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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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1843: In Man's Power Over Himself to Prevent or...

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1843

In Man's Power Over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity, the Rev. John Barlow asserted that rational exercise
Cooter, Roger. “Phrenology and British Alienists, ca. 1825-1845”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 58-104.
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of the brain could avert lunacy.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Cooter, Roger. “Phrenology and British Alienists, ca. 1825-1845”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 58-104.
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1843: Scottish neurologist Sir David Ferrier examined...

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1843

Scottish neurologist Sir David Ferrier examined the brains of living primates and other animals to locate and map the motor and sensory regions of the brain. He was later tried for vivisection.
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.
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Collins, Wilkie. Heart and Science. Chatto and Windus, 1883, 3 vols.
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1843: John Maxwell founded his own publishing house...

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1843

John Maxwell founded his own publishing house in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 200

1843: Edgar Allan Poe published The Pit and the...

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1843

Edgar Allan Poe published The Pit and the Pendulum, whose suspense and threatened horror have made it one of his best-known stories.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1843: The College of Surgeons became the Royal...

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1843

The College of Surgeons became the Royal College of Surgeons .
Youngson, A. J. The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine. Holmes and Meier, 1979.
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1843: The Edinburgh Review chastised the advertising...

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1843

The Edinburgh Review chastised the advertising industry for blatant lies, particularly in the use of fictitious product endorsements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
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1843: London and Dover were connected by rail....

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1843

London and Dover were connected by rail.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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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.
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1843: The Rebecca Riots took place near Newport...

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1843

The Rebecca Riots took place near Newport in South Wales; the rioters were protesting against the Poor Law Amendment Act and turnpike tolls, among other things.
West, Julius. A History of the Chartist Movement. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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1843: Prince Albert assumed the presidency of the...

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1843

Prince Albert assumed the presidency of the Society of Arts.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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1843: Parliament deregulated the London stage by...

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1843

Parliament deregulated the London stage by removing the restriction which had limited the number of patent or fully licensed theatres in the capital to no more than two, Covent Garden and Drury Lane .
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.

1843: British West Africa separated from Sierra...

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1843

British West Africa separated from Sierra Leone and became an independent Crown Colony.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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1843: Scottish surgeon James Braid's Neurypnology;...

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1843

Scottish surgeon James Braid 's Neurypnology; or, the Rationale of Nervous Sleep discussed hypnotism (a renaming of phenomena hitherto known as mesmerism) and its potential benefits.
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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1843: The Governesses' Benevolent Association was...

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1843

The Governesses' Benevolent Association was founded in London.
Turner, Barry. Equality for Some: The Story of Girls’ Education. Ward Lock Educational, 1974.
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Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
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1843: Twenty-five women (a surprising cross-section...

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1843

Twenty-five women (a surprising cross-section of society—old and young, poor and prosperous) voted in local elections at Lichfield in Staffordshire.
“Suffrage Stories: Votes For Victorian Women”. BBC Radio 4.

1843: A planned mass meeting of Irish nationalists,...

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1843

A planned mass meeting of Irish nationalists, headed by Daniel O'Connell , was banned by the British government; O'Connell acquiesced, and the repeal movement was effectively silenced.
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
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1843: Charlotte Fowler and her brothers, Orson...

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1843

Charlotte Fowler and her brothers, Orson Squire Fowler and Lorenzo N. Fowler , were joined in their New York firm by medical student Samuel R. Wells : the firm popularized phrenology.
Davies, John Dunn. Phrenology: Fad and Science. A 19th-Century American Crusade. Archon Books, 1971.
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Stern, Madeleine B., editor. A Phrenological Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Americans. Greenwood, 1982.
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Anne Katharine Elwood : By 7 January 1843

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By 7 January 1843

Anne Katharine Elwood published (as Mrs Elwood, authoress of An Overland Journey to India) her best-known work and last publication, Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century...

20 January 1843: Daniel M'Naghten shot and mortally wounded...

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20 January 1843

Daniel M'Naghten shot and mortally wounded the private secretary of Sir Robert Peel , the Prime Minister: his trial for murder changed British legislation on pleas of insanity.
Walker, Nigel. Crime and Insanity in England. Edinburgh University Press, 1968.
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Sara Coleridge: 26 January 1843

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26 January 1843

SC 's husband died of spinal paralysis.
Coleridge, Sara. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge. Editor Coleridge, Edith, 4th Abridged, Henry S. King, 1875.
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Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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Charlotte Brontë: 27 January 1843

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27 January 1843

Having mourned her aunt, CB returned to the Pensionnat Heger as a teacher, travelling alone to Brussels.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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28 January 1843: Frances Calderon de la Barca published Life...

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28 January 1843

Frances Calderon de la Barca published Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in that Country in two parts, published at least a couple of weeks apart.
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.
769 (28 January 1843): 78-81, 798 (11 February 1843): 131-3

Caroline Bowles: February 1843

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February 1843

Despite her recent fears that she would never write again, CB 's tragic poem The Young Grey Head appeared in Blackwood's.
Morlier, Margaret M. “A Note on ’Goblin Market’: A Literary Source in Caroline Bowles Southey’s ’Young Grey Head’”. The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Vol.
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February 1843: Daniel and Alexander Macmillan founded their...

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February 1843

Daniel and Alexander Macmillan founded their own publishing house in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 178, 179, 180

Jane Welsh Carlyle: 3 February 1843

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3 February 1843

Geraldine Jewsbury 's stay with the Carlyles at their home in Chelsea marked the beginning of her lifelong friendship with JWC .
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Welsh Carlyle: A New Selection of Her Letters. Editor Bliss, Trudy, Victor Gollancz, 1950.
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Robert Browning: 11 February 1843

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11 February 1843

RB 's play A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, the fifth instalment of his Bells and Pomegranates series, opened at the Drury Lane Theatre with Helen Faucit playing Mildred.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
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