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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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14 July 1833: John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's...

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14 July 1833

John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's Church, High Street, Oxford (the University Church), on National Apostacy; it is viewed as the beginning of the Tractarian Movement.
Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.
172

Mary Bryan: 15 July 1833

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15 July 1833

Mary Bedingfield (formerly Bryan) had four of her children from her first marriage baptised under the names of either Bedingfield or Bedingfield Bryan.

Charlotte Guest: 29 July 1833

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29 July 1833

Lady Charlotte Bertie , aged twenty-one, married John Guest (full name Josiah John), a wealthy widower more than twice her age, a Welsh ironmaster, who after the Reform Act of 1832 had been elected a...

Caroline Chisholm: August 1833

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August 1833

CC and her husband settled in Madras following Archibald's appointment to India.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Annie Tinsley: 1 August 1833

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1 August 1833

Annie Turner married the solicitor Charles Tinsley (who had saved her from debtors' prison) at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, London.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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By August 1833: Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published...

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By August 1833

Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published her Methodist epic poem Messiah's Kingdom, in nearly 14,000 lines of rhymed couplets.
Winckles, Andrew O. “The Book of Nature and the Methodist Epic: Agnes Bulmer’s Analogic Poetics and the End(s) of Romanticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
22
, No. 2, May 2015, pp. 209-28.
219, 210

August 1833: Slavery was entirely abolished throughout...

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August 1833

Slavery was entirely abolished throughout the British Empire.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson, editors. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. Third edition, Longman, 1996.
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Lydia Maria Child: August 1833

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August 1833

LMC 's An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans appeared, aiming to be the first scholarly American overview of the history of slavery and the condition of the Negro.
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992.
99, 102n31
Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
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Late August 1833: An English ship, the Amphitrite, carrying...

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Late August 1833

An English ship, the Amphitrite, carrying women convicts for transportation in New South Wales, ran aground off the coast of northern France, near Boulogne. There were only four survivors among the 131 people on board.
“Shipwreck Broadsides”. Simply Australia: The Vault: Issue 11.

28 August 1833: An act opening trade to India and tea trade...

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28 August 1833

An act opening trade to India and tea trade to China began a new era in British commerce, ending the East India Company 's monopoly of the China trade.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 820
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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29 August 1833: The Mills and Factories Act, popularly known...

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29 August 1833

The Mills and Factories Act, popularly known as Shaftesbury's Act after Lord Shaftesbury or Althorp's Act after Whig minister Lord Althorp (who in 1834 became Lord Spencer) , gave power to inspectors to enforce the...

Harriet Taylor: September 1833

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September 1833

HT travelled to Paris in order to take the decision whether she should separate permanently from her husband and enter into a more intimate relationship with John Stuart Mill .
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
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Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Harriet Martineau: September 1833

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September 1833

HM moved into a house at 17 Fludyer Street Westminster with her mother and her aunt Lee.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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John Henry Newman: September 1833

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September 1833

JHN , Richard Hurrell Froude , Edward Bouverie Pusey , and others began anonymously publishing their series Tracts for the Times, as a statement of principles for the Tractarian , or Oxford Movement.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Hannah More: 7 September 1833

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7 September 1833

HM died at the home of the Rev. Thomas Sedgwick Whalley at Clifton near Bristol.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
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Mary Howitt: 13 September 1833

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13 September 1833

MH 's fifth child, Claude Middleton , was born; he died at the age of eleven, causing terrible grief to his mother and family.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
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George Sand: By late September 1833

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By late September 1833

In the midst of a short, brutish affair with Prosper Mérimée and an alleged one with actress Marie Dorval , GS oversaw publication of her notorious novel Lélia.
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.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
68-9, 73, 88

Lady Charlotte Bury: Late 1833

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Late 1833

LCB published with Colburn what would now be called a coffee-table book: The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany; Vallombrosa,Camaldoli, Laverna: A Poem, with Historical and Legendary Notices.
Bury, Lady Charlotte, and Edward John Bury. The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany. John Murray, 1833.
title-page

Maria Edgeworth: October 1833

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October 1833

ME toured Connemara, leaving the proof-reading of her last novel, Helen, to her younger relations.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
215, 430n1, 462

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: Autumn 1833-Spring 1834

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Autumn 1833-Spring 1834

The Bulwers visited Naples together; that was one of the places where Edward accused Rosina of encouraging other men.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

October 1833: The Grand National Consolidated Trades Union...

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October 1833

The Grand National Consolidated Trades Union (GNCTU) was founded (though some scholars give 1834, its most active year, as that of its founding).
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
765

Maria Jane Jewsbury: 4 October 1833

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4 October 1833

MJJ died of cholera at Poona in India, fourteen months after her marriage.
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.
468
Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, 1877, pp. 323-39.
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Sarah Harriet Burney: November 1833

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November 1833

SHB reached England after her absence of four years in Italy.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
liv

Caroline Scott: By 2 November 1833

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By 2 November 1833

CS published her second (again anonymous) novel, Trevelyan.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
314 (1833): 735

Julia Pardoe: By November 1833

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By November 1833

JP 's travel writing began with Traits and Traditions of Portugal, Collected During a Residence in that Country.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 294
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.