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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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Grace Aguilar: 1838

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1838

Grace Aguilar translated into English, from French, the Portuguese Orobio de Castro 's controversial Israel Defended; or, The Jewish exposition of the Hebrew Prophecies Applied by the Christians to Their Messiah.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
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, 1952, pp. 137-48.
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Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
138
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.

Isabella Banks: 1838

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Author event in Isabella Banks

1838

Isabella Varley (later IB ) joined the Mechanics' Institute in Cooper Street, Manchester, to take advantage of its library, lectures, and exhibitions.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969.
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Isabella Banks: 1838-1846

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Author event in Isabella Banks

1838-1846

Isabella Varley (later IB ), a gifted teacher, ran a small school for middle-class children at Stanley Street in Cheetham near Manchester.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969.
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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: 1838

Writing climate item

1838

Antoinette Brown graduated from the district elementary school and began attending Monroe Academy . This was the first secondary school in the county, located about two miles from the Browns' home.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 1838

Women writers item

1838

Marguerite Blessington followed her novel The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman with The Confessions of an Elderly Lady.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
537 (1838): 101

Mary Ann Browne: 1838

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Author event in Mary Ann Browne

1838

MAB published Ignatia, and Other Poems, dedicated to her sister, Martha Simmons Browne .
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.
Browne, Mary Ann. Ignatia. Hamilton, Adams, 1838.
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Elizabeth Charles: 1838

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Author event in Elizabeth Charles

1838

The family of the child Elizabeth Rundle (later EC ) moved to her grandfather's house, Brooklands, near Tavistock.
Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray, 1896.
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Caroline Clive: 1838

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Author event in Caroline Clive

1838

Caroline Meysey-Wigley (later CC ) toured France.
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.

Dinah Mulock Craik: 1838

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Author event in Dinah Mulock Craik

1838

By the time she reached adolescence Dinah Mulock was helping her mother in the operation of her school, where among other things she taught Latin.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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Camilla Crosland: 1838

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1838

The name of Camilla Toulmin (later CC ) appeared in print for the first time as the author of the poem The Parting in Heath's Book of Beauty, edited by Lady Blessington .
Crosland, Newton. Rambles Round My Life. 2nd edition, E. W. Allen, 1898.
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Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle, 1967.
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Catherine Crowe: 1838

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Author event in Catherine Crowe

1838

CC anonymously published her first work, the historical Aristodemus, a Tragedy.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 1838

Women writers item

1838

Two years after implying that her Translations from the Italian would be her final publication, BBBD had fifty copies privately printed of a three-act play for children called Frogs and Bulls. A Liliputian Piece.
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.
Grey, Barbarina Charlotte, Lady. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray, 1908.
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Harriet Downing: January 1838

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January 1838

Bentley's carried HD 's story The Bird of Paradise.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do.

Flora Tristan: 1838

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Author event in Flora Tristan

1838

FT 's two-volume travel narrative and autobiography, Pérégrinations d'une paria, 1833-1834, was published by Arthus Bertrand in Paris.
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
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Tristan, Flora. “Introduction to her Life”. Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade, edited by Doris Beik and Paul Beik, Indiana University Press, 1993, p. ix - xxi.
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Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Flora Tristan: 1838

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Author event in Flora Tristan

1838

FT 's first and only work of fiction, a novel entitled Méphis, was published by Ladvocat in Paris.
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1838

Women writers item

1838

In Letters from Ireland, MDCCCXXXVIICharlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) published her reflections on the her years living in Ireland, her unhappy marriage, and conversion to Evangelicalism.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
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Anna Swanwick: 1838

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Author event in Anna Swanwick

1838

AS , with her mother and her sister Catherine , moved from Liverpool to live in Tavistock Place in London.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
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Catherine Sinclair: 1838

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Author event in Catherine Sinclair

1838

In a new genre for her, travel writing, CS published Hill and Valley, or Hours in England and Wales.
Zaidman, Laura M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 141. Gale Research, 1994.
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Julia Pardoe: 1838

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Author event in Julia Pardoe

1838

The Beauties of the Bosphorus: Illustrated in a series of Views of Constantinople and its Environs is the second of the two travel books which JP based on her travels and research in Turkey.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 294
Pardoe, Julia, and William Henry Bartlett. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Virtue and Co., 1855.
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Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1838

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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert

1838

AGT had a religious experience which left her, for a long time, a degree of peace and happiness which was new to me. But it faded.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
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Catherine Gore : 1838

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Author event in Catherine Gore

1838

CG , as the authoress of The Diary of a Désennuyée, published another novel, The Woman of the World.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Anna Maria Hall: 1838

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Author event in Anna Maria Hall

1838

AMH published Lights and Shadows of Irish Life, again in three volumes.
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.

Matilda Hays: Around 1838

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Author event in Matilda Hays

Around 1838

By the age of eighteen, MH was contributing to periodicals, frequently on women's issues.
Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press, 1999.
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Barbara Hofland: 1838

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

1838

BH published Energy. A Tale (which followed Humility, 1837, whose heroine was Blanche Livingstone).
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Mary Howitt: 1838

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Author event in Mary Howitt

1838

MH 's Birds and Flowers, and other Country Things (in verse) appeared as volume one of a series she intended to edit, called The Christmas Library; it seems that no more volumes appeared.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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