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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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Lucie Duff Gordon: 16 May 1840

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Author event in Lucie Duff Gordon

16 May 1840

Eighteen-year-old Lucie Austin married Sir Alexander Duff Gordon at Kensington Old Church.
Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, pp. 1-17.
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Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
109

Flora Tristan: 16 May 1840

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Author event in Flora Tristan

16 May 1840

The Paris firm Delloye issued FT 's Promenades dans Londres (often translated as London Journals), which aims to [point] out the evils of the English system so that we on the Continent might strive...

16 May 1840: Frederick Lucas founded a Roman Catholic...

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16 May 1840

Frederick Lucas founded a Roman Catholic journal entitled The Tablet, a vehicle for radical Irish Catholic politics.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
192-3, 212
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

Jane Loudon: 20 May 1840

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Author event in Jane Loudon

20 May 1840

JL and her husband set out to travel in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire.
Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century, 1990.
189-90

26 May 1840: The Westminster Review, a new or restored...

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26 May 1840

The Westminster Review, a new or restored incarnation of the London and Westminster Review, first appeared, following on the resignation of John Stuart Mill .
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 540-1

Augusta Ada Byron: June 1840

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Author event in Augusta Ada Byron

June 1840

AAB (now Countess of Lovelace) began studying with Augustus De Morgan , a leading logician and the first professor of mathematics at the University of London .
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
under Lovelace, Augusta
Stein, Dorothy. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. MIT Press, 1985.
xix

Mary Shelley: June to November 1840

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Author event in Mary Shelley

June to November 1840

MS , with her son Percy and some friends of his, travelled in Europe.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
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Mary Howitt: June 1840-April 1843

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Author event in Mary Howitt

June 1840-April 1843

Inspired by stories of the cheapness of life in Germany, MH , her husband and five children moved to the Rhineland (an unfortunate, because expensive, choice); they lived two years at Heidelberg.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
142-3, 145

June 1840: American women were refused entry as delegates...

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June 1840

American women were refused entry as delegates to the first World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Davidson, Cathy N., and Linda Wagner-Martin, editors. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
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Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
199-200
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

Thomas Hardy: 2 June 1840

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Author event in Thomas Hardy

2 June 1840

TH , west-country architect, novelist, and poet, was born in a cottage at Higher Bockhampton, a smalll village near Dorchester in Dorset, the eldest child in his family.
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin, 1978.
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7 June 1840: Frederick William IV became King of Prussia...

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7 June 1840

Frederick William IV became King of Prussia upon the death of Frederick William III .
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
171, 256
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

Queen Victoria: 10 June 1840

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Author event in Queen Victoria

10 June 1840

An assassination attempt was made on QV , pregnant with her first child, as she and Albert drove in an open carriage.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Jane Loudon: By mid June 1840

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By mid June 1840

In response to the financial crisis caused by her husband's scholarly, definitive Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, JL published a book which became her best-known work, Instructions in Gardening for Ladies.
Bea Howe suggests...

By 13 June 1840: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published his...

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By 13 June 1840

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published his first collection of poetry, Voices of the Night.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
659 (1840): 472

Adelaide O'Keeffe: 16 June 1840

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Author event in Adelaide O'Keeffe

16 June 1840

AOK , a recipient of Royal Literary Fund charity since 1833, became probably the only author ever to question the Fund's methods, setting out by letter her detailed proposals for reforming the system.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

18 June 1840-7 July 1841: Edward J. Eyre completed a gruelling expedition...

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18 June 1840-7 July 1841

Edward J. Eyre completed a gruelling expedition overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound.
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A History of Australia. Melbourne University Press, 1981.
III: 77
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A Short History of Australia. Revised Illustrated, Penguin, 1986.
73-4
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna Swanwick: June 1840

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Author event in Anna Swanwick

June 1840

AS was politically outraged by the treatment of Lucretia Mott and others who had travelled from the USA to attend the London Anti-Slavery Convention, and were told that women could not be admitted to the...

Anna Brownell Jameson: 22 June 1840

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22 June 1840

ABJ went to the LondonWorld Anti-Slavery Convention in the company of Lady Byron , Amelia Opie , and Marion Reid .
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
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Catherine Sinclair: By 27 June 1840

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By 27 June 1840

In the same year as her Scotland and the Scotch, CS also published at New York through D. Appleton and Co.Shetland and the Shetlanders; or, the Northern Circuit.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
661 (27 July 1840): 512-14

Caroline Norton: By 27 June 1840

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By 27 June 1840

Caroline Norton published The Dream, and Other Poems.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
661 (1840): 511

Margaret Fuller: July 1840

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Author event in Margaret Fuller

July 1840

MF , as editor (first woman editor of an influential literary journal),
Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 22, 15 Nov. 2007, pp. 16-18.
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put out the first issue of the Transcendental ist journal The Dial.
Mehren, Joan von. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
124
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
239

Queen Victoria: July 1840

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Author event in Queen Victoria

July 1840

When QV was five months pregnant, Prince Albert was appointed Regent in the event of her death in childbirth.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
152

Catherine Gore : Summer 1840

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Author event in Catherine Gore

Summer 1840

CG returned from Paris to London with her eldest daughter, while her husband and the other children remained in Paris.
Simons, Gary. Email to Isobel Grundy about Catherine Gore. 12 Oct. 2016.

Susanna Moodie: July 1840

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Author event in Susanna Moodie

July 1840

SM gave birth to another son, who lived only three weeks.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
160

July 1840: The National Charter Association was fou...

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July 1840

The National Charter Association was founded.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation. Verso, 1993.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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