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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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7 June 1832: The Representation of the People Act, known...

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7 June 1832

The Representation of the People Act, known as the First Reform Bill, extended the male franchise and, for the first time, explicitly excluded women from the electorate.
Craig, Fred W. S. British Electoral Facts 1832-1987. 5th ed., Parliamentary Research Services, 1989.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
1832: 154-9
Chapman, Annie Beatrice Wallis, and Mary Wallis Chapman. The Status of Women Under the English Law. George Routledge and Sons, 1909.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Fanny Kemble: 22 June 1832

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Author event in Fanny Kemble

22 June 1832

FK gave an emotional farewell performance at Covent Garden before embarking on an American tour with her father and Aunt Dall .
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
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Harriette Wilson: 26 June 1832

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Author event in Harriette Wilson

26 June 1832

HW wrote the last of her letters to Brougham —or in any case the last that he preserved.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
288

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: July 1832-December 1833

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July 1832-December 1833

A Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington appeared in the New Monthly Magazine.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
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Sara Coleridge: July 1832

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Author event in Sara Coleridge

July 1832

In ill health, SC gave birth to her daughter Edith Coleridge , to whom she later dedicated her memoirs.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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Frances Trollope: Later 1832

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Author event in Frances Trollope

Later 1832

FT published her first novel, The Refugee in America, which reflects themes similar to those of Domestic Manners of the Americans.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Catharine Parr Traill: Summer 1832

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Author event in Catharine Parr Traill

Summer 1832

CPT and her husband left England for Canada just days before Susanna Moodie and her husband also left. They were eager to claim Thomas Traill's military land grant.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
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Mary Somerville: July 1832

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Author event in Mary Somerville

July 1832

Astronomer Sir John Herschel reviewed Mechanism of the Heavens, by MS , in the Quarterly Review.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Mary Shelley: After July 1832

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Author event in Mary Shelley

After July 1832

MS and her half-sister, Claire Clairmont , published a story in the Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, about a Polish refugee.
Vargo, Lisa. “Lodore and the Novel of Society”. Womens Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1999, pp. 425-40.
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Mary Ann Kelty: July 1832-August 1834

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Author event in Mary Ann Kelty

July 1832-August 1834

MAK lived confined to the house, though whether for reasons of health or religion is not entirely clear.
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852.
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Roxburghe Lothian: July 1832

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Author event in Roxburghe Lothian

July 1832

RL 's tutor resigned in anger, leaving her a long, reproachful letter signed Peter Joseph Julian Maria da Giglio, D. U. L. , because of her developing friendship with a young army officer, Captain Warwick.
Lothian, Roxburghe, and Edward Foster Coulson. Lizzie Lothian. C. Kegan Paul, 1877.
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July 1832: A monthly periodical for women entitled The...

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July 1832

A monthly periodical for women entitled The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée swallowed up La Belle Assemblée and began publishing under this title in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

July 1832: With the support of the British army, Dom...

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July 1832

With the support of the British army, Dom Pedro (Emperor of Brazil since 1822) assumed the crown of Portugal at Lisbon; his deposed brother Dom Miguel fled to Spain.
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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July 1832: The Friends of the Oppressed was established...

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July 1832

The Friends of the Oppressed was established by a group of politically active London women.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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Ann Hatton: 7 July 1832

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Author event in Ann Hatton

7 July 1832

AH was soliciting subscribers for Fifty-two Poetic Cumaean Leaves, Predicting the Destiny of Ladies and Gentlemen.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
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14 July 1832: William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator announced...

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14 July 1832

William Lloyd Garrison 's The Liberator announced the formation of the first Female Anti-Slavery Society in the USA, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. Editor Foner, Philip S., Greenwood Press, 1976.
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Hesba Stretton: 27 July 1832

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Author event in Hesba Stretton

27 July 1832

Sarah Smith (later HS ) was born in New Street, Wellington, Shropshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 288

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : 27 July 1832

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27 July 1832

EIS died in Chelsea of a stroke which had paralysed her.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

30 July 1832: The Public Ledger and Commercial and General...

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30 July 1832

The Public Ledger and Commercial and General Advertiser (last number 26 July) changed its title after many years to The Guardian and Public Ledger.
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.

Queen Victoria: 31 July 1832

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Author event in Queen Victoria

31 July 1832

Princess Alexandrina Victoria and her entourage embarked on a formal tour of the country, beginning with Wales and the Midlands.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Queen Victoria: 31 July 1832

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Author event in Queen Victoria

31 July 1832

Princess Alexandrina Victoria (later QV ) began writing her journal to record the events of her first formal tour of Britain; she kept a detailed diary for the rest of her life.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Maria Jane Jewsbury: 1 August 1832

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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury

1 August 1832

After a short courtship, MJJ married the Rev. William Kew Fletcher , a chaplain for the East India Company , at Penegoes in Montgomeryshire.
Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, 1877, pp. 323-39.
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Mercer, Edmund. “Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Manchester Quarterly, Vol.
17
, 1898, pp. 301-21.
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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.
67
, No. 1, The Library, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 450-73.
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Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Isabella Kelly: August 1832

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Author event in Isabella Kelly

August 1832

IK told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written part of a historical novel, but found it hard to complete because of her sense that literary styles had changed.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Mary Russell Mitford: August 1832

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

August 1832

Caroline Norton 's Court Magazine printed a story by MRM .
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 144

1 August 1832: The Warburton Anatomy Act legalized the sale...

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1 August 1832

The Warburton Anatomy Act legalized the sale of corpses for dissection; this curtailed the practice of body snatching.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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Youngson, A. J. The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine. Holmes and Meier, 1979.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.