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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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Harriet Downing: 1836

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1836

HD 's How Fanny Teaches Her Children appeared: her only work for children, modelled on Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 's important work of 1801, entitled in English How Gertrude Teaches her Children.
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 Elliott: 1836

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Author event in Charlotte Elliott

1836

CE 's collection of hymns and other religious lyrics entitled Hours of Sorrow appeared anonymously.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Charlotte Elliott: 1836

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1836

CE published a short collection of fourteen hymns entitled Morning and Evening Hymns for a Week.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

Annie Louisa Walker: About 1836

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Author event in Annie Louisa Walker

About 1836

ALW was born in Staffordshire, the youngest of three sisters.
Cook, Ramsay, editor. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. http://www.biographi.ca/index2.html.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240

Frances Trollope: 1836

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Author event in Frances Trollope

1836

FT drew on her American experiences to produce the anti-slaverynovelThe Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, fifteen years before Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Ellis, Linda Abess. Frances Trollope’s America. Peter Lang, 1993.
139

Frances Trollope: 1836

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1836

FT produced a travel book on Paris and the Parisians in 1835.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Catharine Parr Traill: January 1836

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January 1836

Charles Knight published a volume of CPT 's letters as The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
115

Mary Somerville: 1836

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1836

François Arago presented MS 's findings on the transmission of sunlight through various substances to the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
Arago published them in the society's Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie...

Mary Sewell: 1836

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1836

MS and her family moved to Brighton, where they spent the next decade.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Seacole: 1836

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Author event in Mary Seacole

1836

Mary Grant married Edwin Horatio Seacole (a godson of Lord Nelson ), who died in 1844.
Uglow, Jennifer S., and Frances Hinton, editors. Continuum Dictionary of Women’s Biography. 2nd ed., Continuum, 1989.
490
Anionwu, Elizabeth. Mary Seacole, 1805-1881. May 2005, http://www.wolfson.tvu.ac.uk/maryseacole/pages/index.html.

Regina Maria Roche: 1836

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1836

RMR published through A. K. Newman her final, belated novel, The Nun's Picture, A Tale.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1836

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1836

In an essay signed A Rustic Rambler, ATG compared the forms of Roman Catholicism practised in England and in Continental Europe.
qtd. in
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
2: 147

Anna Maria Hall: Probably by 1836

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Probably by 1836

AMH gave birth to a daughter. This infant, her only child born alive, lived for just ten days.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
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Anna Maria Hall: 1836

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1836

Plays by AMH , The French Refugee and Mabel's Curse!, ran at the St James's Theatre , London.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Ann Hawkshaw: 1836

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1836

AH and her husband, John Hawkshaw , moved to Manchester when he took a position as engineer for the Manchester, Bury, and Bolton Canal and Railway .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Felicia Hemans: 1836

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1836

Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs. Hemans appeared with a memoir by poet and Blackwood's contributor D. M. Moir .
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.

Felicia Hemans: 1836

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1836

The year after FH died, Rose Lawrence , an old friend, published The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems, And Recollections of Mrs. Hemans, and H. F. Chorley published Memorials of...

Mary Howitt: 1836-40

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Author event in Mary Howitt

1836-40

MH (along with her husband William ) wrote for Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, the Unitarian Monthly Repository, and other periodicals.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
136

Mary Howitt: 1836

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1836

MH published Tales in Verse, a children's collection that later went through many different forms.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Christian Isobel Johnstone: 1836

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1836

Using evidence gathered by the Poor Law Commission , CIJ published an indignant pamphlet: True Tales of the Irish Peasantry as Related by Themselves; Selected by Mrs. Johnstone from the Report of the Poor-law Commissioners.
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.

1836: George Routledge established a bookshop and...

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1836

George Routledge established a bookshop and publishing firm under his own name at 11 Ryder's Court, London, with the help of fifteen-year-old William Henry Warne .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 261
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
143

1836: The Home and Colonial Infant School Society...

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1836

The Home and Colonial Infant School Society was founded in Gray's Inn Road, London; it was the first women's college to provide training for teachers.
Turner, Barry. Equality for Some: The Story of Girls’ Education. Ward Lock Educational, 1974.
65
Barnard, Howard Clive. A History of English Education from 1760. 2nd ed., University of London Press, 1961.
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1836: The monthly Magazine of Domestic Economy...

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1836

The monthly Magazine of Domestic Economy began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
216

1836: The Church Pastoral Aid Society was set up...

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1836

The Church Pastoral Aid Society was set up by Evanglicals to promote their faith among clergymen and raise funds to pay for curates in urban parishes.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
61

1836: A ballad entitled The Female Smuggler had...

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1836

A ballad entitled The Female Smuggler had great success in both Britain and America; its heroine, a smuggler's daughter, is pardoned and married by the commander she has shot.
Dugaw, Dianne. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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