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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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Anna Eliza Bray: 30 March 1844

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30 March 1844

AEB published another triple-decker, the romantic novel Courtenay of Walreddon: A Romance of the West.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 49

Louisa Stuart Costello: By 30 March 1844

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By 30 March 1844

LSC published the first two volumes of her four-volume series Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, which contained thirty-seven biographies. The rest followed by the end of the year.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
857 (1844): 287

Catherine Hutton: 30 March 1844

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30 March 1844

CH wrote, I have no taste for old age. I find it requires great patience to make it endurable, and I like youth much better.
Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers, 1891.
221

Caroline Frances Cornwallis : April 1844

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April 1844

CFC 's Small Books on Great Subjects this year included two titles on Greek philosophy: the first running to the time of Pericles , the second from the time of Socrates to that of Christ

Mary Taylor: April 1844

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April 1844

MT travelled from Germany to visit her friends and family at Cleckheaton in England.
Gérin, Winifred. Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius. Clarendon Press, 1967.
266
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
52

April 1844: Elizabeth Planché's drama Ivan Daniloff;...

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April 1844

Elizabeth Planché 's drama Ivan Daniloff; or, The Sledge Driver premiered at Sadler's Wells .
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
171

Agnes Strickland: 3 April 1844

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3 April 1844

Elizabeth and AS crossed from Southampton to Le Havre on the first leg of a Continental research trip.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
126

Flora Tristan: 12 April 1844

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12 April 1844

FT began the travels recorded in her diary Le tour de France, in the attempt to found workers' unions like those she proposed in her book Union ouvrière.
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
9
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
224

Lady Charlotte Bury: By 20 April 1844

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By 20 April 1844

LCB reverted to the sobriquet the authoress of Flirtation for another novel, The Wilfulness of Woman, featuring two broken marriages.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
860 (1844): 356

Mary Shelley: 24 April 1844

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24 April 1844

MS 's father-in-law, Sir Timothy Shelley, died, and her son, Percy Florence Shelley , inherited the estate: from now on she was comfortably off.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45.
45

Anne Marsh: After 29 March 1844

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After 29 March 1844

AM , as the author of Two Old Men's Tales, published a third collection, The Triumphs of Time, containing three stories in three volumes.
Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.
1844
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: May 1844

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May 1844

ES and her family moved from Pidford to Bonchurch, another village in the Isle of Wight.
Their house at Bonchurch was called first Seaview and later Ashcliff. The older Dictionary of National Biography...

May 1844: The North British Review began publication...

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May 1844

The North British Review began publication in Edinburgh, appealing to a liberal Christian audience.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 663, 667

May 1844: Thomas Hood published The Bridge of Sighs,...

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May 1844

Thomas Hood published The Bridge of Sighs, which was invoked repeatedly in Victorian treatments of the fallen woman.
Jerrold, Walter. Thomas Hood: His Life and Times. Greenwood Press, 1969.
379
Reid, John Cowie. Thomas Hood. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963.
215, 213, 258
Hood, Thomas. Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Editor Clubbe, John, Harvard University Press, 1970.
28, 392, 317
Jerrold indicates that Mary Furley was given a...

May 1844: The Society for Improving the Condition of...

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May 1844

The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes began to work towards housing reform; the society was a revitalized and revamped version of the Labourer's Friend Society of the previous decade.
Brion, Marion, and Anthea Tinker. Women in Housing: Access and Influence. Housing Centre Trust, 1980.
60
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
45
Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
375

May 1844: Irish Catholic barrister Daniel O'Connell...

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May 1844

Irish Catholic barrister Daniel O'Connell was tried and found guilty of conspiracy against British rule and incitement to violence. Although he was sentenced to one year in prison with fines, the verdict was reversed four...

William Beckford: 2 May 1844

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2 May 1844

WB , gothicist, died at Bath.
Chapman, Guy Patterson. Beckford. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
317-18

Elizabeth Rigby: 7 May 1844

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7 May 1844

ER left London for her second visit to Reval (now Tallinn in Estonia, but at that time in Russia) where her two married sisters lived; she was accompanied by her youngest sister.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
57
Garver, Joseph. “Lady Eastlake’s ’Livonian’ Fiction”. Studia Neophilologica, Vol.
51
, 1979, pp. 17-29.
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Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages.
1: 129

10 May 1844: British international copyright law was amended...

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10 May 1844

British international copyright law was amended and brought into line with domestic copyright law of 1842.
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.
160
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

10 May 1844: The Midland Railway emerged from the amalgamation...

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10 May 1844

The Midland Railway emerged from the amalgamation of the Birmingham and Derby Junction , the Midland Counties , and the North Midland lines.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
25
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.
99

By 18 May 1844: Benjamin Disraeli published Coningsby, the...

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By 18 May 1844

Benjamin Disraeli published Coningsby, the first book of the Young England trilogy for which he is best known, and an example of the social problem novel.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
864 (1844): 446
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: By May 1844

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By May 1844

CET 's The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth, featuring an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe , was published in New York in three volumes.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. M. W. Dodd, 1844, 3 vols.
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Hannah Mary Rathbone: By 25 May 1844

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By 25 May 1844

HMR anonymously published her best-known work: a fiction in the guise of a historical document, The Diary of Lady Willoughby. This first volume was to accumulate various additions and revisions.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
865 (1844): 471

Late May 1844: Because railway investment was lagging, Parliament...

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Late May 1844

Because railway investment was lagging, Parliament reduced the deposit for new railway applications to five percent (from ten percent) of the railway's proposed capital investment.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
36

31 May 1844: Natal was annexed to the Cape Colony....

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31 May 1844

Natal was annexed to the Cape Colony.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 681
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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