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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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Hannah Kilham: 31 March 1832

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31 March 1832

HK died at sea between Liberia and Sierra Leone, three days after her ship was struck by lightning in a storm.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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Kilham, Hannah. Memoir of the late Hannah Killam. Editor Biller, Sarah, Harvey and Darton, 1837.
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Robertson, Fiona, and Fiona Robertson, editors. “Hannah Kilham (1774-1832)”. Women’s Writing 1778-1838, An Anthology, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 485-7.
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31 March 1832: The first mass-circulation magazine, the...

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31 March 1832

The first mass-circulation magazine, the Penny Magazine, appeared, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge .
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
587

31 March 1832: William Tait published the first issue of...

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31 March 1832

William Tait published the first issue of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 475-6
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 475-7

Mary Somerville: April 1832

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Author event in Mary Somerville

April 1832

Mathematician Thomas Galloway reviewed MS 's Mechanism of the Heavens in the Edinburgh Review, pronouncing it: one of the most remarkable works that female intellect ever produced, in any age or country.
qtd. in
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Mary Somerville: Spring 1832

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Author event in Mary Somerville

Spring 1832

In response to the popularity of her Mechanism of the Heavens, 1831, Somerville published its introductory essay separately as A Preliminary Dissertation to the Mechanism of the Heavens by Mary Somerville.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Maria Jane Jewsbury: April 1832

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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury

April 1832

MJJ stayed in Liverpool with Henry Fothergill Chorley and his wife to recuperate from illness and depression.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990.
158

By 5 April 1832: James Sheridan Knowles published his most...

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By 5 April 1832

James Sheridan Knowles published his most successful play, The Hunchback.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Mary Somerville: 9 April 1832

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9 April 1832

MS and her husband , at the behest of a group of Cambridge's mathematical scholars impressed with her work on Laplace , arrived at Cambridge University for a week-long stay.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Frances Wright: 14 April 1832

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Author event in Frances Wright

14 April 1832

FW gave birth to a second daughter; this time after nine months' legal marriage. The baby died three months later.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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George Sand: 23 April 1832

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Author event in George Sand

23 April 1832

Aurore Dudevant chose the pseudonym Georges Sand for her first published novel, Indiana, which she had recently finished; it appeared in May.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
60, 61

Sarah Austin: Earlier 1832

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Author event in Sarah Austin

Earlier 1832

SA translated from German Hermann von Pückler-Muskau 's Tour in England, Ireland and France in a Series of Letters by a German Prince; their collaborative effort led to an intense epistolary romance.
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.

Lady Charlotte Bury: May 1832

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Author event in Lady Charlotte Bury

May 1832

LCB 's second husband died after fourteen years of marriage.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
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.

Harriet Martineau: May 1832

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May 1832

Harriet Martineau published her anti-slavery tale Demerara as the fourth of her Illustrations of Political Economy.
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.

May 1832: Brothers William and Robert Chambers founded...

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May 1832

Brothers William and Robert Chambers founded the W. and R. Chambers publishing firm in Edinburgh.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 83, 85

Margaret Sandbach: 4 May 1832

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4 May 1832

Margaret Roscoe married Henry Robertson Sandbach , a fellow Liverpudlian, son of a merchant and shipbuilder.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jessie White Mario: 9 May 1832

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9 May 1832

Jessie White, later JWM , was born, probably at 15 Chapel Row, Forton, near Gosport in Hampshire.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
14, 145
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Margaret Holford, the younger : After May 1832

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After May 1832

The only book-length, all-original work issued by Margaret Hodson (formerly Margaret Holford the younger ) after her marriage was another translation: Lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro, from Spanish.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Catharine Parr Traill: 13 May 1832

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Author event in Catharine Parr Traill

13 May 1832

Despite family opposition, Catharine Strickland married Thomas Traill at Reydon. He was some years older, and she was his second wife.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Charlotte Brontë: 17 May 1832

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

17 May 1832

CB expressed her satisfaction that the Lords had thrown out the Reform Bill, which she opposed though her father supported it.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
179

Charlotte Brontë: Summer 1832

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

Summer 1832

Patrick Brontë opened a National Church Sunday School at Haworth, to which Emily , and Anne , and CB contributed by teaching.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
183

Elizabeth Strutt: 1 June 1832

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1 June 1832

ES and a companion left Parisin torrents of rain for a tour of the Loire; she was resolutely looking on the bright side.
Strutt, Elizabeth. Six Weeks on the Loire. Simpkin and Marshall, 1833.
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Mary Somerville: Summer 1832

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Author event in Mary Somerville

Summer 1832

With cholera prevalent in London (in the first epidemic of this disease ever to reach Europe), MS suffered two choleric attacks and decided to travel to Paris to convalesce.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
95
Mitchell, Charlotte. Caroline Clive, 1801-1873, A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queenland, 1999.
4

Barbara Hofland: Probably June 1832

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Probably June 1832

BH supplied the text to engravings for Richmond and its Surrounding Scenery, dedicated with permission to the Duchess of Northumberland .
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
85

June 1832: The Six Articles were imposed at the Diet...

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June 1832

The Six Articles were imposed at the Diet of Frankfurt, which sought to curb the activities of students and revolutionaries.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
118

Later 1832: Following the First Reform Bill of 7 June...

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Later 1832

Following the First Reform Bill of 7 June 1832, a number of offences (stealing and various types of forgery) ceased to be subject to the death penalty.
Davenport-Hines, Richard. “Suffocating Suspense”. London Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2000, pp. 36-37.
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Collins Dictionary of British History. Collins, 2002.
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