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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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Frances Reynolds : Later 1831

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Later 1831

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Hill, George Birkbeck, editor. Johnsonian Miscellanies. Clarendon Press, 1897, 2 vols.
1: xi
of FR 's Recollections of Dr. Johnson was printed by John Wilson Croker in his edition of Boswell 's Life of Samuel Johnson, as one...

27 September 1831: The British Association for the Advancement...

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27 September 1831

The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) was founded at a meeting in York.
Cannon, Susan Faye. Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period. Dawson; Science History Publications, 1978.
130, 201, 216
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
386-7
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
108, 129
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
I: 95
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
175
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
180-1

Mary Carpenter: After October 1831

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Author event in Mary Carpenter

After October 1831

The Bristol riots in favour of electoral reform (and their savage suppression) helped to arouse a deep interest in MC in the welfare of the poor and uneducated.
In 1831 the House of Lords defeated...

Catharine Parr Traill: Late 1831

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Author event in Catharine Parr Traill

Late 1831

Catharine Strickland (later CPT ) had her heart broken by Francis Harral , son of the journal editor Thomas Harral , at the end of a two-year engagement.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
43
New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
332

Regina Maria Roche: October 1831

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Author event in Regina Maria Roche

October 1831

After retreating from central London to its western edge, the widowed and destitute RMR moved back to Ireland, where she spent her retirement at a house on The Mall in Waterford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Felicia Hemans: Autumn 1831

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Author event in Felicia Hemans

Autumn 1831

Now advised to leave Liverpool for the sake of her health, FH , who had been travelling since April, settled in Dublin.
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
250
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
96, 243-4

Mary Howitt: 10 October 1831

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10 October 1831

MH and her husband witnessed first-hand the riots in Nottingham following the rejection of the Reform Bill, including the burning and looting of Nottingham Castle.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
120-1

Isabella Bird: 15 October 1831

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15 October 1831

IB was born at Boroughbridge Hall in Yorkshire, where her maternal grandmother lived.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 30
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Isa Craig: 17 October 1831

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Author event in Isa Craig

17 October 1831

IC , poet, journalist, and feminist, was born in Edinburgh.
Kamm, Josephine, and Mary Stocks. Rapiers and Battleaxes: The Women’s Movement And Its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1966.
102
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Heyrick: 18 October 1831

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Author event in Elizabeth Heyrick

18 October 1831

EH died. The cause was said to be a ruptured blood vessel, though it may have been a stroke or a bleeding ulcer.
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
185, 213
Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott, 2008.
124

28 October 1831: Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated...

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28 October 1831

Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated the induction of electromagnetic current.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
258
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
35

31 October 1831: On a third day of rioting in Bristol directed...

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31 October 1831

On a third day of rioting in Bristol directed at opponents of the Reform Bill, the Light Dragoons were finally given their heads and charged across Queen's Square; allegedly hundreds of people were killed...

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton: November 1831

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November 1831

Edward Bulwer assumed the editorship of The New Monthly Magazine; he also contributed regular articles, as well as essays and reviews.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Prince: November 1831

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November 1831

James Macqueen , editor and plantation-owner, mounted a vicious attack on MP 's book in Blackwood's, alleging that it consisted of hideous falsehoods and misrepresentations.
Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Routledge, 1992.
378n31

Mary Ann Kelty: November 1831

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November 1831

During a bout of serious illness, MAK 's religious scruples persuaded her to destroy her music, and nearly led her to burn her piano (which she had taken up again only five years before this).
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852.
254-5

Mary Somerville: 5 November 1831

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5 November 1831

Preliminary announcements for MS 's Mechanism of the Heavens appeared in the Athenæum and the Literary Gazette.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
82, 210n154-5

Anna Leonowens: 6 November 1831

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6 November 1831

Anna Harriett Emma Edwards (later AL ), educator and writer, was born in the East India Company barracks at Ahmednagar in India.
AL lied about her age, making herself three years younger.
Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus, 1976.
26
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
136
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
1
Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus, 1976.
26

Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton: 8 November 1831

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8 November 1831

The future diplomat and poet Edward Robert Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton , who also used the pseudonym Owen Meredith) was born in London, the younger child of writers Rosina and Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton) .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Somerville: Early November 1831

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Early November 1831

John Murray of London published Mechanism of the Heavens, MS 's popular rendering of Pierre Simon Laplace 's seminal astronomical text Méchanique Céleste.
An e-text of this book, with an appendix of some...

Anna Brownell Jameson: By 12 November 1831

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By 12 November 1831

ABJ published in two volumes Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
xi
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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 Maria Colling: By 26 November 1831

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By 26 November 1831

MMC published (by subscription, arranged by Anna Eliza Bray ) her first and only volume of poetry: Fables and other Pieces in Verse, with a portrait of the author.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
213 (1831): 762
Wright, W. H. Kearley. West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works. Elliot Stock, 1896.
108

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton: December 1831

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December 1831

Edward Bulwer 's sixth novel appeared, as by the author of Pelham: Eugene Aram, a three-volume Newgate novel which achieved immense popularity throughout Europe.
The 1880 edition of Eugene Aram reproduces a preface...

Harriette Wilson: December 1831

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December 1831

HW 's husband Rochfort abandoned her for a married woman probably named Elizabeth Wyatt, with whom he had fallen in love.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
286, 300

December 1831: Thomas Carlyle's Characteristics was published...

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December 1831

Thomas Carlyle 's Characteristics was published in the Edinburgh Review.
Hardman, Malcolm. Six Victorian Thinkers. Manchester University Press, 1990.
24
Tillotson, Geoffrey. A View of Victorian Literature. Clarendon, 1978.
1n2

4 December 1831: James Robinson Planché and other playwrights...

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4 December 1831

James Robinson Planché and other playwrights (all male) met at a London tavern and resolved to petition for reform of the law on dramatic copyright.
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.
99