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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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1835: The London City Mission was established by...

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1835

The London City Mission was established by Nonconformists and Anglican Evangelicals; similar organizations appeared nationwide.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
45-6, 51

1835: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre produced the...

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1835

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre produced the first recognizable photographic image printed on a treated metal plate, a precursor to the Daguerrotype.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
12-3
Davis, Phil. Photography. 3rd ed., W. C. Brown, 1979.
4

1835: The London Society for the Protection of...

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1835

The London Society for the Protection of Young Females was founded.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
60

1835: Alexis de Tocqueville published the first...

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1835

Alexis de Tocqueville published the first part of La démocratie en Amérique.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
986

1835: Future poet laureate Alfred Austin was born...

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1835

Future poet laureate Alfred Austin was born at Headingley.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

1835: The Geological Survey of Great Britain (the...

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1835

The Geological Survey of Great Britain (the first national survey) began.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
389
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
118

1835: Ann Fraser-Tytler's children's novel Mary...

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1835

Ann Fraser-Tytler 's children's novel Mary and Florence; or, Grave and Gay was anonymously published at London.
Hesselink, Sebastiaan S., and Agnes M. L. Kerssemakers. The Children’s World of Learning 1480 - 1880. Antiquariaat Forum, 2002, 3 vols.
1: 225, 249
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Catherine Gore : 10 January 1835

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10 January 1835

CG , still resident in Paris, had another play open in London: The King's Seal at Drury Lane , featuring the French monarch Henri IV .
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Maria Callcott: By February 1835

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By February 1835

MC privately printed A Description of the Chapel of the Annunziata dell'Arena; or, Giotto 's Chapel, in Padua: the earliest work on Giotto in English.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
292, 257
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Shelley: February 1835

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February 1835

A new volume appeared in Dionysius Lardner 's Cabinet Cyclopædia of Biography, 1829-49: written by MS , it was followed by further volumes from her pen.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45.
45

2 February 1835: Thomas Babington Macaulay published his Minute...

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2 February 1835

Thomas Babington Macaulay published his Minute on Indian Education.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

5 February 1835: Henry Maudsley, doctor and pioneer psychiatrist,...

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5 February 1835

Henry Maudsley , doctor and pioneer psychiatrist, was born at Rome Farm, in the parish of Giggleswick, Yorkshire.
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
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18 February 1835: Following a general election, Irish O'Connellites,...

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18 February 1835

Following a general election, Irish O'Connell ites, Whigs and Radicals formed an Opposition alliance at Lichfield House in London.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
407, 857
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
260
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
606

Sarah Austin: Spring 1835

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Spring 1835

Financial problems forced SA and her family to move from London to Hastings, and then to Boulogne (both seaside towns which they had previously visited).
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
75-7

March 1835: Madame Tussaud, now in her mid-seventies,...

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March 1835

Madame Tussaud , now in her mid-seventies, established her waxworks exhibition at the Bazaar on Baker Street in London, after touring England, Ireland, and Scotland for over thirty years.
Altick, Richard D. The Shows of London. Belknap Press, 1978.
333, 336-7
Pilbeam, Pamela. Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks. Hambledon and London, 2003.
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Mary Somerville: 2 March 1835

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2 March 1835

MS attended a private audience with Princess Victoria and the Duchess of Kent .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
156

George Sand: 6 March 1835

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6 March 1835

On the night that GS left de Musset , she began writing the novel that became Mauprat, published in 1837.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
120-1
Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001.
248
Bibliothèque Nationale de France. http://www.bnf.fr/.

Elizabeth Gaskell: 10 March 1835

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10 March 1835

EG began writing a journal, dedicated to her six-month-old daughter Marianne .
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
93

Felicia Hemans: March 1835

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March 1835

Finding herself increasingly weak, FH moved from Redesdale at Kilmacud (the country seat of Archbishop Whately ), back to Dawson Street in Dublin in order to be closer to her physicians.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
298
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
258

Ann Hawkshaw: 20 March 1835

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20 March 1835

Ann Jackson and John Hawkshaw were married at Whixley in Yorkshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Shelley: By 28 March 1835

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By 28 March 1835

As the author of Frankenstein, MS published another novel, Lodore.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
387 (1835): 238

28 March 1835: The Englishwoman ceased publication as a...

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28 March 1835

The Englishwoman ceased publication as a weekly, after less than a year.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Frances Trollope: By April 1835

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By April 1835

FT had moved from Bruges to Paris with her husband, her daughters, and her close friend Auguste Hervieu .
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 234-5

Mary Somerville: 6 April 1835

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6 April 1835

Sir Robert Peel , then prime minister, cited MS 's eminence in science and literature
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Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
156
and placed her on the Civil List , entitling her to an annual pension of £200.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
151, 156

George Sand: 7 April 1835

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7 April 1835

During negotiations for a marital separation, GS met and fell in love with married socialist lawyer Michel de Bourges .
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
122, 126, 128