Murray , Bertha's Visit to her Uncle in England: it is often attributed to JM , but is in fact by Harriet Beaufort , whose sister was...

February 1830: The first issue of Fraser's Magazine for...

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February 1830

The first issue of Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country was published by James Fraser of Regent Street, London.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 303-5, 309

Anna Jane Vardill: 11 February 1830

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11 February 1830

James Niven , husband of the former AJV , died at the age of sixty-one.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
2nd series 28
, 1970, pp. 57-88.
75

12 February 1830: George Bradshaw published his first map of...

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12 February 1830

George Bradshaw published his first map of British canals and railways; from this he went on to railway timetables.
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.

Frances Sarah Hoey: 14 February 1830

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14 February 1830

Frances Sarah Johnston (later FSH ) was born at Bushy Park, Dublin, one of eight children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

15 February 1830: The Lyceum Theatre in London burned to the...

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15 February 1830

The Lyceum Theatre in London burned to the ground; Mary Cowden Clarke and her husband had left the theatre a few hours earlier after attending a performance.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
91

Henrietta Maria Bowdler: 25 February 1830

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25 February 1830

HMB died at Bath of smallpox, from which she was in her last days almost blind.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
100 (1830): 1: 567
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 616

25 February 1830: Victor Hugo's play Hernani; ou, l'Honneur...

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25 February 1830

Victor Hugo 's play Hernani; ou, l'Honneur castillan (Hernani; or, The Honour of a Castilian) premiered in Paris.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
25 February 2008

Eliza Fletcher: March 1830

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March 1830

In the second year of her widowhood EF visited Paris, where she met leading Abolitionists.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
164-5

Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: 3 March 1830

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3 March 1830

HRM 's continuing financial straits forced her to re-apply to the Royal Literary Fund as a widow, not on her husband's account but her own (trusting, she said, to their kindness rather than to her merit).
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Queen Victoria: 11 March 1830

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11 March 1830

While studying the history of the British monarchy, young Princess Alexandrina Victoria discovered her claim to the throne.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
32

Mary Howitt: April 1830

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April 1830

MH bore her fourth child to survive birth, Alfred William .
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
95-6, 111

Susanna Moodie: April 1830

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April 1830

Susanna Strickland, later SM , joined a Congregationalist church, marking a significant step in her spiritual development.
Thurston, John. “‘The Casket of Truth’: The Social Significance of Susanna Moodie’s Spiritual Dilemmas”. Canadian Poetry, Vol.
35
, 1 Sept. 1994–28 Feb. 1995.
4
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
38

6 April 1830: The religious society of the Mormons, or...

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6 April 1830

The religious society of the Mormons , or Latter-Day Saints, was officially organized by Joseph Smith, Jr , in Fayette, New York.
Hansen, Klaus J. Mormonism and the American Experience. University of Chicago Press, 1981.
1
Brooke, John L. The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
157

8 April 1830: Lord Ellenborough divorced his wife (nee...

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8 April 1830

Lord Ellenborough divorced his wife (nee Jane Elizabeth Digby ) by Act of Parliament , for adultery with the Prince von Schwarzenberg , from whom he also extracted £25,000 in damages.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Emily Davies: 22 April 1830

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22 April 1830

ED was born at Southampton, where her father was filling in for another clergyman who was away.
Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
136
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna Maria Porter: After April 1830

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After April 1830

AMP published with Longman her last novel, The Barony, in three volumes.
Porter, Anna Maria. The Barony. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830, 3 vols.
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Feminist Companion Archive.

Maria Edgeworth: May 1830-later 1833

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May 1830-later 1833

ME wrote her last work of adult fiction: Helen, A Tale, a novel with an English setting, published in February 1834.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
287, 458, 464

Mary Shelley: May 1830

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May 1830

MS wrote an enthusiastic and knowledgeable review of her father 's novel Cloudesley (for Blackwood's).
Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 285-95.
294n17

Susanna Moodie: May 1830

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May 1830

Susanna Strickland met her future husband, John Moodie , through a friend, poet-cum-literary-agent Thomas Pringle .
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
27, 34
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Thurston, John. “‘The Casket of Truth’: The Social Significance of Susanna Moodie’s Spiritual Dilemmas”. Canadian Poetry, Vol.
35
, 1 Sept. 1994–28 Feb. 1995.
5

May 1830: By this date London was packed annually with...

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May 1830

By this date London was packed annually with Evangelicals for the month of May, as they crowded in from the provinces to attend various gatherings.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
139

3 May 1830: The Tyler Hill Tunnel, the first railway...

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3 May 1830

The Tyler Hill Tunnel, the first railway tunnel used for passenger traffic, was opened.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
84
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.
37-8
Historians differ: Hamilton Ellis gives this date; Leonard Bruno gives 4 May.

Amelia Bristow: After early May 1830

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After early May 1830

AB , as the author of Sophia de Lissau and Emma de Lissau, published The Orphans of Lissau and Other Interesting Narratives, Immediately Connected with Jewish Customs.
Loeber, Rolf, and Magda Loeber. A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900. Four Courts, 2006.
181
Bristow, Amelia. The Orphans of Lissau. T. Gardiner, 1830, 2 vols.
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