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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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Charlotte Elliott: 27 June 1837

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27 June 1837

CE left England on her second trip to the Continent, sailing from Dover and then travelling overland through France to Brussels, Frankfurt, and most memorably to Geneva.
Babington, Eleanor et al. “Biographical Sketch”. Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, Religious Tract Society, 1873, pp. 13-58.
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Mary Russell Mitford: By 28 June 1837

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By 28 June 1837

MRM took on the editorship of an annual entitled Finden's Tableaux, made up of poems and tales attached to twelve illustrations.
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: 197
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 195

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1 July 1837

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1 July 1837

EBB honoured her sovereign (who had succeeded to the throne on 20 June) by publishing The Young Queen in the Athenæum; the following week the same journal carried her Victoria 's Tears.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
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July 1837: Leigh Hunt published Blue-Stocking Revels...

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July 1837

Leigh Hunt published Blue-Stocking Revels in the Monthly Repository, New Series volume 11: a traditional Sessions of the Poets poem, with Apollo pronouncing on (here) contemporary women writers.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland, 1999.
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4 July 1837: The Grand Junction railway line was opened,...

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4 July 1837

The Grand Junction railway line was opened, connecting Birmingham and Warrington.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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Florence Marryat: 9 July 1837

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9 July 1837

FM was born at Brighton in Sussex; she was the sixth daughter and the eleventh and youngest child in her family.
Some sources give her year of birth as 1838. She admitted to having...

Catherine Gore : 15 July 1837

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15 July 1837

CG continued her mining of the pre-revolutionary French period in her next play, A Tale of a Tub, in which a central figure is the royal mistress Madame Du Barry .
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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17 July 1837: The Offences Against the Person Act re-stated...

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17 July 1837

The Offences Against the Person Act re-stated that abortion was illegal in England, Wales, and Ireland; it made no distinction between abortion before and after the quickening of the foetus.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
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Harriet Downing: August-October 1837

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August-October 1837

Dickens published two of HD 's stories (Three Notches in the Devil's Tail and The Man with the Club Foot) in Bentley's Miscellany as by the Author of Reminiscences of a Monthly Nurse...

Mary Taylor: August 1837

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August 1837

Suffering from a disordered stomach,MT travelled with her sister Martha to Wales for a three-week holiday.
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Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Isabella Hamilton Robinson: August 1837

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August 1837

Isabella Hamilton Walker , aged twenty-four and the first of the Walker girls to wed, married her first husband, forty-three-year-old Edward Collins Dansey , a widowed Royal Navy Lieutenant. She later described it as a...

Mary Russell Mitford: By 5 August 1837

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By 5 August 1837

Country Stories, a collection of sketches which MRM had originally published in annuals, appeared.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
510 (1837): 570
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 195

22 August 1837: The British government was the first to contract...

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22 August 1837

The British government was the first to contract for the carrying of mail by steamship.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Anna Brownell Jameson: September 1837

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September 1837

ABJ left Toronto, having arranged with her husband that she would live where she pleased.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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L. E. L.: September 1837

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September 1837

LEL 's third novel, Ethel Churchill; or, The Two Brides, was published through ColburnHenry Colburn , as by the author of The Improvisatrice.
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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By 2 September 1837: W. A. F. Browne published What Asylums Were,...

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By 2 September 1837

W. A. F. Browne published What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, extolling the virtues of the self-employed lunatic and a hierarchy of industry within the asylum.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
41-2, 60, 290
Athenæum. J. Lection.
514 (1837): 636

Florence Nightingale : 8 September 1837 - 6 April 1839

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8 September 1837 - 6 April 1839

FN and her family toured Europe, spending time in France, Italy, and Switzerland.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 268
Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press, 1990.
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Frances Trollope: By 23 September 1837

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By 23 September 1837

FT 's novelThe Vicar of Wrexhill, about a hypocritical, corrupt Evangelical Minister, was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
517 (1837): 708

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: October 1837

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October 1837

EBB anonymously contributed poems to the annual gift book Findens' Tableaux for the year 1838; she contributed again in each of the following two years.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
29-33
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
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Emily Eden: October 1837

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October 1837

EE , with her sister Fanny , brother George, Lord Auckland , and a retinue including 850 camels and 140 elephants, toured the North-West or Upper Provinces of India, notably Kashmir.
Claridge, Elizabeth et al. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Virago, 1983, p. v - xx.
ix-xi
Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, 1969, pp. 7-20.
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Mary Somerville: October 1837

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October 1837

MS returned to her native Scotland for four months for the wedding of her son Woronzow .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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: Physician John Elliotson began mesmerizing...

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Autumn 1837

Physician John Elliotson began mesmerizing patients as part of their treatment at University College Hospital ; his reputation soon created public interest in mesmerism.
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
200, 3
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
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Roxburghe Lothian: 3 October 1837

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3 October 1837

Lizzie Kerr (who later wrote as RL ) married her first husband, Thomas Colville , of Annfield, Stirlingshire Scotland, whom she judged to be a most upright and honourable man.
Coulson, Edward Foster, and Roxburghe Lothian. “Introduction”. Lizzie Lothian, C. Kegan Paul, 1877, p. v - xxiii.
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Clara Balfour: 9 October 1837

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9 October 1837

CB 's husband , who had made her life hard by his excessive drinking, signed the pledge. She did the same a week later, and embarked on her thirty-year career as a temperance activist.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Wentworth Morton: 14 October 1837

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14 October 1837

Perez Morton , husband of SWM , died at over the age of eighty-five.
Stevens, Peter F. “It Happened in Dorchester: A Literary Lionness and a Whiff of Scandal”. Dorchester Reporter, 24 Jan. 2002.
Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931.
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