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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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Lucie Duff Gordon: 24 February 1842

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24 February 1842

LDG 's first child, Janet , was born.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
119-20

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton: By 26 February 1842

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By 26 February 1842

Edward Bulwer , as the author of Night and Morning, published Zanoni, his romance of the occult set in during the French Revolution, in three volumes.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Crosland, Camilla. Landmarks of a Literary Life, 1820-1892. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893.
176
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.

Grace Aguilar: By March 1842

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By March 1842

GA and her mother were running a small private boarding school in Hackney for boys aged four to ten; subjects included Religion, English, and Hebrew.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
141

Harriet Smythies: 1 March 1842

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1 March 1842

HS married the Rev. William Yorick Smythies , a member of a family prolific in clergymen.
The family was that of the mid-eighteenth-century novelist Susan Smythies .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(7 July 1910): 13

Elizabeth Rigby: March 1842

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March 1842

ER inaugurated her long relationship with the prestigious Quarterly Review when she published her review Jesse , Kohl , and Sterling on Russia (anonymous like everything in the Quarterly).
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 724

Anna Brownell Jameson: March 1842

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March 1842

After nine years as an invalid, ABJ 's father died.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
147
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
xii

23 March 1842: The novelist Stendhal (born Marie Henri Beyle)...

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23 March 1842

The novelist Stendhal (born Marie Henri Beyle) died in Paris.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Ann Hawkshaw: Spring 1842

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Spring 1842

AH completed her first volume of poetry, entitled Dionysius the Areopagite , With Other Poems. It was published at the end of the same year.
Hawkshaw, Ann. Dionysius the Areopagite. Jackson and Walford; Simms and Dinham, 1842.
4
The Edinburgh Review. A. and C. Black.
76 (1843): 581

Caroline Clive: By 26 March 1842

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By 26 March 1842

CC published the nearly sixty-page poem I Watched the Heavens, issued as by V. Author of IX. Poems.
Mitchell, Charlotte. Caroline Clive, 1801-1873, A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queenland, 1999.
42
“Melvyl Catalogue of the University of California Libraries”. California Digital Library (CDL).

29 March 1842: The annual children's meeting of the London...

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29 March 1842

The annual children's meeting of the London Missionary Society drew between five and six thousand children.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
89

Grace Aguilar: By 1 April 1842

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By 1 April 1842

GA published in PhiladelphiaThe Spirit of Judaism, her chief work on the Jewish religion and one of the earliest of its kind in English; it was printed for private circulation in Britain.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
141

Margaret Fuller: Spring 1842

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Spring 1842

MF ended her term as editor of The Dial. TranscendentalistRalph Waldo Emerson assumed the position, and the journal continued until April 1844.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
239
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Caroline Herschel : By April 1842

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By April 1842

CH embarked on a mock-fictional Life and Adventures of Miss Caroline Herschel solely for the Amusement of Lady Herschel. By September it had become a formal account of her life and thoughts called Recollections.
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
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Horace Walpole: From 25 April 1842

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From 25 April 1842

HW 's collections at Strawberry Hill were dispersed by auction in a sale lasting more than a month; the house itself remained in the family.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Christina Rossetti: 27 April 1842

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27 April 1842

Having begun composing poetry at six, CR was eleven when she wrote her earliest preserved poem, for her mother 's birthday.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
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Caroline Chisholm: May 1842

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May 1842

CC prosecuted a ship captain and surgeon for their unreasonably harsh punishment of passenger Margaret Bolton .
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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May 1842: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, the first American...

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May 1842

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft , the first American Indian poet known to have written in English
Noori, Margaret. “Bicultural before There Was a Word for It”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
25
, No. 2, Mar.–Apr. 2008, pp. 7-9.
7
as well as in her native Ojibwe or Ojibwa, died in her early forties at her sister's home in Canada.
Noori, Margaret. “Bicultural before There Was a Word for It”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
25
, No. 2, Mar.–Apr. 2008, pp. 7-9.
7-9

May 1842: Parliament rejected the second Chartist National...

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May 1842

Parliament rejected the second Chartist National Petition.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
186
Jones, Gareth Stedman. Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
156
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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13 May 1842: Composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was...

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13 May 1842

Composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was born at 8 Bolwell Terrace, Lambeth Walk, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

14 May 1842: The first issue of the Illustrated London...

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14 May 1842

The first issue of the Illustrated London News appeared, with a large number of illustrations and advertisements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
9
Hindley, Diana, and Geoffrey Hindley. Advertising in Victorian England 1837-1901. Wayland, 1972.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
146
Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge. Encyclopædia Britannica, 1966, 24 vols.
19: 563
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

14 May 1842: Alfred Tennyson published two volumes of...

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14 May 1842

Alfred Tennyson published two volumes of Poems.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
80-6
Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan, 1972.
175-7
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
14 May 2009

Anna Letitia Waring : 15 May 1842

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15 May 1842

ALW converted from the Society of Friends to Anglicanism (with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire.
Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911.
6
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 306

Adelaide Kemble: 15 May 1842

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15 May 1842

AK sang Susanna in Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro in London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Helen Blackburn: 25 May 1842

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25 May 1842

HB was born in Knightstown on Valencia Island, off the coast of Kerry in Ireland.
Most sources give this birthplace, but another story has her born at Dun Laoghaire (formerly Kingstown) in County Dublin.
“PGIL EIRData (Electronic Irish Records Dataset)”. The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco).
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Queen Victoria: 29 May 1842

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29 May 1842

A second assassination attempt on QV was made as she rode in her carriage; the man's pistol misfired.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
170
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
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