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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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1 October 1804: A print was published, The Circulating Library,...

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1 October 1804

A print was published, The Circulating Library, with a lengthy caption satirising the allegedly prurient taste of young women for sensational novels.
Benedict, Barbara M. “Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy”. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women’s Fiction" and Social Engagement, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 147-00.
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: November 1804

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November 1804

In a last reprise of her financial-confession scenes with her husband, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , revealed to him a further £50,000 of debt.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Eliza Fenwick: Probably late 1804

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Probably late 1804

EF published through Tabart and Co. , with her name, what is probably (not certainly because she issued some such books anonymously) her first book for children, Mary and her Cat.
Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge, 2011.
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Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019.
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Priscilla Wakefield: By November 1804

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By November 1804

PW published A Family Tour through the British Empire, a companion volume to The Juvenile Travellers (whose range is actually more limited).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 3 (1804): 356

Elizabeth Ham: November 1804-1809

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November 1804-1809

EH lived in post-Rebellion Ireland, witnessing at first hand many of the acts of oppression
Ham, Elizabeth. The Ford Family in Ireland. Newby, 1845, 3 vols.
prelims
which she later described in her novel.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
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Agnes Wheeler: 2 November 1804

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2 November 1804

AW died, aged sixty-nine or seventy, at Arnside Tower near Beetham in Westmorland.
Grisenthwaite, Jim. Letter to Isobel Grundy. 8 July 1988.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Hunter: 1804

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1804

AH issued a slim booklet of poems, The Sports of the Genii, written in winter 1797 for the amusement of some children (no doubt the Montgomerie and MacDonald girls in her care). Its illustrations...

Jane Austen: By about the end of 1804

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By about the end of 1804

JA laid aside her fragmentary, unfinished novel The Watsons.
Critic Jan Fergus thinks that she probably never went back to it after Anne Lefroy 's death. Biographer Claire Tomalin thinks it was her father

Eliza Fenwick: Late 1804

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Late 1804

EF published, again with Tabart , The Life of Carlo, the Famous Dog of Drury-Lane Theatre.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: Probably late 1804

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Probably late 1804

ESG published with her name a translation from Charlotte Bournon-Malarmé : Can We Doubt It?; or, The Genuine History of Two Families of Norwich.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 4 (1805): 446

Felicia Hemans: 1804-5 and 1805-6

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1804-5 and 1805-6

Felicia Dorothea Browne, later FH , spent two winters in London with her parents, but despite her enjoyment of the art she saw there she disliked the confinement of urban life and never returned.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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Julia Pardoe: 4 December 1804

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4 December 1804

JP was baptised at the Church of St John and St Martin in Beverley, Yorkshire; she was presumably born not long before this.
Many sources erroneously give 1806 as the year of her birth.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 295
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 295

Jane Austen: 16 December 1804

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16 December 1804

On JA 's twenty-ninth birthday her good friend Anne (Brydges) Lefroy died from injuries sustained when she fell from a horse.
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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Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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Benjamin Disraeli: 21 December 1804

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21 December 1804

BD , statesman and novelist, was born at 6 King's Road, Bedford Row, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Tighe: Christmas Eve 1804

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Christmas Eve 1804

MT wrote to her friend Joseph Cooper Walker that she had had a narrow escape: she had almost published Psyche, together with a volume of smaller poems (which must have been Verses Transcribed for...

31 December 1804: The Rev. John Darwall, stepson of poet Mary...

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31 December 1804

The Rev. John Darwall , stepson of poet Mary Darwall , a teacher at King Edward VI School , Birmingham, wrote to the Board of Governors seeking a ban on Children intended to work...

Anne Bacon: January 1805

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January 1805

The Lady's Monthly Museum ran a piece on AB and the other Cooke sisters, excerpted from Mary Pilkington 's Memoirs of Celebrated Female Characters.
Lady’s Monthly Museum. Vernor and Hood, 1-16.
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Elizabeth Cobbold: 1805

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1805

EC was very likely the (supposedly male) editor of The Chaplet, Poems, partly original and partly selected from the most approved authors, an Ipswich anthology of poetry with good representation of women.

Charlotte Dacre: By 1805

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By 1805

CD began an affair with Nicholas Byrne , a Tory, editor of the Morning Post, whom, ten years and three children later, she eventually married.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Kim Ian Michasiw, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xxx.
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Charlotte Dacre: 1805

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1805

CD published a two-volume collection of poems, Hours of Solitude.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36.
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Young, Mary Julia : 1805

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1805

MJY attempted the historical novel in Donalda, or The Witches of Glenshiel. A Caledonian Legend (which is only two volumes instead of her usual four).
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2:223

Eliza Fletcher: During 1805-6

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During 1805-6

EF developed a close friendship and a correspondence with Elizabeth Hamilton .
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
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Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: About 1805

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About 1805

EPW wrote some of the poems which appeared in her first volume of poetry.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Jane West: 1805

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1805

JW inherited land from her father, which seven years later she and her husband sold for at least £3,000.
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.
Lloyd, Pamela. “Some New Information on Jane West”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
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, No. 4, Dec. 1984, pp. 469-70.
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Ellen Weeton: Biography: 1805

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1805

EW began keeping copies of the letters she wrote to her brother ; by 1825 she had filled seven quarto volumes.
Bagley, John Joseph et al. “Introduction”. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess, edited by Edward Hall, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.