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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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Caroline Bowles: February-April 1836

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February-April 1836

CB 's serialized story Fanny Fairfield appeared in Blackwood's under the pseudonym A: it treats the ruin of a talented young countrywoman through her ambition for authorship.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 332
Bowles, Caroline. “Fanny Fairfield”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
39
, Feb.–Apr. 1836, pp. 198 - 208; 391.
513

Anna Eliza Bray: February 1836

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February 1836

AEB published A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy; Its Natural History in a Series of Letters to Robert Southey, in three volumes.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
295

Charles Dickens: 8 February 1836

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8 February 1836

Under the pseudonym Boz , CD published his first book: the two-volume collection of Sketches by Boz.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins, 1990.
176

George Eliot: 3 February 1836

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3 February 1836

The mother of Mary Anne Evans (later GE ) died of cancer after prolonged and terrible pain. Her youngest daughter had been home from boarding school and helping to nurse her for a matter of weeks.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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5 February 1836: The children's writer Dorothy Kilner died...

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5 February 1836

The children's writer Dorothy Kilner died at Stratford near London; she and her sister-in-law, Mary Ann Kilner (1753-1831), published their anonymous, undated works through John Marshall from the 1770s.
Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan, 1870–1872, 2 vols.
1: vii-ix
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
58 (1784): 319
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

8 February 1836: The London and Greenwich Railway, London's...

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8 February 1836

The London and Greenwich Railway , London's first railway, opened; it initially ran only to Deptford.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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Barker, Theodore Cardwell, and Michael Robbins. A History of London Transport: Passenger Travel and the Development of the Metropolis. Rev., Allen and Unwin, 1975, 2 vol.
1: 45

Frances Trollope: 12 February 1836

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12 February 1836

FT ' eighteen-year-old daughter Emily died of tuberculosis.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 259

Dorothy Osborne: By 13 February 1836

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By 13 February 1836

DO 's letters, in excerpts only, first saw print in Thomas Peregrine Courtenay 's Memoirs of . . . Sir William Temple.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
433 (1836): 121

Joanna Baillie: 25 February 1836

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25 February 1836

The Separation. A Tragedy, in Five Acts, by JB , was first staged at Covent Garden , London.
This play does not appear to have been published.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
159

Lady Charlotte Bury: By 27 February 1836

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By 27 February 1836

LCB , as the authoress of The Disinherited and Flirtation, issued another novel: The Devoted.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
435 (1836): 155

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: Spring 1836

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Spring 1836

Marguerite Blessington moved from Mayfair to the spacious and elegant Gore House at Kensington (then outside London); the house had the additional advantages of being quieter and more healthful.
Gore House had once been occupied...

Elizabeth Rigby: After March 1836

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After March 1836

ER anonymously published her translation of Passavant 's Tour of a German Artist in England, in two volumes.
Passavant, Johann David. Tour of a German Artist in England. Translator Rigby, Elizabeth, Garland, 1978, 2 vols.
xx

March 1836: Walter Savage Landor published Pericles and...

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March 1836

Walter Savage Landor published Pericles and Aspasia, a collection of imaginary letters between the Athenian statesman and the learned and cultivated courtesan.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
441 (1836): 253
Wheeler, Stephen, and Thomas J. Wise. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage Landor. Bibliographical Society, 1919.
87
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Elwin, Malcolm. Landor, a Replevin. Macdonald, 1958.
285

Matilda Betham-Edwards: 4 March 1836

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4 March 1836

Matilda Barbara Edwards (later MBE ) was born at Westerfield Hall, near Ipswich, Suffolk, the fourth daughter among six brothers and sisters.
Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland, 1986.
385
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Emily Eden: 4 March 1836-summer 1842

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4 March 1836-summer 1842

EE lived with her sister Fanny and brother George, Lord Auckland , in India, where he had been appointed British Governor-General.
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Gale Research, 1981–2026, Numerous volumes.
102
Claridge, Elizabeth et al. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Virago, 1983, p. v - xx.
viii
Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, 1969, pp. 7-20.
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Isabella Beeton: 12 March 1836

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12 March 1836

Isabella Mayson, later IB , was born in London, the eldest of a family which initially consisted of four.
Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
30
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Ellen Wood: 17 March 1836

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17 March 1836

Ellen Price married Henry Wood (banker, shipping owner, and member of the British consular service) at Whittington, a suburb of Worcester.
Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. Third, R. Bentley and Son, 1895.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

18 March 1836: The Hudson Bay Company's Beaver, the first...

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18 March 1836

The Hudson Bay Company 's Beaver, the first steamer on the northern Pacific, arrived at Fort Vancouver.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 459

18 March 1836: The first issue appeared of The Musical World,...

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18 March 1836

The first issue appeared of The Musical World, the earliest journal dedicated to discussions of music in its various forms.
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and its Business. Oxford University Press, 1988.
66
Russell, Dave. Popular Music in England, 1840-1914: A Social History. Manchester University Press, 1987.
137-9, 179
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.

Joanna Baillie: 19 March 1836

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19 March 1836

Henriquez, by JB , was first staged at Drury Lane , London.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
164

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 19 March 1836

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19 March 1836

From this date onwards, Elizabeth Barrett published quite regularly in the Athenæum.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

Caroline Norton: Early 1836

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Early 1836

George Norton , CN 's husband, took her three small sons away from her, apparently to prevent her from taking them on a promised visit to her brother Brinsley Sheridan at Frampton Court in Dorset.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Charles Dickens: 31 March 1836-November 1837

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31 March 1836-November 1837

Under his pseudonym Boz, CD published in parts his first novel, The Pickwick Papers; it appeared in one volume on 17 November 1837.
The Oxford Chronology of English Literature mistakenly gives the volume...

31 March 1836: The Westminster Review merged with a new...

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31 March 1836

The Westminster Review merged with a new quarterly to produce The London and Westminster Review, which embraced the philosophies of political and cultural radicals.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 537-8

Anne Lister: By April 1836

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By April 1836

AL was quite satisfied with the plans of her architect, John Harper , for improving Shibden Hall in the gothic style.
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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