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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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By May 1804: A year after the declaration of war with...

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By May 1804

A year after the declaration of war with France, 176,000 men in Britain were serving as soldiers: in the regular army, the militia, and private volunteer corps.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
293-4

10 May 1804: William Pitt formed the government again...

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10 May 1804

William Pitt formed the government again after forcing Henry Addington to resign.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 240

18 May 1804: At the coronation ceremony which made him...

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18 May 1804

At the coronation ceremony which made him Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte took the crown from the hands of the Pope and placed it on his own head.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
62n2

Mary Bryan: 30 May 1804

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Author event in Mary Bryan

30 May 1804

Mary Langdon married Edward Bryan , a Baptist bookseller one year her senior, at Wells in Somerset.
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press, 1997–1998, 2 vols.
2: 288
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Orlando about Mary Bryan, Helen Maria Williams. 8 Mar. 2010.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: Summer 1804

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Summer 1804

Margaret Farmer, later Marguerite Blessington , left her violent husband ; when, shortly thereafter, he was cashiered from his regiment, she refused to accompany him to India.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
21
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
147

Catherine Fanshawe: By June 1804

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By June 1804

CF composed and sent to a friend a copy of an untitled poem about children which began, Then welcome lawns, and welcome shades.
Fanshawe, Catherine. Memorials of Miss Catherine Maria Fanshawe. Editor Harness, William, Privately printed by Vacher and Sons, 1865.
28-9

Anna Maria Porter: By June 1804

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By June 1804

AMP and her family moved to Thames Ditton in Surrey (which, together with Long Ditton, is just across the river from Hampton Court).
She dates her preface to The Lake of Killarney from there.
Porter, Anna Maria. The Lake of Killarney. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804, 3 vols.
1: viii
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
259, 266
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.

Anne Hart Gilbert: 1 June 1804

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1 June 1804

AHG wrote a letter which scholar Moira Ferguson has called her History of Methodism.
Ferguson, Moira, editor. The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
55, 57-75

Eliza Fenwick: By 2 June 1804

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By 2 June 1804

Dorothy Wordsworth had contributed two little poems of her own composition
qtd. in
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
13
for an anthology by EF . This was Songs for the Nursery, collected from the works of the most renowned poets, published...

Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : 23 June 1804

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23 June 1804

Mary Champion de Crespigny and her husband gave a fête champetre at Champion Lodge, for an assemblage of about 500 noble and distinguished persons,
Ietros. “Fête Champêtre given by Mr. and Mrs. Crespigny, on the 23d of June last, at Champion Lodge, Camberwell”. Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol.
74: 2
, July 1804, pp. 621-2.
621
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
74: 2 (July 1804): 621
including the Prince of Wales

Maria Edgeworth: By July 1804

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By July 1804

ME published with Joseph Johnson her first collection of short fiction intended for adults: Popular Tales, some of them written before 1800.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 188
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
287

Susanna Watts: By July 1804

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By July 1804

SW published, anonymously and calling herself he in her opening Address, a guidebook: A Walk through Leicester.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 2 (1804): 350

George Sand: 1 July 1804

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1 July 1804

The future GS was born in Paris, where she was in due course christened Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin .
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
2

Eliza Parsons: By July 1804

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By July 1804

Eight years after a twelve-pound debt had threatened her with debtors' prison, EP arranged a demand for four thousand pounds to bring disaster to the heroine of her novel Murray House. "A Plain Unvarnished Tale"...

Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: By July 1804

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By July 1804

ESG published with her name (as Mrs. Villa Real Gooch) Sherwood Forest; or, Northern Adventures. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 189

4 July 1804: Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist, was born in...

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4 July 1804

Nathaniel Hawthorne , novelist, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
1

Anna Letitia Barbauld: By mid-June 1804

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By mid-June 1804

ALB 's edition of Samuel Richardson 's Correspondence appeared in six volumes; she abridged the letters she chose by an average of about 30% and changed at least one or two words in all of them.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlv
McCarthy, William. “What Did Anna Barbauld Do to Richardson’s Correspondence? A Study of Her Editing”. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Vol.
54
, 2001, pp. 191-23.

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: August 1804

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August 1804

Barbarina Wilmot (later BBBD ) composed a patriotic and nationalistic poem, Fragment, On the Impress of the Seamen of the Fleet from India to Man the King's Ships.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
2: 234-6

Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: August 1804

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August 1804

Henrietta Rouviere 's first novel, Lussington Abbey, in two volumes, appeared under her birth name through the Minerva Press .
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.

Eliza Parsons: 6 September 1804

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6 September 1804

EP (who had once already gone to prison for debt) was up before a magistrate at the Surrey Sessions, charged with obtaining goods under false pretences and tax evasion.
qtd. in
Morton, Karen. A Life Marketed as Fiction. An Analysis of the Works of Eliza Parsons. Valancourt Books, 2011.
9

Sophia Woodfall: October 1804

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October 1804

SW published her second novel, Rosa; or, The Child of the Abbey (which in terms of volumes is twice as long as the first), with 1805 on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 222

Anna Maria Porter: By October 1804

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By October 1804

AMP published her first romance with a non-English setting, The Lake of Killarney.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
259

Elizabeth Hamilton: Autumn 1804

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Author event in Elizabeth Hamilton

Autumn 1804

EH moved to Edinburgh.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-50.
50

Elizabeth Hamilton: Perhaps October 1804

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Perhaps October 1804

EH published a historical biography set in the Europe of the Roman Empire: Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina , the Wife of Germanicus.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 700
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.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-50.
50

Elizabeth Meeke: By October 1804

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By October 1804

EM followed the three novels she had already issued under this year's date with The Nine Days' Wonder. A Novel, bearing her name.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 196