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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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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: Mid-July 1843

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Mid-July 1843

Sydney Morgan 's husband died after thirty-one years of marriage, and only two weeks after she had been overwhelmed at the news of her niece Olivia's death.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 477-8
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
232

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: By 15 July 1843

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By 15 July 1843

Marguerite Blessington 's novel Meredith appeared.
Critic Paula R. Feldman spells the title Meredyth, but the British Library Catalogue, Bodleian Catalogue, and OCLC agree against her.
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
151
Athenæum. J. Lection.
820 (1843): 650

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: August 1843

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August 1843

Elizabeth Barrett 's poem The Cry of the Children, about the plight of child factory workers, appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
45

Augusta Ada Byron: August 1843

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Author event in Augusta Ada Byron

August 1843

Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace , published A Sketch of the Analytical Engine, a translation from Luigi Menabrea 's work on Charles Babbage 's Analytical Engine. Her annotations tripled the length of the original.
Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press, 1992.
xv
Baum, Joan. The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron. Archon Books, 1986.
1, 67

Lydia Maria Child: August 1843

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August 1843

LMC published in volume form her first collection of Letters from New York, which she had contributed as a weekly column to the National Anti-Slavery Standard from August 1841.
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992.
175-6, 180
Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
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Wilkie Collins: August 1843

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Author event in Wilkie Collins

August 1843

WC 's first identified published work, a short story titled The Last Stage Coachman, appeared in the Illuminated Magazine.
Peters, Catherine. The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins. Minerva (imprint of Octopus), 1992.
60

Elizabeth Grant: August 1843-July 1845

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Author event in Elizabeth Grant

August 1843-July 1845

Elizabeth Smith (formerly EG ) and her family, including her husband and three surviving children, spent two years living in France.
Grant, Elizabeth. “Wintering in Pau, A French Sketch”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
9-10
, 1848, pp. 153 - 6; 186.
153

22 August 1843: The Theatres Regulation Act made it legal...

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22 August 1843

The Theatres Regulation Act made it legal for any theatre to become licensed for drama (thus expanding its repertoire) and required all new commercial plays to be approved by the Lord Chamberlain seven days before...

George Sand: By 26 August 1843

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By 26 August 1843

GS published her novel Consuelo, which features an opera-singer heroine.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
212
Cate, Curtis. George Sand. Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
826 (1843): 766-8

Amelia Opie: By 27 August 1843

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By 27 August 1843

AO finished her careful revisions to The Father and Daughter and Adeline Mowbray for re-issue in the new edition printed in 1844 by W. Grove and Sons for Longman .
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
xxxiv, xxxix

Queen Victoria: September 1843

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Author event in Queen Victoria

September 1843

QV made a landmark visit to Louis-Philippe at Château d'Eu near Le Tréport.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Frances Trollope: 1 September 1843

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1 September 1843

FT and her son Thomas Adolphus moved to Italy, where they settled in Florence.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research, 1983.
21: 324
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
II: 29

By September 1843: Women's Rights and Duties Considered with...

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By September 1843

Women's Rights and Duties Considered with Relation to Their Influence on Society and Her Own Condition by A Woman argued for very limited rights for women.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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August 1843: Lady Emmeline Wortley's play Moonshine was...

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August 1843

Lady Emmeline Wortley 's play Moonshine was condemned by the critics when it opened at the Haymarket .
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.
60

2 September 1843: The Economist, a new weekly founded by businessman...

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2 September 1843

The Economist, a new weekly founded by businessman and MP James Wilson , issued its first number.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 13 September 1843

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13 September 1843

Elizabeth Barrett 's dog Flush, a highly-valued companion given her by Mary Russell Mitford , was stolen and held for two days before being returned for a ransom of five guineas.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
100, 117-18
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
7: xii

Matilda Charlotte Houstoun: 13 September 1843

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13 September 1843

MCH , her husband William Houstoun , and a crew of twenty-two others sailed for the United States aboard their yacht, the Dolphin.
Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. G. B. Zieber, 1845.
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Emma Caroline Wood: 25 September 1843

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Author event in Emma Caroline Wood

25 September 1843

ECW acquired the style of Lady when her husband succeeded to a baronetcy following the death of his father, Sir Matthew Wood .
Venn, John, 1834 - 1923, and John Archibald Venn. Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge University Press, 1922–1954.
Bradhurst, Minna Evangeline. A Century of Letters. Printed for private circulation by R. E. Thomas and Newman, 1929.
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Anna Atkins: Biography: October 1843

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Author event in Anna Atkins: Biography

October 1843

AA finished hand-producing and began circulating volume one of the first photographic book published in the UK,
Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007.
209
which was also her earliest work: Photographs of British Algae. Cyanotype Impressions.
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.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

1 October 1843: The News of the World newspaper began pu...

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1 October 1843

The News of the World newspaper began publication.
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.

16 October 1843: Søren Kierkegaard published Fear and Trembling...

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16 October 1843

Søren Kierkegaard published Fear and Trembling under the pseudonym of Johannes de Silentio.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Arbaugh, George E., and George B. Arbaugh. Kierkegaard’s Authorship; A Guide to the Writings of Kierkegaard. Augustana College Library, 1967.
105-6

Fredrika Bremer: 1843

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1843

FB published a novel entitled En dagbok, whose composition she had interrupted for her theological work. An anonymous English translation, first printed in the USA, joined several of her other titles in Smith's Standard...

George Eliot: By November 1843

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By November 1843

Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) began to assist Robert Herbert Brabant , retired doctor and former friend of Coleridge, in his research into the origins of Christianity.
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968.
49
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
66

November 1843: Thomas Hancock of England patented a process...

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November 1843

Thomas Hancock of England patented a process for vulcanizing rubber; vulcanizing improved rubber's resistance to temperature extremes.
Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.
527-528
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: By 4 November 1843

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By 4 November 1843

CET published in four parts The Wrongs of Woman, an attack on the conditions of women workers in London.
The title had been used for Mary Wollstonecraft 's last, unfinished novel, published in...