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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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Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: 20 October 1802

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20 October 1802

In A Card—To the PublicESG , at a low ebb financially, recorded the sale of her furniture by a broker the previous day to raise money for the income tax, and thanked those who...

Sarah Murray : 1 November 1802

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1 November 1802

SM made her second marriage, to George Aust , who had held the post of Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, but who was now secretary and registrar of Chelsea Royal Hospital.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By November 1802: The Society for the Suppression of Vice was...

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By November 1802

The Society for the Suppression of Vice was founded in London and grew into the gap left by the Proclamation Society ; ironically, it was often called the Vice Society.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
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Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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Mason, Michael. The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes. Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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November 1802: Thomas Holcroft's "A Tale of Mystery", produced...

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November 1802

Thomas Holcroft 's "A Tale of Mystery", produced at Covent Garden , formally introduced melodrama to the English stage.
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: Late 1802

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Late 1802

Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan) published her first novel, St. Clair; or, The Heiress of Desmond; the title-page said 1803.
The story of her surprise on seeing a copy before she knew it was...

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: 4 November 1802

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4 November 1802

Rosina Wheeler (later RBLBL ) was born at her father's estate, Ballywire, near Limerick, in Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.
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Susanna Haswell Rowson: November 1802-October 1805

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November 1802-October 1805

SHR , who was a regular contributor to at least two early American periodicals, was probably the editor of the The Boston Weekly Magazine.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Weil, Dorothy. In Defense of Women: Susanna Rowson (1762-1824). Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: By December 1802

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By December 1802

H[er] S[erene] H[ighness] the M[argravine of A[nspach] published at Newbury a prose narrative in sixteen short sections (which she calls, as if they were poetry, stanzas) entitled The Soldier of Dierenstein, or Love and...

Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: By at least 1802

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By at least 1802

EOB had persuaded her mother to settle the pair of them in London.
This is the date given by Lucy Aikin in her obituary of Benger, though elsewhere she places the move a year...

Catherine Cuthbertson: By the end of 1802

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By the end of 1802

CC published anonymously a very successful gothic novel, Romance of the Pyrenees, with 1803 on its title-page.
The original title-page says Romance, not The Romance, but other places, including the titles of...

Germaine de Staël: December 1802

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December 1802

GS published her successful and controversial novel Delphine; two separate English translations appeared in 1803: one from Mawman by April, and one from Robinsons (delayed by a warehouse fire) by May.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 38 (1803): 48

Mary Hays: By December 1802

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By December 1802

MH published with her name, in six volumes with 1803 on its title-page, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries. Alphabetically Arranged.
Wood, Jeanne. “Alphabetically Arranged: Mary Hayss Female Biography and the Biographical Dictionary”. Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 June 1998–2026, pp. 117-42.
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Hays, Mary. Female Biography. Richard Phillips, 1803, 6 vols.
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Fanny Holcroft: 1 December 1802

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1 December 1802

The Monthly Magazine printed FH 's poem The Debtor (about a man who is not only destitute but has a dead child and a sick wife).
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press, 1997–1998, 2 vols.
2:93-4, 271

December 1802: The Critical Review extolled the quality...

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December 1802

The Critical Review extolled the quality of contemporary women's poetry: Miss Seward , Mrs Barbauld , Charlotte Smith , will take their place among the English poets for centuries to come.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 36 (1802): 413

Jane Austen: 3 December 1802

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3 December 1802

JA changed her mind and retracted her previous night's acceptance of a marriage proposal from Harris Bigg-Wither .
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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Eliza Parsons: By 18 December 1802

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By 18 December 1802

EP published The Mysterious Visit. A Novel, Founded on Facts.
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.
British Fiction 1800-1829. http://www.british-fiction.cf.ac.uk/index.html.

Sara Coleridge: 22 December 1802

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22 December 1802

SC was born at Greta Hall near Keswick, Cumberland.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

27 December 1802: Thomas Cadell the elder died (leaving an...

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27 December 1802

Thomas Cadell the elder died (leaving an estate of £150,000); his junior partner, Thomas Davies , then ran the business together with Thomas Cadell, junior .
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
154: 35, 37
Buchan, James. “That sh—te Creech”. London Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2007, pp. 13-14.
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Charlotte Brooke: 1803

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1803

CB 's single novel, discovered in manuscript after her death, was published as Emma; or, The Foundling of the Wood.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: 1803

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1803

DPC was still a child when she composed Address to the Evening Star. Written in Shetland; she published it in 1811, but mentioned its early date only in 1816.
Campbell, Dorothea Primrose. Poems. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1816.
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Ann Candler: 1803

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1803

Ann Candler 's Poetical Attempts (mostly written in the workhouse) were published by subscription, largely through the good offices of Elizabeth Cobbold .
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Mary Whateley Darwall: Between 1803 and 1806

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Between 1803 and 1806

MWD moved to Hope Mansell in Herefordshire to live with her married daughter, Harriet Arrowsmith .
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
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Maria Edgeworth: 1803-1805

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1803-1805

ME worked at Ennui; or, Memoirs of the Earl of Glenthorn, an Irish novella which appeared in the first volume of Tales of Fashionable Life, in 1809.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. ix - xlvii.
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Eliza Fletcher: 1803

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1803

EF 's husband bought the small property of Park Hall in Stirlingshire, where they began to spend gradually more of their time.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
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Mrs E. M. Foster: : 1803

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1803

Another doubtful ascription to MEMF was Light and Shade, published in four volumes by R. Crutwell and G. and J. Robinson . The attribution is: By the Author of Federetta, Rebecca, Miriam, and Concealment...