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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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5 July 1841: Thomas Cook organized the first chartered...

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5 July 1841

Thomas Cook organized the first chartered excursion train, which took a thousand Leicester temperance reformers for an eleven-mile round trip to Loughborough.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
72-3

Hannah Mary Rathbone: By 10 July 1841

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By 10 July 1841

HMR issued, under her initials, another anthology, Childhood, Illustrated in a Selection from the Poets, this time designed for young readers.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
715 (1841): 521
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.

17 July 1841: The first number of the comic weekly Punch...

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17 July 1841

The first number of the comic weekly Punch (founded by Douglas Jerrold and others) appeared in print.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
515

Charlotte Brontë: July 1841

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July 1841

The Brontë sisters decided to set up a school of their own.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
360

20 July 1841: An article in The Times described the mesmeric...

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20 July 1841

An article in The Times described the mesmeric abilities of Charles Lafontaine , which included inducing a young man to stick pins in his cheeks.
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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Louisa Stuart Costello: End of July 1841

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End of July 1841

LSC began work as a contributor to the Athenæum; overall it printed more than twenty articles by her, on a variety of topics.
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.

William Makepeace Thackeray: September 1840

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September 1840

On a voyage from England to Ireland, WMT 's wife Isabella , suffering a postnatal depression that escalated into insanity, attempted suicide by drowning herself. Soon afterwards she was institutionalised.
Roberts, Andrew. “Mental Health History Timeline”. Middlesex University: Andrew Roberts Homepage: Mental Health and Learning Disability.

Mary Taylor: August 1841

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August 1841

MT travelled on the Continent with her sister Martha and brother John .
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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Adelaide Kemble: August 1841

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August 1841

AK undertook a singing tour of France and Germany with family and friends, including Fanny Kemble , Mary Anne Thackeray and Henry Chorley . Liszt joined them in Germany.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919.
54

Harriet Martineau: August 1841

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August 1841

HM was offered a Civil List pension by the Whig government, which she refused on principle.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
355, 364
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 504-5

August 1841: The Irish Universal Suffrage Association...

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August 1841

The Irish Universal Suffrage Association was founded.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
67, 71

Juliana Horatia Ewing: 3 August 1841

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3 August 1841

Juliana Horatia Gatty (later JHE ) was born at Ecclesfield near Sheffield, the second daughter in a family of ten children.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mary Cowden Clarke: 17 August 1841

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17 August 1841

MCC finished work on her book The Complete Concordance to Shakspere on this day, her mother's birthday.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
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Ann Hawkshaw: 17 August 1841

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17 August 1841

AH gave birth to her first child, John Clarke Hawkshaw , who joined his father's engineering practice when he grew up.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Robert Williams Buchanan: 18 August 1841

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18 August 1841

RWB , poet, playwright, and novelist, was born at Caverswall in Staffordshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

20 August 1841: The Great Niger expedition, commanded by...

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20 August 1841

The Great Niger expedition, commanded by Captain H. D. Trotter , began an ascent of the River Niger, in a bid to establish a colony in Central Africa; the attempt was unsuccessful.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 581

27 August 1841: US author James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer,...

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27 August 1841

US author James Fenimore Cooper 's The Deerslayer, the last of the Leather-Stocking Tales, appeared in print.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
724 (1841): 708
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
27 August 2010

30 August 1841: The Whig government under Melbourne fell...

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30 August 1841

The Whig government under Melbourne fell on the issue of Corn Laws (which they failed to get through parliament) and, following an election next month, the Tory Sir Robert Peel became Prime Minister.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
199
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Rigby: By September 1841

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By September 1841

ER anonymously published her travel diary A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic, compiled from a series of letters written to her mother .
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
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6 September 1841: Following the general election, Sir Robert...

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6 September 1841

Following the general election, Sir Robert Peel (Conservative) formed the government for a second time.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 11 September 1841

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11 September 1841

Elizabeth Barrett returned to her family home in Wimpole Street after her years in Devon.
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

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: Later 1841

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Later 1841

Sydney Morgan spent a holiday in Germany (which she had declined to do in 1824 when Henry Colburn had suggested that she write a book about it).
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 463
Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan the Novelist. Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses, 1990.
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Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
191

Clara Balfour: October 1841

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October 1841

CB gave her first public lecture on temperance, having already spoken on the topic at drawing-room meetings.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Caroline Chisholm: October 1841

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October 1841

CC established the Female Immigrants' Home which provided free room and board, employment services, and temporary schooling to new female immigrants in Sydney, New South Wales.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Harriett Mozley: October 1841

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October 1841

HM followed up her first publishing success with another Christmas story, The Lost Brooch; or, The History of Another Month, A Tale for Young People, as by the author of The Fairy Bower.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
109
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.