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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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Catherine Sinclair: By late 1836

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Author event in Catherine Sinclair

By late 1836

CS issued at Edinburgh through Waugh and InnesModern Accomplishments, or, The March of Intellect, her first fiction for young adults.
“Modern Accomplishments, or the March of Intellect”. The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, H. Colburn, 26 Mar. 1836, pp. 195-6.
195
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Frances Ridley Havergal : 14 December 1836

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Author event in Frances Ridley Havergal

14 December 1836

FRH was born at Astley in Worcestershire, the youngest of a family in which she had three sisters and two brothers.
Chappell, Jennie. Women Who Have Worked and Won. Pickering and Inglis, 1928.
93

Joanna Baillie: Late 1836

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Author event in Joanna Baillie

Late 1836

JB issued Dramas, a final three volumes of plays, with an appendix on witchcraft (the central issue of one of the plays).
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 145
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.

22 December 1836: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin published his...

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22 December 1836

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin published his historical novel The Captain's Daughter, in The Contemporary.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Debreczeny, Paul. The Other Pushkin: A Study of Alexander Pushkin’s Prose Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1983.
253

Anna Eliza Bray: 24 December 1836

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Author event in Anna Eliza Bray

24 December 1836

AEB and her husband entertained the poet Robert Southey and his son at their house.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
307

28 December 1836: The province of South Australia was foun...

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28 December 1836

The province of South Australia was founded.
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A History of Australia. Melbourne University Press, 1981.
III: 55

Charlotte Brontë: 29 December 1836

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

29 December 1836

CB solicited Poet Laureate Robert Southey 's opinion on some poems; he advised her to pursue her proper duties, because Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
262

Grace Aguilar: Around 1837

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Author event in Grace Aguilar

Around 1837

GA suffered from the measles; her health was thereafter precarious.
Aguilar, Sarah, and Grace Aguilar. “Memoir of Grace Aguilar”. Home Influence, Hickling, Swan, and Brewer, 1857, p. ix - xvii.
xiii

Anne Audland: 1837

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Author event in Anne Audland

1837

The Friends Library began publication in Philadelphia; its first volume was A Short Account of the Life of Anne Camm , a Minister of the Gospel, in the Society of Friends.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
385n110

Clara Balfour: Probably 1837 or soon afterwards

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Probably 1837 or soon afterwards

CB met and became a friend of Jane Welsh Carlyle .
The ODNB says they met through Jane Carlyle's gratitude to CB for writing an anti-socialist tract. The FC says they became friends while Balfour...

Clara Balfour: About 1837

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Author event in Clara Balfour

About 1837

An anti-socialist tract by CB (apparently entitled Common Sense versus Socialism) marked the beginning of her literary career.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

Lydia Becker: 1837

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Author event in Lydia Becker

1837

LB 's family moved to Reddish, five miles south of Manchester.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
25, 28

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: Early April 1837

Women writers item

Early April 1837

Marguerite Blessington began to suffer symptoms such as neuralgia as a result of overwork.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
343

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: Early 1837

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Early 1837

Marguerite Blessington 's third novel, The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman, appeared, bearing the date of 1836.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
356
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.

Mary Boyle: 1837

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Author event in Mary Boyle

1837

The first of MB 's historical novels, The State Prisoner, a Tale of the French Regency, was published.
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.

Fredrika Bremer: 1837

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Author event in Fredrika Bremer

1837

FB published her novel Grannarne, which was translated into English by Mary Howitt as The Neighbours: A Story of Every Day Life, which appeared by November 1842.
The History of Nordic Women’s Literature. 2012, https://nordicwomensliterature.net/.
Asmundsson, Doris R. Fredrika Bremer in England. Columbia University, 1964.
51

Georgiana Chatterton : Between 1837 and 1838

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Author event in Georgiana Chatterton

Between 1837 and 1838

GC made two different tours of the South of Ireland, including some of the wilder districts, to add to her many previous visits.
Chatterton, Georgiana. Rambles in the South of Ireland During the Year 1838. 2nd ed., Saunders and Otley, 1839, 2 vols.
1: prelims
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
73
Athenæum. J. Lection.
601 (1839): 327

Sara Coleridge: 1837

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Author event in Sara Coleridge

1837

SC published her fairy tale, Phantasmion, anonymously in a costly limited edition.
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.

Eliza Cook: 1837

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Author event in Eliza Cook

1837

EC published in the Weekly Dispatch her best-loved sentimental poem, The Old Arm-Chair, about the death of her mother.
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.
359

Charles Dickens: January 1837

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Author event in Charles Dickens

January 1837

The journal Bentley's Miscellany was launched; edited by CD (as Boz), it was illustrated by George Cruikshank .
Schlicke, Paul, editor. Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens. Oxford University Press, 1999.
38

Ellen Weeton: Biography: 1837

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Author event in Ellen Weeton: Biography

1837

EW wrote her last known letter to her brother .
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
2: 408

Sophie Veitch: 1837

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Author event in Sophie Veitch

1837

Sophie Frances Fain Veitch was born.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Zepherina Philadelphia Smith
Althoff, Sandra. Email to Orlando. 1 Aug. 2017.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1837

Women writers item

1837

George Phelan , estranged first husband of Elizabeth Phelan (later CET ), died.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1837

Women writers item

1837

The English Martyrology, an abridgement of John Foxe 's Book of Martyrs by Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) was published in two volumes.
John Foxe 's first complete version was published in 1563 under the...

Harriet Taylor: Late 1830s

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Author event in Harriet Taylor

Late 1830s

HT lived apart from her husband, John Taylor , at Walton-on-Thames, where Mill visited often.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2026, 2 vols.
208
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.