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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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Late November 1842: Friedrich Engels arrived in Manchester at...

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Late November 1842

Friedrich Engels arrived in Manchester at his father's behest to study English manufacturing and business practices.
Lucas, John, b. 1937. The Literature of Change. 2nd ed., Harvester Press, 1980.
34, 36-7

Frances Trollope: December 1842-November 1843

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Author event in Frances Trollope

December 1842-November 1843

FT 's Jessie Phillips, a sympathetic novel about a fallen woman, was published in monthly parts.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research, 1983.
21: 324

Mary Taylor: December 1842

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Author event in Mary Taylor

December 1842

After her sister's death, MT travelled to Iserlohn, Westphalia, Germany where she lived for the next two years, shocking her friends by making a living as a teacher of English to German boys.
Gérin, Winifred. Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius. Clarendon Press, 1967.
220
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
41, 52
Murray, Janet Horowitz, and Mary Taylor. “Introduction”. Miss Miles; or, A Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago, Oxford University Press, 1990, p. vii - xxiv.
xi

Lydia Howard Sigourney: December 1842

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December 1842

LHS 's Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands, about her European travels (compiled from a travel diary), was published at Boston.
Blanck, Jacob et al., editors. Bibliography of American Literature. Yale University Press, 1955–1991, 9 vols.
7: 451
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
239

Elizabeth Rigby: December 1842

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Author event in Elizabeth Rigby

December 1842

Books for Children, the first of ER 's series of reviews of this genre, appeared 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: 725

Margaret Sandbach: By 10 December 1842

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By 10 December 1842

MS , as Mrs. Henry R. Sandbach, published a second volume of poetry titled from one of its leading pieces, a verse drama in five acts, Giuliano de' Medici.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
789 (1842): 1062
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.

Mary Russell Mitford: 11 December 1842

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11 December 1842

MRM 's father died without a struggle or a sigh,
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 261
leaving her, as she put it, miserably desolate,—alone in the wide world!
qtd. in
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2315 (1872): 297
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 193
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Strutt: By mid-December 1842

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By mid-December 1842

ES published Domestic Residence in Switzerland, with her name and mention of other works.
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.
Strutt, Elizabeth. Domestic Residence in Switzerland. Newby, 1842, 2 vols.
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Adelaide Kemble: 23 December 1842

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23 December 1842

AK made her final operatic appearance, once again taking the role that had made her famous, as the tragic heroine of Bellini 's Norma.
Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen, 1963.
555
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Russell Mitford: Late 1842

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Late 1842

Following her father 's death, some of MRM 's friends organized a public subscription to pay off his debts; it grew to £2,000, some of which remained to increase her Civil List income.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Ann Browne: January 1843

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January 1843

The Dublin University Magazine printed The Embroidress at Midnight by Mrs. James Gray late Miss M. A. Browne, a poem of protest about treatment of women workers in the textile trade.
This preceded the...

Selina Bunbury: 1843

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1843

Coombe Abbey: An Historical Tale of the Reign of James the First, a story about the kidnapping of the young Elizabeth of Bohemia that was planned to accompany the gunpowder plot of 1605, became...

Sara Coleridge: 1843

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1843

The fifth edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's Aids to Reflection was published with an essay by SC entitled On Rationalism.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes. “Sara Coleridge: A Portrait from the Papers”. Library Chronicle of the University of Texas, Vol.
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, 1983, pp. 15-35.
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Hannah Cullwick: 1843 or 1844

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1843 or 1844

HC was employed for eight months as a pot-girl at the Red Lion public house in Shifnal.
Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press, 1984.
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Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
298

Lucie Duff Gordon: 1843

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1843

LDG 's first publication appeared: an anonymous translation of Barthold Niebuhr 's Stories of the Gods and Heroes of Greece.
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.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
122

George Eliot: 1843

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1843

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) sided with Robert Owen , John Bright , and their mutual friend Charles Bray , chairman of the local Anti-Corn Law League , in opposing the Corn Laws.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
72

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: By 1843

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By 1843

JFLW , then Jane Frances Elgee, was living with her mother at 34 Leeson Street, in Dublin.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
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Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1843

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1843

CET 's final substantial work of fiction, Judah's Lion, was published in the same year that she treated one of its topics, the conversion of the Jews, in her pamphlet Israel's Ordinances.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
314

Anna Swanwick: 1843

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1843

AS issued her earliest translation, Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
990 (1846): 1062

Felicia Skene: 1843

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1843

After five years living in Greece, FS published her first work, a collection of poems entitled The Isles of Greece, and Other Poems as Felicia Mary Frances Skene.
The title apparently alludes...

James Malcolm Rymer: Biography: 1843

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1843

Serialized in Lloyd's Penny Weekly Miscellany, JMR 's Ada the Betrayed, or, The Murder of the Old Smithy not only launched Edward Lloyd 's journal but quickly became the lead serial that year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Anglo, Michael. Penny Dreadfuls and Other Victorian Horrors. Jupiter, 1977.
98

Christina Rossetti: By 1843

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By 1843

The Rossetti family began attending Christ Church in Albany Street, a centre of Anglo-Catholicism whose incumbent, the Rev. William Dodsworth , profoundly affected CR .
Jones, Kathleen. Learning Not to Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti. Windrush Press, 1991.
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Marion Reid: 1843

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1843

MR published in Edinburgh her feminist tract, A Plea for Woman: Being a Vindication of the Importance and Extent of her Natural Sphere of Action; with Remarks on Recent Works on the Subject.
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.

Emily Jane Pfeiffer: 1843

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1843

Encouraged artistically by her father, at fifteen the future EJP produced The Holly Branch, An Album for 1843, a privately printed collection of her stories and melodies.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 233

Catherine Gore : 1843

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1843

CG published two novels about financiers: The Money-Lender (which sold 14,000 copies by 1854) and The Banker's Wife; or, Court and City (7 October 1843), dedicated to her financial trustee, Sir John Dean Paul ...