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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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L. E. L.: 7 June 1838

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Author event in L. E. L.

7 June 1838

A discreet marriage ceremony was performed between LEL and George Maclean , at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, London.
Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
50-1
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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Eliza Dunlop: 18 June 1838

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Author event in Eliza Dunlop

18 June 1838

ED 's husband was appointed Police Magistrate at Penrith in New South Wales (now a satellite town of Sydney), where they stayed for seventeen months.
“History”. Mulla Villa, 2016.
Wu, Duncan. “A Vehicle of Private Malice: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and The Sydney HeraldReview of English Studies, Vol.
65
, No. 272, 1 Nov. 2014, pp. 888-03.
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23 June 1838: A twopenny weekly for women entitled the...

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23 June 1838

A twopenny weekly for women entitled the Gem and Ladies' Album began publication in London; it lasted for only three issues.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Harriet Downing: Late June 1838

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Author event in Harriet Downing

Late June 1838

HD composed an Ode on Qu[een] Victoria 's Coronation, of which a copy survives in the British Library .
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.

Queen Victoria: 28 June 1838

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Author event in Queen Victoria

28 June 1838

Princess Alexandrina Victoria was crowned Queen in Westminster Abbey.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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29 June 1838: The Sun newspaper was printed in gold to...

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29 June 1838

The Sun newspaper was printed in gold to celebrate Queen Victoria 's coronation.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
144

George Sand: By July 1838

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Author event in George Sand

By July 1838

GS began her celebrated nine-year relationship with the musician Frédéric Chopin .
Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001.
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Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
178, 191

July 1838: An article on the Custody of Infants Bill...

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July 1838

An article on the Custody of Infants Bill in the British and Foreign Quarterly Review attacked both the proposed legislation and its proponent Caroline Norton .
Helsinger, Elizabeth K. et al. The Woman Question. Garland, 1983.
2: 9, 213
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.

L. E. L.: 5 July 1838

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Author event in L. E. L.

5 July 1838

One month after marrying, LEL and her husband George Maclean sailed for Africa, where Maclean resumed his post as governor of the Gold Coast.
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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Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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31 July 1838: The Poor Relief (Ireland) Act extended the...

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31 July 1838

The Poor Relief (Ireland) Act extended the English New Poor Law to Ireland, despite the marked differences between the two countries.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
21, 38-9
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
310, 606
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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31 July 1838: The International Copyright Act was passed...

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31 July 1838

The International Copyright Act was passed in Britain.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
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Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
172

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: August 1838

Women writers item

August 1838

Elizabeth Barrett moved to the resort of Torquay on the Devon coast, with the aim of improving her health; she stayed there for nearly three years.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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1 August 1838: De facto slavery ended in Jamaica four years...

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1 August 1838

De facto slavery ended in Jamaica four years after the Abolition Act or Emancipation Act came into effect throughout the British Empire, but set in place an interim system of apprenticeship for former slaves.
Levy, Andrea. The Long Song. Headline Review, 2010.
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August 1838: The Precursor Society was formed in Ireland,...

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August 1838

The Precursor Society was formed in Ireland, to seek justice for that country through parliamentary reforms.
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
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August 1838: George Palmer Putnam opened the first British...

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August 1838

George Palmer Putnam opened the first British branch of the American publishing house of Wiley and Putnam at 67 Paternoster Row, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 250-2

9 August 1838: The Hampstead circulating library, intended...

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9 August 1838

The Hampstead circulating library, intended for the middling and lower ranks, which had stocked no novels on principle except those of Scott and Edgeworth , found these were borrowed so much more often than...

14 August 1838: The government legislated guarantees of punctual...

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14 August 1838

The government legislated guarantees of punctual railway service for the Post Office.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

15 August 1838: The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed;...

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15 August 1838

The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed; a dubious victory at best for the peasantry.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

Harriet Martineau: By 18 August 1838

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

By 18 August 1838

HM published perhaps the first book on the methodology of social research:
qtd. in
McDonald, Lynn, editor. Women Theorists on Society and Politics. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998.
139
her How to Observe. Morals and Manners.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
564 (1838): 577-8

Emily Brontë: September 1838

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Author event in Emily Brontë

September 1838

EB entered six months' employment as a teacher at Law Hill school at Southowram outside Halifax.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
293, 306-7

Anna Swanwick: September 1838-May 1839

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Author event in Anna Swanwick

September 1838-May 1839

AS lived in Berlin, where she acquired fluency in German and ancient Greek, as well as studying Hebrew.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
29, 33

Maria Theresa Kemble: 3 September 1838

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Author event in Maria Theresa Kemble

3 September 1838

MTK died at Addlestone near Chertsey, just outside London.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
328

7 September 1838: Grace Darling, twenty-two-year-old daughter...

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7 September 1838

Grace Darling , twenty-two-year-old daughter of the lighthouse-keeper of the Longstone light on the Outer Farne Islands off the Northumbrian coast, helped her father row out in a clumsy boat through heavy seas to rescue...

Flora Tristan: 10 September 1838

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Author event in Flora Tristan

10 September 1838

FT 's estranged husband André Chazal shot her outside her apartment on rue du Bac in Paris.
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
32, 224
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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17 September 1838: The complete London and Birmingham Railway,...

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17 September 1838

The complete London and Birmingham Railway , begun in 1834, was opened at its Euston Square terminus.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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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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