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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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Later 1841: Father Dominic Barberi arrived in England...

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Later 1841

Father Dominic Barberi arrived in England to aid the Roman Catholic missions; he later became a famous missionary through his conversions, the most notable of these being John Newman .
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
229-30

Emilie Barrington: 18 October 1841

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Author event in Emilie Barrington

18 October 1841

Emilie Isabel Wilson (later EB ) was born at 15 Hertford Street in Mayfair, London, the youngest of six daughters.
Family biographer Martha Westwater wrongly believed that she was born at Boulogne in France...

By 23 October 1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays appeared in...

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By 23 October 1841

Ralph Waldo Emerson 's Essays appeared in England.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
730 (1841): 803
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Adelaide Kemble: 2 November 1841

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Author event in Adelaide Kemble

2 November 1841

AK made her English operatic debut at Covent Garden Theatre , London, again singing the title role in Bellini 's Norma.
Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen, 1963.
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George Eliot: 2 November 1841

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Author event in George Eliot

2 November 1841

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) established formative friendships with Cara Bray , her husband Charles , and her sister, Sara Hennell .
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
34-5, 43

6 November 1841: Charles MacKay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions...

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6 November 1841

Charles MacKay 's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds described a mesmeric session in terms highly suggestive of the sexual stimulation of the predominantly female devotees. It was published in three volumes; the...

Queen Victoria: 9 November 1841

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Author event in Queen Victoria

9 November 1841

QV gave birth to her second child, the heir to the throne, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales .
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xiv

Barbara Hofland: 10 November 1841

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

10 November 1841

BH wrote her dedication of The Godmother's Tales, published with 1842 on the title-page.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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25 November 1841: Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey died, leaving...

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25 November 1841

Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey died, leaving conditions in his will that after the death of his wife, more than £100,000 would be left to set up a national public collection of fine art in Britain.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
57
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Eliza Dunlop: 29 November 1841

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Author event in Eliza Dunlop

29 November 1841

After taking a few weeks to think over the attacks on her in the Sydney Herald, ED responded with a hard-hitting letter to the paper.
Hansord, Katie. “A Forgotten Colonial Woman Poet”. Tinteán, 6 Nov. 2015.
Wu, Duncan. “A Vehicle of Private Malice: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop and The Sydney HeraldReview of English Studies, Vol.
65
, No. 272, 1 Nov. 2014, pp. 888-03.
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Emily Spender: By December 1841

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Author event in Emily Spender

By December 1841

ES was born at Bath in Somerset, the younger daughter in a family of three children. Her birth was registered this month.
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.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.

Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: By 4 December 1841

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By 4 December 1841

EPW published at London, with her name on the title-page (Mrs. Wolferstan) a 46-page poem or set of poems entitled Golden Rules, which she calls a metrical Epitome.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. Golden Rules. R. Hastings, 1841.
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Charles Dickens: 15 December 1841

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Author event in Charles Dickens

15 December 1841

CD 's novel The Old Curiosity Shop was released in one volume.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Frances Trollope: By 18 December 1841

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Author event in Frances Trollope

By 18 December 1841

FT published The Blue Belles of England, a satirical novel set in London literary society.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
738 (1841): 972

19 December 1841: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published Ballads...

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19 December 1841

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published Ballads and Other Poems, which included The Wreck of the Hesperus and The Village Blacksmith.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Chamberlain, Jacob Chester, and Luther S. Livingston. A Bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Privately printed by De Vinne Press, 1908.
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Grace Aguilar: 1842-1849

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Author event in Grace Aguilar

1842-1849

GA regularly printed short fiction, including strong narratives of Jewish suffering under the Spanish Inquisition , in the Christmas gift booksFriendship's Offering, the The Keepsake, and the Book of Beauty.
Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle, 1967.
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Cecil Frances Alexander : 1842-1843

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Author event in Cecil Frances Alexander

1842-1843

With her friend Lady Harriet Howard , the future CFA contributed to tracts for the Oxford Movement , published during these years.
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.

Fredrika Bremer: 1842

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Author event in Fredrika Bremer

1842

FB published, with her name, a work of theological controversy, Morgonväckter (Morning Watches), designed as a riposte to Strauss 's Das Leben Jesu, which proclaimed Christ 's non-divine humanity.
The History of Nordic Women’s Literature. 2012, https://nordicwomensliterature.net/.
Stendahl, Brita K. The Education of a Self-Made Woman. The Edwin Mellen Press, 1994, https://archive.org/details/educationofselfm0000sten/mode/2up?q=%22geijer%22+%22stina%22+%22boklin%22.
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Margaret Calderwood : 1842

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Author event in Margaret Calderwood

1842

Extracts from MC 's travel journal-letters were privately printed for the Maitland Club , sharing a volume with writings by the eighteenth-century Sir Archibald Steuart Denham and the nineteenth-century James Dennistoun .
Calderwood, Margaret. “To the Reader; Introductory Chapter”. Letters and Journals, edited by Alexander Fergusson, David Douglas, 1884, p. vii - lviii.
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Caroline Chisholm: 1842

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Author event in Caroline Chisholm

1842

Caroline Chisholm published a pamphlet entitled Female Immigration Considered, in a Brief Account of the SydneyImmigrant's Home.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
17, 39, 42

Caroline Frances Cornwallis : After January 1842

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After January 1842

CFC 's two next Small Books, entitled The Connection Between Physiology and Intellectual Philosophy and On Man's Power Over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity (later 1843) have both been ascribed to John Barlow .
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances, and John Barlow. The Connection Between Physiology and Intellectual Philosophy. William Pickering, 1842.
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Cornwallis, Caroline Frances, and John Barlow. On Man’s Power Over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity. William Pickering, 1843.
titlepage, iii-iv

Camilla Crosland: 1842

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Author event in Camilla Crosland

1842

CC became a sub-editor (under Leigh Ritchie ) of Friendship's Offering; she maintained this position for two years, during which time she also contributed her own pieces.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 32
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
261

Charlotte Yonge: 1842

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Author event in Charlotte Yonge

1842

The first number appeared of The Magazine for the Young (also known as The Pink Mag); CY soon began contributing to it tales about schoolchildren.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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Margaret Gatty: 1842

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Author event in Margaret Gatty

1842

MG published her first work, a volume of Recollections, compiled jointly with her husband, of her father, the Rev. Alexander Scott , a chaplain in the British navy.
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.

Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: 1842

Women writers item

1842

EPW published what appears to be her final work, Old Stories Versified, of which copies are very rare (as they are of many of her works).
The British Library Catalogue does not list this...