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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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Anna Maria Hall: April 1841 to 1843

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April 1841 to 1843

AMH , with her husband Samuel Carter Hall , published Ireland: its Scenery, Character, &c. in three illustrated volumes with a dedication to Prince Albert .
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.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
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Hall, Samuel Carter, and Anna Maria Hall. Ireland: its Scenery, Character and History. Celtic Edition, Francis A. Niccolls, 1911, 6 vols.
prelims

Caroline Chisholm: Easter Sunday 1841

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Easter Sunday 1841

CC vowed before God to sacrifice her own comfort and to serve all justly and impartially in her quest to to help women tempted, by their need, to mortal sin.
qtd. in
Mackenzie, Eneas. Memoirs of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm. Webb, Millington, 1852.
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Mary Russell Mitford: 12 April 1841

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12 April 1841

MRM 's tragedy Inez de Castro was performed at the Royal City of London Theatre .
Mary Rose Sullivan mistakenly says this play was never staged.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 194
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 110. Gale Research, 1991.
110: 198

Clara Balfour: May 1841

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May 1841

CL became, through the good offices of temperance campaigner John Dunlop , co-editor of the Temperance Journal at a salary of twenty-five pounds.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Stickney Ellis: May 1841

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May 1841

After four years in London, SSE and husband moved to Rosehill in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, a spacious house and grounds which they rented.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Home Life and Letters of Mrs. Ellis. J. Nisbet, 1893.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Loudon: July 1841

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July 1841

Jane , John Claudius , and little Agnes Loudon set off for Scotland, travelling by train this time, where they spent the better part of two months.
Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century, 1990.
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May 1841: Rachel Felix, Jewish tragedy star of the...

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May 1841

Rachel Felix , Jewish tragedy star of the Comédie-Française , made her British debut in Andromaque.
Booth, Michael R. et al. Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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May 1841: Captain Frederick Marryat published volume...

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May 1841

Captain Frederick Marryat published volume one of his first children's book, Masterman Ready, Or The Wreck of the Pacific.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Joanna Baillie: Spring 1841

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Spring 1841

Charles Landseer (brother of Sir Edwin Landseer ) exhibited at the Royal Academy a painting from JB 's De Monfort; he had already painted Samuel Richardson 's Clarissa.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 511

3 May 1841: The London Library, established by Thomas...

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3 May 1841

The London Library , established by Thomas Carlyle with Harriet Martineau , Dickens , Thackeray , and others, first opened its doors.
The London Library. http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk.
“OSA Staff”. Oxford Spires Academy.
“Members’ News”. The Author, No. 29, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2015, p. 31.

Lydia Maria Child: 11 May 1841

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11 May 1841

LMC moved from Northampton, Massachusetts, to New York, leaving her husband behind on the farm.
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992.
156-7

Georgiana Chatterton : By 22 May 1841

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By 22 May 1841

GC published her Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
708 (1841): 399

Louisa Stuart Costello: By 22 May 1841

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By 22 May 1841

LSC published a historical novel, The Queen 's Poisoner; or, France in the Sixteenth Century: A Romance.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
708 (1841): 404

Harriet Smythies: By 22 May 1841

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By 22 May 1841

Harriet Gordon (later Smythies) , under the name the author of Cousin Geoffrey, published another popular three-decker novel, The Marrying Man.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
708 (1841): 404
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.

Sarah Austin: By 29 May 1841

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By 29 May 1841

SA translated Fragments from German Prose Writers, which was illustrated and included her own explanatory notes.
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.
709 (1841): 424-26
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Eliza Dunlop: 29, 31 May 1841

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29, 31 May 1841

Before her clash in print with newspaper critics of The Aboriginal Mother, ED published in the Sydney Monitor a story, The Ford of the Emu Plains, about Irish emigrants. The story is reprinted...

L. E. L.: 29 May 1841

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29 May 1841

Laman Blanchard published his Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L.
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.
709 (29 may 1841): 421-3

Sarah Harriet Burney: From June 1841

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From June 1841

SHB lived in Cheltenham, which she found livelier and more agreeable than Bath.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
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Elizabeth Gaskell: Summer 1841

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Summer 1841

EG , leaving behind with relief the problems of Manchester, travelled to Europe, and in particular Germany, for the first time.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
142-3

June 1841: The last issue of the Monthly Chronicle was...

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June 1841

The last issue of the Monthly Chronicle was published.
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: 133

6 June 1841: Marian Rebecca Hughes became the first woman...

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6 June 1841

Marian Rebecca Hughes became the first woman to take the vow of holy celibacy in the Church of England since the Reformation.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
288-9

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 19 June 1841

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By 19 June 1841

Marguerite Blessington published The Idler in France, drawing on the same journal used for The Idler in Italy, but focusing on her time in Paris.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
712 (1841): 469

Catherine Gore : By July 1841

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By July 1841

CG anonymously published one of her most successful novels, Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb.
Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Dissertation Thesis, University of Arkansas, May 1992.
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1841: Russian Romantic poet and novelist Mikhail...

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1841

Russian Romantic poet and novelist Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov completed The Demon before his death in a duel in July of this year.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

2 July 1841: The London and Brighton Railway opened, making...

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2 July 1841

The London and Brighton Railway opened, making use of tunnels to form a direct line instead of implementing an easier, winding route.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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