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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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August 1832-April 1833: The Anglican missionary movement in India...

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August 1832-April 1833

The Anglican missionary movement in India received a tremendous boost when four young Bengali men were baptized as Christians.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
234-5

3 August 1832: In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry...

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3 August 1832

In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry Hunt presented Parliament with a petition for female enfranchisement on behalf of Miss Mary Smith of Stanmore, Yorkshire.
Rover, Constance. Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866-1914. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
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Christian Isobel Johnstone: 4 August 1832-September 1833

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4 August 1832-September 1833

CIJ was almost wholly responsible for The Schoolmaster and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine; it then became Johnstone's Edinburgh Magazine.
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.

7 August 1832: The Irish Reform Act increased the number...

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7 August 1832

The Irish Reform Act increased the number of Irish seats in the British Parliament from 100 to 105 and introduced a £10, male-only franchise in Irish boroughs.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
606
Curtis, Liz. The Cause of Ireland: From the United Irishmen to Partition. Beyond the Pale Publications, 1994.
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10 August 1832: The last man to be hanged in chains for murder...

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10 August 1832

The last man to be hanged in chains for murder suffered this fate at Leicester.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 23 August 1832

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23 August 1832

Elizabeth Barrett moved with her family to the seaside village of Sidmouth in Devon.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
68
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
3: xii

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 25 August 1832

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25 August 1832

Elizabeth Barrett 's father was forced to sell the Hope End estate after his income was sharply diminished by the Jamaican slave rebellions, which had begun the previous December.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
65-6, 68
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
35-6

Ann Hatton: 27 August 1832

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Author event in Ann Hatton

27 August 1832

AH sent off family reminiscences designed for insertion in Thomas Campbell 's life of her sister Sarah Siddons (a work which was published in 1834).
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.
7: 175

Elizabeth Gaskell: 30 August 1832

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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell

30 August 1832

Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson married the Rev. William Gaskell at St John's Parish Church in Knutsford, Cheshire.
Despite being Unitarians, they married in an Anglican church since dissenters could not legally marry in their own...

Susanna Moodie: 30 August 1832

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30 August 1832

SM and her family landed after their transatlantic crossing at the quarantine station below Quebec City, Grosse Ile: a situation she describes vividly in the first chapter of Roughing It in the Bush.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Moodie, Susanna, and Susan Glickman. Roughing It in the Bush. McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
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Joanna Baillie: After September 1832

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Author event in Joanna Baillie

After September 1832

JB composed, at Hampstead, Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 478

Mary Somerville: September 1832-June1833

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Author event in Mary Somerville

September 1832-June1833

Suffering from ill health, MS , with her teen-aged daughters Martha and Mary, took up residence in Paris.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
183
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
95, 98, 109

1 September 1832: The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley...

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1 September 1832

The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley was dissolved when Bentley bought Colburn out, amid considerable ill-feeling apparently caused by Colburn's shady financial practices.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley

3 September 1832 : The Connaught Journal reported a marital...

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3 September 1832

The Connaught Journal reported a marital scandal: an outraged husband of Castletown, County Mayo, arranged for a posse of his servants to break into his wife's separate bedroom to catch her in bed with...

Priscilla Wakefield: 12 September 1832

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12 September 1832

PW died at Ipswich, aged ninety-one.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

17 September 1832: The first number appeared of The Tourist:...

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17 September 1832

The first number appeared of The Tourist: a Literary and Anti-Slavery Journal, published at London under the auspices of the Anti-Slavery Society .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Maria Jane Jewsbury: 19 September 1832

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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury

19 September 1832

MJJ sailed for India on the Victory with her newly-married husband .
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.
467
Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, 1877, pp. 323-39.
330
Gillett, Eric, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. “Maria Jane Jewsbury: A Memoir”. Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, Oxford University Press, 1932, p. xiii - lxvii.
lxi

Sir Walter Scot : 21 September 1832

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Author event in Sir Walter Scot

21 September 1832

SWS died at his estate of Abbotsford, Melrose, following paralysis and a bout of apoplexy; he was sixty-one.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Anna Maria Porter: 21 September 1832

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Author event in Anna Maria Porter

21 September 1832

AMP died on her fifty-second birthday, of typhus contracted while visiting her brother William in Bristol.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
263, 269
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
under Jane Porter

Jane Hume Clapperton : 22 September 1832

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Author event in Jane Hume Clapperton

22 September 1832

Jane Hume Clapperton was born in Edinburgh, in the parish of St Cuthbert's, the tenth of twelve children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Riddell: 30 September 1832

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Author event in Charlotte Riddell

30 September 1832

Charlotte Elizabeth Lawson Cowan (later CR ) was born at The Barnin Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in the blacknorth of Ireland (as she later called it), the youngest daughter in her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
qtd. in
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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Caroline Bowles: October 1832

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Author event in Caroline Bowles

October 1832

CB 's story Devereux Hall appeared in Blackwood's under her pseudonym C.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 332
Bowles, Caroline. “Devereux Hall”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
32
, Oct. 1832, pp. 486-04.
504

October 1832: American Robert Dale Owen's tract Moral Physiology;...

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October 1832

American Robert Dale Owen 's tract Moral Physiology; or a brief and plain treatise on the population question was published in London.
Tannahill, Reay. Sex in History. Stein and Day, 1980.
413-5
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
92-3

Mary Russell Mitford: October 1832

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

October 1832

MRM , by this date a distinguished literary figure, was offered a post by a cousin, as companion (not a dependent but a daughter) to the cousin's blind and elderly husband.
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: 139

27 October 1832: The weekly Ladies' Penny Gazette, or Mirror...

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27 October 1832

The weekly Ladies' Penny Gazette, or Mirror of Fashion and Miscellany of Instruction and Amusement began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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