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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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Helen Craik: By July 1805

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By July 1805

HC used a startling title, The Nun and Her Daughter; or, Memoirs of the Courville Family, for her final novel, published in four volumes by the Minerva Press .
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
328
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 210

Eliza Fenwick: After July 1805

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After July 1805

EF published, with her initials, Visits to the Juvenile Library; or, Knowledge Proved to be the Source of Happiness: an engraving that illustrates the book bears this date.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Elizabeth, Smith: July 1805

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July 1805

On a very hot day, Elizabeth Smith sat on a large stone by Coniston Water reading, till the sun set and a very heavy dew fell. She then felt struck on the chest as if...

Sir Walter Scot : By July 1805

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By July 1805

Walter Scott published The Lay of the Last Minstrel, his first important original work, a narrative poem in six cantos.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 5(1805): 225-42
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Inchbald: By July 1805

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By July 1805

EI 's comedy To Marry, or Not to Marry was published, as recently performed at Covent Garden .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 5 (1805): 333

Mary Tighe: By 24 July 1805

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By 24 July 1805

MT 's Psyche, or the Legend of Love was privately printed by J. Carpenter , London, with a run of fifty copies.
Tighe, Mary. The Works of Mary Tighe, Published and Unpublished. Editor Henchy, Patrick, No. 6, Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 1957.
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Elizabeth Strutt: July 1805

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July 1805

Elizabeth Byron (later ES ) was widowed by the death of her first husband, in her father's house at Sutton (now part of Hull). He was reported to have died of a lingering illness...

Alethea Lewis: By August 1805

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By August 1805

AL published, as Eugenia de Acton, with the Minerva Press , The Nuns of the Desert; or, The Woodland Witches.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
328

August 1805: Alicia Meynell (or Thornton) defeated a leading...

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August 1805

Alicia Meynell (or Thornton) defeated a leading (male) jockey, Frank Buckle , in a private contest in connection with the annual York races.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Maria Colling: 20 August 1804

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20 August 1804

MMC , poet, was born at Tavistock in Devon, one of a large lower-class family.
Anna Eliza Bray told Robert Southey that MMC was born on this day in 1805; but the church record...

Priscilla Wakefield: By September 1805

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By September 1805

PW published Domestic Recreation; or, Dialogues Illustrative of Natural and Scientific Subjects, with an engraved frontispiece and four plates.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 6 (1805): 108

Ann Taylor Gilbert: By September 1805

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By September 1805

Ann and Jane Taylor revised for publication Rural Scenes; or, A Peep into the Country, for Good Children, originally written by William Darton .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 6 (1805): 108
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.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: September 1805

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September 1805

Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan) published The Novice of Saint Dominick, a novel with an educational theme.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 237
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1: 255

Mary Deverell: Early September 1805

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Early September 1805

MD died at Nailsworth in Gloucestershire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Isabella Kelly: By October 1805

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By October 1805

IK published The Secret, A Novel; again she used Norbury of Brentford and her book was sold through Longman .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.

Sophia King: October 1805

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October 1805

Mrs. Fortnum (late Sophia King ) published her apparently final novel, The Adventures of Victor Allen, in two volumes, with a list of her previous novels on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 211-12
King, Sophia. The Adventures of Victor Allen. Hodgson, 1805, 2 vols.
title-page
Feminist Companion Archive.

By October 1805: Catharine Cappe published Observations on...

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By October 1805

Catharine Cappe published Observations on Charity Schools, a hard-hitting critique of the existing situation.
Sales, Roger. “The Maid and the Minister’s Wife: Literary Philanthropy in Regency York”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 127-41.
131n16, 129, 130

Anna Maria Porter: By 13 October 1805

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By 13 October 1805

AMP titled her next novel A Sailor's Friendship, and a Soldier's Love.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
259

Elizabeth, Smith: 17 October 1805

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17 October 1805

Elizabeth Smith arrived in Bath after travelling from Coniston, in an alarming condition, having lost the use of her legs and her speech.
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
203-4

21 October 1805: Britain defeated Napoleonic France in a battle...

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21 October 1805

Britain defeated Napoleonic France in a battle off Cape Trafalgar; Nelson was fatally wounded.
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
380
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
858
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Harriet Lee: Autumn 1805

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Autumn 1805

HL and Anna, her youngest sister, spent several weeks travelling in Wales: one of their ports of call was Llangollen.
Editor April Alliston is not certain whether or not they visited Lady Eleanor Butler

Sophia Lee: 23 October 1805

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23 October 1805

Anna Lee, youngest sister of Sophia and Harriet , hanged herself from the top railing of her bed, and died.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.

Elizabeth Bentley: Late 1805

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Late 1805

EB published at Norwich an ode on Nelson 's death at the battle of Trafalgar.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : 31 October 1805

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31 October 1805

Claude Champion de Crespigny was created a baronet; his wife became Lady Champion de Crespigny .
Burke, John, editor. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s Peerage.

Harriet Corp: By November 1805

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By November 1805

As formerly speculated but only recently demonstrated, HC 's first publication, under the name a Lady, was Interesting Conversations on Moral and Religious Subjects, Interspersed with Narrative.
Londry, Michael. The Lisle Bamford McEachern Collection.