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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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Anna Gordon: 1806

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1806

Robert Jamieson relied a good deal on AG 's manuscript collections for his Popular Ballads and Songs.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : 1806

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1806

LMH undertook a translation of Johann Martin Miller 's German Siegwart of 1777.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Helme: 1806

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Author event in Elizabeth Helme

1806

Two years after publishing The History of England with her name and mention of previous pedagogic texts, EH went on to The History of Scotland: Related in Familiar Conversations by a Father to His Children.
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Elizabeth Inchbald: 1806-January 1809

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Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald

1806-January 1809

EI published brief prefaces for a prestigious collection of play-texts: The British Theatre, in 25 volumes of five plays each, Shakespeare heading the list.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 16 (1809): 110
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Anna Brownell Jameson: 1806

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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson

1806

Anna Murphy (later ABJ ) and her family settled in a rather fashionable district near the Mall in London.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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1806: Joseph Dufour of Paris, manufacturer of scenic...

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1806

Joseph Dufour of Paris, manufacturer of scenic panoramic wallpapers, aroused immense public interest with a set of wallpaper depicting The Voyages of Captain Cook.
Printing panoramic wallpaper was a complex process. Each colour...

1806: Pioneering missionary Henry Martyn moved...

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1806

Pioneering missionary Henry Martyn moved to Calcutta to continue his proselytising work.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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1806: James S. Carter, a Tourist Outfitter, opened...

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1806

James S. Carter , a Tourist Outfitter, opened a shop at 369 Oxford Street, London; among his wares was an Alpine boot for walking outdoors, made for men and women.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1806: Brislington House, the first purpose-built...

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1806

Brislington House , the first purpose-built lunatic asylum in England, designed for upper-class clients, three miles from Bristol, was completed for Edward Long Fox .
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
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1806: German pharmacy assistant Frederick Sertürner...

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1806

German pharmacy assistant Frederick Sertürner isolated the drug morphia from opium; it became widely available in Britain from the 1820s.
Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
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Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
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Historians Duin and Sutcliffe give 1803 as the year of this discovery. However...

1806: An uneducated sailor in need of money published...

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1806

An uneducated sailor in need of money published Admonition, a Poem on the Fashionable Modes of Female Dress, which claims to be deeply scandalised by the current revealing fashions.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 10 (1807): 217-8
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1806: An Italian invented the prototype of carbon...

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1806

An Italian invented the prototype of carbon paper, for making copies simultaneously with writing.
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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1806: J. B. Florian-Jolly published a textbook,...

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1806

J. B. Florian-Jolly published a textbook, An Elementary Course of the Sciences and Philosophy, which advertised at the back his wife 's girls' boarding school at Leytonstone near London.
Skedd, Susan. “Women Teachers and the Expansion of Girls’ Schooling in England, c. 1760-1820”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 101-25.
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January 1806: The Monthly Repository, a Dissenting magazine,...

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January 1806

The Monthly Repository, a Dissenting magazine, began publication in London, edited by Robert Aspland .
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/.

About 1806: Several sources, including some close to...

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About 1806

Several sources, including some close to the event, claim that Joan Watts , mother of the writer Susanna Watts , was driven mad by her fear of the new institution of income tax.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

1806: The young Lord Byron privately printed his...

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1806

The young Lord Byron privately printed his first book, Fugitive Pieces, which was immediately suppressed.
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1806: Patrick Colquhoun published A Treatise on...

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1806

Patrick Colquhoun published A Treatise on Indigence, exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour.
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1806: Henry Colburn set up a publishing house in...

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1806

Henry Colburn set up a publishing house in London; his authors included many best-sellers.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 39, 42, 44, 47

1806: The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues...

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1806

The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues removed from the Parthenon in Athens by Lord Elgin , were exhibited for the first time in England.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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1806: The Last Man, or Omegarus and Syderia, a...

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1806

The Last Man, or Omegarus and Syderia, a Romance in Futurity appeared anonymously (twenty years before Mary Shelley 's novel with the same main title): it was translated from Jean-Baptiste François-Xavier Cousin de Grainville 's...

Early 1806: Only a few months after the death of Welsh-language...

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Early 1806

Only a few months after the death of Welsh-language hymn-writer Ann Griffiths , about two-thirds of her surviving hymns reached print (along with others by different authors) at Bala in Merionethshire, entitled Casgliad o...

1806: Claire de Duras issued in a small, limited...

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1806

Claire de Duras issued in a small, limited edition her short French novel Ourika, about a Senegalese woman of slave origin.
Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de et al. Ourika. Translator Fowles, John, Modern Language Association of America, 1994.
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Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: 5 January 1806

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5 January 1806

The Margrave of Anspach , second husband of EMA , died unexpectedly at Benham in Berkshire, having been ill for only three days.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii.
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23 January 1806: The death of William Pitt after a long term...

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23 January 1806

The death of William Pitt after a long term as Prime Minister and war leader altered the face of English politics.
Caplan, Clive. “Jane Austen’s Banker Brother: Henry Thomas Austen of Austen and Co., 1801-1816”. Persuasions, Vol.
20
, 1998, pp. 69-90.
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Joanna Baillie: Early 1806

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Author event in Joanna Baillie

Early 1806

JB first met Walter Scott (a very new literary celebrity); she really got to know him by March 1808, when she visited him at 39 Castle Street, Edinburgh.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
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