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.
Events Timeline
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.
12976 - 13000 of 43197
Fanny Kemble: 1838
Women writers item
Author event in Fanny Kemble
1838
's
prevented the publication of An English Tragedy, a play she wrote this year about a man who cheated at cards.
L. E. L.: 1838
Women writers item
Author event in L. E. L.
1838
published Flowers of Loveliness: Twelve Groups of Female Figures, Emblematic of Flowers Designed by Various Artists. With poetical illustrations by L.E.L.
L. E. L.: 1838
Women writers item
Author event in L. E. L.
1838
Duty and Inclination,
's final completed novel, was published by
as edited by Miss Landon.
Eliza Lynn Linton: 1838
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Lynn Linton
1838
, later Linton, went north again with her family, from Gadshill in Kent, to live at Caldbeck Rectory in Cumberland.
Harriet Martineau: 1838
Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Martineau
1838
's three-volume Retrospect of Western Travel, another book about the USA, was published by
.
Harriet Martineau: 1838
Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Martineau
1838
The Maid of All-Work was the first of several volumes probably written anonymously by
in
's series of short manuals entitled The Guide to Service (that is, domestic employment).
Eliza Ogilvy: Probably in 1838
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Ogilvy
Probably in 1838
Eleven-year-old
, later
, travelled with her sister
to India, where their grandfather was stationed.
Sources differ as to the dates of departure, which may be as early as 1833...
Margaret Oliphant: 1838
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Oliphant
1838
Margaret Wilson (later
) and her parents moved to from Scotland to England, and settled in Liverpool.
1838: American physician Isaac Ray published A...
National or international item
1838
American physician
published A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity.
1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...
Women writers item
1838
in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove
's Scottish ancestry.
The
catalogue ascribes this to L. Gordon.
January 1838: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's first publication,...
Writing climate item
January 1838
's first publication, a comic narrative entitled The Ghost and the Bone-Setter, appeared in the Dublin University Magazine.
1838: The Camden Society was founded; it was concerned...
Writing climate item
1838
The
was founded; it was concerned with the printing of unpublished material and reprinting rare works.
1838 - 1849: Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber) published...
Writing climate item
1838 - 1849
published her edition and translation into English of the most famous Welsh epic: The Mabinogion: from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest, and other ancient Welsh manuscripts.
1838: John Claudius Loudon's The Suburban Gardener...
1838
's The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion appeared in volume form (after being serialised over two years).
1838-1851: Over one hundred and thirty ovariotomies...
1838-1851
Over one hundred and thirty ovariotomies were performed in Britain.
1838: The Public Record Office was founded by Act...
National or international item
1838
The
was founded by Act of Parliament, to preserve in one place records from every government department that were deemed to have potential historical interest.
1838: The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House...
National or international item
1838
The Infant Custody Bill passed in the
but was rejected by the
.
1838: Coachmakers Robinson and Cook built, for...
1838
Coachmakers Robinson and Cook built, for
, a vehicle in a new style, the first brougham.
1838: The Catholic Institute was founded to publicize...
National or international item
1838
The
was founded to publicize and improve the conditions of English Roman Catholics.
By 1838: Stagecoaches were doing more business bringing...
By 1838
Stagecoaches were doing more business bringing passengers to and from railway stations than actually transporting passengers over long distances.
1838: The London Female Mission introduced two...
Writing climate item
1838
The
introduced two new periodicals: the monthly Female's Advocate and the penny monthly Servants' Magazine.
1838: US poet Frances Osgood published A Wreath...
Writing climate item
1838
US poet
published A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England.
1838: Charles Knight patented a colour-printing...
Writing climate item
1838
patented a colour-printing process called Patent Illuminated Printing.
1838: In aggressive anti-obscenity campaigns in...
Writing climate item
1838
In aggressive anti-obscenity campaigns in this year, the
claimed to reduce to twenty-three from ninety the number of establishments selling obscene material.
1838: Third class rail passengers were first carried...
1838
Third class rail passengers were first carried on British trains.