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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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26 September 1835: Lucia di Lammermoor, probably the most famous...

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26 September 1835

Lucia di Lammermoor, probably the most famous opera by Gaetano Donizetti , had its first performance at Naples; its first appearance in London came three years later.
Harewood, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of, editor. Kobbé’s Complete Opera Book. Putnam and Company, 1983.
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Emily Eden: 3 October 1835

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Author event in Emily Eden

3 October 1835

EE sailed from London for India with her sister Fanny and brother George, Lord Auckland , the new Governor-General.
Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, 1969, pp. 7-20.
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon: 4 October 1835

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Author event in Mary Elizabeth Braddon

4 October 1835

MEB was born in London at 2 Frith Street, Soho, the youngest of three children.
She regularly gave her birth year as 1837.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Queen Victoria: 7-31 October 1835

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Author event in Queen Victoria

7-31 October 1835

Princess Alexandrina Victoria suffered an acute attack of typhoid; she took a further three months to recover fully.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Frances Trollope: 23 October 1835

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Author event in Frances Trollope

23 October 1835

FT 's husband, Thomas Anthony Trollope , died at their home outside Bruges.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

23 October 1835: George Baxter was granted a patent for reproducing...

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23 October 1835

George Baxter was granted a patent for reproducing paintings in colour.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Anne Brontë: Late October 1835

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Author event in Anne Brontë

Late October 1835

By this time AB had taken her sister Emily's place at Roe Head School at Mirfield, near Hartshead, Yorkshire.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Frances Wright: November 1835

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Author event in Frances Wright

November 1835

FW left Paris for the USA with her husband, D'Arusmont , while her small daughter remained in Paris with friends.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Flora Tristan: 1 November 1835

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Author event in Flora Tristan

1 November 1835

FT 's husband abducted their youngest daughter, Aline , on her way to school. A violent confrontation between Chazal and his wife ensued, which ended in her arrest.
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
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November 1835: Théophile Gautier published Mademoiselle...

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November 1835

Théophile Gautier published Mademoiselle de Maupin.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Spoelberch de Lovenjoul, Charles, vicomte de, and Théophile Gautier. “Bibliographical Notice”. Mademoiselle de Maupin, translated by. I. G. Burnham and I. G. Burnham, G. Barrie, 1897, p. vii - xvi.
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L. E. L.: By 14 November 1835

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Author event in L. E. L.

By 14 November 1835

LEL 's collection entitled The Vow of the Peacock, and Other Poems was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
420 (1835): 845
L. E. L. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages.
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Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : 22 November 1835

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22 November 1835

LMH died at Twickenham after another long illness.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(January 1836): 100

30 November 1835: Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorn Clemens...

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30 November 1835

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorn Clemens in Florida, USA.
Camfield, Gregg, editor. The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Mary Somerville: December 1835

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Author event in Mary Somerville

December 1835

MS 's lengthy explanatory article on Halley's comet (ostensibly a review of two German accounts of the comet) was published in the Quarterly Review.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
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Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.

Eliza Mary Hamilton: Late 1835-mid to 1837

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Late 1835-mid to 1837

EMH toured the Mediterranean, Malta, Smyrna, and Constantinople with friends.
Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1995, pp. 31-51.
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December 1835: Remnants of the National Union of the Working...

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December 1835

Remnants of the National Union of the Working Classes merged with Marylebone Radical Association .
Goodway, David. London Chartism, 1838-1848. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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December 1835: Feargus O'Connor toured the North of England,...

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December 1835

Feargus O'Connor toured the North of England, lecturing and founding local Chartist associations.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Taylor, Miles. “Knife and Fork Question”. London Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2001, pp. 28-9.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Around 2 December 1835

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Around 2 December 1835

Elizabeth Barrett and family moved to temporary lodgings at 74 Gloucester Place, in London.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
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Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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Catherine Gore : 9 December 1835

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Author event in Catherine Gore

9 December 1835

CG 's next play, King O'Neil; or, The Irish Brigade, opened at Covent Garden : a spectacular comedy-drama.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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17 December 1835: The late James Smithson's proposed £100,000...

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17 December 1835

The late James Smithson 's proposed £100,000 gift to found the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, DC, was made public in a message to Congress from President Andrew Jackson .
Goode, G. Brown, editor. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896: The History of its First Half Century. Smithsonian Institution, 1897.
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Hafertepe, Kenneth. America’s Castle: The Evolution of the Smithsonian Building and Its Institution, 1840-1878. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984.
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Goode, G. Brown, editor. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896: The History of its First Half Century. Smithsonian Institution, 1897.
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Oehser, Paul H. Sons of Science: The Story of the Smithsonian Institution and its Leaders. Greenwood Press, 1968.
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Grace Aguilar: 1836-1837

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Author event in Grace Aguilar

1836-1837

GA wrote the domestic novel Home Influence: A Tale for Mothers and Daughters, which then sat unpublished for a decade.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
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, 1952, pp. 137-48.
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Henrietta Maria Bowdler: 1836

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Author event in Henrietta Maria Bowdler

1836

A pious little booklet by HMB , Essay on the Proper Employment of Time, Talents, Fortune, &c., was posthumously published, with her name.
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.

Caroline Bowles: 1836

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Author event in Caroline Bowles

1836

Under her own name (for the first time) CB published her autobiographical The Birth-Day, A Poem in Three Parts, to which are added, Occasional Verses.
Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, 1998, pp. 1-18.
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Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
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Robert Browning: January 1836

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Author event in Robert Browning

January 1836

RB 's poem Porphyria, later retitled Porphyria's Lover, was published in the Monthly Repository under the initial Z.
Irvine, William, and Park Honan. The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. McGraw-Hill, 1974.
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Browning, Robert. “Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism, edited by James F. Loucks, W. W. Norton, 1979, p. various pages.
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Sara Coleridge: 1836

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1836

SC suffered from nervous hysteria on the road from the west to London, and was forced to remain at an inn at Ilchester for a month before resuming her journey.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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