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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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17 December 1834: The first railway in Ireland opened, between...

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17 December 1834

The first railway in Ireland opened, between Dublin and Kingstown.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
87

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: By 20 December 1834

Women writers item

By 20 December 1834

Sydney Morgan used another new publisher, Bentley , for her Belgian novel, The Princess; or, The Beguine, which appeared with a date of 1835.
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.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 386
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
222

Frances Trollope: 23 December 1834

Women writers item
Author event in Frances Trollope

23 December 1834

FT 's son Henry died after enduring a long illness.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
120

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 27 December 1834

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Author event in Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847

27 December 1834

Charles Lamb died in his lodgings at Edmonton north of London, apparently of erysipelas, a skin infection caused by a graze on his face from a fall in the street three days before Christmas.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
373

Grace Aguilar: 1835

Women writers item
Author event in Grace Aguilar

1835

Grace Aguilar anonymously published her first book, The Magic Wreath, a series of poems written when she was thirteen.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
137

Cecil Frances Alexander : 1835

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Author event in Cecil Frances Alexander

1835

With her sister Anne , Cecil Frances Humphreys (later CFA ) began teaching children with hearing disabilities in Strabane, County Tyrone.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
48-9

Mary Bailey: Probably 1835

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Author event in Mary Bailey

Probably 1835

MB published, again at Ballingdon in Suffolk, Musae Sacrae: A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Poetry; this appeared under her initials, M. W.
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.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: January 1835

Women writers item

January 1835

Marguerite Blessington 's second silver-fork novel, The Two Friends, was published with Saunders and Otley .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Caroline Bowles: January-February 1835

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Author event in Caroline Bowles

January-February 1835

Blackwood's serialized CB 's story The Early Called under her pseudonym A.
A year later, in Philadelphia, a volume appeared combining CB 's story with work by Jane Kinderley Stanford .
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.
116: 332
Bowles, Caroline. “The Early Called”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
37
, Jan.–Feb. 1835, pp. 82 - 94; 196.
209

Emily Brontë: Earlier 1830s

Women writers item
Author event in Emily Brontë

Earlier 1830s

By the mid-1830s, Anne and EB were writing into being the world of Gondal, though no prose narratives from before 1838 survive.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
235

Lydia Maria Child: 1835

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Author event in Lydia Maria Child

1835

LMC 's The History of the Condition of Women in Various Ages and Nations was published as the final work in The Ladies' Family Library.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
124
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992.
132

Eliza Cook: 1835

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Author event in Eliza Cook

1835

EC published her first book, Lays of a Wild Harp, A Collection of Metrical Pieces.
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
435 (1836): 158

Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1835

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Author event in Sarah Stickney Ellis

1835

Sarah Stickney (later SSE ) published one of her better known works, The Poetry of Life, a two-volume work of literary criticism.
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press, 2000.
67, 75
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.

Dorothy Wordsworth: New Year's Day 1835

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Author event in Dorothy Wordsworth

New Year's Day 1835

DW welcomed the New Year with a characteristic diary entry that notices the weather, the emotional state of her family (and the deaths of friends), and the potentially healing power of nature.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 490

Queen Victoria: 1835

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Author event in Queen Victoria

1835

Princess Alexandrina Victoria became patron of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , along with her mother, the Duchess of Kent .
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xiii

Flora Tristan: Between 1835 and 1837

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Author event in Flora Tristan

Between 1835 and 1837

In Paris, FT began to associate with socialists, including Charles Fourier and Robert Owen , and feminists, including Eugénie Niboyet and Anna Wheeler .
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
8
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
223, 227-8

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1835

Women writers item

1835

Among the little children's books which Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) of which continued to publish several a year until 1840 was one of 16 pages entitled The Newfoundland Fishermen, A True Story.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
307-8
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.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1835

Women writers item

1835

Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) published A Few Words on the Eightieth Psalm.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
308

Elizabeth Strutt: 1835

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Author event in Elizabeth Strutt

1835

ES published Chances and Changes, A Domestic Story, as by the author of Six Weeks on the Loire.
Strutt, Elizabeth. Chances and Changes. Saunders and Otley, 1835, 3 vols.
title-page

Emily Shirreff: 1835

Women writers item
Author event in Emily Shirreff

1835

ES published Letters from Spain and Barbary, written in collaboration with her sister Maria (later Maria Grey ).
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.

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1835

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood

1835

William Darton issued, in a juvenile-reader format with coloured frontispiece, MMS 's novel Caroline Mordaunt; or, The Governess, which twentieth-century critic Naomi Royde-Smith thought her simply best novel.
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.
51

Emma Roberts: 1835

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Author event in Emma Roberts

1835

ER published in three volumes at London Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan, with Sketches of Anglo-Indian Society.
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.

Julia Pardoe: Probably 1835

Women writers item
Author event in Julia Pardoe

Probably 1835

JP and her father travelled to Constantinople in Turkey.
Unsigned, and Julia Pardoe. “Memoir of the Author”. The Court and Reign of Francis the First, King of France, R. Bentley and Son, 1887, p. xiii - xvi.
xiv

Anne Hart Gilbert: 1835

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Author event in Anne Hart Gilbert

1835

Two years after the death of white Antiguan John Gilbert and one year after that of his coloured wife, AHG , there appeared at Liverpool a Memoir of J. G., to which each contributed a part.
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.
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.

Anna Maria Hall: 1835

Women writers item
Author event in Anna Maria Hall

1835

AMH , as the Author of The Buccaneer, published The Outlaw, an Historical Romance, in three volumes.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.