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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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15 August 1839: A Universal Suffrage Central Committee for...

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15 August 1839

A Universal Suffrage Central Committee for Scotland was elected.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
127

Caroline Norton: Later 1839

Women writers item
Author event in Caroline Norton

Later 1839

Following the passage of the Infant Custody Bill, CN renewed her attempts to gain access to her children.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
179-80

17 August 1839: The Custody of Infants Act, or Infant Custody...

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17 August 1839

The Custody of Infants Act, or Infant Custody Bill, allowed judges in England, Wales, and Ireland to grant separated mothers access to their children, on their petitioning the special court and proving their...

Catherine Gore : 19 August 1839

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Author event in Catherine Gore

19 August 1839

After two years without a play on the London stage, CG again launched out with something unprecedented for her: a one-act, two-character farce, A Good Night's Rest; or, Two in the Morning.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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19 August 1839: Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's daguerrotypes...

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19 August 1839

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre 's daguerrotypes (photographic images on silvered copper plates) were shown at a joint meeting of the Académie des Sciences and Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Panati, Charles. Panati’s Browser’s Book of Beginnings. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
365
Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.
653

24 August 1839: The Metropolitan Police Act included penalties...

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24 August 1839

The Metropolitan Police Act included penalties for abuses by the burgeoning advertising trade.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
56, 126
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
573

Charlotte Brontë: Late Summer 1839

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Brontë

Late Summer 1839

CB gained her first experience of rail travel and a first, inspiring sight of the sea during a holiday at Bridlington, Yorkshire, on the east coast, with her friend Ellen Nussey .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
315-16

Margaret Gatty: By September 1839

Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Gatty

By September 1839

Margaret Scott was married in London to the Rev. Alfred Gatty , who soon afterwards became the vicar of Ecclesfield, her father 's old parish.
The Trustees of FreeBMD. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
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.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
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Emma Roberts: 1 September-29 October 1839

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Author event in Emma Roberts

1 September-29 October 1839

ER made an overland journey back to India which took her through France and later Egypt.
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
342-7
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Anne Marsh: Shortly before 1 September 1839

Women writers item
Author event in Anne Marsh

Shortly before 1 September 1839

AMdiscovered within me the seeds of a disease which, she believed, must sooner or later prove fatal.
Marsh, Anne, and J. J. Heath-Caldwell. “Narrative (Diary) of Anne Marsh-Caldwell, 1791-1874”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.
Marsh, Anne, and J. J. Heath-Caldwell. “Narrative (Diary) of Anne Marsh-Caldwell, 1791-1874”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.

6 September 1839: The National Convention of Chartists was...

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6 September 1839

The National Convention of Chartists was dissolved.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
40
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Sarah Harriet Burney: 13 September 1839

Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Harriet Burney

13 September 1839

SHB 's The Romance of Private Life (paired short novels, The Hermitage and The Renunciation) was published after irritating delay.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
423, 425n8

Catherine Maria Grey: By late September 1839

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Author event in Catherine Maria Grey

By late September 1839

CMG 's The Duke, her third novel, was published in three volumes as a result of her first contract with Richard Bentley (who was to publish just one more of her works).
John Bull.
(23 September 1839): 447
Spedding, Patrick. “The Many Mrs. Greys: Confusion and Lies about Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Catherine Maria Grey, Maria Georgina Grey, and Others”. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol.
104
, No. 3, Sept. 2010, pp. 299-40.
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28 September 1839: The Chartist Circular began publication in...

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28 September 1839

The Chartist Circular began publication in Glasgow, under the auspices of the Universal Suffrage Central Committee for Scotland .
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
127
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.
Yan, Shu-chuan. “’When Common Voices Speak’: Labour, Poetry and Eliza Cook”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
22
, No. 4, Nov. 2015, pp. 428-54.
435

Matilda Charlotte Houstoun: 1 October 1839

Women writers item

1 October 1839

Matilda Charlotte Fraser married her second husband, William Houstoun (a captain in the 10th Hussars and the second son of a baronet), at the British Embassy Chapel in Paris.
The International Genealogical Index provides...

October 1839-August 1841: Samuel Warren's Ten Thousand A Year was serialised...

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October 1839-August 1841

Samuel Warren 's Ten Thousand A Year was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Anna Brassey: 7 October 1839

Women writers item
Author event in Anna Brassey

7 October 1839

Anna Allnutt (later AB ) was born.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 68

Queen Victoria: 10 October 1839

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Author event in Queen Victoria

10 October 1839

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg made a second visit to England to see his cousin QV .
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
132
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Queen Victoria: 15 October 1839

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Author event in Queen Victoria

15 October 1839

QV proposed marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg after spending a short time with him.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
133-4
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xiv

19 October 1839: George Bradshaw published the first Bradshaw's...

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19 October 1839

George Bradshaw published the first Bradshaw's Railway Guide.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Mary Matilda Betham: 27 October 1839

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Author event in Mary Matilda Betham

27 October 1839

MMB 's father, antiquarian William Betham , died at the age of ninety at the home of his youngest daughter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Betham

Harriett Mozley: November 1839

Women writers item
Author event in Harriett Mozley

November 1839

HM 's only child, Grace Mozley , was born.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
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Tillotson, Kathleen et al. “Harriett Mozley”. Mid-Victorian Studies, Athlone Press, 1965, pp. 38-48.
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November 1839: Thomas Arnold deplored the effects of the...

Writing climate item

November 1839

Thomas Arnold deplored the effects of the proliferation, cheapening, and serialization of literature in a sermon at Rugby Chapel.
Hughes, Linda K., and Michael Lund. The Victorian Serial. University Press of Virginia, 1991.
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November 1839: Edgar Allan Poe published Tales of the Grotesque...

Writing climate item

November 1839

Edgar Allan Poe published Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, which included The Fall of the House of Usher.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Heartman, Charles F., and James R. Canny. A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Kraus Reprint, 1972.
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Robertson, John Wooster. Bibliography of the Writings of Edgar A. Poe. Kraus, 1969.
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3-4 November 1839: Welsh Chartists marched on Newport in Mo...

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3-4 November 1839

Welsh Chartists marched on Newport in Monmouthshire.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
40
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
180
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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