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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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By 1841: Richard Beard, the English patent-holder...

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By 1841

Richard Beard , the English patent-holder for the daguerrotype, opened studios at the Royal Polytechnic Institute and elsewhere in London.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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1841: Alexander Bain and John Barwise patented...

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1841

Alexander Bain and John Barwise patented the first electric clock.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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By 1841: William Tait became secretary of the Edinburgh...

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By 1841

William Tait became secretary of the EdinburghSociety for the Protection of Young Girls .
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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1841: The United Kingdom Temperance and General...

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1841

The United Kingdom Temperance and General Provincial Institute was founded, to provide life insurance to teetotallers, who experienced prejudice from traditional providers.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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Maria Grey: 7 January 1841

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7 January 1841

Maria Shirreff married her first cousin William Thomas Grey , a wine merchant and nephew of the second Earl Grey (Whig statesman and architect of the Reform Bill of 1832).
The parents of William Thomas...

Lydia Howard Sigourney: 26 January 1841

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26 January 1841

LHS commemorated her visit to the state opening of the British parliament in a poem which, in covering Queen Victoria 's Speech from the Throne, addresses the place of women in public life.
Sackville-West, Vita. The Annual. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Cobden-Sanderson, 1930.
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28 January 1841: Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and journalist,...

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28 January 1841

Sir Henry Morton Stanley , explorer and journalist, was born in Denbigh, Wales.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Catherine Crowe: By 30 January 1841

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By 30 January 1841

CC published her first novel, Adventures of Susan Hopley; or, Circumstantial Evidence, which remained her most successful work of fiction.
The old Dictionary of National Biography wrongly listed Men and Women; or, Manorial Rights...

Catherine Gore : By 30 January 1841

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By 30 January 1841

CG 's novel Greville; or, a Season in Paris was out, and reviewed by the Athenæum.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Catherine Gore : February 1841

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February 1841

In the year in which she began contributing to Bentley's Miscellany, CG published there a fighting protest about conditions for the poor: The Children of the Mobility, Versus the Children of the Nobility.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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John Henry Newman: February 1841

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February 1841

The single most controversial and last of the Tracts for the Times (Tract XC or 90, anonymously authored by JHN ) was published; it argued that the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England could...

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 5 February 1841

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5 February 1841

Elizabeth Phelan married Lewis Hippolytus Joseph Tonna , twenty years the younger of the two, who was secretary of the Royal United Service Institution and an ultra-Protestant author.
The year after his wife's death he...

Julia Wedgwood: 17 February 1841

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17 February 1841

Harriet Martineau replied to the eight-year-old JW 's letter; Julia had asked her mother 's permission to write to her friend to tell Martineau how much she enjoyed her stories.
Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista, 1980.
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Geraldine Jewsbury: March 1841

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March 1841

GJ first met the Carlyles , just under a year after she had introduced herself by letter to Thomas .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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March 1841: The young Dionysius Lardner Boucicault's...

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March 1841

The young Dionysius Lardner Boucicault 's London Assurance was staged at Covent Garden by Charles James Mathews and Madame Vestris .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
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Charlotte Brontë: 2 March 1841

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2 March 1841

CB began working as governess for £20 a year at Upperwood House, near Rawdon.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: By mid-March 1841

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By mid-March 1841

Sydney Morgan collected, in The Book Without a Name, a volume of past contributions to periodicals by herself and her husband.
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.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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George Eliot: 17 March 1841

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17 March 1841

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) moved to Foleshill just outside Coventry to prepare for her father 's arrival two days later; they left Griff House near Nuneaton to her brother, who was getting married.
Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall, 1989.
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Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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Harriet Martineau: By 20 March 1841

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By 20 March 1841

HM published The Playfellow, a series of four separately-issued lengthy and didactic stories for children: Settlers at Home, The Feats on the Fiord, The Peasant and the Prince, and The Crofton Boys.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mathilde Blind: 21 March 1841

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21 March 1841

MB was born at Mannheim in Germany, the younger of two children.
Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, pp. 1-43.
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Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Spring 1841

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Spring 1841

Antoinette Brown (later ABB ) accepted her first teaching job at the age of sixteen.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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Robert Browning: April 1841

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April 1841

Pippa Passes, by RB , appeared as the first of his eight-pamphlet Bells and Pomegranates series.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Irvine, William, and Park Honan. The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. McGraw-Hill, 1974.
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April 1841: Thomas Carlyle published On Heroes, Hero-Worship...

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April 1841

Thomas Carlyle published On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Dyer, Isaac Watson. Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle’s Writings and Ana. Octagon Books, 1968.
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Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Chapman and Hall, 1897.
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1 April 1841: Graham's Magazine, published in Philadelphia...

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1 April 1841

Graham's Magazine, published in Philadelphia (which had Edgar Allan Poe on its staff and published much of his work), carried his The Murders in the Rue Morgue, often called the first detective story.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
1 April 2008

Augusta Ada Byron: 7 April 1841

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7 April 1841

AAB , Countess of Lovelace, arrived in Paris to meet her destitute cousin (and possibly half-sister) Medora Leigh .
Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999.
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