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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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Sophia King: December 1801

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December 1801

SK published what she called her fourth novelistic attempt, The Fatal Secret; or, Unknown Warrior. A romance of the twelfth century, with legendary poems.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 137
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.

Hester Mulso Chapone: Christmas Day 1801

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Christmas Day 1801

HMC died at Hadley Wood in Middlesex.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
229

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: Christmas Day 1801

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Christmas Day 1801

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , wrote that she was turning to God, in an attempt to put her life in order and to face her problems (especially, of course, her debts).
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
353-4

Joanna Baillie: 1802

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1802

JB published, with her name, a second instalment of her Plays on the Passions.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
18, 207

Anne Bannerman: 1801-3

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1801-3

AB published poems in three successive numbers of The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
131

Selina Bunbury: 1802

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1802

SB was apparently born at Kilsaran Rectory, near the village of Castlebellingham in Louth, Ireland.
Her birthplace is recorded in the British Census of 1881 as Shrewsbury in England. Yet not only does...

Mary Charlton: 1802-5

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1802-5

During these years MC issued four works of translation, from German, French, and Italian.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
307, 314, 320, 326, 375

Helen Craik: 1802

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1802

HC , as the Author of Adelaide de Narbonne, published Stella of the North; or, The Foundling of the Ship: A Novel, in four volumes with Minerva Press .
A manuscript note in...

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 1802

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1802

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's poem The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard appeared in print in London: this was not its earliest printed version.
Fay, Elizabeth. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/SWRPLive/bios/S7027-D001.html.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Emma Caroline Wood: 1802

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1802

Emma Caroline Michell (later ECW ) was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the youngest of two sons and three daughters in her family.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
Bradhurst, Minna Evangeline. A Century of Letters. Printed for private circulation by R. E. Thomas and Newman, 1929.
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Jane West: 1802

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1802

JW , as Prudentia Homespun, published a moral tale for children entitled The Sorrows of Selfishness; or, The History of Miss Richmore.
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.

Jane West: 1802

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1802

JW published The Infidel Father, a novel printed by Strahan for Longman in three volumes, as the author of A Tale of the Times and other works.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 160

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: 1802

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1802

Elizabeth Thomas and her family moved from Newland in Gloucestershire to nearby Tidenham.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
109 (1839): 215

Joanna Southcott: 1802-4

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1802-4

After her first move to London, JS travelled and proselytized in the Midlands and Yorkshire.
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

Regina Maria Roche: 1802

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1802

RMR and her husband declared bankruptcy with a view to their own protection when they were swindled by a corrupt lawyer.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Clara Reeve: 1802

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1802

CR published her last known work, a historical novel intended for young people and entitled Edwin , King of Northumberland: a story of the seventh century.
Kelly, Gary. “Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 105-25.
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Mary Ann Radcliffe: 1802

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1802

In the same year that Radzivil, A Romance was assigned to her, a short-lived (two-volume) Radclife's New Novelist's Pocket Magazine appeared as by MAR .
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Annabella Plumptre: 1802

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1802

The Guardian Angel was published, a somewhat distant translation from Kotzebue which is probably by AP .
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.

Constantia Grierson: 1802

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1802

Copies of Thomas Moore 's Odes of Anacreon (first published in 1800) were issued with a single-sheet printing of The Art of Printing (a poem ascribed to CG ) laid in.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
96

Janet Hamilton: Around 1802

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Around 1802

From about the age of seven, Janet Thomson, later JH , kept house while her parents worked and was also expected to spin two hanks of yarn—560 yards each—a day.
Gilfillan, George, and Janet Hamilton. “Janet Hamilton: Her Life and Poetical Character”. Poems, Sketches, and Essays, James Maclehose, 1885, pp. 1-13.
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Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.

Anna Maria Mackenzie: 1802

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1802

AMM published with her name as Mackenzie and mention of earlier works, through the Minerva Press , a historical novel entitled Martin and Mansfeldt, or The Romance of Franconia.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 155

Eliza Kirkham Mathews: 1802

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1802

In the year she died at least three little children's books by EKM were printed at York with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick : Lessons of Truth, Anecdotes of the Clairville Family, and Ellinor...

Elizabeth Meeke: 1802

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1802

EM published another Gabrielli work, Independence. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 156

1802: Thomas Wedgwood (of the pottery family) and...

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1802

Thomas Wedgwood (of the pottery family) and Humphry Davy experimented with capturing images using silver nitrate; they almost invented photography.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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Jay, Mike. “Like Cooking a Dumpling”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 22, 20 Nov. 2014, pp. 25-6.
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January 1802: The Christian Observer was launched, as a...

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January 1802

The Christian Observer was launched, as a journal Conducted by members of the established church with the aim of combating Methodism and other Dissenting sects as well as radicalism and scepticism.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.