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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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Mary Shelley: March 1838-December 1839

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Author event in Mary Shelley

March 1838-December 1839

MS contributed anonymously to the first four numbers of the Monthly Chronicle, one of whose founders was Dionysius Lardner .
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24.
417

3 March 1838: The first issue of The Monthly Chronicle:...

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3 March 1838

The first issue of The Monthly Chronicle: A National Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 111
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
109-12

Flora Tristan: 14 March 1838

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Author event in Flora Tristan

14 March 1838

FT was finally granted a legal separation from her husband —who shortly thereafter began to make arrangements to murder her.
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
31

17 March 1838: David Bruce of New York patented the first...

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17 March 1838

David Bruce of New York patented the first successful type-casting machine.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
144-5

Caroline Chisholm: 23 March 1838

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Author event in Caroline Chisholm

23 March 1838

CC and her family boarded The Emerald Isle and set sail for Sydney, Australia, from India. They arrived in August.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
4-5
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

26 March 1838: Historian William Edward Hartpole Lecky was...

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26 March 1838

Historian William Edward Hartpole Lecky was born in Dublin, Ireland.
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Charles Dickens: 31 March 1838

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Author event in Charles Dickens

31 March 1838

The serialization began of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a novel which CD , with astonishing literary energy, produced simultaneously with Oliver Twist. It ran until October 1839.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
31 March 2008
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: April 1838

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April 1838

Elizabeth Barrett and family moved to a permanent home at 50 Wimpole Street in London.
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
71
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
4: xi

Mariana Starke: Spring 1838

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Author event in Mariana Starke

Spring 1838

MS died in Milan, on her way home to England from Naples on yet another journey undertaken at the age of about seventy-six to research a new guidebook.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Feminist Companion Archive.

April 1838: The National Gallery moved into its new facility...

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April 1838

The National Gallery moved into its new facility at Charing Cross.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
204-5

4 April 1838: The British steamship Sirius left Cork for...

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4 April 1838

The British steamship Sirius left Cork for New York, undertaking the first Atlantic crossing entirely by steam.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
90
Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
85

5 April 1838: The Association of Master Printers signed...

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5 April 1838

The Association of Master Printers signed a petition opposing Talfourd 's copyright bill.
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.
130

8 April 1838: The Great Western, the first steamship built...

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8 April 1838

The Great Western, the first steamship built especially for transatlantic crossings, left Bristol for New York.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
90
Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
85

Sarah Stickney Ellis: May 1838

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Author event in Sarah Stickney Ellis

May 1838

William Ellis planned to publish the History of Madagascar by this date; his wife and uncredited co-author SSE anticipated write, write, writing for the next four months to come.
qtd. in
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press, 2000.
72

May 1838: The People's Charter (after which the Chartist...

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May 1838

The People's Charter (after which the Chartist movement was named) was published.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
131
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. Pantheon, 1984.
122, 124
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
20
Goodway, David. London Chartism, 1838-1848. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
24
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
38

Late Spring-Summer 1838: Meetings were held throughout Britain to...

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Late Spring-Summer 1838

Meetings were held throughout Britain to present the Charter and to elect delegates to the planned Chartist National Convention.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
38-9

Harriet Smythies: By 19 May 1838

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By 19 May 1838

Harriet Gordon (later Smythies) published her first novel (in three volumes), Fitzherbert; or, Lovers and Fortune-Hunters, calling herself the authoress of The Bride of Siena.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
551 (1838): 358

Charlotte Brontë: Late May 1838

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

Late May 1838

CB left her position as a teacher at Roe Head, convinced that her life depended on relief of her depressed health and spirits.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
289

Fanny Kemble: 28 May 1838

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Author event in Fanny Kemble

28 May 1838

Frances Anne Butler , FK 's second daughter, was born on the same day and during the same hour as her older sister; FK said this showed her mania for order.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
100
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
159

30 May 1838: The Hudson Bay Company was granted a new...

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30 May 1838

The Hudson Bay Company was granted a new charter for twenty-one years.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
461

31 May 1838: Philosopher Henry Sidgwick was born in Skipton,...

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31 May 1838

Philosopher Henry Sidgwick was born in Skipton, Yorkshire.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
262
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Eliza Mary Hamilton: June 1838

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Author event in Eliza Mary Hamilton

June 1838

EMH published Poems in one volume under her own name.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
562 (1838): 552

4 June 1838: The first section of the Great Western Railway,...

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4 June 1838

The first section of the Great Western Railway , from London to Bristol, opened.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
90
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.
73

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 6 June 1838

Women writers item

6 June 1838

EBB 's The Seraphim, and Other Poems appeared; it was the first of her productions to bear her name.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
30
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
64

Mary Howitt: Later 1838

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Author event in Mary Howitt

Later 1838

On L. E. L. 's marriage MH took over from her the editorship of the annual or gift book Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrapbook, for which she did much writing; she did not, however, enjoy this work.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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