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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 Barrett Browning: 17 February 1840

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17 February 1840

Elizabeth Barrett 's brother Sam , six years her younger, died at the age of twenty-eight of fever in Jamaica.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
97-8
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
4: xiv

By 22 February 1840: R. H. Barham published his popular The Ingoldsby...

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By 22 February 1840

R. H. Barham published his popular The Ingoldsby Legends: or Mirth and Marvels under the pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
643 (1840): 154
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Sarah Stickney Ellis: 29 February 1840

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Author event in Sarah Stickney Ellis

29 February 1840

SSE published a 298-page narrative poem, an elegiac celebration of the yeoman farming class, The Sons of the Soil, A Poem, which extends to almost 6,000 lines of iambic pentameter couplets.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Sons of the Soil, 1840. http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ellis/sons.html.
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.
Colander, Raymond Eugene. The Victorian Verse-Novel. Northwestern University, 1969.
42
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.
644 (29 February 1840): 170

Anna Maria Hall: By 29 February 1840

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Author event in Anna Maria Hall

By 29 February 1840

AMH published a three-volume novel, Marian; or, A Young Maid's Fortunes.
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
644 (1840): 171

Robert Browning: March 1840

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Author event in Robert Browning

March 1840

RB published his verse narrative Sordello, one of his many poems set in Renaissance Italy..
Irvine, William, and Park Honan. The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. McGraw-Hill, 1974.
86
Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
69-70

Amelia Opie: March 1840

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Author event in Amelia Opie

March 1840

AO contributed the first part of Recollections of Days in Belgium to Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, of which Christian Isobel Johnstone was editor.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
229
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
xxxix

: Chartists were tried at Liverpool, York,...

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Spring 1840

Chartists were tried at Liverpool, York, Bradford, Barnsley and Taunton.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
40-1

Jane Harvey: 2 March 1840

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Author event in Jane Harvey

2 March 1840

JH wrote Conclusion, a poem to close her last volume. She says the lyre is falling from her hand: my devious gleaning task is done.
Harvey, Jane. Fugitive Pieces. Currie and Bowman, 1841.
1

13 March 1840: James Young and Adrian Delcambre were granted...

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13 March 1840

James Young and Adrian Delcambre were granted a patent for their composing machine.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
145-6

Caroline Chisholm: Early 1840

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Author event in Caroline Chisholm

Early 1840

CC and her children remained in Australia when Archibald Chisholm was recalled to his regiment in China.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
5

April 1840: The Rev. J. F. Witty founded the Church of...

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April 1840

The Rev. J. F. Witty founded the Church of England Temperance Society ; the church would not commit to temperance, and the society folded within six months.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
49

2 April 1840: Novelist Émile Zola was born in Paris, F...

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2 April 1840

Novelist Émile Zola was born in Paris, France.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
123

Mary Carpenter: The night of 5-6 April 1840

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Author event in Mary Carpenter

The night of 5-6 April 1840

MC 's father, Lant Carpenter died in mysterious circumstances at sea, going overboard from a ship off the coast of Europe. Her friend Joseph Tuckerman also died within a couple of weeks of this event.
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.
56

Hannah Webster Foster: 17 April 1840

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Author event in Hannah Webster Foster

17 April 1840

HWF died in Montreal, in her early eighties.
Shurter, Robert L. “Mrs Hannah Webster Foster and the Early American Novel”. American Literature, Vol.
4
, No. 3, 1932, pp. 306-8.
308

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: By 18 April 1840

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By 18 April 1840

Sydney Morgan published the first instalment (two volumes) of her long-projected Woman and Her Master.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 458
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
230-1
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.
651 (18 April 1840): 307-9

Catherine Sinclair: By 25 April 1840

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Author event in Catherine Sinclair

By 25 April 1840

CS 's second travel book, Scotland and the Scotch; or, The Western Circuit, was published in New York through D. Appleton and Co. It was reissued with corrections and additions in 1841 by W. Whyte and Co.

George Sand: 29 April 1840

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Author event in George Sand

29 April 1840

GS 's playCosima, titled after the daughter of Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult , opened in Paris.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
204-5

Caroline Clive: By May 1840

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Author event in Caroline Clive

By May 1840

Shortly before her marriage, under the pseudonym V., the soon-to-be CC published IX. Poems by V.; it was re-issued the next year with nine additional poems.
Mitchell, Charlotte. Caroline Clive, 1801-1873, A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queenland, 1999.
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Mitchell, Charlotte. Caroline Clive, 1801-1873, A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queenland, 1999.
41
Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press, 1932.
120

Flora Tristan: Before May 1840

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Author event in Flora Tristan

Before May 1840

With the help of a Turkish diplomat she met while in London, FT attended sessions in the British House of Commons and House of Lords disguised as a Turkish gentleman.
Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books, 1980.
55

Caroline Norton: May 1840

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Author event in Caroline Norton

May 1840

The recently married Queen Victoria received CN at Court: a testimony to belief in her innocence, in the face of George Norton 's attempts to blacken her reputation.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
169

1 May 1840: The first adhesive postage stamps went on...

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1 May 1840

The first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in Great Britain in penny and twopenny denominations which bore the profile of Queen Victoria .
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
407

Anna Brownell Jameson: 5 May 1840

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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson

5 May 1840

ABJ attended (with Robert Browning ) a lecture given by Thomas Carlyle on The Hero as Divinity, and a week later on The Hero as Poet (later part of On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the...

Anne Brontë: Early to mid-May 1840

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Author event in Anne Brontë

Early to mid-May 1840

AB took up her second position as governess: at Thorp Green, near York, for £40 per year.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
329

Margaret Sandbach: By 9 May 1840

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Author event in Margaret Sandbach

By 9 May 1840

MS , as Mrs. Henry R. Sandbach, published her first volume of poetry, a slim collection of predominantly short lyrics entitled Poems.
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
654 (1840): 368

Henrietta Camilla Jenkin: By 9 May 1840

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Author event in Henrietta Camilla Jenkin

By 9 May 1840

HCJ published with Richard Bentley the first of her novels, Miss Aylmer; or, The Maid's Husband, anonymously: she began writing because her family needed the money.
The old Dictionary of National Biography article on...