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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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27 October 1832: The weekly Maids', Wives', and Widows' Penny...

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27 October 1832

The weekly Maids', Wives', and Widows' Penny Magazine and Gazette of Fashion began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
216
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
14, 18

Jane Loudon: 28 October 1832

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28 October 1832

JL gave birth to a daughter, Agnes, who later by marriage became Agnes Spofforth , and who remained her only child.
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961.
59

Harriet Martineau: November 1832

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November 1832

HM moved into rooms in the home of a family connection at 6 Conduit Street, London.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
xxi

Frances Burney: By 17 November 1832

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By 17 November 1832

FB published her last work, the lovingly laboured and highly deferential Memoirs of Doctor Burney.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
264 (1832): 737
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
376-8

Elizabeth Beverley: 19 November 1832

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19 November 1832

EB died, as The Guardian and Public Ledger reported three days later, in the Lambeth workhouse, where she had been taken exactly a week before in a complete state of destitution and wretchedness.
“Reverse of Fortune”. The Guardian and Public Ledger, 22 Nov. 1832.

28 November 1832: Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf,...

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28 November 1832

Leslie Stephen , father of Virginia Woolf , first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, editor of Cornhill Magazine, biographer, and agnostic, was born.
Annan, Noel. Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian. Random House, 1984.
5, 10, 52, 66, 83-8, 301
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Louisa May Alcott: 29 November 1832

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29 November 1832

LMA was born in Germantown near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on this day, which was also her father 's thirty-third birthday. She was the second of four girls.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
239
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
29 November 2007

Maria Jane Jewsbury: 1 December 1832

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1 December 1832

The Athenæum published portions of the travel journal of MJJ , who had departed for India in September 1832 with her husband , a chaplain for the East India Company .
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990.
160-1, 236

Harriet Martineau: December 1832

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December 1832

HM published in Tait's Edinburgh MagazineThe Achievements of the Genius of Scott; a second article on the same topic appeared a month later.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 492

December 1832: Alfred Tennyson published a collection of...

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December 1832

Alfred Tennyson published a collection of Poems which included The Lotos Eaters, Oenone, A Dream of Fair Women, and The Lady of Shalott.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.

Grace Aguilar: Early 1833

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Early 1833

GA met Caroline Bowles (later Southey) at a ball in Teignmouth in Devon.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
140

Mary Bailey: 1833

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1833

MB published at Ballingdon in Suffolk a devotional work, Reflections upon the Litany of the Church of England.
Neither this work nor her next two publications are listed by OCLC.
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.

Mary Bailey: 1833

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1833

MB , as Mary Walker Bailey, published two volumes of poems: The Months and Other Poems and Palmyra.
National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield, 1956.
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.

Isabella Banks: 1833

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1833

Isabella Varley (later IB ) was sent to the Rev. John Wheeldon 's academy in Manchester.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 1833

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1833

Marguerite Blessington 's house in Seamore Place, Mayfair, was broken into; silver and jewellery worth a thousand pounds was stolen.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Caroline Bowles: 1833

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1833

CB , as the author of Ellen Fitzarthur, published her collection of dramatic monologues, Tales of the Factories.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
3, 279
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.

Mary Boyle: 1833

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1833

King William IV bestowed on MB 's father the Guelph and Hanoverian Order.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
106

Jane Welsh Carlyle: January-May 1833

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January-May 1833

JWC and her husband Thomas spent the winter in Edinburgh.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
105-7

Jane Welsh Carlyle: Winter 1833

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Winter 1833

Thomas Carlyle decided that he and his wife should move to London.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
109-10

Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1833

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1833

Under her unmarried name, Sarah Stickney (later Ellis) , published a story called The Young Hindoo in an annual edited by her future husband .
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press, 2000.
71

Mary Fortune: 1833

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1833

Mary Helena Wilson , who later became the popular Australian author MF (also known as Waif Wander and W. W.), was probably born in this year in Belfast.
Sussex, Lucy, and Mary Fortune. “What the Mischief Does a Bonnet Want Here?: An Introduction to Mary Fortune (Waif Wander)”. The Fortunes of Mary Fortune, edited by Lucy Sussex, Penguin, 1989, p. xii - xxiii.
xiv
Sussex, Lucy, and Mary Fortune. “A Woman of Mystery”. The Detectives’ Album, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, Apr. 2003, pp. 3-18.
6
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
250

Emma Caroline Wood: 1833

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1833

ECW and her family moved to Cressing in Essex, where her husband had been appointed vicar.
Bradhurst, Minna Evangeline. A Century of Letters. Printed for private circulation by R. E. Thomas and Newman, 1929.
17, 20

Anna Wheeler: 1833

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1833

AW sat on the executive of the Owenite Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes .
Taylor, Barbara, b. 1950. Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. Virago, 1984.
60

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1833

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1833

The Happy Mute; or, The Dumb Child 's Appeal appeared, a book for children by Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) based on events in her own life.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
308

Elizabeth Strutt: 1833

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1833

ES published another travel book, Six Weeks on the Loire, With a Peep into the Vendée.
Strutt, Elizabeth. Six Weeks on the Loire. Simpkin and Marshall, 1833.
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