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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 Cullwick: 26 May 1833

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Author event in Hannah Cullwick

26 May 1833

HC was born at Shifnal in Shropshire.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
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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.

Ellis Cornelia Knight : By late May 1833

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Author event in Ellis Cornelia Knight

By late May 1833

ECK published in two volumes the historical novel Sir Guy de Lusignan. A Tale of Italy, which was set in the thirteenth century during the last of the crusades, in the reign of Henry III

Lucie Duff Gordon: 1833-4

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Author event in Lucie Duff Gordon

1833-4

With the exception of a brief stay in Hastings, Lucie Austin (later LDG ) and her parents spent the summers of these years in Boulogne.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
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Frances Trollope: 1 June 1833

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Author event in Frances Trollope

1 June 1833

FT left England for a tour of Belgium and Western Germany.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 186

Catharine Parr Traill: June 1833

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Author event in Catharine Parr Traill

June 1833

In CanadaCPT gave birth to her first child, a son whom she and her husband named James .
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Mary Somerville: Summer 1833

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Author event in Mary Somerville

Summer 1833

MS travelled with her husband , daughters, and (younger) son to Switzerland for a six-week tour of the Alps.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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George Sand: June 1833

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Author event in George Sand

June 1833

GS met twenty-two-year-old Alfred de Musset , a poet and a colleague at the Revue des Deux Mondes; they began a stormy and much publicized two-year affair.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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Cate, Curtis. George Sand. Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
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Anna Brownell Jameson: June-November 1833

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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson

June-November 1833

ABJ and her sister Charlotte visited Germany.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
75, 80

Anna Brownell Jameson: Summer 1833

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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson

Summer 1833

ABJ met Ottilie von Goethe , the widow of Goethe 's son August; Jameson supported her when she became pregnant out of wedlock in 1835.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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Susanna Moodie: June 1833

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Author event in Susanna Moodie

June 1833

SM gave birth to her second daughter, Agnes , the first of her children to be born in Canada (and named after her sister who was already famous in England).
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Mid 1833 to 1842: Archibald Alison published History of Europe...

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Mid 1833 to 1842

Archibald Alison published History of Europe during the French Revolution.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

June 1833: The popularity of the charity bazaar as an...

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June 1833

The popularity of the charity bazaar as an institution was assured when the future Queen operated a stall at the Grand Fancy Fair and Bazaar of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress .
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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Augusta Ada Byron: 5 June 1833

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5 June 1833

AAB first met inventor Charles Babbage , whose early computer she later became the first to program.
Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press, 1992.
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Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 10 June 1833

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10 June 1833

Sydney Morgan , with her husband and two nieces, arrived in London before travelling up the fashionable Rhine and spending a month in Brussels.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 359
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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10 June 1833: The Dramatic Copyright Act was passed....

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10 June 1833

The Dramatic Copyright Act was passed.
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
(1833): 138
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
chronology
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
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Mary Howitt: 14 June 1833

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14 June 1833

MH sent to a friend a copy of her bitterly satirical poem about an English gentleman at Kingston, Jamaica, a dealer in slaves, crying up the virtues as merchandise of his own mixed-race son.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 15 June 1833

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By 15 June 1833

Bentley issued what may be Marguerite Blessington 's first novel published in London: The Repealers addresses the growing movement to repeal the Act of Union between England and Ireland (effective 1 January 1801).
Athenæum. J. Lection.
294 (1833): 372
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
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Maria Jane Jewsbury: 17 June 1833

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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury

17 June 1833

Travelling by boat to Sholapore in India, MJJ recorded in her journal that she was suffering from cholera.
Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, 1877, pp. 323-39.
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Anna Wheeler: 22 June 1833 to 5 April 1834

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22 June 1833 to 5 April 1834

AW published a series of letters in the Owenite journal The Crisis under the pseudonym Concordia.
Owen, Robert, 1771 - 1858, and Robert Dale Owen, editors. The Crisis, and National Co-operative Trades’ Union and Equitable Labour Exchange Gazette. J. Eamonson; B. D. Cousins.
II.24 - III.28

Jane Loudon: Late July 1833

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Late July 1833

Although she was pregnant, JL set out with her husband on a three-month tour of houses and gardens a little closer to home: in Middlesex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Hampshire.
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961.
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Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century, 1990.
89-91

John Henry Newman: By July 1833

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By July 1833

JHN , becalmed in the Mediterranean after a trip on which he had nearly died of fever, wrote his well-known hymn Lead, Kindly Light.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
45-6

July 1833: Russia negotiated a treaty at Unkiar Skelessi...

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July 1833

Russia negotiated a treaty at Unkiar Skelessi with Turkey, which was now in need of protection.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Mary Ann Browne: By 6 July 1833

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By 6 July 1833

MAB published The Coronal: Original Poems, Sacred and Miscellaneous.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
297 (1833): 483

Lucy Aikin: By 8 July 1833

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By 8 July 1833

For her Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, again in two volumes, LA drew on manuscript as well as printed sources.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First. Longman, 1833, 2 vols.
title-page
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Georgiana Fullerton: 13 July 1833

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13 July 1833

Lady Georgiana Charlotte Leveson-Gower, from this day GF , was married to Alexander George Fullerton in Paris.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Craven, Pauline. Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton. Translator Coleridge, Henry James, 2nd revised, R. Bentley and Son, 1888.
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