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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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Dinah Mulock Craik: 1841

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1841

Dinah Mulock 's Verses on the birth of the Princess Royal appeared in the Staffordshire Advertiser, under the intials D. M. M..
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
8

Hannah Cullwick: 1841-1843

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Author event in Hannah Cullwick

1841-1843

From the age of eight, HC worked as a servant for a wealthy woman named Mrs Phillips who lived in Shifnal.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
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Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press, 1984.
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Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1841

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Author event in Sarah Stickney Ellis

1841

As the author of the Women of England, SSE issued a three-volume collection of temperance stories entitled Family Secrets, or, Hints to those who would Make Home Happy.
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.

Sarah Williams: Perhaps 1841

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Author event in Sarah Williams

Perhaps 1841

SW was born in London, the only child of well-to-do parents.
Elisabeth Jay in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography puts her birth-date earlier: 1837 or 1838.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols.
9: 179

Susanna Watts: 1841

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1841

In a gesture of tolerance, even ecumenism, SW paid the fines that had been levied on four Nonconformists for their resistance to paying church rates.
Simmons, Jack, and Susanna Watts. “Introduction”. A Walk through Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1967, p. vii - xiii.
ix

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1841

Women writers item

1841

CET 's innovative industrial novel Helen Fleetwood was published in volume form by R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside .
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
309

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1841

Women writers item

1841

CET published Personal Recollections, her spiritual autobiography.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
310

Mary Taylor: 1841-1842

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Author event in Mary Taylor

1841-1842

MT finished her education (studying drawing, dancing, French and German) at Catherine Goussaert 's Pensionnat des Dames in Koekelberg, a suburb of Brussels.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
27, 29, 30,171-2

Catherine Sinclair: 1841

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1841

CS 's entertaining high-society novel Modern Flirtation; or, a Month at Harrowgate was first published by W. Whyte in Edinburgh.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Lydia Howard Sigourney: 1841

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Author event in Lydia Howard Sigourney

1841

LHS returned to a native American subject with Pocahontas , and Other Poems, which appeared this year in both London and New York, with somewhat differing contents in the two editions.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
239

James Malcolm Rymer: Biography: 1841

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1841

At this date, a census report tells us, JMR still thought of himself as a civil engineer, though according to independent scholar Dick Collins he seems not to have had formal training, and doesn't appear...

James Malcolm Rymer: Biography: 1841

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1841

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography assigns to this year one of the earliest of JMR 's penny liners published by Edward Lloyd : Adeline, or, The Grave of the Forsaken. A Domestic Romance...

Emma Roberts: 1841

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Author event in Emma Roberts

1841

ER 's Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay was posthumously published in book form, with an anonymous memoir of her.
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.

Ann Taylor Gilbert: About 1841

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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert

About 1841

ATG wrote a memorial to the Queen from the women of Nottingham about the Corn Laws controversy.
qtd. in
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
2: 177

Jane Harvey: 1841

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1841

JH published at Newcastle a little book of poetry entitled Fugitive Pieces.
This title has been used for more than half a dozen poetry collections, as well as for the Canadian novel Fugitive Pieces...

Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880: 1841

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Author event in Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880

1841

At the age of seventeen, Estelle Anna Robinson (who later wrote as Sarah Lewis) married Sylvanus D. Lewis , an attorney.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.
13: 570

Jane Loudon: 1841

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1841

Again JL published three books this year: the second in her series on particular plants (The Ladies' Flower-Garden: Ornamental Bulbous Plants), a textbook on plant science (Botany for Schools and Young Persons...

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: 1841

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1841

Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton) flagged her third work in its title as set in the historical past: The Prince-Duke and the Page: A Historical Novel.
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
xxxv
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.

Mary Russell Mitford: 1841

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1841

The Works of Mary Russell Mitford : Prose and Verse was published in Philadelphia.
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 110. Gale Research, 1991.
110: 198

1841: The Chemical Society of London was found...

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1841

The Chemical Society of London was founded.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
392
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
III: 604

1841: Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur....

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1841

Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
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1841: Duty on opium was further reduced to only...

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1841

Duty on opium was further reduced to only one shilling per pound; this reduction represented an eight-shilling drop in fourteen years.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
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1 January 1841: The Total Abstinence Charter Association,...

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1 January 1841

The Total Abstinence Charter Association , one of many societies linking working-class political activism and temperance reform, was formed in Leeds.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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1841: The autobiographical A Narrative of the Experience...

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1841

The autobiographical A Narrative of the Experience and Suffering of William Dodd : A Factory Cripple appeared in London.
Carlisle, Janice. “Introduction”. Factory Lives, edited by James R. Simmons, Broadview Press, 2007.
11-2, 50-3

1841: The census of this year revealed 712,493...

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1841

The census of this year revealed 712,493 women in Britain employed in domestic service, 115,425 in cotton manufacture, 89,079 in dressmaking and millinery, 35,262 in agricultural labour, and 30,150 in teaching.
Skedd, Susan. “Women Teachers and the Expansion of Girls’ Schooling in England, c. 1760-1820”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 101-25.
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Dorling, Danny. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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