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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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Margaret Fuller: 6 November 1839

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Author event in Margaret Fuller

6 November 1839

MF hosted the first of her Conversations, a series of educative discussions for women.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Eliza Dunlop: 10 November 1839

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Author event in Eliza Dunlop

10 November 1839

ED 's husband was transferred from Penrith in New South Wales to become the first magistrate and Protector of the Aborigines at Wollombi in the Hunter Valley.
“History”. Mulla Villa, 2016.

14 November 1839: Prince Albert (future husband of Queen Victoria)...

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14 November 1839

Prince Albert (future husband of Queen Victoria) and his brother Ernest made the first railway trip in England by royalty, from London to Slough.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
92
Kingston, Patrick. Royal Trains. Spring Books, 1985.
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20 November 1839: Missionary John Williams was clubbed to death...

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20 November 1839

Missionary John Williams was clubbed to death by cannibal islanders of Erromanga in the New Hebrides; missions on many of the islands were fraught with danger.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
255
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 30 November 1839

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By 30 November 1839

Marguerite Countess of Blessington published The Belle of a Season: A Poem, an annual for 1840.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
631 (1839): 900
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.

Matilda Charlotte Houstoun: December 1839

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December 1839

Most likely MCH 's earliest publication was the unsigned story Katerina, the Dwarf of the Jungfernstieg in Bentley's Miscellany.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 25

Caroline Norton: Winter 1839-40

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Author event in Caroline Norton

Winter 1839-40

CN travelled with her uncle Charles Sheridan to Rome, where she enjoyed the sight-seeing, but found that even in Italy her name was known and she was an object of curiosity.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
195

December 1839: Thomas Carlyle published his essay Chartism,...

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December 1839

Thomas Carlyle published his essay Chartism, bearing the date of 1840.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 14 December 1839

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By 14 December 1839

Marguerite Blessington 's silver-fork novel The Governess appeared.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
633 (1839): 942

Mary Shelley: 14 December 1839

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Author event in Mary Shelley

14 December 1839

MS edited and issued Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments by her husband and herself.
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.
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.
633 (14 December 1839): 939-42

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: 16 December 1839

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16 December 1839

The Rev. Thomas Thomas , Elizabeth Thomas 's husband, died at Tidenham in Gloucestershire.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
109 (1839): 215

Sarah Flower Adams: 1840-1843

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Author event in Sarah Flower Adams

1840-1843

SFA lived with her husband , her sister , and the Reverend W. J. Fox in Queen Square, Westminster.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
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Sarah Austin: 1840

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1840

SA began a lifelong intimate friendship with François Guizot , statesman and academic, who was then one of the most powerful men in France.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985.
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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: 1840

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1840

Antoinette Brown graduated from Monroe Academy at the age of fifteen. A few years later she enrolled in Oberlin Collegiate Institute 's writing programme.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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Mary Boyle: 1840

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1840

Following the grant of an apartment by the Lord Chamberlain, MB , her mother , and her siblings moved briefly to a grace and favour residence in Hampton Court Palace.
The former royal palace...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon: 1840-1

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1840-1

MEB attended Scarsdale House school in Kensington.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Fredrika Bremer: 1840

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Author event in Fredrika Bremer

1840

FB entered the debate over the union of Norway (the subsidiary power) and Sweden, with her short novel Strid och frid, which was translated into English as Strife and Peace.
The History of Nordic Women’s Literature. 2012, https://nordicwomensliterature.net/.
“Corn-Exchange, Monday, December 11”. The Times, No. 18477, 12 Dec. 1843, p. 7, https://go-gale-com.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Newspapers&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&hitCount=62&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&currentPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CCS100824460&docType=Article&sort=Pub+Date+Forward+Chron&contentSegment=ZTMA-MOD1&prodId=TTDA&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CCS100824460&searchId=R1&userGroupName=guel77241&inPS=true.
18477 (12 December 1843): 7

Fredrika Bremer: 1840

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1840

FB set her drama about rebellion and reconciliation, Trälinnan, in pre-Christian, Viking Scandinavia. An English version by Mary Lowell Putnam was published before May 1844, and another by Mary Howitt followed, both titled...

Frances Browne: 1840

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Author event in Frances Browne

1840

FB 's work first appeared in print after three of her poems were accepted by the Irish Penny Journal.
Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon, 1844.
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Mary Ann Browne: 1840

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Author event in Mary Ann Browne

1840

MAB published Sacred Poetry, dedicated to the Rev. Hugh McNeile of Liverpool.
Blain, Virginia. “’Thou with Earth’s Music Answerest to the Sky’: Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
2
, No. 3, 1995, pp. 251-69.
264

Maria Callcott: 1840

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Author event in Maria Callcott

1840

MC contributed a six-page letter to a book entitled The Seven Ages of Shakspeare, which illustrates with engravings the famous seven ages passage of As You Like It.
Callcott, Maria, and William Shakespeare. “Introduction”. The Seven Ages of Shakspeare, edited by J. Martin and J. Martin, J. Van Voorst, 1840.
title-page

Harriet Downing: 1840

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Author event in Harriet Downing

1840

HD dedicated to Prince Albert her Satan in Love, A Dramatic Poem.
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.

George Eliot: January 1840

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Author event in George Eliot

January 1840

GE , then Mary Ann Evans, became a published author when a religious poem she had written the previous summer appeared in the Christian Observer signed M.A.E.
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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Georgiana Fullerton: 1840

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Author event in Georgiana Fullerton

1840

GF 's first publication appeared, a translation from French into English for Bentley's Miscellany of a poem by Jacques Jasmin titled The Blind Girl of Castel Cuillée.
Dickens, Charles, editor. Bentley’s Miscellany. R. Bentley.
VII (1840): 247-53

Elizabeth Gaskell: 1840-1842

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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell

1840-1842

EG and her husband William were heavily involved in relief work amongst the working classes of Manchester during the recession of the early 1840's.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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