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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 Martha Sherwood: 1831

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Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood

1831

MMS published Roxobel, her only three-decker, standard circulating-library novel, which combines some tear-jerking episodes with lively satire.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan, 1946.
108
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

George Sand: January 1831

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Author event in George Sand

January 1831

After finding a letter in which her husband expressed his low opinion of her, Aurore Dudevant (later GS ) regarded herself as separated from him.
Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001.
165

Emma Roberts: 1831

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Author event in Emma Roberts

1831

This year ER moved back to Calcutta, following her sister's death in October 1830.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
339

Catherine Gore : 1831

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Author event in Catherine Gore

1831

CG published at least four titles in the silver-fork vein: Pin-Money, a Novel, as the authoress of The Manners of the Day, Mothers and Daughters; A Tale of the Year 1830, anonymously,...

Catherine Maria Grey: 1831

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Author event in Catherine Maria Grey

1831

CMG 's Alice Seymour: A Tale, a single-volume, didactic silver fork novel published as Mrs Grey and aimed at younger readers, marked the beginning of her writing career.
Spedding, Patrick. “The Many Mrs. Greys: Confusion and Lies about Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Catherine Maria Grey, Maria Georgina Grey, and Others”. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol.
104
, No. 3, Sept. 2010, pp. 299-40.
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John Bull.
(17 February 1845): 103

Elizabeth Ham: 1831

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Author event in Elizabeth Ham

1831

EH anonymously contributed Mabel (a ghost story about a deaf girl) to an anthology, The Remembrance, edited by Thomas Roscoe and dedicated to Queen Adelaide .
This volume also contained work by Felicia Hemans

Ann Hatton: 1831

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Author event in Ann Hatton

1831

AH , as Ann of Swansea, published her last novel, Gerald Fitzgerald; An Irish Tale.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: 1831-1838

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1831-1838

Mary Anne Jevons edited and contributed verse to the miniature-sized literary annual The Sacred Offering; publication may have been interrupted between 1835 and 1837.
Faxon, Frederick W. Literary Annuals and Gift Books. Private Libraries Association, 1973.
110
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Hannah Kilham: 1831

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Author event in Hannah Kilham

1831

Extracts from HK 's letters appeared, first in the Friends' Magazine, then the same year at Bristol, as a pamphlet bearing her intials: Extracts from the Letters . . . at Sierra Leone.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Anne Manning: 1831

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Author event in Anne Manning

1831

AM 's Stories from the History of Italy was the only book that she ever printed bearing her name.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Jane Marcet: 1831

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Author event in Jane Marcet

1831

JM , as the author of Conversations on Chemistry, published Stories for Young Children in a single volume. Her better-known, four-volume The Seasons, Stories for Very Young Children followed the next year.
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.

Harriet Martineau: 1831

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

1831

While visiting her brother James in Dublin, HM became aware of the Irish problem; she later developed her thoughts on this question in texts such as The History of England During the Thirty...

Mary Russell Mitford: 1831

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

1831

MRM edited a second collection of fiction from the USA: American Stories for Little Boys and Girls.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 192

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: 1831

Women writers item

1831

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne , and her son moved from Duddingston near Edinburgh to Ireland.
Nairne, Carolina Oliphant, Lady, and Caroline Oliphant. Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne. Editor Rogers, Charles, J. Grant, 1896.
57

Caroline Norton: 1831

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Author event in Caroline Norton

1831

CN published the song Love not; John Blockely composed the music to accompany her lyrics.
Perkins, Jane Gray. The Life of Mrs. Norton. Henry Holt, 1909.
300-1
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1831: Eugène Soubeiran discovered chloroform....

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1831

Eugène Soubeiran discovered chloroform.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
296
Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
500, 505

1831: Charles Wheatstone and William Fothergill...

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1831

Charles Wheatstone and William Fothergill created the first electric telegraph.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
297
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
173

1831: Using a microscope, Robert Brown discovered...

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1831

Using a microscope, Robert Brown discovered the nucleus of a cell.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
296
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
118

1831-1846: Pope Gregory XVI established a framework...

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1831-1846

Pope Gregory XVI established a framework for organized Jesuit activity, formally creating a huge number of vicariates across the world.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
338, 342-3

1831: Victor Hugo published his famous novel Notre...

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1831

Victor Hugo published his famous novel Notre Dame de Paris.
Houston, John Porter. Victor Hugo. Twayne, 1974.
9

1831: Andrew Combe's popular text on phrenology...

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1831

Andrew Combe 's popular text on phrenology and insanity established this discipline as the leading science for theorizing madness.
Cooter, Roger. “Phrenology and British Alienists, ca. 1825-1845”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 58-104.
64

1831: Catherine McAuley created the Order of the...

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1831

Catherine McAuley created the Order of the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland to care for the sick.
Scanlan, Pauline. The Irish Nurse: A Study of Nursing in Ireland. Drumlin, 1991.
58, 63-4

1831: The Metropolitan Magazine began publication;...

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1831

The Metropolitan Magazine began publication; it set a precedent by publishing the first serial fiction in an English periodical.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
431

1831: The Royal Society, considered the leading...

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1831

The Royal Society , considered the leading institution of natural science in Britain, started the publication of Proceedings of the Royal Society, which featured abstracts of members' papers.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
296
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
280

1831: Members of the female auxiliary were allowed...

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1831

Members of the female auxiliary were allowed to attend Bible Society public meetings.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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