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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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Julia Ward Howe: 23 April 1843

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23 April 1843

Julia Ward married Samuel Gridley Howe , who was a philanthropist and head of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston.
Howe, Julia Ward. Reminiscences, 1819–1899. Houghton Mifflin, 1899.
81, 88

Eliza Dunlop: 25 April 1843

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25 April 1843

The Sydney Morning Herald printed Rosetta Nathan's Dirge, which ED had composed one week earlier at Wollombi for Isaac Nathan 's daughter Jessy Rosetta , who had died in Sydney on the first of...

Flora Tristan: May 1843

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Author event in Flora Tristan

May 1843

FT had her widely-circulated political tract Union ouvrière (The Workers' Union) published by subscription in Paris.
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
9
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
73, 219, 224

Elizabeth Stone: Later 1843

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Later 1843

ES published a third novel, this time historical: Miss Pen and Her Niece; or, The Old Maid and the Young One, set in the early eighteenth century.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Russell Mitford: May 1843

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

May 1843

MRM made a trip to Bath, during which she met Frances Trollope and Walter Savage Landor .
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: 268
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 195

1 May 1843: Richard Redgrave exhibited his painting The...

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1 May 1843

Richard Redgrave exhibited his painting The Poor Teacher at the Royal Academy .
Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.
114
Athenæum. J. Lection.
812 (1843): 492
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
3

Georgiana Chatterton : By 6 May 1843

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By 6 May 1843

GC published The Pyrenees, with Excursions into Spain.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
810 (1843): 430

Elizabeth Stone: By 6 May 1843

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By 6 May 1843

ES 's second novel, The Young Milliner, focused on sufferings of women working in the dressmaking trade.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
810 (1843): 437

Sojourner Truth: 11 May 1843

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Author event in Sojourner Truth

11 May 1843

Biographer Margaret Washington thinks that ST began public witness against slavery seven years earlier than formerly supposed: that she must be the colored woman who spoke this day at New York's Sixth Street Methodist (Colored)...

Margaret Veley: 12 May 1843

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12 May 1843

MV was born at Braintree in Essex, the second in a family of four daughters.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, 1888, p. vii - xxiv.
vii
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

By 13 May 1843: Thomas Carlyle published Past and Presen...

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By 13 May 1843

Thomas Carlyle published Past and Present.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
811 (1843): 453
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

18 May 1843: In what was called the Disruption, led by...

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18 May 1843

In what was called the Disruption, led by Thomas Chalmers , roughly a third of the ministers and half the members of the established Presbyterian Church of Scotland seceded on the issue of a...

Lucy Aikin: 20 May 1843

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20 May 1843

LA published The Life of Joseph Addison: the first biography of her subject, which includes the text of a number of previously unpublished letters.
Aikin, Lucy. The Life of Joseph Addison. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843, 2 vols.
title-page
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
812 (20 May 1843): 477-9

Christabel Coleridge : 25 May 1843

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25 May 1843

CC was born in Chelsea at St Mark's College, an Anglican teacher training college where her father served as clergyman and teacher.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Ann Browne: June 1843

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June 1843

MAB (now Gray, not yet one year married) applied to the Royal Literary Fund for money, saying that her husband had been promised a government post which had not materialised. They paid her forty pounds.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Frances Power Cobbe: Summer 1843

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Summer 1843

FPC 's prolonged search for a meaningful religious life led to her loss of faith in orthodox Christianity: she became what would later be called an agnostic.
Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 2 vols.
1: 81

Sojourner Truth: 1 June 1843

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1 June 1843

Isabella Van Wagenen claimed her new name of Sojourner Truth, and set out, following a religious calling, to travel east, preaching and awaiting William Miller 's predicted apocalypse.
Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. W. W. Norton, 1996.
73-4, 79-80
Gilbert, Olive, editor. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Arno Press, 1968.
100

June 1843: Ben Webster, manager of the Haymarket, announced...

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June 1843

Ben Webster , manager of the Haymarket , announced a play-writing contest.
Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 54-74.
55

12 June 1843: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part...

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12 June 1843

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part of the theatre-going public when they visited the Drury Lane Theatre in state.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
124

17 June 1843: Julia Charlotte Maitland published, as a...

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17 June 1843

Julia Charlotte Maitland published, as a Lady, her Letters from Madras: during the years 1836-1839.
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.
816 (17 June 1843): 568-9

By 24 June 1843: Richard Henry Horne (sometimes called Richard...

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By 24 June 1843

Richard Henry Horne (sometimes called Richard Hengist Horne) published Orion, an allegorical epic poem.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
817 (1843): 583
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Summer 1843

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Summer 1843

Antoinette Brown (later ABB ) taught in a small town near the Genesee River. She made $1.50 a week plus boarding expenses, and sent most of her earnings back to her family.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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Margaret Fuller: Summer 1843

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Summer 1843

Together with her friend Sarah Clarke , MF undertook a tour of Chicago, Milwaukee, and the surrounding countryside, including a stop at Niagara Falls.
Blanchard, Paula. Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to Revolution. Addison-Wesley, 1987.
196

Eliza Ogilvy: 6 July 1843

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6 July 1843

Having returned to Scotland from India, Eliza Dick married David Ogilvy .
Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
xvi

Harriett Mozley: July-October 1843

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July-October 1843

HM visited France for the benefit of her health. She crossed the Channel with her husband, daughter, and servants, but Thomas Mozley returned before she did.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
126, 144, 141-2