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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 Strutt: By 1805

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By 1805

Elizabeth Byron (later ES ) began work on The Borderers, An Historical Romance: it is her earliest known work, though published later, and an interesting example both of medievalism and of orientalism.
Strutt, Elizabeth. The Borderers. A. K. Newman, 1812, 3 vols.
title-page

Robert Southey: 1805

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1805

RS published another epic poem, Madoc.
Wu, Duncan, editor. Romanticism: An Anthology. 2nd ed., Blackwell, 1998.
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Joanna Southcott: 1805

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1805

JS , having been attacked in the Leeds Mercury, retaliated with an Answer to Five Charges . . . (reprinted at Ashford, Middlesex, in 1918).
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.

Anna Seward: 1805

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1805

AS compiled a 7-page booklet, Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa, which was issued at Newcastle with other Abelard and Eloisa material.
The British Library Catalogue lists AS 's contribution as part of a larger work.
Seward, Anna et al. “Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa”. Letters of Abelard and Eloisa, translated by. John, 1677 - 1720 Hughes and John, 1677 - 1720 Hughes, J. Mitchell, 1805.
title-page
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 Seacole: 1805

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1805

MS was born Mary Grant, in Kingston, Jamaica, one of two children.
Fryer, Peter. Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain. Pluto Press, 1984.
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Anne Plumptre: 1805

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1805

AP 's A Historical Relation of the Plague at Marseilles in the year 1720, translated from Jean-Baptiste Bertrand , represented a remarkable piece of first-hand historical research.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
xxvii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Amelia Opie: Early January 1805

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Early January 1805

AO published Adeline Mowbray; or, The Mother and Daughter, her best-known novel, in a print-run of 2,000 copies.
Its date has been variously reported, but the Longman archives, recording the costs of paper, printing...

Phebe Gibbes: 1805

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1805

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

Phebe Gibbes: 1805

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1805

PG reported to the Royal Literary Fund her unsubduable aspiration . . . to perfect before she dies, a work that will evince, she has not lived in vain. She had such a work on...

William Godwin: 1805

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1805

WG and his second wife, Mary Jane Godwin , set up the Juvenile Library (a shop selling children's books and school supplies), and a publishing house to supply stock for it.
Their shop had the...

Elizabeth Heyrick: 1805

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1805

EH published, anonymously, a 23-page anti-war pamphlet: The Warning. Recommended to the Serious Attention of all Christians, and Lovers of their Country.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Barbara Hofland: 1805

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1805

Barbara Hoole (later BH ) published her Poems, with about 1,620 subscribers, and a dedication to Countess Fitzwilliam .
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Fanny Holcroft: 1805-1806

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1805-1806

Thomas Holcroft 's Theatrical Recorder included seven plays translated by his daughter Fanny Holcroft from Spanish, German, and Italian.
Holcroft, Thomas. The Theatrical Recorder. Burt Franklin, 1968, 2 vols.

Isabella Kelly: 1805

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1805

IK published with her name The Child's French Grammar, intended as an introduction to the practical French Grammar of N. Wanostrocht.
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.

Harriet Lee: 1805

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1805

HL 's final, fifth volume to her Canterbury Tales appeared; like the fourth, it was all her own work.
Lee, Harriet, and Sophia Lee. Canterbury Tales. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797–1805, 5 vols.
5: title-page

Elizabeth Meeke: 1805

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1805

The Minerva Press published The Wonder of the Village. A Novel, apparently revised for print by EM from the draft of an unnamed woman writer who died without finishing it.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 217-18

1805: The East India Company established a training...

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1805

The East India Company established a training college for civil servants.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
94

1805: Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and...

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1805

Alexis de Tocqueville , French historian and sociologist, was born.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

January 1805: The Eclectic Review, a Dissenting magazine,...

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January 1805

The Eclectic Review, a Dissenting magazine, began publication in London; it ran until December 1868.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
531n25
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

1805: Several Manchester factories began using...

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1805

Several Manchester factories began using gas lighting.
Debeir, Jean-Claude et al. In the Servitude of Power: Energy and Civilization through the Ages. Translator Barzman, John, Zed Books, 1991.
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1805: George Nicholson compiled and published at...

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1805

George Nicholson compiled and published at Poughnill near Ludlow in ShropshireThe Advocate and Friend of Woman, an anthology of excerpts.
Women Writers of the (long) English Regency. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts, 2009.
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1805-1830: During these years the proportion of British...

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1805-1830

During these years the proportion of British men who made their wills in India and left their property to Indian wives or mixed-race families dropped from one in four to one in six, according to...

1805: No provision whatever for education was being...

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1805

No provision whatever for education was being made for the 200,000 pauper children in the care of the British state.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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1805: The Female Missionary Society, established...

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1805

The Female Missionary Society , established in Northampton, became the first female auxiliary branch of the Baptist Missionary Society .
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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By 1805: The Society for the Suppression of Vice brought...

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By 1805

The Society for the Suppression of Vice brought its first prosecutions to court.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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