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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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Fredrika Bremer: 17 August 1801

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17 August 1801

Fredrika Bremer , author and feminist, was born, the second sister among five sisters and two brothers, in the town of Åbo, now in Finland. It was then soon to pass from Swedish rule...

17 August 1801: Fredrika Bremer, author and women's rights...

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17 August 1801

Fredrika Bremer , author and women's rights activist, was born in Åbo (now Turku), Finland, then a part of Sweden.
Bremer, Fredrika, and Fredrika Bremer. “Biography”. Life, Letters, and Posthumous Works of Fredrika Bremer, edited by Charlotte Bremer et al., translated by. Frederick Milow, Emily Nonnen, Hurd and Houghton, 1868, pp. 1-100.

Hannah Cowley: By September 1801

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Author event in Hannah Cowley

By September 1801

HC 's The Siege of Acre. An Epic Poem was published, after several months' delay caused by a strike in the printing trade.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XVI: Hannah Cowley 1743-1809”. The Book Collector, Vol.
7
, 1958, pp. 68-76.
75

Mary Robinson: About September 1801

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Author event in Mary Robinson

About September 1801

MR 's Memoirs were posthumously published in four volumes, completed by her daughter, Maria Elizabeth , in a Continuation by a Friend.
Nangle, Benjamin Christie. The Monthly Review Second Series, 1790-1815: Indexes of Contributors and Articles. Clarendon Press, 1955.
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
108

September 1801: A letter to the Anti-Jacobin Review somewhat...

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September 1801

A letter to the Anti-Jacobin Review somewhat prematurely claimed that the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (classed as extremely dangerous by the same journal some months earlier) was now forgotten.
Schmidt, James. “Immanuel Kant: Text and Context”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 147-61.
148

11 September 1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...

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11 September 1801

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 's tragedy Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) was first produced, in Leipzig, with tremendous success.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
94

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: Later 1801

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Later 1801

Not long after leaving Margaret Featherstone in the spring, Sydney Owenson became governess to the Crawford family of Fort William, Tipperary.
Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan the Novelist. Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses, 1990.
9
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1: 206, 211-12, 214

Henrietta Sykes: After 17 September 1801

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Author event in Henrietta Sykes

After 17 September 1801

HS 's father-in-law having died and her husband succeeded to the baronetcy, she moved with her family from Settrington in Yorkshire to nearby Sledmere House.
Sykes, Christopher Simon. The Big House. HarperCollins, 2004.
100

Felicia Hemans: By late September 1801

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By late September 1801

By the age of seven, Felicia Dorothea Browne (later Hemans) had moved with her family, because of herfather 's financial problems, to a house called Gwrych, near Abergele in Denbighshire, on the Welsh sea...

Hannah More: By late September 1801

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By late September 1801

HM and her sisters were able to move into their still unfinished house at Barley Wood, also near Wrington, built for their shared lives.
Stott, Anne. Hannah More: The First Victorian. Oxford University Press, 2003.
252-3

Grace Elliott: October 1801

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Author event in Grace Elliott

October 1801

It seems that GE moved back from Meudon in France to England once preliminaries were completed on 1 October for the Peace of Amiens (which did not become final until 27 March 1802).
Unknown Editor, and Grace Elliott. “Preface”. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution, The Rodale Press, 1955, p. ix - xiii.
ix
Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press, 1955.
147, 150
Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books, 2016.
172

Priscilla Wakefield: By October 1801

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By October 1801

PW published The Juvenile Travellers, on which she had been working for almost three years.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
71 (1801): 928

Joanna Southcott: October 1801

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October 1801

JS printed a work whose lengthy title begins Divine and Spiritual Letters of Prophecies. It was now ordered to be put in print by Divine command, for the good of the public,
qtd. in
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
according to...

October 1801: A letter in the Lady's Monthly Museum or...

Building item

October 1801

A letter in the Lady's Monthly Museum or Polite Repository lamented that plain-dressing, docile and obedient . . . cooks, or housemaids, or maids of all work seemed to have died out.
Sales, Roger. “The Maid and the Minister’s Wife: Literary Philanthropy in Regency York”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 127-41.
134

By October 1801: Henry Addington, the new Prime Minister,...

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By October 1801

Henry Addington , the new Prime Minister, worked out a proposal for peace with France; but it came to nothing for another five months.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
239
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Joanna Baillie: 14 October 1801

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14 October 1801

JB sent her friend Mary Berry a prologue for Fashionable Friends, Berry's play produced at Drury Lane by Anne Damer in 1802; she also wrote an epilogue for it.
Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, pp. ix - xiv, 1.
2n7, 3
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 153n2

Helena Wells: 31 October 1801

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31 October 1801

HW married Edward Whitford at St Martin in the Fields in London.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
71 (1801): 1052
Wells, Helena. Thoughts and Remarks, on Establishing an Institution for the Support and Education of Unportioned Respectable Females. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.
9

Frances Burney: November 1801

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Author event in Frances Burney

November 1801

FB was probably working on two comedies, The Woman-Hater and A Busy Day, and planning her casts to include Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble .
Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering, 1995, 2 vols.
1: 192-3, 289-90

Fanny Holcroft: 1 November 1801

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Author event in Fanny Holcroft

1 November 1801

The Monthly Magazine printed FH 's poem The Condemned Sailor, in which the sailor, despised and spurned by a younger superior, strikes back.
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press, 1997–1998, 2 vols.
2:92-3, 271

Elizabeth Meeke: By November 1801

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Author event in Elizabeth Meeke

By November 1801

EM issued both The Mysterious Husband. A Novel as by Gabrielli, author of The Mysterious Wife, and Midnight Weddings. A Novel, under her own name.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 140, 156

Helen Maria Williams: 17 November 1801

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Author event in Helen Maria Williams

17 November 1801

The Morning Post published Ode to Peace by HMW , who was living in Paris at the time, in premature celebration of the signing of preliminaries for the Peace of Amiens.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
199-200
Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints, 1977.
146

Joanna Southcott: December 1801

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December 1801

JS having written to seven eminent men in London asking them to authorise her proceedings at Exeter, they travelled down to check on her.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
73

Frances Arabella Rowden: By December 1801

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Author event in Frances Arabella Rowden

By December 1801

FAR issued by subscription her first book, A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany, a scientific textbook with inset poems.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Eliza Parsons: December 1801

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December 1801

EP titled her next work The Peasant of Ardenne Forest. A Novel. It was translated into French in 1803.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 141
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 Helme: Perhaps late 1801

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Perhaps late 1801

EH published with her name another long historical novel, St Margaret's Cave; or, The Nun's Story. An Ancient Legend.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 34 (1801): 237