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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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Frances Wright: 20 June 1839

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20 June 1839

FW left the USA feeling that her latest visit there had been less than successful, returning to Paris with the intention of withdrawing altogether from public life.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Anne Lister: 20 June 1839

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20 June 1839

AL and Ann Walker set off for Russia, Persia, and Turkey.
Lister, Anne. No Priest But Love. Editor Whitbread, Helena, New York University Press, 1992.
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Jane Loudon: 28 June 1839

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28 June 1839

JL set out with her husband and daughter on their first tour abroad, to visit gardens in and en route to Paris. They took it comparatively easily since John Claudius Loudon was in great...

Sarah Lewis: : By July 1839

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An anonymous advice-book, Woman's Mission (one of the two known publications of the obscure, English SL ) appeared at London by J. W. Parker . It had seventeen editions by 1854 and was translated into...

July-August 1839: The Rural Police Act was debated and passed...

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July-August 1839

The Rural Police Act was debated and passed on 17 August 1839.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

July 1839-29 August 1842: The Opium War began after the Chinese attempted...

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July 1839-29 August 1842

The Opium War began after the Chinese attempted to curb the British opium trade; the war ended with a peace treaty signed at Nanking, by which China opened five ports to the British, and...

5 July 1839: Lady Flora Hastings, a lady-in-waiting to...

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5 July 1839

Lady Flora Hastings , a lady-in-waiting to the mother of the young and inexperienced Queen Victoria , died, probably of liver cancer, at Buckingham Palace after being publicly suspected of illicit pregnancy.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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 Boyle: By 6 July 1839

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By 6 July 1839

MB 's second historical novel, The Forester, a Tale of 1688, appeared.
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.

Julia Stretton: 6 July 1839

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6 July 1839

Walter Wilkins (first husband of JS ) resumed, by Royal Licence, the ancient surname of de Winton.
Page, Anna. “Maesllwch Castle: The seat of an influential family”. Powys Ditigal History Project: Communities Menu: Hay and the Wye Valley.
This was the name of the eleventh-century Norman grantee of land later bought by an eighteenth-century Wilkins.
Page, Anna. “Maesllwch Castle: The seat of an influential family”. Powys Ditigal History Project: Communities Menu: Hay and the Wye Valley.

Fanny Kingsley : 6 July 1839

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6 July 1839

Fanny Grenfell first met the Cambridge undergraduate Charles Kingsley at Brazier's Park, near Ipsden in Oxfordshire, where she was staying with her family. Kingsley, whose father had exchanged duties with a local parson in...

6 July 1839: In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat...

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6 July 1839

In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat promoted the stereotype that middle-class Americans adhered to a more strict paradigm of prudishness than their British counterparts, and apparently gave rise to the myth that Victorians...

Margaret Emily Shore: 7 July 1839

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7 July 1839

MES died of tuberculosis at the age of nineteen, the year after her family moved from England to the island of Madeira in an attempt to improve her health.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Louisa Catherine Shore
Shore, Margaret Emily. “Introduction”. Journal of Emily Shore, edited by Arabella Shore et al., New edition, Kegan Paul, 1898, p. v - xiii.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

8 July 1839: The Bull Ring Riots took place in Birmin...

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8 July 1839

The Bull Ring Riots took place in Birmingham.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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12 July 1839: Thomas Attwood and John Fielden proposed...

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12 July 1839

Thomas Attwood and John Fielden proposed consideration by the House of Commons of a petition for universal manhood suffrage bearing a million signatures.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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15 July 1839: Teetotallers largely ended the practice of...

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15 July 1839

Teetotallers largely ended the practice of offering strong drink to children at religious festivities in Yorkshire; local Methodists, however, continued to do so.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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Sarah Austin: By 20 July 1839

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By 20 July 1839

SA published her essay On National Education, which reflected a strong interest in working-class education.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
537 (1839): 537
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Lady Charlotte Elliot: 22 July 1839

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22 July 1839

Charlotte Carnegie, later the poet LCE , was born at Kinnaird, Perthshire, in Scotland.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Frances Burney: 30 July-21 August 1839

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30 July-21 August 1839

FB wrote her last letter, to her niece Charlotte Barrett .
Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
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Caroline Bowles: August 1839

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August 1839

CB moved into her new husband 's home, Greta Hall at Keswick.
Hall, Samuel Carter. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance. Virtue, 1871.
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Mary Howitt: Early August 1839

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Early August 1839

MH bore her youngest child, Margaret Anastasia , known as Meggie or Meggy, who lived until 1930 and became (like two of her brothers) a great traveller.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
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Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Emma Roberts: By 3 August 1839

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By 3 August 1839

ER published a little handbook entitled The East India Voyager; or, Ten Minutes' Advice to the Outward-Bound.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
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.
615 (1839): 595

Walter Pater: 4 August 1839

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4 August 1839

WP , essayist and critic, was born at 1 Honduras Terrace, Commercial Road, in Stepney, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

7 August 1839: Kabul was occupied by an invading British...

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7 August 1839

Kabul was occupied by an invading British (and Indian) army in the First British-Afghan War. The aim was to forestall any Russian attempt on British India through Afghanistan.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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French, David. “It was all about the Russians”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 5 May 2012, pp. 28-9.
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Frances Trollope: By 10 August 1839

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By 10 August 1839

FT 's The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy, possibly the first industrial novel, appeared with a date of 1840.
Texts that anticipate its interest in industrial relations include Harriet Martineau

By 10 August 1839: Captain Philip Meadows Taylor published The...

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By 10 August 1839

Captain Philip Meadows Taylor published The Confessions of A Thug, purporting knowledge of an indigenous and criminal secret society in India.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
615 (1839): 595
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.