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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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Barbara Hofland: 1843

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

1843

BH paid a last visit to her native Sheffield.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Barbara Hofland: 1843

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

1843

BHedited
qtd. in
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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(the word she used on her title-page) The King's Son: A Romance of English History.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
92-3

Mary Catherine Hume: 1843

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Author event in Mary Catherine Hume

1843

MCH met Charles Augustus Tulk , a Swedenborgian friend and colleague of her father's, and began studying with him at Totteridge Park, his home north of London.
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.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 101

Jane Loudon: 1843

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Author event in Jane Loudon

1843

In this painful year of her husband 's last illness, Mrs Loudon worked on and published the first of two volumes of The Ladies' Flower-Garden: Ornamental Perennials (another in her series on types of plants)...

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: 1843

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1843

Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton) published her fourth novel, Bianca Cappello . An Historical Romance, in three volumes.
Bianca had also been treated in ThomasMiddleton 's Women Beware Women, which probably dates from 1621.
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
xxxv

Charlotte Montefiore: 1843

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Author event in Charlotte Montefiore

1843

Charlotte Montefiore anonymously funded, edited, and contributed to the Cheap Jewish Library, a series of moral and religious tales or . . . useful information,
qtd. in
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
176
that is, of didactic as well as religious...

Celia Moss: 1843

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Author event in Celia Moss

1843

Sisters Celia and Marion Moss published their second collection of historical romances, Tales of Jewish History.
Zatlin, Linda Gertner. The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Novel. Twayne, 1981.
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Anne Mozley: 1843

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Author event in Anne Mozley

1843

AM anonymously edited a collection entitled Church Poetry; or, Christian Thoughts in Old and Modern Verse.
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.

Florence Nightingale : 1843

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Author event in Florence Nightingale

1843

FN 's cousin Henry Nicholson proposed marriage; she refused him, and vowed never to marry.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 270

1843: The Metropolitan Visiting and Relief Association...

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1843

The Metropolitan Visiting and Relief Association was founded.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
178
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1843: Charles Edward Mudie opened his first circulating...

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1843

Charles Edward Mudie opened his first circulating library .
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
154
Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader. 2nd ed., Ohio State University Press, 1998.
295-6

1843: Tight-lacing à la paresseuse was introduced...

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1843

Tight-lacing à la paresseuse was introduced in France; instead of having to be re-inserted at each wearing, the lace remained in the corset and slipped through loops, allowing for easier adjustment of fit.
Kunzle, David. Fashion and Fetishism: A Social History of the Corset, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture in the West. Rowman and Littlefield, 1982.
122

1843: Britain's leading obstetrician, James Young...

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1843

Britain's leading obstetrician, James Young Simpson , adapted sound for use in uterine examinations.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
139

1843: American Dan Emmett toured England with his...

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1843

American Dan Emmett toured England with his Virginia Minstrels , the first minstrel troupe heard in England.
Bratton, Jacqueline S., editor. Music Hall: Performance and Style. Open University Press, 1986.
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1843: The Magazine of the Beau Monde, or Monthly...

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1843

The Magazine of the Beau Monde, or Monthly Journal of Fashion ceased publication after twelve years.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1843: Charles Heath Wilson assumed directorship...

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1843

Charles Heath Wilson assumed directorship of the Female School of the Schools of Design , replacing William Dyce .
Callen, Anthea. Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914. Astragal Books, 1980.
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1843: The English Chartist Circular avowed that...

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1843

The English Chartist Circular avowed that hundreds of women had enrolled in the NCA or National Charter Association .
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. Pantheon, 1984.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. Pantheon, 1984.
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1843: David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson toured...

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1843

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson toured Scotland taking photographs.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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1843: The Associate Institute, a social purity...

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1843

The Associate Institute, a social purity group, failed in its attempt to form female auxiliaries to assist in their fight against vice and prostitution.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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1843: White American musician Joe Sweeney introduced...

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1843

White American musician Joe Sweeney introduced the modern banjo to England; he also tried to improve the image of the black entertainer by refusing to wear the popular Jim Crow plantation costume.
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and its Business. Oxford University Press, 1988.
41, 171-2

1843: Thirty-eight years after the British naval...

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1843

Thirty-eight years after the British naval victory of Trafalgar, the basic structure of Nelson 's Column, erected in the newly developed Trafalgar Square in honour of the victor, was finally completed.
Colley, Linda. “Powered by Fear”. London Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2005, pp. 14-15.
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1843: A two-shilling annual entitled the Christian...

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1843

A two-shilling annual entitled the Christian Ladies' Pocket-Book Almanack began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1843: The Hungarian Diet adopted Magyar as its...

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1843

The Hungarian Diet adopted Magyar as its official language.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1843: William Hallowes Miller developed new standard...

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1843

William Hallowes Miller developed new standard measures for England.
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.
310

1843: Alexander Bain, a Scottish inventor, patented...

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1843

Alexander Bain , a Scottish inventor, patented an electrochemical recording telegraph, an early version of the facsimile machine.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.