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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 Jacobs: By June 1842

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By June 1842

HJ escaped from the slave-owning state of North Carolina aboard a sailing boat. She went first to Philadelphia (where the Vigilant Committee helped her), then to New York.
Moody, Joycelyn K. “Biography of an autobiography”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xxii
, No. 3, Dec. 2004, pp. 4-5.
4
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Editor Yellin, Jean Fagan, Harvard University Press, 1987.
224

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 11 June 1842

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By 11 June 1842

Marguerite Blessington published The Lottery of Life, and Other Tales; it was reprinted in 1857.
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
151
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.

13 June 1842: Queen Victoria first travelled by train,...

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13 June 1842

Queen Victoria first travelled by train, from Slough to Paddington.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
92
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
48, 105, 118
Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
85

Frances Jacson: 17 June 1842

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17 June 1842

FJ died at her home, Somersal Hall at Somersal Herbert in Derbyshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Sewell: 25 June 1842

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25 June 1842

The death of ES 's father , occurring two years after local bank failures, left the family in serious debt.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
70-1
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Harriett Mozley: Late June 1842

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Late June 1842

HM published her only novel for adults: Louisa; or, The Bride, as by the author of The Fairy Bower.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
119
Athenæum. J. Lection.
790 (1842): 1086

Julia Wedgwood: Summer 1842

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Summer 1842

JW , along with her two younger brothers, stayed with their uncle by marriage, the famous scientist Charles Darwin , at his country house, Downe in Kent.
Herford, Charles Harold, and Julia Wedgwood. “Frances Julia Wedgwood: A Memoir by the Editor”. The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter, Macmillan, 1915, p. xi - xxx.
xii-iii

: In the aftermath of the Chartist Petition's...

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Summer 1842

In the aftermath of the Chartist Petition's defeat in the House of Commons, a general strike occurred.
Jones, Gareth Stedman. Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
51-2
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
28-31

July 1842: Edwin Chadwick presented his Report on the...

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July 1842

Edwin Chadwick presented his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain to the House of Lords .
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
96
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
265
Woods, Robert, and John Woodward. “Mortality, Poverty and the Environment”. Urban Disease and Mortality in Nineteenth-Century England, edited by Robert Woods and John Woodward, St Martin’s Press, 1984, pp. 19-36.
26-7
Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
5

1 July 1842: The Copyright Act was passed....

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1 July 1842

The Copyright Act was passed.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
521
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.
147
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
172

Lady Charlotte Bury: By 2 July 1842

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By 2 July 1842

LCB , as the author of The History of a Flirt, published with Colburn another novel of fashionable life, The Manoeuvring Mother.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
766 (1842): 582

Queen Victoria: 3 July 1842

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3 July 1842

A third assassination attempt was made on QV .
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xiv

William John Courthope: 17 July 1842

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17 July 1842

WJC , writer and editor, was born at Malling near Lewes in Sussex.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Adelaide Kemble: 25 July 1842

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25 July 1842

AK married Edward John Sartoris , who was a Hampshire landowner and a Member of Parliament; the wedding took place in Glasgow.
The original Dictionary of National Biography gave the date as early 1843...

Mary Ann Browne: August 1842

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August 1842

Mary Ann Browne married (after some delay and difficulty, according to Mary Russell Mitford ) James Gray .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Eliza Dunlop: August 1842

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August 1842

ED published words to a new Australian national anthem, with music by Isaac Nathan ; when this too was attacked by the Sydney Herald (which changed its name just at this date to the Sydney...

August 1842: The convict ship Waterloo capsized en route...

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August 1842

The convict ship Waterloo capsized en route to Australia, resulting in the loss of 250 of 330 convict lives.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
163

Late Summer 1842: The Plug Riots, with significant participation...

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Late Summer 1842

The Plug Riots, with significant participation by women, occurred in the northern industrial region of England when workers rebelled against inadequate wages.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation. Verso, 1993.
55, 93-4
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
30
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
145-6

9 August 1842: The Webster-Ashburton Treaty defined the...

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9 August 1842

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty defined the border between Canada and the US state of Maine.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
196
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
330

10 August 1842: Ashley's Mines Act passed, making it illegal...

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10 August 1842

Ashley's Mines Act passed, making it illegal for women, girls, and boys under ten years old to work underground.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
265
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
164, 381-2
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
Baron Ashley , later the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, was a champion of...

14 August 1842: A mass demonstration of 10,000 Chartists...

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14 August 1842

A mass demonstration of 10,000 Chartists took place on Lees Moor.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
401-2

George Douglas: 21 August 1842

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Author event in George Douglas

21 August 1842

Lady Gertrude Douglas (who later wrote as GD ) was born. She was the eldest in a family that eventually amounted to six children.
Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton, 1981.
10

Catherine Hubback: 25 August 1842

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25 August 1842

Catherine Austen married barrister John Hubback .
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Queen Victoria: 29 August-17 September 1842

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29 August-17 September 1842

QV travelled to Scotland with her young family for the first time.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xiv

Jane Loudon: 29 August 1842

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29 August 1842

The Loudons travelled west, to look at gardens in Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. They had already made a foray out of London that year, for John Claudius to recuperate at Brighton from...