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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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George Sand: Winter 1830

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Author event in George Sand

Winter 1830

Aurore Dudevant (later GS ) went to Paris with her son Maurice , where she met her long-time friend and possibly her lover, Stéphane Ajasson de Grandsagne .
Cate, Curtis. George Sand. Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
150-2

Jane Harvey: December 1830

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Author event in Jane Harvey

December 1830

JH wrote a poem welcoming a railway project: It would be so delightful, I fear they won't make it / To annihilate distance! put wings upon time!
Harvey, Jane. Fugitive Pieces. Currie and Bowman, 1841.
60

Hannah Kilham: After December 1830

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Author event in Hannah Kilham

After December 1830

HK , after some delay from illness, started a school in the mountain village of Charlotte in Sierra Leone for twenty girls liberated from slave ships.
Kilham, Hannah. Memoir of the late Hannah Killam. Editor Biller, Sarah, Harvey and Darton, 1837.
371-2, 376
Robertson, Fiona, and Fiona Robertson, editors. “Hannah Kilham (1774-1832)”. Women’s Writing 1778-1838, An Anthology, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 485-7.
487

Anne Lister: December 1830-23 May 1831

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Author event in Anne Lister

December 1830-23 May 1831

In ParisAL studied biology with Baron Georges Cuvier .
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Lister, Anne. Miss Lister of Shibden Hall. Editor Green, Muriel, Book Guild, 1992.
11

By December 1830: Before the death of the South American patriot...

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By December 1830

Before the death of the South American patriot Simón Bolívar , the republic he had created, of the present Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, fell apart into separate states.
Collier, Simon. “Old Iron-Arse”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 30-1.
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Christina Rossetti: 5 December 1830

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Author event in Christina Rossetti

5 December 1830

CR was born in a small terrace house at 38 Charlotte Street, near Portland Place, London; she was the fourth and youngest child of the family.
Jones, Kathleen. Learning Not to Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti. Windrush Press, 1991.
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Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable, 1981.
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Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996.
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6 December 1830: Lucia Vestris became the first long-term...

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6 December 1830

Lucia Vestris became the first long-term female theatre manager of the century, when she reopened the Olympic Theatre .
Appleton, William Worthen. Madame Vestris and the London Stage. Columbia University Press, 1974.
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Booth, Michael R. et al. Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
44-5

Emily Dickinson: 10 December 1830

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Author event in Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830

ED was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, the middle child in a family of three.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Knopf, 1986.
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Chase, Richard. Emily Dickinson. Dell, 1951.
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Henrietta Maria Bowdler: Late 1830

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Author event in Henrietta Maria Bowdler

Late 1830

HMB 's single novel, Pen Tamar; or, the History of an Old Maid, was posthumously published with her name (as the late Mrs. H. M. Bowdler).
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 623
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.

Elizabeth Fenton: 18 December 1830

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Author event in Elizabeth Fenton

18 December 1830

EF wrote the last entry in her extant journal at the estate her family had established, Fenton Forest in Van Diemen's Land (later known as Tasmania).
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901.
392

Charlotte Barnard: 23 December 1830

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Author event in Charlotte Barnard

23 December 1830

Charlotte Alington Pye (later CB) was born in Louth, Lincolnshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Caroline Chisholm: 27 December 1830

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Author event in Caroline Chisholm

27 December 1830

Caroline Jones married Captain Archibald Chisholm , a native of Scotland in the service of the East India Company .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 29 December 1830

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29 December 1830

When Elizabeth Moulton , Elizabeth Barrett 's paternal grandmother, died, she bequeathed £4,000 to her eldest grand-daughter and namesake.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
2: 275n1
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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Anna Jane Vardill: 31 December 1830

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Author event in Anna Jane Vardill

31 December 1830

Anna Jane Niven, formerly Vardill , addressed to her five-year-old daughter a letter covering the gift of manuscripts from Eleanor Anne Porden 's Attic Chest, and three linked and recent articles: A Little Girl's Law-Book...

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: 31 December 1830

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31 December 1830

SFG died in Paris; some sources say her death was after midnight and give it the next day's, and year's, date.
Scholar Gillian Dow provides the assurance that the 1830 date is correct.
Broglie, Gabriel de. Madame de Genlis. Librairie Académique Perrin, 1985.
464-5
Trousson, Raymond. Romans de femmes du XVIIIe siècle. Robert Laffont, 1996.
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Joanna Baillie: 1831

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Author event in Joanna Baillie

1831

JB wrote for a friend a manuscript Recollections Written at the Request of Miss Berry; the manuscript remains in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons .
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
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Mary Berry: January 1831

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Author event in Mary Berry

January 1831

MB 's final and most ambitious book of cultural history was a sequel to (or a second volume of) that of 1828, which brought the story almost up to the present moment: Social Life in...

Caroline Bowles: 1831

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Author event in Caroline Bowles

1831

As Baroness de Katzleben, authoress of other touching tales and pathetic pieces,
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
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CB published her playfully satiric children's poem The Cat's Tail, Being the History of Childe Merlin.
Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, 1998, pp. 1-18.
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Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 332, 334

Olivia Clarke: 1831-5

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Author event in Olivia Clarke

1831-5

OC published verse in magazines.
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.

Frances Wright: By January 1831

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Author event in Frances Wright

By January 1831

FW 's elder daughter, who later acquired the name of Frances Sylva , was born out of wedlock.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Harriette Wilson: 1831

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1831

HW (or her publisher Stockdale ) expanded her Memoirs into an 8-volume edition, with new material by herself and others, and an index.
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.

Mary Taylor: 1831-1832

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Author event in Mary Taylor

1831-1832

MT attended Miss Wooler 's Roe Head School, at Mirfield, Yorkshire.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
1, 9, 13-14

Mary Taylor: January 1831

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Author event in Mary Taylor

January 1831

MT met Charlotte Brontë and Ellen Nussey at Miss Wooler's school; they became lifelong friends.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
1, 9, 13

Anna Swanwick: 1831

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Author event in Anna Swanwick

1831

AS began attending lectures given by James Martineau in Liverpool on Mental and Moral Philosophy.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
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Elizabeth Strutt: 1831 to 1851

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Author event in Elizabeth Strutt

1831 to 1851

ES and her second husband were based chiefly in Rome and elsewhere in Europe.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
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