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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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Flora Tristan: July 1835

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Author event in Flora Tristan

July 1835

FT 's first political pamphlet, Nécessité de faire un bon accueil aux femmes étrangères (On the need to extend a warm welcome to foreign women), was published in Paris by Delaunay .
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
8, 172
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Maria Callcott: By 20 July 1835

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Author event in Maria Callcott

By 20 July 1835

MC published her phenomenally successful Little Arthur's History of England.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
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Catherine Gore : 20 July 1835

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Author event in Catherine Gore

20 July 1835

CG 's The Maid of Croissey; or, Theresa's Vow, a village melodrama adapted from French, opened at the Haymarket Theatre .
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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By 25 July 1835: John Clare, labourer-poet, published his...

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By 25 July 1835

John Clare , labourer-poet, published his last volume, The Rural Muse.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
404 (1835): 566
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Charlotte Brontë: 29 July 1835

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

29 July 1835

CB reluctantly returned to Miss Wooler's Roe Head School as a teacher.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Emily Brontë: 29 July 1835

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Author event in Emily Brontë

29 July 1835

EB went as a pupil to Roe Head School, on the outskirts of Mirfield, near Hartshead, Yorkshire, but returned home three months later because of failing health.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
226, 236

Queen Victoria: 30 July 1835

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Author event in Queen Victoria

30 July 1835

Princess Alexandrina Victoria was confirmed an Anglican at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Robert Browning: August 1835

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Author event in Robert Browning

August 1835

RB published his psychological verse drama Paracelsus.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
38, 40

Queen Victoria: August 1835

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Author event in Queen Victoria

August 1835

Against her wishes, Princess Alexandrina Victoria was sent on another grand tour, this time of the North of England.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Frances Eleanor Trollope : August 1835

Women writers item

August 1835

FET was born aboard a paddle steamer in Delaware Bay, USA; she was the eldest of a family of four, of whom three girls survived.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Ellen Lawless Ternan
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Frances Eleanor Jarman
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press, 1945.
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Anne Lister: From August 1835

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Author event in Anne Lister

From August 1835

AL made a tour observing buildings (Westminster Abbey, Kenilworth Castle, Haddon Hall, Hardwick Hall, and others) with a view to gothicising Shibden Hall.
Rowanchild, Anira. “’Everything done for effect’: Georgic, Gothic and picturesque in Anne Lister’s self-production”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 89-104.
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Jane Loudon: August 1835

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Author event in Jane Loudon

August 1835

JL and her husband made a quick trip around gardens in Surrey and Berkshire.
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961.
61
Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century, 1990.
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Caroline Norton: Summer 1835

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Author event in Caroline Norton

Summer 1835

A pregnant CN returned to George Norton after having left him for a short time; by returning, she unwittingly lost any legal right to sue for divorce in the future.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Eliza Dunlop: 8 August 1835

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Author event in Eliza Dunlop

8 August 1835

ED 's poem Morning on Rostrevor Mountains was published in The Dublin Penny Journal with the signature E.
Dunlop, Eliza. “Morning on Rostrevor Mountains”. Dublin Penny Journal, Vol.
4
, No. 162, 8 June 1835, p. 42.
Wu, Duncan. “A Vehicle of Private Malice: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and The Sydney HeraldReview of English Studies, Vol.
65
, No. 272, 1 Nov. 2014, pp. 888-03.
889n4

Harriet Smythies: By 22 August 1835

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By 22 August 1835

The future HS (not yet married) reached publication for the first time with her anonymous narrative poem The Bride of Siena.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
408 (1835): 640

Eliza Fenwick: 25 August 1835

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Author event in Eliza Fenwick

25 August 1835

From Canandaigua in New York State the nearly seventy-year-old EF wrote regretfully, my manuscript has not proceeded ten pages. The remark shows how late in her life she remained a professional writer.
Paul, Lissa. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Eliza Fenwick. 20 Aug. 2010.

31 August 1835: A new Highway Traffic Act (or Highways Act)...

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31 August 1835

A new Highway Traffic Act (or Highways Act) was passed, authorizing the use of taxes for road repairs and abolishing the 300-year-old statute labour system which required individual citizens to repair roads.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Jackman, William T. The Development of Transportation in Modern England. 2nd ed., F. Cass, 1962.
233
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
Park, Julia. “Following Footpaths in Emma: Actual and Metaphorical”. Persuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 139-47.
141
Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press, 2001.
3-4

Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: By September 1835

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By September 1835

Mary Anne Jevons was living with her husband and children at 14 Alfred Street in Liverpool; she spent her whole life in that city.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By September 1835: James Silk Buckingham's Public Institutions...

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By September 1835

James Silk Buckingham 's Public Institutions Bill reached the committee stage before it was abandoned.
Black, Alistair. A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Political Contexts, 1850-1914. Leicester University Press, 1996.
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Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1975. 2nd ed., Library Association, 1977.
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Black, Alistair. A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Political Contexts, 1850-1914. Leicester University Press, 1996.
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1 September 1835: As of this date, Lord Lyndhurst's Act made...

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1 September 1835

As of this date, Lord Lyndhurst 's Act made marriages between in-laws, such as a man and his deceased wife's sister, illegal in England.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Hannah. Harper and Brothers, 1872.
183
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
286

9 September 1835: Parliament extended Martin's Act, which outlawed...

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9 September 1835

Parliament extended Martin's Act, which outlawed cruelty to domestic animals, to include cats and dogs.
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
29
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press, 2001.

9 September 1835: The Municipal Corporations Act introduced...

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9 September 1835

The Municipal Corporations Act introduced major reforms to local governance, including the establishment of regular, paid police forces in large settlements. By it, however, women lost the vote at municipal level.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
22, 187
Mingay, Gordon Edmund. The Transformation of Britain 1830-1939. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Barbara Hofland: Late 1835

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

Late 1835

BH supplied text for a guide to a London art collection: Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the residence of Sir John Soane.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Frances Trollope: By 12 September 1835

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Author event in Frances Trollope

By 12 September 1835

Less than a year after starting it, FT published her third novel, Tremordyn Cliff, featuring the kind of strong female character which became her hallmark.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
411 (1835): 692
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
109
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

17 September 1835: The Great Radical Association was founded...

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17 September 1835

The Great Radical Association was founded at Marylebone by Feargus O'Connor .
Goodway, David. London Chartism, 1838-1848. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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