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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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17 March 1801: Henry Addington (a Tory who in 1805 was created...

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17 March 1801

Henry Addington (a Tory who in 1805 was created first Viscount Sidmouth) formed the government after William Pitt resigned over George III 's opposition to Catholic Emancipation.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 238

Eliza Kirkham Mathews: Soon after 22 March 1801

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Soon after 22 March 1801

EKM published anonymously with the Minerva Press a remarkable, gothic-flavoured novel, the only one to be incontrovertibly ascribed to her: What Has Been: A Novel.
Mathews, Anne Jackson. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian. R. Bentley, 1838–1839, 4 vols.
1: 321

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 25 March 1801

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25 March 1801

Charles and Mary Lamb left their lodgings in Chancery Lane for others at 16 Mitre Court Buildings, in the Inner Temple where they had grown up. They lived there for eight years.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
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Mrs Martin: : By April 1801

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By April 1801

MM published with Minerva what is apparently her final book, The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale, as by the author of . . . , mentioning all her novels except...

Ann Candler: 13 April 1801

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13 April 1801

AC , in Tattingstone Workhouse (and expecting to be there for life), wrote a Short Narrative of her story in a letter to two ladies interested in her writing. Two years later it was printed...

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: By April 1801

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By April 1801

Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan) published, at Dublin through Alexander Stewart , a volume of Poems, published at London by Phillips .
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1:204
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Maria Barrell: 22 April 1801

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22 April 1801

MB , alias Adair, was arrested in the attempt to pass a counterfeit half-guinea to pay for a bottle of a patent medicine (Daffy's Elixir, price five shillings) which, she said, was to send to...

Jane Austen: May 1801

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May 1801

Following her father 's retirement on health grounds, JA moved with her parents and sister from Steventon in Hampshire to 4 Sydney Place, Bath.
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
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Alethea Lewis: By May 1801

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By May 1801

AL chose a different publisher, Mawman , for her next novel, The Microcosm, in five volumes, again issued by subscription, as by the author of Vicissitudes in Genteel Life.
The same title had...

May 1801: Following the increased use in Britain of...

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May 1801

Following the increased use in Britain of paper bank notes instead of gold, and therefore of uttering or circulating low-denomination forged notes, a lesser penalty for this crime passed into law: transportation to Australia instead...

Maria Edgeworth: June 1801

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June 1801

ME published her first novel set in England: Belinda.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. ix - xlvii.
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Jane Porter: By June 1801

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By June 1801

JP published a didactic story for young people entitled The Two Princes of Persia.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
3: 1099

Isabella Kelly: June 1801

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June 1801

IK published another Minerva novel, Ruthinglenne; or, The Critical Moment.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.

Margaret Catchpole: 21 June 1801

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21 June 1801

After lengthy imprisonment in England, at Bury St Edmunds, for a while at Ipswich, and for a month at Portsmouth, MC set sail as a transported convict for the colony of New...

Caroline Clive: 30 June 1801

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30 June 1801

Caroline Wigley (later Meysey-Wigley, later CC ) was born at Brompton Grove in London, an address that no longer exists.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Mitchell, Charlotte. Caroline Clive, 1801-1873, A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queenland, 1999.
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Anne Damer: By July 1801

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By July 1801

AD published with Joseph Johnson her three-volume novel Belmour, an intelligent didactic tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 132

Mrs E. M. Foster: : July 1801

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July 1801

The last novel generally accepted to be by MEMF , Concealment: or the Cascade of Llantwarrhyn: a Tale, was published. Its title-page claims it is by the same author as Judith, Miriam...

Ann Taylor Gilbert: Summer 1801

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Summer 1801

When a little Taylor brother, Decimus, died of scarlet fever, the other children were taken to see the corpse; several were infected, and Ann (later ATG ) nearly died.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 147

2 July 1801: Following the Act of Union between England...

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2 July 1801

Following the Act of Union between England and Ireland at the beginning of this year, England's Copyright Act of 1710 was extended to Ireland.
Cole, Richard Cargill. Irish Booksellers and English Writers 1740-1800. Mansell; Humanities Press International, 1986.
152

Helen Maria Williams: 9 July 1801

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9 July 1801

HMW was attacked in the Anti-Jacobin with typical misogynist rhetoric about her alleged lust and idleness.
Michael-Johnston, Georgina. Helen Maria Williams: Liberty, Sensibility, and Education. University of Alberta, 1998.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle: 14 July 1801

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14 July 1801

Jane Welsh (later JWC ) was born at Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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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.

Sophia King: 19 July 1801

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19 July 1801

SK married Charles Fortnum , in the same year as her final use of her birthname alone on a title-page.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
King, Sophia. The Fatal Secret; or, Unknown Warrior. Printed for the author by J. G. Barnard, 1801.
title-page
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 Bradshaw: 29 July 1801

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29 July 1801

GB , originator of railway guides or timetables, was born at Windsor Bridge near Salford in Lancashire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Jane West: By August 1801

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By August 1801

JW published Letters Addressed to a Young Man on his first Entrance into Life.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
71 (1801): 735-9

Elizabeth Meeke: By August 1801

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By August 1801

EM again employed her own name for the publication of Which is the Man? A Novel—and obligingly filled in a gap in the chain of attribution by alluding to her authorship of Anecdotes of...