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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 Carter: Early 1806

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Early 1806

An anonymous Sketch of the Character of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter was published at Kelso in Scotland by a lady now identified as Mary Douglas, formerly Carter's younger friend Mary Sharpe .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Sharpe, Mary. Sketch of the Character of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. A. Ballantyne, 1806.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Jane Williams: 1 February 1806

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1 February 1806

JW was born, the second of seven children, in Riley Street, Chelsea (though scholars have differed over both date and place).
Maxwell Fraser in 1961 argued against Riley Street as her place of birth. Deirdre Beddoe

Charlotte Smith: 22 February 1806

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22 February 1806

Benjamin Smith (husband of Charlotte ) died at the age of sixty-four many miles north: in debtors' prison in Berwick-on-Tweed.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, edited by Judith Phillips Stanton, Indiana University Press, 2003, p. i - xlv.
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Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
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Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
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1 February 1806: The monthly magazine La Belle Assemblée began...

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1 February 1806

The monthly magazine La Belle Assemblée began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

10 or 11 February 1806: Following the death of William Pitt, Lord...

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10 or 11 February 1806

Following the death of William Pitt , Lord Grenville , a Whig, formed a government which was called the Ministry of all the Talents, because it reached across party lines.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Kidd, Colin. “Coalition Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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After February 1806: Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea,...

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After February 1806

Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea, which included the well-known poem Rose Aylmer.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Elizabeth Carter: 19 February 1806

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19 February 1806

EC died at her regular winter lodgings in 20 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Jane Marcet: Early 1806

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Early 1806

JM anonymously published her first book, Conversations on Chemistry, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments.
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.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 6 March 1806

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6 March 1806

EBB was born Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett at Coxhoe Hall, five miles from Durham.
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
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Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 30 March 1806

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30 March 1806

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , died at Devonshire House in Piccadilly, of an abscess on the liver.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Anna Maria Bennett: April 1806

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April 1806

AMB published, with the Minerva Press , what seems to be her last novel, the six-volume Vicissitudes Abroad; or, The Ghost of My Father.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 228
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: April 1806

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April 1806

Barbarina Wilmot (later BBBD ) addressed her fellow-poet Mary Tighe (identified by name in a footnote) in a poem of compliment, To Psyche, on Reading her Poem.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
2: 237

Jane West: By April 1806

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By April 1806

JW published with Longman another advice manual, Letters to a Young Lady.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 7 (1806): 337

Elizabeth Strutt: By April 1806

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By April 1806

ES , as Mrs. Byron, published her first work to reach print: Anti-Delphine, A Novel, founded on facts.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Amelia Opie: By April 1806

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By April 1806

AO published with LongmanSimple Tales in four volumes; this first story collection (which was marketed both to children and adults) reached a fourth London edition by 1815.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 8 (1806): 443
King, Shelley. “Westward Ho!: Charting the Transatlantic Travels of Amelia Opie’s Tales”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, St John’s, Newfoundland, 15 Oct. 2010.

Jane Harvey: By April 1806

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By April 1806

JH published with her name another novel on a trusty theme: The Castle of Tynemouth, A Tale, with Vernor and Longman , London.
Tynemouth Castle is an unusual one, built around a pre-existing...

Charlotte Dacre: May 1806

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May 1806

CD published her second novel, Zofloya; or, The Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century, in three volumes.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Catherine Fanshawe: May 1806

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May 1806

CF published, that is reproduced for sale, another visual, not literary work: an etching of a poor widow aged 104, to be sold at five shillings a copy for the benefit of the subject and...

Mary Hays: May 1806-1808

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May 1806-1808

MH published Historical Dialogues for Young Persons, designed to make history palatable to young people, especially girls.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 8 (1806): 108

Ann Yearsley: 6 May 1806

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6 May 1806

AY died at Melksham in Wiltshire, where her son was a leading member of the community.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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John Stuart Mill: 20 May 1806

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20 May 1806

JSM , the future philosopher, was born at 13 Rodney Street, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Priscilla Wakefield: By June 1806

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By June 1806

PW published Excursions in North America, Described in Letters from a Gentleman and his Young Companion, to their Friends in England.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 8 (1806): 223

By June 1806: Poems Written on Different Occasions by the...

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By June 1806

Poems Written on Different Occasions by the domestic servant Charlotte Richardson were selected, edited, and published with some account of the author by the middle-class activist and social reformer Catharine Cappe .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 8 (1806): 217

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: 2 June 1806

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2 June 1806

Carolina Oliphant married her second cousin Major William Murray Nairne , at her home at Gask in Perthshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Nairne, Carolina Oliphant, Lady, and Caroline Oliphant. Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne. Editor Rogers, Charles, J. Grant, 1896.
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Charlotte Dacre: July 1806

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July 1806

CD published in the Morning Post, as Rosa Matilda, a series of verse vignettes on political figures, entitling it The Dream; or, Living Portraits.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Kim Ian Michasiw, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xxx.
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Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36.
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