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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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1831: The Select Committee of the British Commons...

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1831

The Select Committee of the British Commons held hearings to review the progress of mechanical transport, and recommended the reduction of the high tolls for steam carriages.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
85
Beaulieu, Edward, Lord Montagu of, and Anthony Bird. Steam Cars 1770-1970. Cassell, 1971.
42

1831: The Philpot sisters—Mary, Margaret and Elizabeth...

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1831

The Philpot sisters—Mary , Margaret and Elizabeth —of Lyme Regis established a fossil museum which became famous; they supplied material to such geologists as William Buckland , Richard Owen , and Henry de la Beche .
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
115

1831-1835: Republican risings in France were consistently...

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1831-1835

Republican risings in France were consistently suppressed.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
119
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
75

1 January 1831: William Lloyd Garrison launched his anti-slavery...

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1 January 1831

William Lloyd Garrison launched his anti-slavery journal The Liberator with a reference to Elizabeth Heyrick 's doctrine of immediate, not gradual abolition as the only impregnable position to assume.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1831: The National Union of the Working Classes...

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1831

The National Union of the Working Classes was founded.
Jones, Gareth Stedman. Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
128
Goodway, David. London Chartism, 1838-1848. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
21
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
59-60

1831: The Magazine of the Beau Monde, or Monthly...

Writing climate item

1831

The Magazine of the Beau Monde, or Monthly Journal of Fashion began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
13

1831-1836: Thomas Mitchell, the Surveyor-General of...

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1831-1836

Thomas Mitchell , the Surveyor-General of New South Wales, conducted three expeditions into East Australia.
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A History of Australia. Melbourne University Press, 1981.
III: 96-9, 232
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A Short History of Australia. Revised Illustrated, Penguin, 1986.
75

1831: Joseph Rickerby established himself as a...

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1831

Joseph Rickerby established himself as a printer and publisher at 3 Sherbourn Lane, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 258, 260

1831: Henry George Bohn established his own bookshop...

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1831

Henry George Bohn established his own bookshop at 4 York Street, Covent Garden, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 59

1831: Patrick Fintan Lalor organized Irish Catholic...

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1831

Patrick Fintan Lalor organized Irish Catholic non-compliance with Anglican tithe obligations, initiating civil disobedience in Ireland.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
15

1831: Sir John Herschel published Preliminary Discourse...

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1831

Sir John Herschel published Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, a cheaply-produced book designed to teach scientific practices and scientific standards to people lacking in formal education.
Jay, Mike. “Like Cooking a Dumpling”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 22, 20 Nov. 2014, pp. 25-6.
25

1831: A severe epidemic of puerperal fever struck...

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1831

A severe epidemic of puerperal fever struck in Manchester.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
154-5

1831: Elizabeth Poole Sandford published the conduct...

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1831

Elizabeth Poole Sandford published the conduct book Woman in Her Social and Domestic Character.
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.

1831-1836: Charles Darwin's journey as naturalist on...

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1831-1836

Charles Darwin 's journey as naturalist on board The Beagle laid the foundation for his work on evolution.
Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
343, 371
Williams, L. Pearce. Album of Science: The Nineteenth Century. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978.
146

1831: Queen Adelaide began the Buy British campaign...

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1831

Queen Adelaide began the Buy British campaign to support fashions of British design and manufacture, a practice not strictly upheld by shops.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
33-5

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 3 January 1831

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3 January 1831

A comedy by BBBD , A Match, or No Match, translated from French, was very cleverly performed at the little theatre at Drakelow Hall in Derbyshire, home of Sir Roger and Lady Sophia Gresley

3 January 1831: London Society was introduced to the management...

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3 January 1831

London Society was introduced to the management of Lucia Vestris at the Olympic Theatre with the opening of Olympic Revels; or, Prometheus and Pandora.
Moody, Jane. “Illusions of authorship”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 99-124.
104-5

Charlotte Brontë: 17 January 1831-June 1832

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Brontë

17 January 1831-June 1832

CB distinguished herself at Miss Wooler 's Roe Head School, on the outskirts of Mirfield, near Hartshead, Yorkshire.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
170, 172, 181

Susanna Moodie: By 25 January 1831

Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Moodie

By 25 January 1831

Susanna Strickland, later SM , finished writing down from dictation The History of Mary Prince, the life narrative of a former slave.
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
46-7

February 1831: Francis IV, Duke of Modena, attempted unsuccessfully...

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February 1831

Francis IV , Duke of Modena, attempted unsuccessfully to suppress a rising against papal rule at Modena; it spread to Parma and the northern Papal States. Delegates later met at Bologna to proclaim...

2 February 1831: Gregory XVI was chosen Pope after the death...

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2 February 1831

Gregory XVI was chosen Pope after the death of Pius VIII .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Bury, John Bagnell, and Frederick Clifton Grant. History of the Papacy in the Nineteenth Century: Liberty and Authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Editor Murray, Robert Henry, Augmented edition, Schocken Books, 1964.
vi

Felicia Hemans: 12 February 1831

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Author event in Felicia Hemans

12 February 1831

Maria Jane Jewsbury published, anonymously according to practice, an essay on FH 's verse in the Athenæum.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990.
232n29
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, 2000, p. xiii - xxix; various pages.
513n1

Maria Jane Jewsbury: 12 February 1831

Women writers item
Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury

12 February 1831

The Athenæum printed MJJ 's detailed essay on the poetic development of her friend Felicia Hemans .
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 105-18.
114
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
67
, No. 1, The Library, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 450-73.
465

Julia Stretton: 14 February 1831

Women writers item
Author event in Julia Stretton

14 February 1831

Julia Collinson (later JS ) married Walter Wilkins (1809-40) of Maesllwch Castle, near Glasbury on Wye in Radnorshire, landowner and MP for the county.
Confusion surrounds her first husband and his house. Most sources...

Mary Shelley: After mid-February 1831

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Shelley

After mid-February 1831

MS wrote a brief account of her still-living father to accompany the Bentley's Standard Novels edition of his Caleb Williams.
Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, 1998, pp. 303-22.
303
Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 285-95.
291
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24.
415