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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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Selina Bunbury: By 1844

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By 1844

After the deaths of her parents and the marriage of the brother for whom she had been house-keeping, SB began to travel extensively in Europe.
Several reference works incorrectly state that she began to...

Selina Bunbury: 1844

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Author event in Selina Bunbury

1844

SB published another work of historical fiction, The Star of the Court; or, The Maid of Honour and Queen of England, Anne Boleyn
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Jane Hume Clapperton : About 1844

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Author event in Jane Hume Clapperton

About 1844

At the age of twelve, JHC was sent to an unidentified boarding-school in England, which she attended for four years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Temple, H. B., editor. “Miss Jane Hume Clapperton, Authoress”. The Women’s Penny Paper, Vol.
1
, No. 35, 22 June 1889, pp. 1-2.
1.35 (22 June 1889): 1

Mary Cowden Clarke: 1844-5

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1844-5

MCC issued in eighteen monthly parts The Complete Concordance to Shakspere.
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.

Camilla Crosland: 1844

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1844

CC 's illustrated didactic story or novella The Little Berlin Wool-Worker; or, Cousin Caroline's Visit was aimed at a young readership.
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.

Lucie Duff Gordon: 1844

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1844

LDG 's second publication was a translation from the German of Wilhelm Meinhold 's Mary Schweidler , the Amber Witch (a fiction in the guise of a historical document).
Prefatory material in the 1895 edition...

Emily Eden: 1844

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1844

Emily Eden published Portraits of the Princes and People of India.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

George Eliot: January 1844

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January 1844

GE , then Mary Ann Evans, began her translation of Das Leben Jesu (The Life of Jesus) by David Friedrich Strauss .
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
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Charlotte Yonge: 1844

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1844

CY anonymously published her first novel, Abbeychurch; or, Self Control and Self Conceit.
Dictionary of Literary Biography 18 lists only the reprint of 1848.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983.
18: 308
The British Library has the second edition but not the first.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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Ellen Weeton: Biography: 1844

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1844

This is probably the year in which Ellen Stock (formerly EW ) died.
It is the last year for which a county directory mentions her as resident at Standishgate. Someone of this name, however, died...

Augusta Webster: 1844-8

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1844-8

While her family lived at Banff in Scotland, Augusta Davies (later AW ) attended school.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Queen Victoria: 1844

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1844

The royal family purchased Osborne House in the Isle of Wight; the island then became a popular holiday destination for the upper classes.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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Flora Tristan: 1844

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1844

During the last year of her life, FT wrote a diary of her travels through France working to establish workers' unions..
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
99
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1844

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1844

One of CET 's last children's books to appear in her lifetime, Kindness to Animals, was published.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
309

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1844

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1844

CET pursued further her interest in martyrs with a historical study, The Female Martyrs of the English Reformation.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
310

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1844

Women writers item

1844

CET published another history or martyrology: Ridley , Latimer , Cranmer and Other English Martyrs.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
309

Harriet Smythies: 1844

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1844

HS , as the author of Cousin Geoffrey, published The Jilt: her first novel since her marriage, written in a sentimental moralistic vein which became characteristic of her.
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.
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 Sewell: 1844

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1844

ES , as a Lady, published her first novel, Amy Herbert, in two volumes.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1844

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1844

ATG published her last children's book, Seven Blessings for Little Children.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
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Anne Grant: 1844

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1844

AG 's son John Peter Grant published another collection of her writings: Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan.
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.

Matilda Charlotte Houstoun: 1844

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1844

In Texas and the Gulf of Mexico; or, Yachting in the New WorldMCH recorded her impressions from a trip to the Caribbean, New Orleans and Texas in the form of a travel memoir.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Catherine Hutton: January 1844

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Author event in Catherine Hutton

January 1844

CH (now nearly ninety) published in Ainsworth's Magazine her sketch of the Coltman family: that of Elizabeth Heyrick 's mother .
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
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Anna Brownell Jameson: 1844

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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson

1844

ABJ was introduced to Elizabeth Barrett by John Kenyon .
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
169

Ellen Johnston: About 1844

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Author event in Ellen Johnston

About 1844

When EJ was eight, her mother remarried, incorrectly believing her first husband dead; Ellen's stepfather apparently sexually abused her.
Johnston, Ellen. Autobiography, Poems, and Songs. William Love, 1867.
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Julia Kavanagh: 1844

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1844

JK and her mother left Paris, where they had been living, and settled again in London; this was probably before their final separation from Julia's father .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Fauset, Eileen. The Politics of Writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77. Manchester University Press, 2009.
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