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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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17 May 1803: Britain declared war on France again, after...

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17 May 1803

Britain declared war on France again, after only just over a year's peace, in response to the expansionism of Napoleon .
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
14
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
134

17 May 1803: Robert Smith Surtees, sporting novelist,...

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17 May 1803

Robert Smith Surtees , sporting novelist, was born in Durham.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
21

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton: 25 May 1803

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25 May 1803

Edward George Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton) , future novelist and politician, was born at 31 Baker Street, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 25 May 1803

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25 May 1803

RWE , essayist and poet, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
270

Harriet Downing: 29 May 1803

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29 May 1803

Harriet Bourne married George William Downing , a wine-merchant and freemason from Plymouth, at St Dunstan's in the East in London.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
Boase, George Clement, and William Prideaux Courtney. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis. Longman, 1874, 2 vols.

Susanna Blamire: June 1803

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Author event in Susanna Blamire

June 1803

SB 's song beginning What Ails this Heart o' Mine posthumously reached print.
Blamire, Susanna. The Poetical Works. Woodstock Books, 1994.
189

Young, Mary Julia : Probably earlier 1803

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Probably earlier 1803

MJY published with her full name what was probably the earlier of two novels this year, Moss Cliff Abbey; or, The Sepulchral Harmonist. A Mysterious Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2:183

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: After 1 June 1803

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After 1 June 1803

The frontispiece of SSW 's 43-page original romanceThe Chateau de Montville; or, The Golden Cross was dated 1 June; that of the 36-page romanceThe Subterraneous Passage; or, Gothic Cell was dated 23 July...

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1 June 1803

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1 June 1803

Darton and Harvey , replying to an enquiry about printing what became Original Poems for Infant Minds, offered the Taylorfamilya suitable return in cash or in books.
qtd. in
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 164
The response: Books...

Anne Grant: June 1803

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June 1803

AG 's Laggan farm was sold and she moved, with her children, to Stirling.
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
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Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, 1972, p. ix - xxxvi.
xx

Mary Brunton: By June 1803

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By June 1803

MB and her husband moved from Bolton near Haddington to settle in Edinburgh.
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.

Martha Hale: 16 June 1803

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16 June 1803

MH died at the age of seventy-one.
Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
1: 75n10

24 June 1803: An act of parliament made abortion a statutory...

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24 June 1803

An act of parliament made abortion a statutory felony (instead of a common-law crime) and pronounced infanticide to be murder. Where it could be proved that a baby was stillborn, juries were free to bring...

Mary Martha Sherwood: 30 June 1803

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30 June 1803

Mary Martha Butt married her cousin Henry Sherwood , an army officer who became paymaster the following year (and a lifelong diarist), who had lived with her family as a child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
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Elizabeth Inchbald: Summer 1803

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Summer 1803

EI moved into Annandale House at Turnham Green on the outskirts of the capital, a community of Catholic women; but within a few years she was back again in central London.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
147

July 1803: An invasion scare gripped England. Young...

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July 1803

An invasion scare gripped England. Young men joined volunteer regiments ready for a landing and occupation by Napoleon 's troops—though at the same time people continued to plan their lives normally.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
McCarthy, Voice 460-1

Maria Barrell: 6 July 1803

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6 July 1803

Maria Barrel alias Adair alias Mary Ann Wylie was again tried and convicted of being a common utterer of bad money.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Maria Barrell. 13 Apr. 2017.
“Maria Barrel, defendant name in trial of Maria Barrel, Royal Offences > coining offences, 6th July 1803”. Old Bailey Proceedings, Mar. 2015.

23 July 1803: Irish nationalist Robert Emmet mounted a...

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23 July 1803

Irish nationalist Robert Emmet mounted a rising which was designed to seize Dublin Castle and take the Viceroy hostage.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Joanna Southcott: August 1803

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August 1803

JS published at Stourbridge (near Birmingham) A Word to the Wise.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
145
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.

Anna Seward: 2 August 1803

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2 August 1803

When her dear friend John Saville died suddenly, AS mourned (as her biographer says) like a widow: she set up a monument, wrote his epitaph, and secluded herself for three months.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
239-42

Joanna Southcott: 13 August 1803

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13 August 1803

Having had her attention drawn to Ann Radcliffe 's The Romance of the Forest, JS wrote (or received as dictated by the Spirit) a lengthy prose-and-verse commentary.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
90-1

Dorothy Wordsworth: 14 August-25 September 1803

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14 August-25 September 1803

DW dated her Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland A.D. 1803, which remained unpublished for seventy-one years.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
1: 195, 409
Wordsworth, Dorothy. “Preface”. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by Ernest De Selincourt, Macmillan, 1941, p. 1: v - xix.
v
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.

Maria Barrell: After September 1803

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Author event in Maria Barrell

After September 1803

MB , having having had her death sentence commuted to transportation to New South Wales, died in Newgate Prison , London, while waiting for the sentence to be carried out.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Maria Barrell. 13 Apr. 2017.

Jane Porter: By September 1803

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By September 1803

JP published her historical novel Thaddeus of Warsaw, dedicated to the naval hero Sir Sidney Smith .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
39 (1803): 120
McLean, Thomas. The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
66

9 September 1803: The first number appeared of the Annual Review,...

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9 September 1803

The first number appeared of the Annual Review, a Dissenting periodical run by Lucy Aikin 's brother Arthur Aikin , which had been planned in 1802.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
531n25
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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