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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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Early 1831: The London Temperance Society was founde...

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Early 1831

The London Temperance Society was founded.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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8 June 1831: Sarah Siddons, great tragic actress, died...

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8 June 1831

Sarah Siddons , great tragic actress, died in London.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Manvell, Roger. Sarah Siddons: Portrait of an Actress. Heinemann, 1970.
312, 341

15 June 1831: 5,000 mourners attended the funeral of Sarah...

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15 June 1831

5,000 mourners attended the funeral of Sarah Siddons , England's most famous and admired of tragic actresses.
Booth, Michael R. et al. Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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Macqueen-Pope, Walter James. Ladies First: The Story of Woman’s Conquest of the British Stage. W. H. Allen, 1952.
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Rebecca Harding Davis: 24 June 1831

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Author event in Rebecca Harding Davis

24 June 1831

Rebecca Blaine Harding (later RHD ) was born at 73 South Main Street in Washington, Pennsylvania, USA (close to Pittsburgh).
Rose, Jane Atteridge. Rebecca Harding Davis. Twayne Publishers, 1993.
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Harris, Sharon M. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
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Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: 27 June 1831

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27 June 1831

Writer and abolitionist William Roscoe , beloved father of Mary Anne Jevons , died at Liverpool.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Roscoe

Amelia B. Edwards: 30 June 1831

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Author event in Amelia B. Edwards

30 June 1831

ABE was born in or near Colebrook Row, Islington, London, the only child in her family.
Matilda Betham-Edwards says near Colebrook Row; the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says in it. The street-name...

Margaret Emily Shore: 5 July 1831

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Author event in Margaret Emily Shore

5 July 1831

Eleven-year-old MES began her adolescent diary; it extended to twelve octavo volumes by the time of her final entry on 24 July 1839, two weeks before her death.
Shore, Margaret Emily. “Introduction”. Journal of Emily Shore, edited by Arabella Shore et al., New edition, Kegan Paul, 1898, p. v - xiii.
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Catherine Gore : 14 July 1831

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Author event in Catherine Gore

14 July 1831

CG 's first comedy, The School for Coquettes, opened a long run (thirty-seven performances) at the recently opened Haymarket Theatre .
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
194 (1831): 460

Harriet Beecher Stowe: 15 July 1831

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Author event in Harriet Beecher Stowe

15 July 1831

During a fact-finding visit to the Hartford Female Seminary , future abolitionist feminist Angelina Emily Grimké (who was considering teaching as a career) met Harriet Beecher (later HBS ).
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Frances Wright: 22 July 1831

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Author event in Frances Wright

22 July 1831

FW married her lover William S. Phiquepal D'Arusmont in Paris, a few months after the death of her sister.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Helen Taylor: 27 July 1831

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Author event in Helen Taylor

27 July 1831

HT was born in London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Anna Leonowens: Around 31 July 1831

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Author event in Anna Leonowens

Around 31 July 1831

AL 's father, Thomas Edwards, died several months before her birth.
Dow gives the death date as August or September 1831.
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
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Morgan, Susan, and Anna Leonowens. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Romance of the Harem, University Press of Virginia, 1991, pp. ix - xxxix; 279.
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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.

31 July 1831: The first issue of the Poor Man's Guardian...

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31 July 1831

The first issue of the Poor Man's Guardian was published by Henry Hetherington .
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Caroline Bowles: August 1831

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Author event in Caroline Bowles

August 1831

CB 's short story La petite Madelaine appeared in Blackwood's under the initial C.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 332
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 38

Jane Welsh Carlyle: August 1831

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Author event in Jane Welsh Carlyle

August 1831

Thomas Carlyle travelled to London in an effort to have his Sartor Resartus published; Jane followed in late September.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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Frances Trollope: August 1831

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Author event in Frances Trollope

August 1831

FT managed to scrape together enough money to take herself and her daughters back from the USA to England.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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1 August 1831: Old London Bridge was replaced by a new construction...

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1 August 1831

Old London Bridge was replaced by a new construction of the same name, allowing easier traffic and river flow.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Pudney, John. Crossing London’s River: The Bridges, Ferries and Tunnels Crossing the Thames Tideway in London. Dent, 1972.
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August 1831: The French expelled the Dutch from Belgium,...

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August 1831

The French expelled the Dutch from Belgium, which had declared its independence from them the previous year.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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August 1831: Arthur Henry Hallam anonymously published...

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August 1831

Arthur Henry Hallam anonymously published On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson in the Englishman's Magazine.
Motter, T. H. Vail. The Writings of Arthur Hallam. MLA, 1943.
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20 August 1831: Nat Turner began a slave rebellion in Southampton...

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20 August 1831

Nat Turner began a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in which 60 whites were killed; afterwards, 55 enslaved blacks were executed and some 200 others murdered by white mobs.
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
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Anne Grant: By 27 August 1831

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Author event in Anne Grant

By 27 August 1831

James Kirke Paulding published a popular rewriting of AG 's Memoirs of an American Lady entitled The Dutchman's Fireside.
The title was apparently chosen on account of Jane Porter 's The Pastor's Fire-Side, 1817.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
200 (1831): 549

Maria Jane Jewsbury: 27 August 1831

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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury

27 August 1831

The Athenæum published MJJ 's essay on the literary career of Jane Austen , thought to be the first substantial, formal, printed comment on her work by a woman.
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.
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.
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, No. 1, The Library, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 450-73.
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Mary Prince: September 1831

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Author event in Mary Prince

September 1831

The Anti-Slavery Society published The History of Mary Prince , a West Indian Slave. Related by herself, dictated by Prince at her own suggestion to Susanna Strickland (later Moodie) .
The title was chosen...

9 September 1831: The British Parliament voted £30,000 for...

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9 September 1831

The BritishParliament voted £30,000 for a national system of elementary education in Ireland.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
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Anne Lister: 11 September 1831

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11 September 1831

AL travelled from Manchester to Liverpool and back on the new railway.
Lister, Anne. Miss Lister of Shibden Hall. Editor Green, Muriel, Book Guild, 1992.
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