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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: 11 July 1840

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11 July 1840

Edward or Bro, Elizabeth Barrett 's closest brother, drowned in a sailing accident off Torquay.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
4: xiv

23 July 1840: The Vaccination Act or (Act to Extend the...

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23 July 1840

The Vaccination Act or (Act to Extend the Practice of Vaccination) was the first of a series of such acts passed in response to an epidemic of smallpox among the poor between 1837 and 1840...

23 July 1840: An Act of Union politically united Upper...

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23 July 1840

An Act of Union politically united Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the single Province of Canada.
Lower, Arthur R. M. Colony to Nation: A History of Canada. Longmans, Green, 1946.
255-8
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 462
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
833

Louisa Stuart Costello: By 1 August 1840

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Author event in Louisa Stuart Costello

By 1 August 1840

LSC published her two-volume travel book about France, A Summer Amongst the Bocages and the Vines.
Bocage, a French word for a grove or woodland, was coincidentally the name of an eighteenth-century...

George Eliot: By August 1840

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Author event in George Eliot

By August 1840

GE , then Mary Ann Evans, gave up her first project for compiling and publishing a chronological chart of ecclesiastical history when she discovered that a similar work had recently been published.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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Geraldine Jewsbury: From later 1840

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Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury

From later 1840

After her father's death, GJ ran her brother Frank 's household until his marriage in 1853.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

7 August 1840: An Act of Parliament was passed in Britain...

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7 August 1840

An Act of Parliament was passed in Britain forbidding the use of anybody under twenty-one to climb inside chimneys, and the apprenticing of chimney sweeps under sixteen.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
7 August 2008

10 August 1840: The Irish Municipal Reform Act was passe...

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10 August 1840

The Irish Municipal Reform Act was passed.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
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Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
310, 606

Anne Lister: 11 August 1840

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Author event in Anne Lister

11 August 1840

AL made her final diary entry, one month and ten days before she died.
Lister, Anne. Miss Lister of Shibden Hall. Editor Green, Muriel, Book Guild, 1992.
205

Elizabeth Stone: By 29 August 1840

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By 29 August 1840

Elizabeth Stone published her survey of The Art of Needlework from the Earliest Ages, edited by the Countess of Wilton .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
670 (1840): 675

By September 1840: Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia joined...

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By September 1840

Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia joined in a Quadruple Alliance, which dispatched a fleet to the eastern Mediterranean to ensure the submission of Mehemet Ali of Egypt.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Emma Roberts: 17 September 1840

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Author event in Emma Roberts

17 September 1840

ER died at Poona in India, where she had arrived just the day before.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
346-7

Anne Lister: 22 September 1840

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Author event in Anne Lister

22 September 1840

AL died in Kutaisi, West Georgia, near the Black Sea, of a fever carried by a local species of tick.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Lister, Anne. “Introduction”. I Know My Own Heart, edited by Helena Whitbread, New York University Press, 1992, p. xxiii - xxix.
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Birch, Dinah. “Grubbling”. London Review of Books, 21 Jan. 1999, pp. 10-11.
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Rosa Nouchette Carey: 24 September 1840

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Author event in Rosa Nouchette Carey

24 September 1840

RNC was born at Stratford-le-Bow (now in East London), the second-youngest both of the seven children who survived, and of the five girls in the family.
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Ellen Mary Clerke: 26 September 1840

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Author event in Ellen Mary Clerke

26 September 1840

EMC was born at Skibbereen in County Cork, Ireland; she was the eldest of three children.
Skibbereen is sometimes called the capital of West Cork.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Huggins, Margaret Lindsay, Lady, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation, 1907.
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October 1840: An article in the Chartist Chronicle maintained...

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October 1840

An article in the Chartist Chronicle maintained that poetry was, for the working-class reader, the most significant source of knowledge of the world.
Yan, Shu-chuan. “’When Common Voices Speak’: Labour, Poetry and Eliza Cook”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 4, Nov. 2015, pp. 428-54.
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Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: By 3 October 1840

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By 3 October 1840

Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton) published her second satirical novel, The Budget of the Bubble Family (which is based on that of her husband , the Bulwers).
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
xxxv
Athenæum. J. Lection.
675 (1840): 766
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Charlotte Bury: 17 October 1840

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Author event in Lady Charlotte Bury

17 October 1840

LCB chose anonymity once more for another novel, The History of a Flirt; Related by herself.
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.
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.
677 (17 October 1840): 817

Louisa Anne Meredith : 21 October 1840

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Author event in Louisa Anne Meredith

21 October 1840

LAM and her husband moved to his family's estates in Swansea, Van Dieman's Land (later Tasmania), after his financial failure in New South Wales.
Rae-Ellis, Vivienne. Louisa Anne Meredith: A Tigress in Exile. St David’s Park, 1990.
89-90

Caroline Clive: 10 November 1840

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Author event in Caroline Clive

10 November 1840

At the age of thirty-nine, at Bayton near Shakenhurst, Caroline Meysey-Wigley married the Reverend Archer Clive in defiance of the expectations of those around her.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Mitchell, Charlotte. Caroline Clive, 1801-1873, A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queenland, 1999.
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Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897.
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Catherine Gore : By 14 November 1840

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Author event in Catherine Gore

By 14 November 1840

CG published a novel entitled The Dowager; or, The New School for Scandal (a subtitle referring to Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's well-known comedy).
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.
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.

Queen Victoria: 21 November 1840

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21 November 1840

After a twelve-hour labour, QV gave birth to her first child: Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, Princess Royal .
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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21 November 1840: Prince Albert's attendance at Queen Victoria's...

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21 November 1840

Prince Albert 's attendance at Queen Victoria 's labour, in London, increased the popularity of fathers attending births.
Weintraub, Stanley. Victoria: An Intimate Biography. Dutton, 1987.
148-9
Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.
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Matilda Charlotte Houstoun: Just before 24 November 1840

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Just before 24 November 1840

MCH bore her son George at Dacre in Cumberland; this was the day of his baptism.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Joanna Baillie: Late 1840

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Author event in Joanna Baillie

Late 1840

When she was nearly eighty JB published a collection entitled Fugitive Verses: she needed to assert her authorship, because poems of hers were appearing unattributed in anthologies.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
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Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
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