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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 1842: There were more than 200 horticultural societies...

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By 1842

There were more than 200 horticultural societies in the United Kingdom, demonstrating a significant increase in botanical interest over the previous forty years.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
152

1842: The Quarter Sessions Act removed the powers...

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1842

The Quarter Sessions Act removed the powers of Justices of the Peace to enforce local political censorship.
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
220

1842: Anders Adolf Retzius introduced his theory...

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1842

Anders Adolf Retzius introduced his theory on head forms, including his cranial index to differentiate between races.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
309
Williams, L. Pearce. Album of Science: The Nineteenth Century. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978.
211

1842: People's College, the first Working Men's...

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1842

People's College , the first Working Men's College in England, opened in Sheffield; it also admitted women.
Purvis, June, editor. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945. Univeristy College London Press, 1995.
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Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
478-80

1842: The Chartist Council of Birmingham recommended...

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1842

The Chartist Council of Birmingham recommended the formation of The Women's National Charter Association .
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
215-16

By 1842: Almost 2,000 miles of railway track spanned...

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By 1842

Almost 2,000 miles of railway track spanned Britain from Southampton in the south to Newcastle in the north.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
51

George Eliot: 2 January 1842

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2 January 1842

From this date Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) took a decision against participation in Anglican church rituals, and declined to attend church with her father.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
51, 53

Charles Dickens: 4 January 1842

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4 January 1842

CD began a six-month tour of Canada and the USA which was to inflame relations on copyright between Britain and the US.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

6-13 January 1842: Approximately 3,849 British soldiers and...

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6-13 January 1842

Approximately 3,849 British soldiers and 12,000 camp followers were massacred in the Khyber Pass following the British retreat from Kabul. Most of those killed were Indian sepoys. With no battle, they were picked off...

Louisa Stuart Costello: By 8 January 1842

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By 8 January 1842

LSC published a travel narrative entitled A Pilgrimage to Auvergne, from Picardy to Le Velay.
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.

Sarah Stickney Ellis: 10 January 1842

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10 January 1842

SSE , as Mrs Ellis, dated the preface to her second advice book, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities.
Bibliographer Michael Sadleir , however, records a different...

Queen Victoria: 16 January 1842

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16 January 1842

Prince Albert and QV had a major argument over the management of their children, and the position of Baroness Lehzen in the household.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Frances Burney: 29 January 1842 - 1846

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29 January 1842 - 1846

FB 's niece Charlotte Barrett published in seven volumes the Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay. The first five were published between 29 January and 19 November 1842.
Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
11: xv
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.
770 (29 January 1842): 101-4, 786 (19 November 1842): 982-4

Georgina Munro: By 29 January 1842

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By 29 January 1842

GM anonymously published her first silver fork novel, which is also a historical fiction: De Montfort; or, The Old English Nobleman.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
744 (1842): 110

Grace Aguilar: By early 1842

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By early 1842

GA had moved with her family from Brighton back to Hackney.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
141

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: February-March 1842

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February-March 1842

Elizabeth Barrett published anonymously in the AthenæumSome Account of the Greek Christian Poets; she followed it later that year with The Book of the Poets.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
39-41

Jane Welsh Carlyle: February 1842

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February 1842

JWC 's mother died.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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Susanna Watts: 1842

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1842

A posthumous volume of SW 's work appeared: Hymns and Poems, with an anonymous memoir of her (probably by a former pupil).
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.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004.
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February 1842: A grand bazaar organised by women raised...

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February 1842

A grand bazaar organised by women raised £10,000 for the Anti-Corn Law League .
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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February 1842: The first issue of Ainsworth's Magazine:...

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February 1842

The first issue of Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art appeared, catering to popular Victorian taste in entertainment and literature.
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: 5, 7, 9, 13
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Charlotte Brontë: 8 February 1842

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8 February 1842

Emily and CB left for further schooling in Brussels, stopping for three days in London en route.

Agnes Mary Clerke: 10 February 1842

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10 February 1842

AMC was born at Skibbereen in Ireland, the middle one of three children.
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
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Susanna Watts: 2 or 11 February 1842

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2 or 11 February 1842

SW died at her home in Leicester.
The memoir published the same year gave the date as 2 February; the death certificate says the fourth; a local newspaper said the tenth and her gravestone the eleventh.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004.
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Watts, Susanna. Hymns and Poems of the late Mrs. Susanna Watts. 1842.

Anna Brownell Jameson: By 12 February 1842

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By 12 February 1842

ABJ published a Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and near London.
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.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
237

Charlotte Brontë: 15 February-6 November 1842

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15 February-6 November 1842

Emily and CB were pupils at the Catholic Pensionnat Heger in Brussels (rue Isabelle, which is no longer in existence).
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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