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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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Mary Taylor: Winter 1843

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Winter 1843

In Hagen, MT took piano lessons from Friedrich Hallé , father of Sir Charles Hallé .
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
48

Harriet Martineau: December 1843

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December 1843

HM 's Life in the Sick-Room: Essays by an Invalid appeared anonymously, with an imprint of 1844.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
8: xii
Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986.
216

Eliza Meteyard: December 1843-April 1844

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December 1843-April 1844

Much of what became EM 's first novel appeared serially in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine as Scenes in the Life of an Authoress.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
1271
Meteyard, Eliza. “Scenes in the Life of an Authoress”. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
14o.s., 10n.s.-15.o.s., 11n.s.
, Dec. 1843–Apr. 1844, pp. 765 - 75, 36.

Late 1843: Sir Henry Cole, tired of writing out Christmas...

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Late 1843

Sir Henry Cole , tired of writing out Christmas greetings for all his friends, commissioned John Callcott Horsley to design the first pictorial Christmas card.
“Christmas Gallery”. Postcard & Greeting Card Museum.

Jane Loudon: 14 December 1843

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14 December 1843

John Claudius Loudon , husband of JL , died at home at 3 Porchester Terrace, London, of chronic bronchitis, the very day after hearing that a group of creditors had rejected his proposals to...

Jane Williams: 15 December 1843

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15 December 1843

JW 's maternal step-grandmother Jane Marsh , the second wife of William Marsh , died at the age of eighty-two in Talgarth, Brecknockshire.
Fraser, Maxwell. “Jane Williams (Ysgafell) 1806-1885”. Brycheiniog, Vol.
7
, 1961, pp. 95-114.
100

John Stuart Mill: By 16 December 1843

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By 16 December 1843

JSM published A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, in two volumes.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
842 (1843): 1101-2

16 December 1843: Thomas Hood's poem The Song of the Shirt...

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16 December 1843

Thomas Hood 's poem The Song of the Shirt was published anonymously in the Christmas issue of Punch.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Jerrold, Walter. Thomas Hood: His Life and Times. Greenwood Press, 1969.
365

Charles Dickens: 19 December 1843

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19 December 1843

CD published the first of his Christmas novels, A Christmas Carol, a cautionary parable of commercialism and charity.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Caroline Frances Cornwallis : 1843

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1843

CFC 's Small Books on Great Subjects issued its fourth publication in three years, An Introduction to Practical Organic Chemistry; again authorship was attributed to A Few Well Wishers to Knowledge.

Catherine Crowe: By 30 December 1843

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By 30 December 1843

CC , as the author of the Adventures of Susan Hopley, published her second novel, Men and Women; or, Manorial Rights.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
844 (1843): 1160

Emma Robinson: Late 1843

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Late 1843

ER published Whitefriars; or, The Days of Charles the Second, her first, anonymous historical romance, bearing the date of 1844; it was praised to the skies in the Athenæum.
A monastery called Whitefriars...

Charlotte Brontë: 31 December 1843

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31 December 1843

CB returned to Haworth from Brussels.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
427

Grace Aguilar: 1844

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1844

GA published The Perez Family, the first domestic narrative of contemporary Jewish life, for Charlotte Montefiore 's Cheap Jewish Library, a series of tracts aimed at poor London Jews.
Sarah Aguilar gives 1843...

Grace Aguilar: 1844-August 1845

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1844-August 1845

GA 's landmark study The Women of Israel was published in sixteen or eighteen parts costing a shilling each.
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.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
144

Lucy Aikin: From 1844

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From 1844

LA lived with her niece Anna Letitia Le Breton .
Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
xxvi-xxvii

Mrs Alexander: 1844

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1844

Annie French (who later wrote as MA ) moved with her parents from Ireland to England.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Bailey: 1844

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1844

After her husband's conviction for forgery and his transportation to Australia, MB followed him to Hobart in Van Diemen's Land.
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.

Isabella Banks: 1844

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1844

IB , under her maiden name of Isabella Varley, published her first book of verse: Ivy Leaves: A Collecton of Poems.
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.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

Lydia Becker: 1844-1845

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1844-1845

LB visited her father's relatives in Germany.
According to her sister Esther, their uncle Leigh brought Lydia home towards the end of 1845.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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Mary Berry: 1844

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1844

Richard Bentley published an omnibus volume of MB 's published works, titled from the last two: England and France: a Comparative View of Social Life of Both Countries, from the restoration of Charles the...

Caroline Bowles: 1844

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1844

CB published Autumn Flowers and Other Poems; an American edition appeared the following year.
The several later editions were titled The Floral Wreath of Autumn Flowers.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Caroline Bowles: 1844

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1844

Robert Southey 's triple-decker The Life of the Rev. Andrew Bell, edited and completed in part by Southey's widow CB , was posthumously published on the heels of conflict among those concerned.
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 Boyle: 1844

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1844

Mary Boyle published The Bridal of Melcha; A Dramatic Sketch, a poem which she dedicated to George P. R. James .
Boyle, Mary. The Bridal of Melcha. Henry Colburn, 1844.
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Mary Ann Browne: 1844

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1844

MAB published under her married name, at Dublin, her final poetry collection: Sketches from the Antique, and Other Poems.
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.