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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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Charlotte Dempster: 10 April 1835

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10 April 1835

Charlotte Louisa Hawkins (later CD ) was born at Dunnichen House in Forfar, Scotland.
Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920.
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Lucy Aikin: 18 April 1835

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18 April 1835

LA dined with Crabb Robinson , Wordsworth , Henry Coleridge , and her niece Anna Letitia Le Breton and nephew-in-law Philip Hemery Le Breton .
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.
142

18 April 1835: After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in...

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18 April 1835

After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in the House of Commons , the second Ministry of Viscount Melbourne (William Lamb , a Whig) was formed.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 205

Mary Russell Mitford: 20 April 1835

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20 April 1835

The opera Sadak and Kalasrade; or, The Waters of Oblivion was performed at the English Opera House , London, with libretto by MRM and music by Charles Parker .
Some earlier references sources give...

Caroline Norton: By 25 April 1835

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By 25 April 1835

Two stories by CN were published together as The Wife; and, Woman's Reward in standard three-volume circulating-library format.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
391 (1835): 316

Felicia Hemans: 26 April 1835

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26 April 1835

FH dictated her last poem, Sabbath Sonnet, to her brother from her sickbed; it appeared in Blackwood's that July.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii.
xx
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, 2002, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
410 and n1

Mary Russell Mitford: By 2 May 1835

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By 2 May 1835

MRM 's Belford Regis appeared from Richard Bentley : a three-volume collection of sketches set in a thinly-disguised Reading.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
392 (1835): 334
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 195

Fanny Kemble: By 5 May 1835

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By 5 May 1835

After much marital acrimony, FK published her Journal of F.A. Butler in London and Philadelphia; it appeared in Paris and Brussels as Journal of a Residence in America.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
84, 287
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

8 May 1835: Hans Christian Andersen began publishing...

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8 May 1835

Hans Christian Andersen began publishing fairy tales, some collected and some of his own devising, in his native Danish.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Bredsdorff, Elias. Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Work, 1805-75. Souvenir, 1993.
120-1

Adelaide Kemble: 13 May 1835

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13 May 1835

AK , aged nineteen, sang professionally for the first time, in a concert featuring music by Handel ; she was too nervous to do herself justice.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Louisa Stuart Costello: By 16 May 1835

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By 16 May 1835

LSC published her translated Specimens of the Early Poetry of France from the Time of the Troubadours and the Trouvères to the Reign of Henri Quatre.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
394 (1835): 369

Frances Mary Peard: 16 May 1835

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16 May 1835

FMP was born at Exminster in Devon, into a family of five (of whom two died young). She had a much older sister and a brother.
Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930.
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Felicia Hemans: 16 May 1835

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16 May 1835

FH died in Dublin, aged forty-one, following a general decline of health and attacks of cholera.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
310, 315
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Carpenter: By May 1835

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By May 1835

MC engaged in her first act of philanthropy by establishing the Working and Visiting Society , centred around the slums of Lewin's Mead in Bristol, which was inspired by Tuckerman 's work of a...

Emily Faithfull: 27 May 1835

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27 May 1835

EF was born at Headley Rectory, near Epsom, Surrey.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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Fanny Kemble: 28 May 1835

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28 May 1835

FK 's elder daughter, Sarah , was born; her mother wrote: I was at first a little disappointed that my baby was not a man-child for the lot of woman is seldom happy.
qtd. in
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
81
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
115

Margaret Fuller: June 1835

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June 1835

A review by MF of two recent biographies, one of Hannah More and another of George Crabbe , appeared in the first issue of the Western Messenger. It was her first published piece of literary criticism.
Mehren, Joan von. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
66

Mary Somerville: June 1835

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June 1835

MS and her family were placed in serious financial difficulty after a cousin, James Wemyss , defaulted on a large loan for which the Somervilles had provided surety.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
170

Anna Maria Hall: 1 June 1835

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1 June 1835

Mary Russell Mitford reported AMH to be very ill: she was, however, using this report to back a thesis that supporting a family was too much for women's health.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 161-2

Harriet Jacobs: June 1835

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June 1835

HJ had been sent away by her owner, James Norcom , because she had again rejected him sexually; he was also planning to break in her children to plantation work. She now ran away and...

By mid-1835: Halley's comet (named after Edmond Halley,...

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By mid-1835

Halley's comet (named after Edmond Halley , who in 1682 had first accurately foretold its next return in 1759) made its second predicted appearance.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
300

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: By 11 June 1835

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By 11 June 1835

BBBD edited a second anonymous collection by her daughter Arabella Sullivan . It was called short fiction: Tales of the Peerage, and the Peasantry (by the Author of Recollections of a Chaperone).
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
15813 (11 June 1835): 7

Ann Gomersall: 17 June 1835

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17 June 1835

AG died at Newport in the Isle of Wight, aged just past eighty.
Raven, James. Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800. Clarendon, 1992.
114n11

July 1835: The first issue of The British and Foreign...

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July 1835

The first issue of The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 133
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 133; 3: 62-3, 68-9

Augusta Ada Byron: 8 July 1835

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8 July 1835

At the age of nineteen, AAB married William King , who became first Earl of Lovelace in 1838. It began as a marriage based on affection
Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press, 1992.
xii, xiv
Hill, Rosemary. “Gogglebook”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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