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Events Timeline
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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1834: Thomas and Emily Davenport collaborated on...
1834
and
collaborated on the invention of the first electric motor.
After 1834: Wardian cases, sealed glass cases or bottles...
After 1834
Wardian cases, sealed glass cases or bottles in which botanists could grow plants, were popularized in Gardener's Magazine and London's Magazine of Natural History. They contributed to the development of the widespread fern craze...
1834: A parliamentary committee investigating public...
National or international item
1834
A
committee investigating public intemperance failed to offer legislative solutions to drunkeness.
1834: St Vincent's Hospital was opened in Dublin...
1834
was opened in Dublin by the
; this was the first formal training programme for Irish nurses, although only open to Catholics.
1834: Architect Augustus Pugin converted to Roman...
1834
Architect
converted to Roman Catholicism; he designed many of the newly-built Catholic churches in the Gothic style.
1834: The Old Bailey in London was re-organised...
National or international item
1834
The
in London was re-organised as the Central Criminal Court.
By 1834: Amalgam, a mercury alloy, was being used...
By 1834
Amalgam, a mercury alloy, was being used as a material for filling teeth.
1834: A general strike was held, organized by the...
National or international item
1834
A general strike was held, organized by the recently-founded
.
1834: The British and Foreign Temperance Society...
1834
The
employed nine agents (three of whom were volunteers) to travel the country, giving speeches and attempting to recruit members and money to the cause.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: February 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
February 1834
Conversations of
with the appeared in volume form.
Mary Somerville: February 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Somerville
February 1834
's publisher,
, commissioned
to paint her portrait; this picture now hangs in the
.
Susanna Moodie: February 1834
Writing climate item
Author event in Susanna Moodie
February 1834
and her family relocated to a bush farm north of Peterborough, Ontario, in part to be closer to her
and
homes.
February 1834: Foundations were laid for the new National...
February 1834
Foundations were laid for the new
building near Charing Cross (on the north side of Trafalgar Square, which was still in process of being laid out).
Susanna Watts: 11 February 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Watts
11 February 1834
dated the scrapbook which she had been keeping for at least thirty-two years, and which in its current form includes material printed after her death.
Maria Edgeworth: By 15 February 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Maria Edgeworth
By 15 February 1834
's last work of adult fiction, Helen, A Tale, was published.
Adelaide O'Keeffe: By 21 February 1834
Writing climate item
Author event in Adelaide O'Keeffe
By 21 February 1834
edited her father's
's Legacy to his Daughter, Being the Poetical Works of the Late John O'Keeffe, Esq., the Dramatic Author: his poetical works, with her memoirs of him prefixed.
Mary Howitt: By 22 February 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Howitt
By 22 February 1834
published The Seven Temptations, which she thought her best and most original work; the same year came Sketches of Natural History, which contains her best-remembered short piece: The Spider and the Fly.
Mary Somerville: Late February 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Somerville
Late February 1834
's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences was published, and successfully received, in London.
Mary Somerville: March 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Somerville
March 1834
Mathematician
's anonymous assessment of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by
in the Quarterly Review took up the question of gender difference (and proposed the adoption of a new word, scientist).
Anna Sewell: 1834 or early 1835
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Sewell
1834 or early 1835
At the age of fourteen,
seriously injured her ankle; the resulting lameness made her dependent on horses for mobility.
Harriet Martineau: 1 March 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Martineau
1 March 1834
issued the final, twenty-fifth part of her massive series Illustrations of Political Economy, entitled The Moral of Many Fables.
Harriet Martineau: After March 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Martineau
After March 1834
's five-part fictional series entitled Illustrations of Taxation was published by
.
6 March 1834: The settlement of York, population 9,250,...
National or international item
6 March 1834
The settlement of York, population 9,250, became Toronto, Upper Canada'sfirst incorporated municipality, with a mayor, aldermen and powers of taxation.
Mary Somerville: By 8 March 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Somerville
By 8 March 1834
The Quarterly's review by
praised
's delightful volumeOn the Connexion of the Physical Sciences.
Mary Somerville: 8 March 1834
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Somerville
8 March 1834
The Literary Gazettecordially recommended
's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciencesto the general perusal of all who wish to be agreeably initiated into a love of science.