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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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Marion Reid: 7 January 1839

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7 January 1839

Marion Kirkland married educational writer Hugo Reid at Glasgow.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Eliza Dunlop: 12 January 1839

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Author event in Eliza Dunlop

12 January 1839

ED followed The Aboriginal Mother in The Australian with another lament, The Irish Mother, bearing her initials, E.H.D.
Hansord, Katie. “A Forgotten Colonial Woman Poet”. Tinteán, 6 Nov. 2015.

Catherine Sinclair: By 12 January 1839

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Author event in Catherine Sinclair

By 12 January 1839

CS published, through William Whyte and Co. of Edinburgh, her best known text, the children's stories Holiday House; a Series of Tales.
“Review”. The Standard, 12 Jan. 1839, p. 1.
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19 January 1839: British ships attacked Aden, which was at...

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19 January 1839

British ships attacked Aden, which was at that time annexed to British India.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
9

25 January 1839: William Henry Fox Talbot's invention, photogenic...

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25 January 1839

William Henry Fox Talbot 's invention, photogenic drawing (using what later became known as a photographic negative), was exhibited by Michael Faraday to the Royal Society in London.
Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.
655
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
69
Schaaf, Larry J. Out of the Shadows. Yale University Press, 1992.
47
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996.
307
Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
150

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 27 January 1839

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27 January 1839

BBBD , suffered a severe blow in the death from consumption of her only child, Arabella Sullivan , the wife of the vicar of Kimpton in Hertfordshire (where Barbarina and her husband lived).
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols.
2: 210
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage. http://www.thepeerage.com/.
Grey, Barbarina Charlotte, Lady. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray, 1908.
159

27 January 1839: Charter newspaper began publication in L...

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27 January 1839

Charter newspaper began publication in London.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Barbara Hofland: 28 January 1839

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

28 January 1839

BH wrote her dedication to a young friend, Margaretta Ayrton , of Farewell Tales, published with 1840 on the title-page.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1839

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1839

SSE 's best known work, the enormously popular conduct manual The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits appeared under the name Mrs Ellis; her preface, dated February 1839, bore her full name.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Women of England. 4 ed., Fisher, 1839.
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Deborah Norris Logan: 2 February 1839

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Author event in Deborah Norris Logan

2 February 1839

DNL died at her husband's family estate of Stenton, Germantown, near Philadelphia.
Premo, Terri L. “’Like A Being Who Does Not Belong’: The Old Age of Deborah Norris Logan”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.
107
, No. 1, Jan. 1983, pp. 85-112.
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James, Edward T. et al., editors. Notable American Women, 1607-1950. Harvard University Press, 1971, 3 vols.

4 February 1839: The Chartist National Convention was held...

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4 February 1839

The Chartist National Convention was held at the British Hotel, Charing Cross.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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26 February 1839: The first Grand National steeplechase was...

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26 February 1839

The first Grand National steeplechase was run at Aintree in Lancashire, near Liverpool.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
264

Charlotte Brontë: March 1839

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

March 1839

CB declined a marriage proposal from the Reverend Henry Nussey , the brother of her friend Ellen .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
301

Anna Brownell Jameson: Spring 1839

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Spring 1839

On hearing of her brother-in-law's financial failure, ABJ assumed financial responsibility for her niece Gerardine Bate .
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
148

Early 1839: The first photogenic drawing kits were made...

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Early 1839

The first photogenic drawing kits were made and sold by Ackermann and Company of London.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
69
Buckland, Gail. Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography. Scolar Press, 1980.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 2 March 1839

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By 2 March 1839

Marguerite Blessington published in two volumes The Idler in Italy, a skilfully edited selection from private journals of a tour taken in 1822.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
592 (1839): 165
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.

20 March 1839: The Anti-Corn Law League was founded....

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20 March 1839

The Anti-Corn Law League was founded.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
29
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836-1854. Editors Raymond, Meredith B. and Mary Rose Sullivan, Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University, 1983, 3 vols.
3: 73, 80
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
127

Anna Eliza Bray: By 23 March 1839

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By 23 March 1839

AEB published her collection of stories, Trials of the Heart, in three volumes.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845–1846, 10 vols.
1: xxxiii
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 49

Louisa Anne Meredith : By 23 March 1839

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By 23 March 1839

Louisa Anne Twamley (soon to become LAM ) wrote and illustrated Our Wild Flowers, Familiarly Described and Illustrated, a botanical narrative for young readers.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
595 (1839): 220
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 Howitt: 30 March 1839

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30 March 1839

MH 's Hymns and Fireside Verses appeared in print from Darton and Clark .
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.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
569 (30 March 1839):241-2

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: By 30 March 1839

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By 30 March 1839

Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton) published her first novel, Cheveley; or, The Man of Honour, in three volumes.
It was reviewed on this date in the Athenæum by Sydney Morgan .
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
xxxv
Athenæum. J. Lection.
596 (1839): 235-6

April-May 1839: The Chartist Llanidloes riots took place,with...

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April-May 1839

The Chartist Llanidloes riots took place,with significant participation by women.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation. Verso, 1993.
93

4 April 1839: Major General Sir Charles James Napier assumed...

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4 April 1839

Major General Sir Charles James Napier assumed command of the North of England as Chartist agitation grew.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Harriet Martineau: Late spring 1839

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

Late spring 1839

HM set out to travel through Europe with friends. She fell ill in Italy; however, and in June she was brought back to England.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. University of Michigan Press, 1980.
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Harriet Martineau: By 6 April 1839

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By 6 April 1839

HM 's first novel, Deerbrook, was published in three volumes through Edward Moxon .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
597 (1839):254
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
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