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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 Letitia Barbauld: Late March 1802

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Late March 1802

ALB and her husband moved to Stoke Newington; she lived there the rest of her life.
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
129, 153
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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Elizabeth Hamilton: April 1802-September 1803

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April 1802-September 1803

EH , with her sister , left their home for a protracted tour of Wales, the Lake District, and Scotland.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-50.
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15 April 1802: Dorothy Wordsworth recorded in her diary...

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15 April 1802

Dorothy Wordsworth recorded in her diary how she and her brother , out walking, came on a mass of wild daffodils in bloom at the edge of a lake.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. The Grasmere Journals. Editor Woof, Pamela, Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Frances Burney: 20 April 1802

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20 April 1802

FB , having left her home at Camilla Cottage, arrived in Paris with her small son to join her husband .
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
313

Dorothy Wordsworth: 23 April 1802

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23 April 1802

Dorothy Wordsworth celebrated Coniston Fells as in their own shape and colour—not man's hills, but all for themselves, the sky and the clouds, and a few wild creatures.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
1: 137

Anna Seward: 29 April 1802

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29 April 1802

AS wrote her first surviving letter to the young Walter Scott , with a detailed critique of his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, of which he had sent her the first volume (not the...

Mary Russell Mitford: From 29 April 1802

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From 29 April 1802

MRM 's father , having bought an estate at Grasely near Reading with his lottery money, built a house which he called Bertram House after his place of origin.
Mitford, Mary Russell. “Introduction by the Editor”. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends, edited by Alfred Guy Kingham L’Estrange, Harper and Brothers, 1870, pp. 13-39.
1: 29-30

Mary Berry: May 1802

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May 1802

MB 's comedy The Fashionable Friends reached the public stage at Drury Lane Theatre , after a private performance at Strawberry Hill (November 1801). It ran for three nights, just enough to achieve a benefit...

Maria Edgeworth: May 1802

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May 1802

ME published her Essay on Irish Bulls, written in conjunction with her father to combat anti-Irish prejudice.
An Irish Bull was a term (used by English people) for an amusing misuse of words, such...

Eliza Kirkham Mathews: Later 1802

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Later 1802

EKM 's widower, Charles , published by subscription, at Doncaster, her Poems by the late Mrs. Charles Mathews.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Joanna Southcott: 20 May 1802

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20 May 1802

After stirring things up in Exeter, JS arrived in London, where she began to sign and seal her followers, offering them a guarantee of salvation.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
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Maria Riddell : 22 May 1802

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22 May 1802

Walter Riddell , husband of MR , died at Rendezvous Bay in the island of Antigua, leaving his affairs in great confusion.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
113

Anne Hunter: 22 May 1802

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22 May 1802

AH wrote the dedication of her Poems to her son Captain John Banks Hunter , observing that as a soldier he would be happy about the recent peace.
Hunter, Anne. Poems. 1802.
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Eliza Kirkham Mathews: 25 May 1802

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25 May 1802

EKM died of tuberculosis in York after painful weeks of spitting blood.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, however, says she died in London.
Mathews, Eliza Kirkham. Poems. W. Sheardown, 1802.
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Sarah Trimmer: June 1802-1806

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June 1802-1806

ST published with Joseph Johnson a pedagogical journal entitled the The Guardian of Education.
Heath, Pauline. The works of Mrs. Trimmer (1742-1810). Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
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O’Malley, Andrew. “The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature”. The Lion and The Unicorn, Vol.
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, 2000, pp. 18-44.
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Maria Riddell : About June 1802

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About June 1802

MR published her second and final book, a poetry anthology entitled The Metrical Miscellany: Consisting Chiefly of Poems Hitherto Unpublished, by authors (mostly well-known) who had given their permission.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
148, 106

Harriet Martineau: 12 June 1802

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12 June 1802

HM was born in Magdalen Street, Norwich, the sixth among eight children and the third daughter.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
1: 8
Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. University of Michigan Press, 1980.
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Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960.
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Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
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Mary Charlton: July 1802

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July 1802

MC published with the Minerva Press another story set in modern society, The Wife and the Mistress, A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 149
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
309

Eliza Fenwick: By July1802

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By July1802

EF had left London and was working in the linen-draper's shop owned by her brother-in-law Thomas in Penzance: demanding, high-pressure work at which she was said to do well.
She had probably been there...

Melesina Trench: July 1802

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July 1802

Melesina St George (later MT ) returned to Europe, this time to France, on a trip that was to last much longer than anticipated, and that would lead to her second marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Eleanor Sleath: July 1802

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July 1802

ES published her second novel, Who's the Murderer? or, The Mystery of the Forest, written during her residence at Scraptoft Hall near Leicester.
Some sources read Mysteries in the title for Mystery.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 160
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. 8 May 2011, http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.

Amelia Opie: By July 1802

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By July 1802

AO published with Longman and Rees a volume of Poems, bearing her name.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
xxxviii
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 36 (1802): 413
Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009.
496

Dorothy Wordsworth: 9 July 1802

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9 July 1802

DW left Grasmere with her brother William to travel to France to meet with his former lover Annette Vallon (now calling herself Williams) and her daughter, Caroline.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
1: 168-74

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 21 July 1802

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21 July 1802

In her earliest extant letter, to Sarah Stoddart , Mary Lamb remarked (quite unfairly to herself): I am always a miserable letter writer, and I feel the want, in writing to a new friend of...

Alexandre Dumas, père: 24 July 1802

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24 July 1802

French novelist Alexandre Dumas the elder, the future author of about 650 books, was born at Villers-Cotterêts near Paris.
Henderson, Lesley, and Sarah M. Hall, editors. Reference Guide to World Literature. 2nd ed., St James Press, 1995, 2 vols.
Coward, David. “Having Fun”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 17-18.
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