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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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Elizabeth Fenton: 12 August 1830

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Author event in Elizabeth Fenton

12 August 1830

Newly arrived at her settler's home twenty miles from Hobarton or Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (which they called Fenton Forest, close to the present New Norfolk), EF felt like Hagar in the desert.
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901.
380, 372

Anne Damer: By 21 August 1830

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Author event in Anne Damer

By 21 August 1830

Colburn published, posthumously and anonymously Journal of the Heart, with a prefatory Some Account of AD 's life by Lady Charlotte Bury , identified as the authoress of Flirtation. Another edition, 1835, provides Damer's name.
Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
188

Anne Katharine Elwood : By 21 August 1830

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By 21 August 1830

Anne Katharine Elwood (as Mrs Colonel Elwood) published her first book, the illustrated travel account Narrative of a Journey Overland from England.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
147 (1830): 513

Caroline Norton: Summer 1830

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Author event in Caroline Norton

Summer 1830

After parliament was dissolved, CN 's husband George lost his seat in the election which followed.
Huddleston, Joan, and Caroline Norton. “Introduction”. Caroline Norton’s Defense, Academy Chicago, 1982, p. I - XIII.
v

September 1830: Alfred Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly...

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September 1830

Alfred Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, his first solo volume publication, containing Mariana.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
17

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 7 September 1830

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7 September 1830

Sydney Morgan published France in 1829-30, her second book about that country, just after the French king Charles X had been toppled by revolution.
The July Revolution raged from 27 to 29 July, and...

Lady Charlotte Bury: By 11 September 1830

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Author event in Lady Charlotte Bury

By 11 September 1830

LCB , as the authoress of Flirtation, published The Separation. A Novel; a New York edition appeared the same year.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
150 (1830): 563

Jane Loudon: 14 September 1830

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Author event in Jane Loudon

14 September 1830

Jane Webb married a Scotsman, John Claudius Loudon , who was forty-six and already strikingly successful as a horticulturalist and an advocate for and designer of public open spaces.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Claudius Loudon

15 September 1830: The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the...

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15 September 1830

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first large-scale passenger steam railway, was officially opened; public timetabled service began on 17 September.
Carlson, Robert E. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Project 1821-1831. Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.
231-6
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
256
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
81, 84-5
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.
17-18

William Hazlitt: 18 September 1830

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Author event in William Hazlitt

18 September 1830

WH , essayist and critic, died at lodgings in Frith Street, Soho.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.

19 September 1830: The Weekly Dispatch printed an item about...

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19 September 1830

The Weekly Dispatch printed an item about the Duke of Brunswick (Friedrich Herzog von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) , which left a lasting mark on British libel laws.
Pallister, David. “Libel Legacy of Ousted Aristocrat Threatens Internet”. Guardian Unlimited, 27 Dec. 2005.

Sara Coleridge: October 1830

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Author event in Sara Coleridge

October 1830

SC gave birth to her first child, Herbert Coleridge .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
54

Maria Edgeworth: October 1830-July 1831

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Author event in Maria Edgeworth

October 1830-July 1831

ME again visited London; she was away from home when her aunt Margaret Ruxton died.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
425-6

William Makepeace Thackeray: Winter 1830-1

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Winter 1830-1

WMT spent six months in Germany, primarily in Weimar, where he met Goethe .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Hannah Kilham: By October 1830

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Author event in Hannah Kilham

By October 1830

HK 's final book, published with her name, is her most ambitious: The Claims of West Africa to Christian Instruction, through the Native Languages.
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.

October 1830: In Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) the...

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October 1830

In Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) the Black Line was formed: thousands of able-bodied male colonists (convict or free)
McGrath, Ann, editor. Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines under the British Crown. Allen and Unwin, 1995.
320
formed a human chain to drive the remaining Aborigine (or Pallawah) population off their lands.
McGrath, Ann, editor. Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines under the British Crown. Allen and Unwin, 1995.
320-1

4 October 1830: Following riots in Brussels inspired by news...

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4 October 1830

Following riots in Brussels inspired by news of the July Revolution in France, Belgium proclaimed independence from Holland.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
110
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
97-8
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
62

Flora Tristan: 6 October 1830

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Author event in Flora Tristan

6 October 1830

FT 's uncle, Pio de Tristan , acknowledged her as the daughter of his brother Mariano by granting her a payment of 2,500 francs.
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
223

Hannah Kilham: Late October 1830

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Late October 1830

After spending the third summer of her current stretch of time in England with her step-daughter, Sarah Biller (who was home from Russia on a visit), HK sailed on her final and longest visit to...

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: November 1830

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November 1830

Marguerite Blessington left Paris (where she had witnessed the July revolution) for London; she settled in Seamore Place, Mayfair, and resumed her salon.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
194, 197
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
149

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By November 1830

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By November 1830

According to her editor Ernest J. Lovell , Marguerite Blessington finished writing her first novel, Ella Stratford; or, The Orphan Child, before she left Paris. It was printed in Philadelphia the same year.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J., Jr Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114.
82

Caroline Bowles: November 1830

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November 1830

Agricultural riots over the introduction of threshing machines reached Lymington and raged frightfully close to CB 's home.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
33

Harriet Downing: By November 1830

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By November 1830

HD published The Bride of Sicily, a dramatic poem, using her former married name, not her new one (Downing instead of Oliver).
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

22 November 1830: Earl Grey, a Whig, became Prime Minister...

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22 November 1830

Earl Grey , a Whig, became Prime Minister in the new British government.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
48

29 November 1830 - May 1831: Uprisings in Poland were suppressed by Russia...

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29 November 1830 - May 1831

Uprisings in Poland were suppressed by Russia after considerable military operations.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
110
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
132-4
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
69
McLean, Thomas. The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
86