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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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Harriet Smythies: 1842

Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Smythies

1842

In the year of her marriage Harriet Gordon (later Smythies) issued, as the author of Cousin Geoffrey, another novel, whose title, The Matchmaker, indicates that she was staying with her accustomed fictional territory.
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.

Lucy Toulmin Smith: 1842

Women writers item
Author event in Lucy Toulmin Smith

1842

LTS and her family left Boston and moved to Highgate in north London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Shelley: 1842 to 1843

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Shelley

1842 to 1843

MS travelled again in Europe, spending the summer in Germany, and the winter and spring in Italy.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
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Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Sir Walter Scot : 1842-7

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Author event in Sir Walter Scot

1842-7

Beginning ten years after the death of SWS , his publishers re-issued twelve volumes of his fiction in the handsome Abbotsford Edition of The Waverley Novels.
Ford, Boris, editor. A Guide for Readers to The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Penguin, 1984.

Jane Porter: 1841 or 1842

Women writers item
Author event in Jane Porter

1841 or 1842

JP travelled to St Petersburg with her diplomat brother, Robert , who had lived there for years, married a Russian princess, and was now on a visit to his daughter.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
under Sir Robert Ker Porter
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

Julia Pardoe: 1842

Women writers item
Author event in Julia Pardoe

1842

JP moved a short distance from London, the scene of her early literary activity, to join her parents and rest in the quieter and cleaner Perry Street near Gravesend.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Isabel Hill: Early January 1842

Women writers item
Author event in Isabel Hill

Early January 1842

IH died at 5 Montpelier Row, Montpelier Square, Brompton, aged forty-one, after a long illness which appears to have been tuberculosis.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Isabel Hill: After January 1842

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Author event in Isabel Hill

After January 1842

IH 's five-act tragedy Brian, the Probationer; or, The Red Hand was posthumously published along with a memoir written by her brother Benson Earle Hill .
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.

Barbara Hofland: 1842

Women writers item
Author event in Barbara Hofland

1842

BH published The Czarina, An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
91-2

Christian Isobel Johnstone: 1842

Women writers item

1842

CIJ , as the author of Diversions of Hollycot, published a work of non-fiction for children entitled Rational Reading Lessons; or, Entertaining Intellectual Exercises for Children.
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.

L. E. L.: 1842

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Author event in L. E. L.

1842

A novel entitled Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances was published, said to have been left unfinished by L.E.L. (the late Mrs. MacLean)
qtd. in
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
and concluded by the friend who then saw it through the...

Eliza Lynn Linton: 1842

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Author event in Eliza Lynn Linton

1842

Eliza Lynn (later ELL ) made the short move with her family away from Caldbeck to live at Crosthwaite; both these small places are near Keswick.
Layard, George Somes. Mrs. Lynn Linton: Her Life, Letters, and Opinions. Methuen, 1901.
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Anne Marsh: By January 1842

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Author event in Anne Marsh

By January 1842

AM and her husband moved back to England from France and settled at Eastbury Lodge near Watford in Hertfordshire (now engulfed in the town of Northwood).
Heath-Caldwell, J. J. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell. http://www.jjhc.info/index.html.

Eliza Meteyard: 1842

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Author event in Eliza Meteyard

1842

After her father's death, EM moved to Hampstead; she lived there and elsewhere in or near London for the rest of her life, supporting herself by her pen.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
858

Charlotte Montefiore: Around 1842

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Author event in Charlotte Montefiore

Around 1842

CM married a man who shared her surname: Horatio Montefiore .
Bermant, Chaim. The Cousinhood: The Anglo-Jewish Gentry. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1971.
Montefiore insert
Zatlin, Linda Gertner. The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Novel. Twayne, 1981.
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After 1842: The number and frequency of Chartist socials...

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After 1842

The number and frequency of Chartist socials declined.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
180-1

1842: Pentonville Prison, based on the American...

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1842

Pentonville Prison , based on the American model of convict isolation, opened.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
273, 248
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
169

1842-43: Eugène Sue published Les mystères de Par...

Writing climate item

1842-43

Eugène Sue published Les mystères de Paris.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1842: In London, the countries of the Quadruple...

National or international item

1842

In London, the countries of the Quadruple Alliance and France signed the Convention of the Straits.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
131

1842: Accoucheur Protheroe Smith wrote a circular...

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1842

Accoucheur Protheroe Smith wrote a circular entitled Medical Testimony on the Expediency of Establishing a Hospital for the Diseases of Women; it was established the following year.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
82-5

1842: Charles Knight, publisher for the Society...

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1842

Charles Knight , publisher for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , issued his Store of Knowledge.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Around 1842: Joseph Récamier of France redesigned the...

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Around 1842

Joseph Récamier of France redesigned the curette for evacuating the womb of fungal growth or afterbirth.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Hindell, Keith, and Madeleine Simms. Abortion Law Reformed. Peter Owen, 1971.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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1842: A bill to legalize marriage between a man...

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1842

A bill to legalize marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister was introduced in the House of Commons . It did not pass.
Anderson, Nancy F. “The ’Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill’ Controversy: Incest Anxiety and the Defense of Family Purity in Victorian England”. Journal of British Studies, Vol.
21
, No. 2, 1982, pp. 67-86.
68, 79
Behrman, Cynthia Fansler. “The Annual Blister: A Sidelight on Victorian Social History and Parliamentary History”. Victorian Studies, Vol.
11
, June 1968, pp. 483-02.
490

1842: The School of Pharmacy, now part of the University...

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1842

The School of Pharmacy , now part of the University of London , was founded by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain .
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
227
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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1842: Jane Loudon's Ladies' Magazine of Gardening...

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1842

Jane Loudon 's Ladies' Magazine of Gardening appeared in its first and only collected volume.
Brown, Jane. The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens and Gardening. HarperCollins, 2000.
116-19
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.