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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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Julia Pardoe: By late November 1840

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By late November 1840

JP published another three-volume travel book, The City of the Magyar; or, Hungary and Her Institutions in 1839-40.
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.
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.

Rhoda Broughton: 29 November 1840

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Author event in Rhoda Broughton

29 November 1840

RB was born at Segrwyd Hall, near Denbigh in northern Wales.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Annie Tinsley: Late 1840

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Author event in Annie Tinsley

Late 1840

AT 's first novel, The Priest of the Nile, represented for her the abandonment of her ambition to be a poet, and acceptance of the burden of earning for the sake of her children.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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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.

Mary Taylor: December 1840

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December 1840

MT 's father died, without succeeding in paying off the debts left by his business bankruptcy in 1826.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna Steele: Probably December 1840

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Probably December 1840

Anna Caroline Wood, later the novelist AS , was born in Essex, either in the vicarage in Cressing or in a house called Glazenwood in Bradwell, near Braintree.
The Trustees of FreeBMD. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
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.
Marlow, Joyce. The Uncrowned Queen of Ireland: The Life of ’Kitty’ O’Shea. Saturday Review Press, 1975.
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Susanna Moodie: December 1840

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December 1840

A fire at the Belleville cottage rented by the Moodies destroyed most of their belongings and almost killed one of their sons, who was hiding from it in the kitchen.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Harriett Mozley: Late 1840

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Late 1840

During her first year of motherhood, HM published, anonymously, her first book for children, The Fairy Bower; or, The History of a Month; its title-page said 1841.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
95

Queen Victoria: 3 December 1840

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3 December 1840

QV was frightened to discover a young boy in her private dressing-room.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Harriet Martineau: Late 1840

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Late 1840

HM 's second novel, The Hour and the Man, A Historical Romance, about Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian revolution, was published by Edward Moxon .
Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
684 (1839): 958

Caroline Norton: 5 December 1840

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5 December 1840

CN edited Albert Schloss's Bijou Almanac (also known as The English Bijou Almanac), a miniature-sized annual, containing poems by herself and portraits of people she knew.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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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.
684 (5 December 1840): 964

Eliza Fenwick: 8 December 1840

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8 December 1840

EF died at Providence, Rhode Island. She had suffered agony in passing gall-stones, but died very quietly and calmly: as her grand-daughter put it, sleeping her soul away.
qtd. in
Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019.
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Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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8 December 1840: David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and...

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8 December 1840

David Livingstone , Scottish explorer and missionary, sailed from the UK for Bechuanaland.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 581-4
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
863
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
265-6, 268, 320

Mary Linskill: 13 December 1840

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13 December 1840

Mary Jane Linskill , the eldest of six surviving children, was born in a small house at Blackburns Yard, Whitby, in North Yorkshire.
Recent biographer Cordelia Stamp believes that in the century since ML

Anne Thackeray Ritchie: 15 December 1840

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15 December 1840

Anne Thackeray witnessed as a small child the second funeral of Napoleon in Paris. Her memories of this event were published in Chapters from Some Memoirs, 1894.
This was when Napoleon's body was...

Marion Moss: 26 December 1840

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26 December 1840

In collaboration with her sister Celia , MM published by subscription The Romance of Jewish History, a three-volume set of short stories and novellas, dedicated to Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton) .
Zatlin, Linda Gertner. The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Novel. Twayne, 1981.
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Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
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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.
687 (26 December 1840): 1024

Sarah Flower Adams: 1841

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1841

SFA published Vivia Perpetua : A Dramatic Poem of blank verse in five acts.
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.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

Sarah Flower Adams: 1841

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1841

SFA contributed lyrics for fourteen pieces to Hymns and Anthems, compiled by W. J. Fox ; this work includes the first printing of her most famous hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 6

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 1841-1850

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1841-1850

Marguerite Blessington edited the annual The Keepsake, in succession to F. M. Reynolds , Caroline Norton , and Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley .
Library catalogues all have the period of her editorship as 1841-1850.
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.
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: January 1841

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January 1841

Elizabeth Barrett received her beloved cocker spaniel, Flush, as a gift from Mary Russell Mitford .
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.
5: xii

Lady Charlotte Bury: 1841

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1841

LCB put her name to another novel: Family Records; or, The Two Sisters.
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.

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: 1841

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1841

DPC was invited to leave Shetland for England as governess to some of Dr Clarke 's family: a married daughter, Eliza Frances Hook , and her husband, James Hook .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
McMaster, Juliet. Email about Adam Clarke and Dorothea Primrose Campbell to Isobel Grundy. 20 Aug. 2008.

Mary Carpenter: 1841

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Author event in Mary Carpenter

1841

MC helped to establish the Domestic Mission in Bristol, a society that was intended to aid the poor in a similar way to the Working and Visiting Society .
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.
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Caroline Chisholm: January 1841

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January 1841

CC wrote to Lady Gipps , the wife of the Governor of New South Wales, about the plight of female immigrants in Sydney.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Mackenzie, Eneas. Memoirs of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm. Webb, Millington, 1852.
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Sara Coleridge: 1841

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1841

SC and theologian F. D. Maurice began a correspondence on theology that led to a friendship between them.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
115-16

Caroline Frances Cornwallis : 1841

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1841

At the age of fifty-five CFC published her first book, Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience, under the pseudonym A Pariah; this was the first of the series titled Small Books on Great Subjects.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience. William Pickering, 1841.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.