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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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By 14 October 1837: James Sheridan Knowles published his play...

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By 14 October 1837

James Sheridan Knowles published his play The Love Chase.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
520 (1837): 771
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 20 October 1837

Women writers item

20 October 1837

Sydney Morgan , enriched by her crown pension, left Dublin for London, where she and her husband settled in a newly-built house in William Street in Belgravia.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 427
Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan the Novelist. Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses, 1990.
11
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
226-7, 228-30

By 21 October 1837: Mrs Alexander Walker's book Female Beauty...

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By 21 October 1837

Mrs Alexander Walker 's book Female Beauty claimed that tightly-laced corset stays were injurious to the female body.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
521 (1837): 777
Waugh, Norah. Corsets and Crinolines. Theatre Arts Books, 1970.
134
Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Revised, Faber and Faber, 1981.
82, 83

22 October 1837: Henry David Thoreau, aged twenty, began keeping...

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22 October 1837

Henry David Thoreau , aged twenty, began keeping a diary. In twenty-five years it extended to forty-seven volumes.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
22 October 2008

Harriet Martineau: Late 1837

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

Late 1837

By this time HM had made enough money from her writing to invest £1,000 in annuities.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
324-5

18 November 1837: The Chartist paper The Northern Star and...

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18 November 1837

The Chartist paper The Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser began publication from Leeds.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
38
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation. Verso, 1993.
53
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
75

20 November 1837: Joanna Baillie wrote a heartfelt complaint...

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20 November 1837

Joanna Baillie wrote a heartfelt complaint (which she feared might sound envious & spiteful) about the effects of the recent fashion for expensive albums, or annuals or gift books.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 668

23 November 1837: A rebellion began of French patriote forces...

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23 November 1837

A rebellion began of French patriote forces in St Denis, Lower Canada. Colonial authorities initially failed to subdue it, but succeeded within days.
Burroughs, Peter. The Canadian Crisis and British Colonial Policy, 1828-1841. Macmillan of Canada, 1972.
92, 108
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 460-1
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
833
Marsh, James H., editor. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Hurtig Publishers, 1985, 3 vols.
Papineau, Rebellions of 1837

Anne Brontë: December 1837

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Author event in Anne Brontë

December 1837

AB suffered a near-fatal illness, probably accompanied by a religious crisis which Charlotte seemed to share.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
280-1, 284-5

Charlotte Brontë: December 1837

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

December 1837

Anne and CB apparently experienced crises of faith around this time; Anne was also seriously ill.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
280-1, 284-5

Lady Charlotte Bury: By December 1837

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Author event in Lady Charlotte Bury

By December 1837

LCB , under the anonymity of a Lady of Rank, published the challengingly-titled The Murdered Queen! or, Caroline of Brunswick. A Diary of the Court of George IV: the title-page said 1838.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 431

Margaret Emily Shore: December 1837

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Author event in Margaret Emily Shore

December 1837

A year and a half before her death MES 's two short essays on natural science appeared in the Penny Magazine: An Account of a Cuckoo and The Golden Crested Wren.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

December 1837: The government began an official inquiry...

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December 1837

The government began an official inquiry regarding trade unions.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
38

December 1837: Leaders of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners Union...

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December 1837

Leaders of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners Union were prosecuted for conspiracy, arson, assault and murder.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
38
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation. Verso, 1993.
52

December 1837-April 1839: George Grey made two journeys to explore...

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December 1837-April 1839

George Grey made two journeys to explore the coastal areas north of Perth, Western Australia.
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A History of Australia. Melbourne University Press, 1981.
III: 38-40, 74

Anna Eliza Bray: 5 December 1837

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Author event in Anna Eliza Bray

5 December 1837

AEB published in three volumes a seventh novel, the epistolary historical romance Trelawny of Trelawne; or, The Prophecy. A Legend of Cornwall.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
327
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 49

5 December 1837: After declaring a provisional government,...

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5 December 1837

After declaring a provisional government, W. L. Mackenzie led the revolt in Upper Canada, launched the previous day when rebels gathered at Montgomery's Tavern in what is now Toronto.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 460
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
180, 182
Burroughs, Peter. The Canadian Crisis and British Colonial Policy, 1828-1841. Macmillan of Canada, 1972.
93, 108
McInnis, Edgar. Canada: A Political and Social History. Revised ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
223

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: 7 December 1837

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7 December 1837

William Murray Nairne, son of Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (her only child, still in his twenties), died at Brussels.
Nairne, Carolina Oliphant, Lady, and Caroline Oliphant. Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne. Editor Rogers, Charles, J. Grant, 1896.
67-8

Ellis Cornelia Knight : 17 December 1837 or soon afterwards

Women writers item
Author event in Ellis Cornelia Knight

17 December 1837 or soon afterwards

ECK died in Paris of an inflammation of the Lungs.
Sources differ as to her death date. The Oxford Dictionary of Naional Biography gives it as 17 December. Her biographer Barbara Luttrell quotes a doctor...

Flora Tristan: 20 December 1837

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Author event in Flora Tristan

20 December 1837

After a series of violent arguments and custody battles with her estranged husband, FT petitioned the French Chamber of Deputies to legalise divorce.
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
32, 224

Flora Tristan: 20 December 1837

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Author event in Flora Tristan

20 December 1837

FT , already a published polemicist, addressed a second political pamphlet, Pétition pour le rétablissement du divorce (Petition for the re-establishment of divorce), to Messieurs les Députés (the French parliament).
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
14, 173

Queen Victoria: Late December 1837

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Author event in Queen Victoria

Late December 1837

QV opened Parliament , witnessed by many including Lady Morgan , who admired her composure and oral delivery.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
73
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen, 1862, 2 vols.
2: 428

Lucie Duff Gordon: 31 December 1837

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Author event in Lucie Duff Gordon

31 December 1837

Lucie Austin (later LDG ) was baptised and confirmed as an Anglican on the last Sunday of the year; she was sixteen.
Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, pp. 1-17.
4
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
95

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 31 December 1837

Women writers item

31 December 1837

MAS had what appears to have been a slight stroke.
Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858, 2 vols.
2: 117

Grace Aguilar: By 1838

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Author event in Grace Aguilar

By 1838

GA moved with her family from Devon to Brighton.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
141