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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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Ann Hatton: 3 November 1833 to 31 October 1834

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3 November 1833 to 31 October 1834

For this period of a year AH wrote a poem a day (preserved in her scrapbook) dedicated to her friend (possibly her lover) Douglas Cohen .
Henderson, Jim. “Ann of Swansea: a life on the edge”. National Library of Wales Journal, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-47.
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Charlotte Guest: 4 November 1833

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4 November 1833

CG wrote that her introduction to the Railway (thirty-six miles of extreme speed on the Liverpool and Manchester taking an hour and a half) was a memorable event in my little life.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, Earl of, John Murray, 1950.
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12 November 1833: Julia Glover caused a sensation when she...

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12 November 1833

Julia Glover caused a sensation when she appeared as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Haymarket .
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
98

Wilhelm Dilthey: 19 November 1833

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19 November 1833

WD , German philosopher and social scientist, was born at Biebrich in Germany.
Hodges, Herbert Arthur. The Philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey. Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1952.
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Mary Shelley: Late 1833

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Late 1833

The Keepsake for 1834 published The Mortal Immortal: A Tale, by MS .
Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 297-08.
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Eliza Dunlop: By 21 December 1833

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By 21 December 1833

ED contributed several inset poems to her cousin William Hamilton Maxwell 's anonymous historical novel The Dark Lady of Doona, set on the west coast of Ireland at the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
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.
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.

Charlotte Brontë: 25 December 1833

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25 December 1833

Her father presented CB with a notebook to encourage her to write in a good, plain and legible hand,
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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but she continued writing miniature texts on the new world of Angria.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Maria Abdy: 1834

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1834

MA , as Mrs. Abdy, printed for private circulation the first volume in her eight-volume series Poetry.
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.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 1834

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1834

Marguerite Blessington issued her first number as editor of the Book of Beauty (an annual Christmas gift book, then in its second year); she succeeded L.E.L. in this post.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
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Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
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Mary Boyle: 1834

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1834

During her stay in Florence, MB became better acquainted with Caroline Bonaparte , whom she had met previously.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
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Fredrika Bremer: 1834

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1834

A different publisher, at Stockholm, began issuing FB's linked novels Nya teckningar ur hvardagslifvet. The first, Presidentens döttrar, was translated into English as The President’s Daughters. The second, Nina, 1835...

Sara Coleridge: January 1834

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January 1834

SC gave birth to twins, a girl and a boy. Both of them died within a few days.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sara Coleridge: 1834

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1834

SC published anonymously her popular Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children, with woodcut illustrations.
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.
“Melvyl Catalogue of the University of California Libraries”. California Digital Library (CDL).

George Eliot: Around 1834

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Around 1834

Mary Anne Evans (later GE ) committed herself to a rigid and narrow Evangelicalism in religion.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
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Charlotte Elliott: 1834

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1834

CE took on the editing of the annual Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book, to which she also contributed poems. She continued as editor until 1859.
Babington, Eleanor et al. “Biographical Sketch”. Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, Religious Tract Society, 1873, pp. 13-58.
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Charlotte Elliott: 1834

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1834

CE anonymously edited for print The Invalid's Hymn Book, compiled by Harriet Kiernan before her death this year. Elliott included twenty-three of her own hymns in this first edition, and more in the numerous...

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: January 1834

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January 1834

The monthly The Christian Lady's Magazine began publishing in London. CET edited it (as usual under the name Charlotte Elizabeth) until her death; the magazine ended in 1849.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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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.

Mariana Starke: 1834

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1834

MS , now in her early seventies, was on her travels again, and visited Sicily for the first time.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Somerville: 1834

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1834

MS composed, but never published, a work of 246 pages on curves and surfaces of the second and higher orders.
qtd. in
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 Somerville: 1834

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1834

MS was elected a member of both the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, and the Royal Irish Academy .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
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Emily Shirreff: 1834

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1834

After four years of living abroad, ES and her sister Maria returned to England because of a cholera outbreak in Gibraltar.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Mary Martha Sherwood: 1834

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1834

MMS 's Works began publication at New York in an edition which reached its full complement of 16 volumes in 1858.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan, 1946.
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Ann Hatton: 1834

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1834

AH was apparently trying to raise money to print a work in verse called The Raconteur (which remained unpublished), and also to place her Sarah Siddons reminiscences.
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.
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Felicia Hemans: After January 1834

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After January 1834

FH 's second son, Claude Lewis Hemans (1816-1893) emigrated to the United States.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that his departure occured in 1834.
Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray, 1836.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Jean Ingelow: 1834

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1834

JI 's family moved to Elm Street in Ipswich, Suffolk, where, despite her nine siblings, she was given a room of her own.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell, 1972.
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