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Events Timeline
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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L. E. L.: 10 December 1831
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10 December 1831
published Romance and Reality, the first of her four novels. Her reputation as a poet ensured that it was eagerly awaited by the public.
Mary Somerville: Mid-December 1831
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Mid-December 1831
The Literary Gazette reviewed
's Mechanism of the Heavens, praising its luminous and precise style and its beautiful preliminary dissertation.
By 19 December 1831: Cholera was sufficiently widespread in London...
By 19 December 1831
Cholera was sufficiently widespread in London for
to comment on the general panic and uneasiness.
Catherine Gore : 20 December 1831
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Author event in Catherine Gore
20 December 1831
's second comedy, Lords and Commons, opened at the patent theatre of
, almost within five months of her first.
27 December 1831: A major slave uprising, the Baptist War,...
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27 December 1831
A major slave uprising, the
War, Christmas Rebellion, or Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, began with the setting afire of the Kensington Estate. Over the next two weeks it spread to several more parishes, causing...
Sarah Flower Adams: 1832-1836
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Author event in Sarah Flower Adams
1832-1836
contributed poetry, drama, short stories and essays to the Monthly Repository: she began as Sarah Flower, before her marriage.
Joanna Baillie: 1832
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Joanna Baillie: 1832
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Author event in Joanna Baillie
1832
The first American edition appeared, from
of Philadelphia, of
's Complete Poetical Works.
Mary Boyle: 1832-1836
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Author event in Mary Boyle
1832-1836
, her
, her sister
, and her brother
travelled to Turin, where they met her brother
. They then toured Italy.
Anna Eliza Bray: 1832
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Author event in Anna Eliza Bray
1832
About a decade after her first
's premature death,
completed and published his unfinished book The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, with commentary by her
.
Lydia Maria Child: 1832-5
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Author event in Lydia Maria Child
1832-5
published the five volumes which made up The Ladies' Family Library; this was aimed at the US domestic market of readers without aspirations for social change.
Dinah Mulock Craik: By 1832
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By 1832
's father,
, lost his chapel in Stoke-on-Trent, suffered mental problems, and moved the family to Newcastle under Lyme in Staffordshire.
He published in 1858 a pamphlet on lunatic asylums...
Selina Davenport : 1832
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1832
followed The Queen's Page. A Romance, 1831, with another title through
, The Unchanged. A Novel.
Emily Eden: 1832
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1832
tried, at Panshanger in Hertfordshire, to match
with her widowed brother
.
Maria Edgeworth: 1832-3
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1832-3
After the appearance of Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces, 14 volumes, in 1825,
herself edited her Tales and Novels in eighteen volumes, issued monthly.
George Eliot: 1832
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1832
Mary Anne Evans (later
) moved to her fourth school, the Miss Franklins' School in Coventry, after her father was told she had exhausted the possibilities at Wallington's.
Anne Evans: Biography: 1832
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Author event in Anne Evans: Biography
1832
As a child of twelve,
wrote her first extant poem, entitled Flora's Lesson.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1832
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1832
An anti-trade union novel by (later Tonna) entitled Combination, her first overtly political novel, was published.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1832
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1832
(later Tonna) published Ireland's Crisis, which she followed the next year by a historical novel also on Irish topics, Derry, A Tale of the Revolution.
Catherine Sinclair: 1832
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1832
published her first book, the highly didactic yet bright and imaginative children's story Charlie Seymour; or, The Good Aunt and the Bad Aunt.
Lydia Howard Sigourney: 1832
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Author event in Lydia Howard Sigourney
1832
stayed with anonymity for Biography of Pious Persons, Abridged for Youth, published at Springfield, Massachusetts, a two-volume work which builds on her original Female Biography.
Margaret Emily Shore: 1832
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1832
, probably aged twelve, made a fair copy of A Collection of some of the Most Celebrated Parliamentary Speeches. Its handsome title-page bears her name with the place and date: not an anthology...
Sir Walter Scot : 1832
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1832
In the year that he died,
, pseudonymously (as Jedediah Cleishbotham), published Count Robert of Paris with Castle Dangerous, in the fourth and last series of Tales of My Landlord.
Emma Roberts: 1832
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Author event in Emma Roberts
1832
After returning to London the previous year from her first stay in India,
became involved with the Asiatic Journal; her first contributions to it appeared this year.
Catherine Gore : 1832
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Author event in Catherine Gore
1832
's anonymous volume of six stories entitled The Fair of May Fair moves between the unheroic present and a nostalgically remembered past, that critical Bonapartean moment of national effort.