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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 Fenton: 1804

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Author event in Elizabeth Fenton

1804

Elizabeth Sinclair Knox (later EF ) was born.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Young, Mary Julia : 1804

Women writers item
Author event in Young, Mary Julia

1804

MJY translated from French a novel called in her version The Mother and Daughter. A Pathetic Tale, about European settlers in San Domingo (now Haiti).
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2:186, 2:204

Susanna Wright: 1804

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Author event in Susanna Wright

1804

SW 's Directions for the Management of Silk-worms was posthumously published in the Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal.
James, Edward T. et al., editors. Notable American Women, 1607-1950. Harvard University Press, 1971, 3 vols.

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: 1804

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Author event in Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson

1804

SSW published with her initials (S. W.), through Tabart , another instructional book for children, A Visit to a Farm-House; or, An introduction to various subjects connected with rural economy.
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.

Mary Tighe: January 1804

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Tighe

January 1804

MT was ill with consumption, that is tuberculosis.
Tighe, Mary. The Works of Mary Tighe, Published and Unpublished. Editor Henchy, Patrick, No. 6, Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 1957.
9
Tighe, Mary. “Introduction”. Verses Transcribed for H. T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin, 2015.

Jane Taylor: 1804

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Author event in Jane Taylor

1804

JT first appeared in print (before her earliest and most famous collaboration), with The Beggar Boy in The Minor's Pocket Book.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
166
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
523

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : January 1805

Women writers item

January 1805

EIS set her name to her second novel, The Nobility of the Heart (three volumes), and made mention on its title-page of her first publication.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 221

Joanna Southcott: January 1804

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Author event in Joanna Southcott

January 1804

JS published at Leeds another tract, Sound an Alarm in my Holy Mountain.
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.

Mary Somerville: 1804

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Author event in Mary Somerville

1804

Mary Fairfax (later MS ) married Captain Samuel Greig , with whom she then moved to London.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
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Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
209

Charlotte Smith: 1804

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Author event in Charlotte Smith

1804

CS published Conversations, Introducing Poetry.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiv

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1804

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Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood

1804

MMS sailed with her husband when he was posted to India, leaving her little daughter behind to protect her health.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
270

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1804

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Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson

1804

SHR issued by subscription Miscellaneous Poems, her second collection, through Gilbert and Dean of Boston.
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.

Jane Porter: 1804

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Author event in Jane Porter

1804

JP next chose another Polish subject for a work of historical non-fiction: A Sketch of the Campaigns of Count Alexander Suwarrow Rymnikski.
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.

Annabella Plumptre: 1804

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Author event in Annabella Plumptre

1804

AP published two books with a domestic focus: Stories for Children and (as a Lady) Domestic Management, or the Healthful Cookery Book.
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Phebe Gibbes: 1804

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Author event in Phebe Gibbes

1804

PG received £10 from the Royal Literary Fund .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1804-November 1805

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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert

1804-November 1805

Jane and Ann Taylor , with Adelaide O'Keeffe and others, as Several Young Persons, published their phenomenally successful collection, Original Poems for Infant Minds.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 6 (1805): 333

Mary Hays: 1804

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Author event in Mary Hays

1804

MH published with Joseph Johnson a book for children, Harry Clinton: A Tale for Youth, a historical work adapted from Henry Brooke 's The Fool of Quality.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
247

Anne Hunter: 1803 or 1804

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Author event in Anne Hunter

1803 or 1804

AH wrote a libretto in English for Haydn 's oratorio The Creation, following its first performance in England in March 1800 with an inferior libretto translated from the German one.
Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009.
69

Maria Elizabetha Jacson: 1804

Women writers item
Author event in Maria Elizabetha Jacson

1804

MEJ , writing as a Lady but with mention of her first book, issued her Botanical Lectures, again with Joseph Johnson . Here she aimed to cross the divide
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
111
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Sophia King: 1804

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Author event in Sophia King

1804

Mrs. Fortnum (late Sophia King ) published by subscription her one solo verse collection, Poems, Legendary, Pathetic, and Descriptive.
Feminist Companion Archive.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 1804

Women writers item

1804

Sydney Owenson replied to a series of anonymous satires by the young J. W. Croker on Dublin theatre people, with a spirited pamphlet lampoon bearing her initials.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
56

1804: The Horticultural Society (from 1861 the...

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1804

The Horticultural Society (from 1861 the Royal Horticultural Society ) was set up by a group of men including John Wedgwood and Sir Joseph Banks .
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
118

1804: The Watercolour Society (later called the...

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1804

The Watercolour Society (later called the Old Watercolour Society) was founded.
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
96

1804: The word romantisme, forerunner of Romanticism,...

Writing climate item

1804

The word romantisme, forerunner of Romanticism, first appeared in French.
Robb, Graham. “Missing Mother”. London Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2000, pp. 21-2.
21

January 1804: George III exhibited preliminary symptoms...

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January 1804

George III exhibited preliminary symptoms of his fourth attack of porphyria (from which he partly recovered later in the year).
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
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