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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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Robert Browning: 1 May 1837

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1 May 1837

RB 's tragedy in blank verse entitled Strafford was first performed at Covent Garden ; it was published the same year.
Irvine, William, and Park Honan. The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. McGraw-Hill, 1974.
74-5
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.

L. E. L.: May 1837

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May 1837

LEL 's long poem entitled A Birthday Gift to Princess Victoria was published, officially as A Birthday Tribute, Addressed to Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, on attaining her Eighteenth Year.
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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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.

May 1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd, MP for Reading, author,...

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May 1837

Thomas Noon Talfourd , MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.
129

Tabitha Tenney: 2 May 1837

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2 May 1837

TT died in Exeter, New Hampshire, after more than twenty years of widowhood.
Tenney, Tabitha. “Introduction”. Female Quixotism, edited by Jean Nienkamp and Andrea Collins, Oxford University Press, 1992, p. xiii - xxxi.
xxvi

Fanny Fern: 4 May 1837

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4 May 1837

Sara Payson Willis , later the writer FF , married Charles Harrington Eldredge , a Boston bank cashier.
Walker, Nancy A. Fanny Fern. Twayne, 1993.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 8 May 1837

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8 May 1837

Lord Melbourne offered Sydney, Lady Morgan , a Crown pension of three hundred pounds a year; she gladly accepted. She had been a close and supportive friend of Melbourne's first wife, Lady Caroline Lamb ...

Harriet Martineau: By 13 May 1837

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By 13 May 1837

HM 's controversial study of Society in America was published in three volumes; it contained an early argument for female suffrage.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
498 (1837): 337
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
xxii

By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...

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By 20 May 1837

Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
499 (1837): 353
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Sarah Stickney Ellis: 23 May 1837

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23 May 1837

Sarah Stickney married author, missionary, and widower William Ellis at a small church in Burstwick in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Home Life and Letters of Mrs. Ellis. J. Nisbet, 1893.
80

George Eliot: 30 May 1837

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30 May 1837

Chrissey Evans , elder sister of Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) got married, leaving Mary Ann with the responsibility of housekeeping for her father and brother.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
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Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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Mary Russell Mitford: 30 May 1837

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30 May 1837

MRM was granted by Lord Melbourne a Civil List pension of £100 per annum, with the hope of an increase later.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 195, 197

Caroline Bowles: June 1837

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June 1837

A story by CB entitled This Time Two Years appeared in Blackwood's.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 332

Anna Brownell Jameson: Summer 1837

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Summer 1837

ABJ embarked on a Canadian tour which would provide material for the bulk of her travel book Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
116

Caroline Norton: 1 June 1837

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1 June 1837

CN received from her estranged husband, George Norton , a sinister note addressing her as Mrs Brown and signing himself Greenacre: casting her as the victim and himself as the killer in a recent...

Caroline Norton: Summer 1837

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Summer 1837

CN published, for private circulation, a pamphlet entitled Observations on the Natural Claim of the Mother to the Custody of her Infant Children, as affected by the Common Law Right of the Father.
Chedzoy...

June 1837: Elizabeth Planché's drama The Ransom opened...

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June 1837

Elizabeth Planché 's drama The Ransom opened at the Haymarket .
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.

June 1837: Sir William Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone...

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June 1837

Sir William Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone patented their version of the electromagnetic telegraph.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
303
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
28: 583; 18: 874
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
263
Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
4: 658; 5: 218
Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
301-2

7 June 1837: The London Working Men's Association issued...

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7 June 1837

The London Working Men's Association issued a Six Point petition in conjunction with six Radical MPs.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
19-20

Anne Thackeray Ritchie: 9 June 1837

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9 June 1837

Anne Isabella Thackeray , later ATR , was born at 18 Albion St, Hyde Park, London.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
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Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages.
xxi

Isabella Neil Harwood: 14 June 1837

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14 June 1837

Isabella Neil Harwood was born, most probably in England since her family was living at Bridport in Dorset at the time. She was an only child.
The Feminist Companion presumed that she was born in...

Queen Victoria: 15 June 1837

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15 June 1837

With the king close to death, Princess Alexandrina Victoria was pressed from all political sides to align herself with an advisor and party; she chose Lord Melbourne .
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
58-9

Georgiana Chatterton : By 17 June 1837

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By 17 June 1837

GC issued her first, anonymous publication, Aunt Dorothy's Tale; or, Geraldine Morton. A Novel.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
503 (1837): 439

17-18 June 1837: Some 200 soldiers recently enlisted in the...

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17-18 June 1837

Some 200 soldiers recently enlisted in the 1st West India Regiment of Trinidad, and newly arrived from West Africa, organised a mutiny against their British officers.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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Joseph, Edward Lanza. History of Trinidad. Frank Cass, 1970.
259-72

Queen Victoria: 20 June 1837

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20 June 1837

Princess Alexandrina Victoria received the news that she was Queen, on the death of William IV of Britain .
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
56, 60
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xiii

20 June 1837: William IV of Britain was succeeded as the...

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20 June 1837

William IV of Britain was succeeded as the King of Hanover by the Duke of Cumberland , who then suppressed the Hanoverian constitution.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
118
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
II: 937
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
262