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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 Hervey, 1748 - 1820: : 10 January 1803

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10 January 1803

Elizabeth Hervey dated her dedication to the Marchioness of Bath of her novel Julia, which remained in manuscript and was never printed.
Giroud, Vincent. Letter to Isobel Grundy about Elizabeth Hervey. 7 July 1988.

Charlotte Smith: February 1803

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February 1803

CS 's health broke down under financial stress: she was unable to walk or write. A general decline began now.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, edited by Judith Phillips Stanton, Indiana University Press, 2003, p. i - xlv.
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Cassandra, Lady Hawke: February 1803

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February 1803

Thomas Leigh, a distant relation of CLH , left her the residual heir to an estate in Herefordshire which was to go to several other people before her if they were still alive.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Elizabeth, Smith: 18 February 1803

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18 February 1803

Elizabeth Smith composed a hymn which was probably suggested by [c]ontinual study of the Hebrew poetry (that is the Psalms). It begins O Thou! who commandest the storm, / And stillest its rage with...

Jane Austen: Spring 1803

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Spring 1803

JA sold the manuscript of Susan (later Northanger Abbey) to the publisher B. Crosby and Company for the low rate of £10.
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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Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen: A Literary Life. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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Isabella Kelly: March 1803

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March 1803

IK published at Brentford near London a novel entitled A Modern Incident in Domestic Life.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.

Melesina Trench: 3 March 1803

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3 March 1803

Melesina St George was married at Paris to Richard Trench , who like her came from an Anglo-Irish gentry family of Huguenot origin.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Maria Edgeworth: Early 1803

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Early 1803

On the way home from France, ME and her relations visited Edinburgh.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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19 March 1803: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...

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19 March 1803

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 's tragedy The Bride of Messina had its premiere (in German) at Weimar. It was printed the same year.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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26 March 1803: Miss S. Hatfield dated the proto-feminist...

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26 March 1803

Miss S. Hatfield dated the proto-feminist preface to her book of conduct and pedagogy entitled Letters on the Importance of the Female Sex: with observations on their manners, and on education, published this year...

Eglinton Wallace: 28 March 1803

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28 March 1803

EW died at Munich in Bavaria.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Eliza Kirkham Mathews: 28 March 1803

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28 March 1803

EKM 's widower, Charles Mathews , married his second wife, Anne Jackson , a fellow-actor. The wedding took place in York.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Charles Mathews

Anne Bannerman: Early 1803

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Early 1803

AB suffered the death of her mother, who the next year was followed by her other closest relation, her brother.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
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Anne Damer: April 1803

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April 1803

An anonymous novel was published in three volumes by Johnson , entitled Letters of Miss Riversdale, which Charlotte Smith ascribed to AD .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 163

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: Spring 1803

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Spring 1803

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was lampooned as Lady Belgrave in A Winter in London by T. S. Surr .
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Helen Maria Williams: April 1803

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April 1803

HMW published her translation entitled The Political and Confidential Correspondence of Lewis the Sixteenth (correspondence which later turned out to be spurious).
Her source was a forgery by François Babié de Bercenay and Count Imbert de la Platière

Fanny Holcroft: April 1803

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April 1803

FH 's Monthly MagazineThe Madagascar Mother, about a mother who sells her child into slavery, is said to be a version of an actual Madagascan song.
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press, 1997–1998, 2 vols.
2:94-5, 271

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: April 1803-July 1803

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April 1803-July 1803

LMWM 's Works appeared in five volumes, very badly edited by James Dallaway , in a bid by her family to head off an unauthorised edition.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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Flora Tristan: 7 April 1803

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7 April 1803

FT was born in Paris to Anne-Pierre Laisnay and Mariano de Tristan Moscoso .
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
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Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
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Elizabeth Stone: 25 April 1803

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25 April 1803

ES was christened on this date in Manchester, in the cathedral there.
Kestner, Joseph A. “A Manchester Woman’s Wordsworth: Elisabeth Stone and The Horn of Egremont Castle”. The Wordsworth Circle, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Mar.–31 May 1983, pp. 107-8.
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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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sophia Lee: Spring 1803

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Spring 1803

Sophia , Harriet , and Anna Lee retired from their school at the end of the 1802-3 school year.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
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Between May 1803 and 1804: William Cowper's Life and Posthumous Writings...

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Between May 1803 and 1804

William Cowper 's Life and Posthumous Writings were published in three volumes.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1802) 73: 433

Maria Riddell : 5 May 1803

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5 May 1803

The year after her husband died, MR was granted a grace and favour residence (that is, one in the gift of the Crown) at Hampton Court Palace. Then or perhaps a little later she...

Margaret Minifie: 11 May 1803

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11 May 1803

MM was buried at her birthplace, Staplegrove near Taunton in Somerset. She must have died shortly before this.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Margaret Minifie and Susannah Gunning. 15 Apr. 2016.
Bowen, Essex. A Statement of Facts. Printed for J. Debrett, 1791.

Anna Maria Porter: 16 May 1803

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16 May 1803

AMP 's musical drama The Fair Fugitives suffered an unsuccessful performance at Covent Garden . This piece was The Runaways re-written, rather than a new effort.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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