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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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Mary Somerville: By 15 March 1834

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By 15 March 1834

Though MS 's introduction ascribed to God the beauty revealed by science, the British Critic condemned On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences for lack of allusions to the connexion between science and our moral...

Mary Somerville: 15 March 1834

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15 March 1834

The Athenæum declared MS 's On the Connexion of the Physical Scienceswith the exception of Sir John Herschel 's treatises, the most valuable and most pleasing work of science that has been published within the century.
qtd. in
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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18 March 1834: George and James Loveless, James Brine, Thomas...

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18 March 1834

George and James Loveless , James Brine , Thomas and John Standfield , and James Hammett , all farm labourers from the small Dorset village of Tolpuddle, were sentenced to seven years transportation to...

William Morris: 24 March 1834

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24 March 1834

WM , future artist and desiger, poet and writer, was born at Elm House, Clay Hill, Walthamstow, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Somerville: 29 March 1834

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29 March 1834

The Mechanics Magazine published a lengthy and positive review of MS 's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: April 1834

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April 1834

Barbara Leigh Smith 's mother, Annie Longen , died.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
30

Selina Davenport : After April 1834

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After April 1834

SD published her final work, Personation. A Novel, dedicated to The Travellers' Club and to succourers of the destitute in memory of her relation to the late Sir George Wheler , Baronet.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
442
Davenport, Selina. Personation. A Novel. A. K. Newman, 1834, 3 vols.
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Mary Somerville: April 1834

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April 1834

Sir David Brewster , in the Edinburgh Review, commended MS 's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, but criticised its omission of certain discoveries.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
139-40

Catherine Gore : By April 1834

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By April 1834

In The Hamiltons; or, The New Æra (sequel to The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830, 1831), CG explored the consequences of the First Reform Bill.
Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Dissertation Thesis, University of Arkansas, May 1992.
118-19
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Felicia Hemans: By April 1834

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By April 1834

FH published National Lyrics, and Songs for Music with the Dublin firm of Curry ; in August followed Scenes and Hymns of Life with Blackwood's in Edinburgh.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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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.
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.

Eliza Fenwick: 12 April 1834

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12 April 1834

The last of many disasters in EF 's life was the drowning of her two eldest grandsons, Will and Tom Rutherford, in Lake Ontario; they were out with a gun after wildfowl, in a...

Catherine Fanshawe: 14 April 1834

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14 April 1834

CF died at nearly seventy while staying at Putney Heath; she had suffered badly for months from a disease of the spine.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives her death-date as the 17th.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 1211, 646-7

21 April 1834: A London demonstration supporting the Dorchester...

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21 April 1834

A London demonstration supporting the Dorchester Labourers took place.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation. Verso, 1993.
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22 April 1834: Daniel O'Connell introduced in the British...

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22 April 1834

Daniel O'Connell introduced in the British Parliament debate on Repeal of the Union between Ireland and England.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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Sarah Austin: By 26 April 1834

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By 26 April 1834

SA translated the influential Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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.
339 (1834): 311

Amelia Opie: May 1834

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May 1834

AO 's last major publication,Lays for the Dead, appeared, with a preface acknowledging that some might find the subject-matter monotonous.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. xxxvii - lxx.
liv-lv and nn 43, 44
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
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Isabel Hill: By May 1834

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By May 1834

IH anonymously published her first and only full-length novel, a triple-decker entitled Brother Tragedians.
“The English Novel, 1830-36”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text: Bibliography of Fiction, 1830-36.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
345 (1834): 432

3 May 1834: William Harrison Ainsworth published his...

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3 May 1834

William Harrison Ainsworth published his hugely successful first novel, Rookwood.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
11-12
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Delightful to be Robbed”. London Review of Books, 9 May 2002, pp. 32-3.
33-4
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Anne Marsh: By 10 May 1834

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By 10 May 1834

AM , in her forties, published her first book of fiction, the anonymous Two Old Men's Tales.
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.
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.

Harriet Martineau: By 10 May 1834

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By 10 May 1834

HM published at Durham a tract aimed at the working classes: The Tendency of Strikes and Sticks to Produce Low Wages, and of Union Between Masters and Men to Ensure Good Wages.
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.
Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960.
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Frances Wright: 20 May 1834

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20 May 1834

FW suffered a further bereavement (following the deaths of her sister and baby daughter) when her friend and mentor Lafayette died in Paris.
While no record is available of how FW felt about Lafayette

Barbara Hofland: By 31 May 1834

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By 31 May 1834

BH published (after a delay; she had finished writing it by 1832) The Captives in India, which advertises its indebtedness to Eliza Fay 's published letters.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
344 (1834): 410

Jane Welsh Carlyle: Summer 1834

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Summer 1834

Jane and Thomas Carlyle moved to 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, where they lived for the rest of their lives.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
111, 114

Anna Brownell Jameson: 1834

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1834

Robert Noel introduced ABJ to Annabella, Lady Byron , and they became close friends.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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Anna Brownell Jameson: June 1834-1836

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June 1834-1836

ABJ spent another two years in Germany.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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