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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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Agnes Strickland: By 1833

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Author event in Agnes Strickland

By 1833

Elizabeth and AS were studying history and palaeography (early handwriting) in the British Museum .
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.

Mary Somerville: 1833

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Author event in Mary Somerville

1833

Urged by Siméon Poisson , MS began work on a treatise describing the form and rotation of the earth and planets; she never attempted to publish this work.
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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Mary Martha Sherwood: 1833

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Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood

1833

MMS published through two different London publishers two more novels in response to Catholic Emancipation: Victoria and The Nun (the latter anonymously).
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan, 1946.
126, 144
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 Martha Sherwood: 1833

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Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood

1833

MMS published The Latter Days, a book of exhortation which was praised in the Gentleman's Magazine.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Margaret Roberts: 1833

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Author event in Margaret Roberts

1833

MR was born at Honyngs in North Wales.
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.

Hannah Mary Rathbone: 1833

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Author event in Hannah Mary Rathbone

1833

As a Lady, HMR published at Liverpool an anthology, The Poetry of Birds: selected from various authors, illustrated with lithographs taken from the author's own fine water-colours.
The title makes it virtually certain...

Catherine Gore : 1833

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Author event in Catherine Gore

1833

CG and her family moved to the Continent, either to escape Charles Gore 's debts in England or for him to take up a diplomatic post in Paris.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Simons, Gary. Email to Isobel Grundy about Catherine Gore. 12 Oct. 2016.

Catherine Gore : 1833

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Author event in Catherine Gore

1833

CG entitled another volume of tales The Sketch Book of Fashion.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Barbara Hofland: 1833

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

1833

Longman sold off some of their BH copyrights to A. K. Newman .
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Eliza Lynn Linton: 1833

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Author event in Eliza Lynn Linton

1833

The adolescent Eliza Lynn and her family moved south from Crosthwaite in Cumberland (where her father was vicar) to live at Gadshill in Kent, where he had held a living formerly.
Layard, George Somes. Mrs. Lynn Linton: Her Life, Letters, and Opinions. Methuen, 1901.
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Maria Theresa Longworth : 1833

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Author event in Maria Theresa Longworth

1833

MTL was born at Cheetwood near Manchester.
Boase 's Modern English Biography gives her date of birth as 1827 while Ellen Bayuk Rosenman suggests 1833.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Anne Manning: 1833

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Author event in Anne Manning

1833

AM anonymously published Village Belles in three volumes, her first work of fiction.
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.

Harriet Martineau: 1833

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

1833

As part of her Illustrations of Political Economy, HM published Sowers Not Reapers, an attack on the Corn Laws.
Rivlin, Joseph B. Harriet Martineau: A Bibliography of Her Separately Printed Books. New York Public Library, 1947.
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Harriet Martineau: 1833-1834

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

1833-1834

A four-volume series by HM entitled Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated was sponsored by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and published by Charles Fox .
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Eliza Meteyard: 1833

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Author event in Eliza Meteyard

1833

EM was introduced to writing as a career through her eldest brother, a tithe commissioner whom she assisted with his reports.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Russell Mitford: 1833

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

1833

Marianne Croker mocked MRM 's prose in My Village Versus Our Village.
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.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 1833

Women writers item

1833

SOLM broke new ground with two volumes of closet dramas: Dramatic Scenes from Real Life, published by Saunders and Otley .
Campbell's biography wrongly gives the title as Dramatic Sketches . . . .
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
217
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.

Caroline Norton: 1833

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Author event in Caroline Norton

1833

CN published in BostonPoems, by the Honourable Mrs. Norton, a volume of short lyrics.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1833: Advertising Duty was reduced to one shilling...

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1833

Advertising Duty was reduced to one shilling and sixpence (less than half the previous rate).
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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1833-1837: This was the first boom period of railway...

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1833-1837

This was the first boom period of railway promotion.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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1833: Honoré de Balzac published his novel Eugénie...

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1833

Honoré de Balzac published his novel Eugénie Grandet.
Petit Larousse, illustré, 1980. Librairie Larousse, 1980.

1833: Thomas Moore published his prose piece Travels...

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1833

Thomas Moore published his prose piece Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion, in two volumes.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1833-1843: In 653 murder trials, approximately 10% of...

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1833-1843

In 653 murder trials, approximately 10% of defendents were found unfit to stand trial by reason of insanity or physial incapability.
Smith, Roger. “The Boundary Between Insanity and Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 363-84.
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1833: The Indian Charter Act was passed, ending...

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1833

The Indian Charter Act was passed, ending a practice of collecting a pilgrim tax to support Hindu places of worship and marking the end of the British policy of non-interference in native activities.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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1833-1835: Early periods of the earth's history were...

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1833-1835

Early periods of the earth's history were variously identified by Charles Lyell and Adam Sedgwick of England, and Roderick Impey Murchison of Scotland.
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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Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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Porter, Roy. “Gentleman and Geology: The Emergence of A Scientific Career, 1660-1920”. Historical Journal, Vol.
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, 1978, pp. 809-36.
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