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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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Maria Barrell: 14 September 1803

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14 September 1803

George III was graciously pleased to extend our Grace and Mercy untoMB , who was under sentence of death for once again passing counterfeit money. Her sentence was commuted to transportation to New South Wales.
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.

28 September 1803: Prosper Mérimée, novelist and short story...

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28 September 1803

Prosper Mérimée , novelist and short story writer, was born in Paris, France.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : Late 1803

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Late 1803

Mary Champion de Crespigny published with Cadell and Davies her Letters of Advice from a Mother to her Son (written more than twenty years earlier), dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury (John Moore ).
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Jane Taylor: 11 October 1803-18 February 1804

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11 October 1803-18 February 1804

Threat of French invasion caused the Taylor family to send their children, under the care of Jane and the younger Isaac , from Colchester back to their previous home in Lavenham.
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: 171-3, 174

Elizabeth Helme: 20 October 1803

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20 October 1803

EH wrote to the Royal Literary Society requesting financial help, saying that illness had undermined the literary earnings which had materially contributed to supporting her family for seventeen years.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

21 October 1803: Irish patriot Thomas Russell was hanged by...

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21 October 1803

Irish patriot Thomas Russell was hanged by the British authorities at Downpatrick prison.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Germaine de Staël: Late 1803

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Late 1803

Again an exile, GS moved from France to Germany.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
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Maria Edgeworth: November 1803-1805

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November 1803-1805

ME worked at Leonora, an epistolary novel published by Joseph Johnson by February 1806.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 231
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
200-1, 505

Maria Edgeworth: November-December 1803

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November-December 1803

ME began and finished The Modern Griselda, A Tale, published by early 1805.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 211
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
320, 505
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 4 (1805): 218

Sophia Woodfall: By November 1803

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By November 1803

SW published the earlier of her two novels, the epistolary Frederick Montravers; or, The Adopted Son.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
39 (1803): 357

20 November 1803: The Royal Philanthropic Expedition set sail...

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20 November 1803

The Royal Philanthropic Expedition set sail in three ships from La Coruna, to carry the practice of vaccination against smallpox to Spanish possessions in South America and Spanish outposts in China (Canton) and Macao).
Williams, Gareth. Angel of Death. The Story of Smallpox. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Eliza Nugent Bromley: Early 1803

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Early 1803

ENB 's final novel, The Cave of Cosenza, a Romance of the Eighteenth Century, unconvincingly claimed on the title-page to be altered - that is, adapted- from an Italian version.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd series: 1 (January 1804): 119

Young, Mary Julia : Probably later 1803

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Probably later 1803

MJY titled her next novel, probably the second of this year, Right and Wrong; or, The Kinsmen of Naples. A Romantic Story.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2:183

Harriette Wilson: Late 1803

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Late 1803

When the protector of courtesan Julia Johnstone terminated their relationship, she and HW moved into shared lodgings (they had a floor of the house each) near Bedford Square in Bloomsbury.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Agnes Strickland: Before December 1803

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Before December 1803

The Strickland family, including seven-year-old AS , moved from London to Bungay in Suffolk.
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.

Elizabeth Gunning: Late 1803

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Late 1803

EG married Major J. Plunkett of Kinnaird, Roscommon, Ireland.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
73 (1803): 1251
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
93 (1823): ii: 190

Elizabeth Helme: Perhaps late 1803

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Perhaps late 1803

EH 's next novel, the St Clair of the Isles; or, The Outlaws of Barra. A Scottish Tradition, published anonymously but claimed on later title-pages, reveals considerable knowledge of Ossian and of medieval customs.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Perhaps late 1803: Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott,...

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Perhaps late 1803

Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott , 1737-1812, of Mendlesham in Suffolk) published Elements of Religion, Containing a Simple Deduction of Christianity , from its Source to its Present Circumstances.
Londry, Michael. The Lisle Bamford McEachern Collection.

Susanna Moodie: 6 December 1803

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6 December 1803

Susanna Strickland (later SM ) was born at Bungay in Suffolk, the youngest of six sisters.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: 24 December 1803

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24 December 1803

A local newspaper, the Norwich Iris, published a letter from ALB in defence of Joseph Priestley .
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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Joanna Baillie: 1804

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1804

JB published a volume of Miscellaneous Plays—an indication that she wanted to say things that not would fit into her series on the passions.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
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Mary Matilda Betham: By 1804

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By 1804

MMB , already a published author, had left Suffolk and settled in London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Matilda Betham: 1804

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1804

MMB published her Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of every Age and Country. It appeared in two separate editions this year, one of 774 pages and one of 872.
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.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
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Mary Bryan: 1804

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1804

MB assigns this date to a poem which appears to speak of her own love-experience under the name of Emma.
Bryan, Mary, and Jonathan Wordsworth. Sonnets and Metrical Tales 1815. Woodstock Books, 1996.
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Charlotte Dacre: 1804

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1804

CD published four poems in this year's Poetical Register, under the pseudonym Rosa.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36.
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