Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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.
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6 April 1839: Henri Beyle published his last novel, La...
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6 April 1839
published his last novel, La Chartreuse de Parme, in Paris under the pseudonym Henri Stendhal.
Anne Brontë: 8 April 1839
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Author event in Anne Brontë
8 April 1839
left home for a short period as a governess at Blake Hall, near Mirfield.
Elizabeth Bentley: 13 April 1839
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Author event in Elizabeth Bentley
13 April 1839
died at an almshouse for the elderly poor called Doughty's Hospital, in Norwich, in her early seventies.
Jane Loudon: By mid-April 1839
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By mid-April 1839
launched a literary venture with The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals, opening a series of books about particular aspects and kinds of plant.
Louisa Anne Meredith : 18 April 1839
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Author event in Louisa Anne Meredith
18 April 1839
married her cousin
(from a Welsh family that had settled in what is now Tasmania) at Edgbaston Old Church near Birmingham.
19 April 1839: The Treaty of London, which had five signatories...
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19 April 1839
The Treaty of London, which had five signatories including Britain, settled the details of Belgium's frontier.
James Malcolm Rymer: Biography: 27 April 1839
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Charlotte Brontë: May-July 1839
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Author event in Charlotte Brontë
May-July 1839
took a temporary position as a governess not far from Haworth.
Jane Loudon: May 1839
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Author event in Jane Loudon
May 1839
and her
travelled from London to Sheffield and Derby together; the estates they visited on this trip included Kedleston Hall and Chatsworth (which they liked better than on their previous visit).
May 1839: Blanquists unsuccessfully attempted an armed...
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May 1839
Blanquists unsuccessfully attempted an armed coup in Paris;
was jailed for eight years.
May 1839: The New Zealand Company was founded with...
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May 1839
The
was founded with the purpose of colonizing New Zealand.
May 1839-February 1840: Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq.,...
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May 1839-February 1840
Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq., junior,
published Catherine, a novel satirising the Newgate school of crime fiction, in serial form in Fraser's Magazine.
May 1839: The May Manifesto was issued by the General...
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May 1839
The May Manifesto was issued by the
.
Georgiana Chatterton : By 4 May 1839
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Author event in Georgiana Chatterton
By 4 May 1839
published Rambles in the South of Ireland During the Year 1838, with illustrations, and a dedication to
(wife of
, a relative of hers and...
7 May 1839: A petition for universal suffrage with 1,280,000...
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7 May 1839
A petition for universal suffrage with 1,280,000 signatures was given to
and
to be presented, next month, to Parliament.
21 May 1839: The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was completed,...
21 May 1839
The
was completed, becoming England's first coast-to-coast railway.
Mary Louisa Molesworth: 29 May 1839
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Author event in Mary Louisa Molesworth
29 May 1839
Mary Louisa Stewart (later
) was born in Rotterdam (where her Scots parents were then living) into a family which eventually totalled six children.
Mary Ann Browne: June 1839
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Author event in Mary Ann Browne
June 1839
, as Miss M. A. Browne, began publishing her poems in the Dublin University Magazine: her first contribution included Twelve Sketches from the Antique as well as modern-based poems.
Dinah Mulock Craik: Summer 1839
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Author event in Dinah Mulock Craik
Summer 1839
's maternal grandmother died;
's inheritance enabled the family to move to London in autumn 1840.
Louisa Anne Meredith : June 1839
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June 1839
A couple of months after their marriage in England,
and her
set out for Australia, where they at first intended to live for only five years.
Caroline Norton: Earlier 1839
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Author event in Caroline Norton
Earlier 1839
Under the pseudonym Pearce Stevenson, Esq. (a name presumably designed to sound like that of a lawyer),
published A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill.
She is referring...
June 1839-June 1840: At least 543 Chartists were detained, usually...
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June 1839-June 1840
At least 543 Chartists were detained, usually on charges of sedition, for periods of several weeks to several years.
1 June 1839: John Conolly became the resident physician...
1 June 1839
became the resident physician at
; he proved that a large mental institution could be managed without physical discipline.
Caroline Bowles: 5 June 1839
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Author event in Caroline Bowles
5 June 1839
married poet
at Boldre Church near Lymington in the New Forest.
14 June 1839: Thomas Attwood and John Fielden presented...
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14 June 1839
and
presented to Parliament a petition for universal suffrage.