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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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Susanna Moodie: Christmas 1838

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Author event in Susanna Moodie

Christmas 1838

SM , as a nursing mother, developed a painful infection in her left breast. The inflammation was pierced by a doctor's lancet without any anaesthetic.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Ann Hatton: 26 December 1838

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Author event in Ann Hatton

26 December 1838

AH died at the age of seventy-four, after being a widow for more than thirty years, of a renal dysfunction, probably Bright's Disease.
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.
7: 175
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Henderson, Jim. “Ann of Swansea: a life on the edge”. National Library of Wales Journal, Vol.
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon: 1839

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Author event in Mary Elizabeth Braddon

1839

On discovering her husband 's infidelity, Fanny Braddon took the young Mary Elizabeth and her siblings, and moved to St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Charlotte Brontë: Around 1839

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

Around 1839

CB wrote a short farewell to the world of Angria, that burning clime where we have sojourned too long.
Brontë, Charlotte, and Charlotte Brontë. “Farewell to Angria”. Jane Eyre, edited by Richard J. Dunn and Richard J. Dunn, 2nd ed., W. W. Norton, 1987, pp. 426-7.
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Hannah Cullwick: 1839-1841

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Author event in Hannah Cullwick

1839-1841

HC received her only schooling at a charity school in Shifnal between the ages five and eight.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
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Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: 1839

Women writers item

1839

A second edition appeared of EPW 's Conversations on Early Education, whose first edition has not been traced, and which in any form is very rare.
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.

Mary Shelley: January-May 1839

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Author event in Mary Shelley

January-May 1839

MS edited and published a new edition of her husband 's works, with much prefatory material by herself.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45.
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Margaret Sandbach: Winter 1839

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Author event in Margaret Sandbach

Winter 1839

MS and her husband spent the season in Rome; her first publication dates from immediately after this.
Rigby, Elizabeth, editor. Life of John Gibson, R.A., Sculptor. Longmans, Green, 1870.
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George Sand: 1839

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Author event in George Sand

1839

GS was portrayed as Mademoiselle de Touches in Balzac 's novel Béatrix, a fictionalized account of the love affair between Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult .
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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Christina Rossetti: 1839

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Author event in Christina Rossetti

1839

CR moved with her family to 50 Charlotte Street, near Portland Place in London.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996.
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Mary Palmer : 1839

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Author event in Mary Palmer

1839

The full text appeared in print at London and Plymouth of MP 's mid-eighteenth-century Devon dialect dialogues, now anonymous and edited by her daughter Theophila Gwatkin from the original manuscript in her possession.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Ouida: 1 January 1839

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Author event in Ouida

1 January 1839

Marie Louise Ramé (later Ouida) was born at 1 Union Terrace in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983.
18: 239
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Amelia Opie: 1839

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Author event in Amelia Opie

1839

AO was enlisted for a contribution to Finden's Tableaux by its editor, Mary Russell Mitford : she wrote for it The Novice: A True Story.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
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Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1839

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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert

1839

ATG published a work of earnest religious exhortation: The Convalescent. Twelve Letters on Recovery from Sickness, written the previous year.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
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Sarah Josepha Hale: 1839

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Author event in Sarah Josepha Hale

1839

SJH published The Good Housekeeper; or, The Way to Live Well and to Be Well While We Live.
Tonkovich, Nicole. Domesticity with a Difference. University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
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Felicia Hemans: 1839

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Author event in Felicia Hemans

1839

The Works of Mrs. Hemans , With a Memoir of her Life by Her Sister appeared.
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Isabel Hill: Around 1839

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Author event in Isabel Hill

Around 1839

IH began a manuscript on the subject of female education, which remained unfinished at her death.
Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Feb. 1842.
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Mary Howitt: 1839

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Author event in Mary Howitt

1839

The tide turned for MH , who was at a low ebb financially, when she met Thomas Tegg , a wealthy Scottish publisher established in Cheapside, London, who commissioned a series of novels from her.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Mary Ann Kelty: 1839

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Author event in Mary Ann Kelty

1839

MAK published, with her initials, Biography for Young Ladies: a collection of exemplary women's lives.
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.

Adelaide Kemble: 1840

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Author event in Adelaide Kemble

1840

AK , still in her mid-twenties, made her operatic debut in the tragic-heroic title role of Bellini 's Norma at the Fenice Theatre in Venice.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
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L. E. L.: 1839

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Author event in L. E. L.

1839

L. E. L.The Zenana, and Minor Poems of L.E.L. was published posthumously with a memoir by Emma Roberts .
Roberts had dedicated her Oriental Scenes, Sketches and Tales to LEL in the early 1830s.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Jane Loudon: 1839

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Author event in Jane Loudon

1839

JL returned to book publishing after nine years of marriage with a children's story based on her own daughter: Agnes; or. the Little Girl who could Keep her Promise. And, The Value of money; or...

Anne Marsh: About 1839 to 1840

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Author event in Anne Marsh

About 1839 to 1840

While living at Boulogne in France, not long after the death of her father , AM set down an autobiographical Narrative.
Marsh, Anne, and J. J. Heath-Caldwell. “Narrative (Diary) of Anne Marsh-Caldwell, 1791-1874”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.

Marion Moss: 1839

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Author event in Marion Moss

1839

MM and her sister Celia , as the Misses Moss of the Hebrew Nation published their first and only poetical collection, Early Efforts.
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
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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.

1839: By this date Hanwell Lunatic Asylum had introduced...

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1839

By this date Hanwell Lunatic Asylum had introduced therapeutic labour as part of the patient healing process.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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