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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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Mary Shelley: 13 May 1830

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13 May 1830

Again as the author of Frankenstein, MS published her second historical novel, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck.
This was the same year that her father published his novel Cloudesley.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45.
45

15 May 1830: The Anti-Slavery Society in London accepted...

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15 May 1830

The Anti-Slavery Society in London accepted an amendment switching its aims from gradual to immediate abolition.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Croom Helm, 1986, pp. 41-67.
46, 47

Ann Martin Taylor: 27 May 1830

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Author event in Ann Martin Taylor

27 May 1830

AMT died at Ongar, where she was buried beside her husband eight days later.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
229

Fanny Kemble: Late May 1830

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Author event in Fanny Kemble

Late May 1830

FK and her father embarked on an extensive money-making theatrical tour of the British Isles.
Scullion, Adrienne, editor. Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Century. J. M. Dent; C. E. Tuttle, 1996.
lxiv

Felicia Hemans: Early summer 1830

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Early summer 1830

FH published Songs of the Affections, With Other Poems, with William Blackwood and Thomas Cadell .
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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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.

June 1830: The London Mechanics' Institution, founded...

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June 1830

The London Mechanics' Institution , founded in 1823, began admitting women.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
37
Kaye, Elaine. A History of Queen’s College, London, 1848-1972. Chatto and Windus, 1972.
35

June 1830: Charles Lyell's first volume of The Principles...

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June 1830

Charles Lyell 's first volume of The Principles of Geology inaugurated his three-volume study demonstrating that the earth is several million years old.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
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Sedgwick, William Thompson et al. A Short History of Science. Macmillan, 1939.
433
Jay, Mike. “Like Cooking a Dumpling”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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Caroline Norton: By 12 June 1830

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By 12 June 1830

CN published The Undying One, and Other Poems, with epigraphs taken from Byron (again, this time from Childe Harold) and La Fontaine .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
137 (1830): 353

Felicia Hemans: June 1830

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June 1830

FH travelled to Westmorland in the Lake District on the invitation of Wordsworth .
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
209

Mary Harcourt: 17 June 1830

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17 June 1830

MH 's husband died at St Leonard's Hill near Windsor after more than fifty years of marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Harcourt

Mary Boyle: Later 1830

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Later 1830

MB 's sister, Caroline , was appointed a maid of honour to the new queen consort, Queen Adelaide .
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
101

26 June 1830: King George IV died, leaving William IV to...

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26 June 1830

King George IV died, leaving William IV to assume the throne.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
47
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
606

Frances Wright: 1 July 1830

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1 July 1830

FW and her sister left New York to return to England.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
223

Anna Margaretta Larpent: July 1830

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July 1830

AML closed the diary she had kept since 1773; her last passage describes the business of disposing of the archive of play manuscripts which is now the Larpent Collection in the Huntington Library .
Larpent, Anna Margaretta. A Woman’s View of Drama. Adam Matthew, 1995, 9 microfilm reels.
July 1830
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.

July 1830: Uprisings occurred in Central Italy, but...

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July 1830

Uprisings occurred in Central Italy, but were soon put down by Austria.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
112, 273

23 July 1830: The Beer Act allowed the construction and...

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23 July 1830

The Beer Act allowed the construction and operation of limitless beer houses; counter to the predictions of temperance societies, drunkenness greatly increased.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

Alicia Tyndal Palmer: Shortly before 24 July 1830

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Shortly before 24 July 1830

ATP died. She was buried on this day at Chiswick on the outskirts of London.
The Biographical Dictionary by Highfill , Burnim and Langhans wrongly gives her death-date as 1822.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Anna Margaretta Larpent: 24 July 1830

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24 July 1830

After six years as a widow AML , who was a little past seventy, gave up her own home to live with her son George and his family at Putney Park
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

July 27-July 29 1830: The July Revolution (also known as the Three...

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July 27-July 29 1830

The July Revolution (also known as the Three Glorious Days) erupted in Paris after the loss of a general election which led Charles X to declare a state of emergency.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
110, 117
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
65-6
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
179

George Sand: 30 July 1830

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30 July 1830

Aurore Dudevant met nineteen-year-old Jules Sandeau , who influenced her transformation into GS .
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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August 1830-October 1830: Whigs suppressed the Swing riots in the southern...

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August 1830-October 1830

Whigs suppressed the Swing riots in the southern countryside.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
256

August 1830: Edward Moxon's publishing firm in London...

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August 1830

Edward Moxon 's publishing firm in London published as its first book Charles Lamb 's Album Verses.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 213

2 August 1830: Charles X of France abdicated, leaving the...

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2 August 1830

Charles X of France abdicated, leaving the throne to his grandson, the Duke of Bordeaux, and power in the hands of moderate liberals who formed a National Guard to control the Paris mob.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
66, 86
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
62

Summer 1830: In this year's elections (which followed...

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Summer 1830

In this year's elections (which followed the death of George IV ) no votes were cast in Wales and only 239 were cast in Scotland; most constituencies had a single candidate, so there was...

7 August 1830: Louis-Philippe ascended the throne in France,...

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7 August 1830

Louis-Philippe ascended the throne in France, and revised the Charter to abolish the power of the monarch to issue ordinances and suspend laws.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
72, 86