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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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29 August 1842: The signing of the Treaty of Nanking ended...

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29 August 1842

The signing of the Treaty of Nanking ended the Opium War fought between China and the United Kingdom since July 1839. Hong Kong was ceded in perpetuity to Britain.
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.
304
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
1: 781-2
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
911

Late 1842-1860: In the first eighteen years after the Treaty...

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Late 1842-1860

In the first eighteen years after the Treaty of Nanking, 214 male Protestant missionaries journeyed to China.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
240-1

Caroline Norton: September 1842

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Author event in Caroline Norton

September 1842

CN 's youngest son , aged nine, died of lockjaw or tetanus contracted from a scratch sustained when he fell off his pony; he died before his mother could reach his bedside.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
206-7

Sarah Harriet Burney: 21 September 1842

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Author event in Sarah Harriet Burney

21 September 1842

In her boarding-house at Cheltenham, SHB made her will, leaving various bequests and the bulk of her money to relations.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
485-6

Elizabeth Stone: By 1 October 1842

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Author event in Elizabeth Stone

By 1 October 1842

Elizabeth Stone published William Langshawe, the Cotton Lord, which is one of the earliest industrial novels.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
779 (1842): 846

Elizabeth Rigby: October 1842

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Author event in Elizabeth Rigby

October 1842

ER moved from England to Edinburgh, where she settled in St Bernard's Crescent with her mother and sisters for seven years.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
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Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages.
1: 30

Adelaide Kemble: 1 October 1842

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Author event in Adelaide Kemble

1 October 1842

AK sang the title role in Rossini 's Semiramide at Covent Garden Theatre in London.
Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen, 1963.
606

October 1842: The Schools of Design in South Kensington...

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October 1842

The Schools of Design in South Kensington established a Female School .
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
48-9
Callen, Anthea. Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914. Astragal Books, 1980.
27-8

October 1842: Of 274 Chartists who stood trial in Staffordshire...

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October 1842

Of 274 Chartists who stood trial in Staffordshire this month for their political activities, 54 were transported and 154 were given prison sentences.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Mary Howitt: By 5 November 1842

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By 5 November 1842

The Neighbours, the first of MH 's translations of the much-admired Swedish writer Fredrika Bremer appeared; The President's Daughters; including Nina came out the following year.
“Melvyl Catalogue of the University of California Libraries”. California Digital Library (CDL).
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
143-5

Jane Loudon: By October 1842

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By October 1842

Writing as usual as Mrs Loudon, JL published her best-known work, Botany for Ladies: or, a popular introduction to the natural system of plants, according to the classification of de Candolle. She was still...

Mary Taylor: 12 October 1842

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Author event in Mary Taylor

12 October 1842

MT 's sister Martha died of cholera in Koekelberg.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
39

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 15 October 1842

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15 October 1842

A strident and controversial Irish newspaper called the Nation was founded in Dublin by Charles Gavan Duffy . It importantly influenced Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde .
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
24

Frances Trollope: By mid-October 1842

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By mid-October 1842

FT published one of her final travel books, A Visit to Italy, whose copyright generated for her ¥550.
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.
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.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Charlotte Brontë: 29 October 1842

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

29 October 1842

Elizabeth Branwell, the aunt who had stepped in after the death of the Brontës' mother, died; Emily and CB returned from Brussels.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
405

Robert Browning: November 1842

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Author event in Robert Browning

November 1842

RB published the third part of his Bells and Pomegranates series, entitled Dramatic Lyrics and including the dramatic monologue My Last Duchess.
Irvine, William, and Park Honan. The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. McGraw-Hill, 1974.
116, 118
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
101

Elizabeth Gaskell: Late autumn 1842

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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell

Late autumn 1842

EG and her growing young family moved to a larger house, at 121 Upper Rumford Street in Manchester.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
150

November 1842: Elizabeth Planché's comedy The Welsh Girl...

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November 1842

Elizabeth Planché 's comedy The Welsh Girl premiered at the Haymarket .
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
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Susanna Blamire: 5 November 1842

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5 November 1842

SB 's poetical works were posthumously published, as The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire "The Muse of Cumberland", at Edinburgh, with a memoir (dated May 1842) by Patrick Maxwell , who collaborated...

By 5 November 1842: Thomas Babington Macaulay, politician and...

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By 5 November 1842

Thomas Babington Macaulay , politician and historian, published his popular Lays of Ancient Rome.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
784 (1842): 942
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
469
University of Toronto Library Catalogue. http://main.library.utoronto.ca/.

Emily Brontë: 8 November 1842

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Author event in Emily Brontë

8 November 1842

On her return to Haworth from Brussels, EB again took up the management of the household.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
406

Maria Callcott: 12 November 1842

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12 November 1842

In the year of her death MC published her final book, A Scripture Herbal.
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.
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.
785 (12 November 1842): 970

Agnes Strickland: 12 November 1842

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12 November 1842

Elizabeth and AS 's historical studies in the British Museum produced an edition of the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to which they were able to bring much unpublished material.
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.
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.
785 (12 November 1842): 966-9

Catherine Sinclair: By 19 November 1842

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By 19 November 1842

CS published, this time in Edinburgh through William Whyte and Company , a book of much the same genre as her travel writings, Scotch Courtiers and the Court: dedicated to the poet laureate.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
786 (19 November 1842): 984-5

Maria Callcott: 21 November 1842

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Author event in Maria Callcott

21 November 1842

MC died in Kensington; she had consumption (tuberculosis), and had been increasingly an invalid since 1831.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.