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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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Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: Probably 1840

Women writers item

Probably 1840

EPW had separately printed a poem as a single sheet: On Reading Lady Flora Hastings ' Poems, which also appeared the next year in Hastings's Poems, posthumously edited by her sister.
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.

Harriette Wilson: About 1840

Women writers item
Author event in Harriette Wilson

About 1840

HW was received into the Roman Catholic Church under the religious name of Mary Magdalen.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
294

Harriet Tytler: By 1840

Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Tytler

By 1840

The child Harriet Earle (later HT ) travelled from India to Birmingham to live with her aunt and uncle.
Tytler, Harriet, and Philip Mason. An Englishwoman in India. Editor Sattin, Anthony, Oxford University Press, 1986.
35, 37-8
Mason, Philip et al. “Editorial materials”. An Englishwoman in India, edited by Anthony Sattin, Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. xviii - xxiii; 175.
199
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.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1840

Women writers item

1840

A of book children's stories by Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) was published under the title The Simple Flower. An Italian translation was placed on the Papal Index Expurgatorius.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
308

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: Perhaps 1840

Women writers item

Perhaps 1840

There was published as by Mrs. Thomas (who may just possibly be Elizabeth Thomas ) a ten-page story, The Convert. A Tale of Real Life.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Mary Somerville: 1840-57

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Somerville

1840-57

During these years MS was made an honorary member of eleven Italian scientific societies.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
212

Lydia Howard Sigourney: 1840

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Author event in Lydia Howard Sigourney

1840

On a trip lasting for several months, LHS visited Britain (chiefly Scotland, the Lake District, Liverpool, and London) and Paris. She left to return home about May 1841.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
73
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
5: 51

Elizabeth Sewell: 1840

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Author event in Elizabeth Sewell

1840

ES met most of the Oxford movement leaders at a dinner party given by William Yonge . The party was given to celebrate the consecration of the church at Ampthill in Bedfordshire, a centre...

George Sand: 1840

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Author event in George Sand

1840

GS 's gender-bending novel Gabriel was published.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France. http://www.bnf.fr/.

Frances Arabella Rowden: Probably 1840

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Author event in Frances Arabella Rowden

Probably 1840

Frances Arabella de St Quintin , formerly Rowden, died. It is odd that the exact date is not recorded; nor is the place, whether Paris or somewhere back in England; the ODNB suggests Iver in Buckinghamshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Emma Roberts: 1840

Women writers item
Author event in Emma Roberts

1840

ER 's [a]ugmented and improved
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.
64th edition of the publishing phenomenon A New System of Domestic Cookery by Maria Eliza Rundell was released. Rundell's first edition had appeared in 1808.
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.

Hannah Mary Rathbone: 1840

Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Mary Rathbone

1840

HMR , again as a Lady, edited another anthology, A Selection from the Poets: it includes the work of nearly twenty women, including 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.
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.

Catherine Gore : 1840

Writing climate item
Author event in Catherine Gore

1840

CG edited Charles Heath 's gift book the Picturesque Annual.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
257

Elizabeth Grant: 1 January 1840

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Grant

1 January 1840

EG (now Elizabeth Smith) began writing her journal in Ireland.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Highland Lady in Ireland, edited by Andrew Tod, Canongate, 1991, p. vii - xiii.
viii

Anna Maria Hall: 1840

Women writers item
Author event in Anna Maria Hall

1840

AMH published Stories of the Irish Peasantry.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
ix, 233

Geraldine Jewsbury: 1840

Women writers item
Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury

1840

GJ and the other Jewsbury children (with the exception of Arthur , who was disowned for unknown reasons) received legacies from their maternal grandfather when he died.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
33

Harriet Martineau: 1840-1844

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

1840-1844

Seriously ill from a prolapsed uterus and polypous tumour, HM became convinced that her death was imminent.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
xxii
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 214

1840: George King and Robert King went into partnership...

Writing climate item

1840

George King and Robert King went into partnership in Aberdeen, to form the publishing firm of G. and R. King .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 3

1840: When Francis Hill drove his steam coach from...

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1840

When Francis Hill drove his steam coach from London to Hastings and back with no mechanical problems; it was the first time a powered vehicle covered one hundred road miles.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
92
Beaulieu, Edward, Lord Montagu of, and Anthony Bird. Steam Cars 1770-1970. Cassell, 1971.
53

1840: Protest erupted across Germany when France...

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1840

Protest erupted across Germany when France demanded a border along the Rhine.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
47

1840: Thomas Sharples opened a concert room in...

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1840

Thomas Sharples opened a concert room in his public house in Bolton.
Taylor, John Russell, editor. The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre. 3rd ed., Penguin, 1993.
74

1840: German doctor Robert Koch began developing...

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1840

German doctor Robert Koch began developing the famous four Henle-Koch postulates to establish the connection between a bacterium and a disease.
Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
57
Shryock, Richard Harrison. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
282

1840: Thomas Cautley Newby established himself...

Writing climate item

1840

Thomas Cautley Newby established himself as a publisher in London; he earned notoriety for failing to honour contracts, especially with new writers.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 225

1840-1894: According to The Lancet, the number of annual...

National or international item

1840-1894

According to The Lancet, the number of annual deaths from cancer in England and Wales rose by 18,636 people over fifty-four years.
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
327

1840: John William Draper took what is assumed...

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1840

John William Draper took what is assumed to be the oldest surviving photograph of a person.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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