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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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August 1836: The National Radical Association of Scotland...

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August 1836

The National Radical Association of Scotland was founded.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Lydia Maria Child: By August 1836

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Author event in Lydia Maria Child

By August 1836

LMC published her classical-age historical novel Philothea; in later years she was sometimes called by the name of her eponymous heroine.
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992.
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L. E. L.: By 13 August 1836

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Author event in L. E. L.

By 13 August 1836

LEL 's collection of poems and prose tales for children, entitled Traits and Trials of Early Life, was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
459 (1836): 569
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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13 August 1836: The Stamp Act tax was reduced to a penny...

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13 August 1836

The Stamp Act tax was reduced to a penny per newspaper plus an extra halfpenny for each extra supplement.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
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Sir Walter Besant: 14 August 1836

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14 August 1836

Writer and reformer Walter Besant was born in St George's Square, Portsea, near Portsmouth, in Hampshire.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

17 August 1836: The first Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration...

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17 August 1836

The first Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act covering England and Wales was passed.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
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William Makepeace Thackeray: 20 August 1836

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20 August 1836

WMT married Isabella Gethin Shawe at the British Embassy in Paris.
Monsarrat, Ann. An Uneasy Victorian. Cassell, 1980.
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Harriet Martineau: 26 August 1836

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26 August 1836

HM returned to England, after travelling in the US for two years, and resettled in London for three years.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
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Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 92

8 September 1836: The Transcendental Club (also known as the...

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8 September 1836

The Transcendental Club (also known as the Hedge Club and the Symposium ) was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts; it brought together various thinkers who were at the forefront of Transcendentalism.
Geldard, Richard G., editor. The Essential Transcendentalists. Penguin, 2005.
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The Web of American Transcendentalism. http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/index.html.
Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.

Harriet Beecher Stowe: 29 September 1836

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29 September 1836

HBS , who had become pregnant before her husband 's departure for Europe, gave birth to her first children, twin daughters.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Mary Howitt: Michaelmas 1836

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Michaelmas 1836

MH and her family moved to Esher in Surrey, to a charming home found for them by friends.
Howitt, Mary. Mary Howitt: An Autobiography. Editor Howitt, Margaret, W. Isbister, 1889, 2 vols.
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Harriett Mozley: Late September 1836

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Author event in Harriett Mozley

Late September 1836

HM married the brilliant, impetuous,
Tillotson, Kathleen et al. “Harriett Mozley”. Mid-Victorian Studies, Athlone Press, 1965, pp. 38-48.
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but scatter-brained Thomas Mozley , who this year became rector of Cholderton in Wiltshire (the worst living in the gift of Oriel College, Oxford ).
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
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Tillotson, Kathleen et al. “Harriett Mozley”. Mid-Victorian Studies, Athlone Press, 1965, pp. 38-48.
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Frances Power Cobbe: Later 1836-December 1838

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Later 1836-December 1838

FPC attended an expensive boarding school at 32 Brunswick Terrace in Brighton, England, at a cost of close to £750.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Harriet Downing: October 1836

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October 1836

Fraser's Magazine began the anonymous serial publication of HD 's Remembrances of a Monthly Nurse, a woman who works as resident help in successive households where there is a new baby.
Fraser’s Magazine. James Fraser; Longmans, Green.
(1836): 398

L. E. L.: October 1836

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October 1836

LEL was introduced to and impressed by George Maclean , governor of the Gold Coast of Africa (now Ghana); they were soon unofficially engaged.
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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Caroline Norton: October 1836

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Author event in Caroline Norton

October 1836

CN 's poem A Voice from the Factories was accepted for publication by John Murray ; it appeared anonymously that year.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Anna Brownell Jameson: Early October 1836

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Early October 1836

ABJ sailed for New York aboard the Ontario: her ultimate destination was Canada.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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Lucie Duff Gordon: 21 October 1836-Summer 1838

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21 October 1836-Summer 1838

Lucie Austin (later LDG ) attended Miss Shepherd's boarding school at Bromley Common in Kent, just south of London.
Duff Gordon, Lucie. “Preface and Introduction”. Letters from Egypt (1862-1869), edited by Gordon Waterfield, Enlarged Centenary edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969, p. xiii - 39.
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Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
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Charlotte Mary Brame: 1 November 1836

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1 November 1836

CMB was born Charlotte Mary Law at her parents' home, Rosary House, 35 Castle Street, in Hinckley, Leicestershire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Drozdz, Gregory. Charlotte Mary Brame. Gregory Drozdz, 1984.
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Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: By November 1836

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By November 1836

BBBD 's almost-final publication (again privately printed, in a limited edition of a hundred and fifty copies by C. Whittingham ) had two title-pages: Traduzioni dall'italiano and Translations from the Italian. This too was...

Anna Brownell Jameson: November 1836

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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson

November 1836

Before leaving New York for Toronto, ABJ met Washington Irving and John Jacob Astor .
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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Fanny Kemble: 1 November 1836

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1 November 1836

FK left New York for Liverpool with her infant daughter and a nanny.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
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4 November 1836: Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement...

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4 November 1836

Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

7-8 November 1836: Charles Green's balloon (named the Vauxhall)...

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7-8 November 1836

Charles Green 's balloon (named the Vauxhall) flew from Vauxhall Gardens, London, to Weilburg, Nassau, in eighteen hours.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Dollfus, Charles. The Orion Book of Balloons. Translator Mason, Carter, Orion Press, 1960.
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Lady Louisa Stuart: December 1836

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Author event in Lady Louisa Stuart

December 1836

At seventy-nine, LLS first became a deliberately published author, with her Biographical Anecdotes of Lady M.W. Montagu (also known as Introductory Anecdotes) for her grandmother 's Letters and Works.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. “Preface”. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, edited by W. Moy Thomas, Swan Sonnenschein, 1893, p. iii - viii.
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Rubenstein, Jill. “Women’s Biography as a Family Affair: Lady Louisa Stuart’s ’Biographical Anecdotes’ of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”. Prose Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1986, pp. 3-21.
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