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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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1832: Walter Hancock designed and built a steam-powered...

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1832

Walter Hancock designed and built a steam-powered omnibus to carry passengers for the London and Paddington Steam Carriage Company .
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
86
Barker, Theodore Cardwell, and Michael Robbins. A History of London Transport: Passenger Travel and the Development of the Metropolis. Rev., Allen and Unwin, 1975, 2 vol.
I: 44

1832: Mehemet Ali of Egypt conquered Syria and...

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1832

Mehemet Ali of Egypt conquered Syria and threatened to attack Constantinople.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
130

1832: The memoir of Robert Blincoe by John Brown...

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1832

The memoir of Robert Blincoe by John Brown was re-issued in book form under a new title, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy; Sent From the Workhouse of St. Pancras, London, at...

1832: The Christian Lady's Friend and Family Repository,...

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1832

The Christian Lady's Friend and Family Repository, a monthly for women, began publication in London; it lasted only one year.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Anna Leonowens: 9 January 1832

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Author event in Anna Leonowens

9 January 1832

AL 's mother (widowed before her daughter's birth) remarried.
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
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Anne Ogle: 19 January 1832

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19 January 1832

AO was born at her father's house, Kirkley Hall near Bedlington in Northumberland, the eldest in a family of seven.
Burke's Landed Gentry, family historian J. M. Rodgers , and critic Graham Handley

Mary Somerville: 21 January 1832

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Author event in Mary Somerville

21 January 1832

MS 's Mechanism of the Heavens received a patronising and sexist review in the Athenæum.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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26 January 1832: The New Strand Theatre opened in London as...

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26 January 1832

The New Strand Theatre opened in London as a subscription theatre; it operated for five years without any kind of licence, then re-opened on 25 April 1836 as fully legitimate.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Lewis Carroll: 27 January 1832

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27 January 1832

Charles Dodgson (better known as LC ), mathematician, photographer, and children's writer, was born at Daresbury near Warrington in Lancashire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Somerville: February 1832

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February 1832

The Royal Society of London commissioned Sir Francis Chantrey to sculpt MS 's bust for their Great Hall.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
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Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Emma Roberts: Early 1832 - August 1839

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Author event in Emma Roberts

Early 1832 - August 1839

During these years ER lived in London, where she continued her career in journalism, and socialized in literary circles.
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
340-2
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Harriet Martineau: February 1832-February 1834

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

February 1832-February 1834

Harriet Martineau published her immensely popular monthly series Illustrations of Political Economy: twenty-five didactic narratives which anticipated the social problem novel.
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
215-16
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
1: 160, 259

Maria Jane Jewsbury: 4 February-12 August 1832

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4 February-12 August 1832

MJJ published four articles in the Athenæum entitled On Modern Female Cultivation.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990.
94, 159

Harriet Martineau: By 4 February 1832

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By 4 February 1832

Harriet Martineau published her economic fable Life in the Wilds, A Tale, the inaugural number of the Illustrations of Political Economy.
Logan, Deborah Anna, and Harriet Martineau. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Illustrations of Political Economy, Broadview, 2004, p. various pages.
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OraŽem, Claudia. Political Economy and Fiction in the Early Modern Works of Harriet Martineau. Peter Lang, 1999.
77
Athenæum. J. Lection.
224 (1832): 95

4 February 1832: Robert and William Chambers began publishing...

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4 February 1832

Robert and William Chambers began publishing the weekly Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
112-13
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

13 February 1832: Cholera was registered as epidemic in London...

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13 February 1832

Cholera was registered as epidemic in London (a couple of months after Joanna Baillie recorded anxiety about it). This was the first of four major outbreaks in nineteenth-century Britain.
Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern Britain 1700-1983: A Domestic History. Croom Helm, 1986.
103-5
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
257, 270, 274
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
183, 196
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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Susanna Moodie: 14 February 1832

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14 February 1832

SM gave birth to her first child, Catherine Mary Josephine , in a long and painful labour.
Michael Peterman 's biography of SM gives her daughter's name as Katherine.
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
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Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
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Hannah Kilham: 23 February 1832

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23 February 1832

HK arrived at Monrovia, in the colony of freed slaves from the USA which in 1847 was to become Liberia. She stayed there for a month.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle: Early 1832

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Early 1832

Jane and Thomas Carlyle returned to Craigenputtoch after six months in London.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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Anna Margaretta Larpent: 4 March 1832

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4 March 1832

AML died at the home of her son George and his wife, Putney Park.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Fanny Kemble: By 17 March 1832

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By 17 March 1832

FK published Francis the First: An Historical Drama in verse under her own name; it appeared in the United States as Francis the First ; a Tragedy in Five Acts, as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

Frances Trollope: 19 March 1832

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Author event in Frances Trollope

19 March 1832

FT 's controversial best-seller, Domestic Manners of the Americans, was published, bringing her immediate fame and dramatically improving her financial situation.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Jane Loudon: 20 March 1832

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20 March 1832

JL , as J. W. L., made her first appearance in the columns of her husband 's Gardener's Magazine, writing on Weights and Measures in Use at Covent Garden Market.
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961.
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22 March 1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died at Weimar...

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22 March 1832

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died at Weimar in Germany in his early eighties.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.

L. E. L.: By 24 March 1832

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By 24 March 1832

LEL 's small book of Christian poems and engravings entitled The Easter Gift, A Religious Offering was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
230 (1832): 188
L. E. L. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages.
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Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
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