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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 Thomas, b. 1771: By July 1806

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By July 1806

Elizabeth Thomas published her second novel (her first with the Minerva Press and first under what became her identifying pen-name of Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle): The Three Old Maids of the House of Penruddock.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 240

Rachel Hunter: By July 1806

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By July 1806

In Lady Maclairn, The Victim of Villainy. A Novel, RH tackled a new form for her, the epistolary.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 232
Hunter, Rachel. Lady Maclairn. Earle and Hucklebridge, 1806, 4 vols.
title-page

Elizabeth Meeke: By July 1806

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By July 1806

In Something Strange. A Novel (following on Something Odd! of two years before) EM continued her practice of grouping Gabrielli works by their title.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 235

Maria Theresa Kemble: 2 July 1806

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2 July 1806

Maria Theresa De Camp Maria Theresa Kemble married her fellow-actor Charles Kemble , after a long engagement imposed by his disapproving family.
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.
327

24 July 1806: Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier (who were already...

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24 July 1806

Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier (who were already making paper in England) bought the patent for the continuous-paper making machine invented by Nicolas-Louis Robert in France in about 1799. The first commercially viable Fourdrinier machine was...

Anne Burke: August 1806

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August 1806

In a year in which it instituted a Committee of Enquiry and struck seventy-three applicants from its books (a number of them women), the Royal Literary Fund made one more grant to AB .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Batchelor, Jennie. “The Man of Genius and the Female Drudge: Labour, Gender, Authorship and the Royal Literary Fund”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 31 Mar. 2005.

Young, Mary Julia : By August 1806

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By August 1806

MJY (as M. J. Young) published Memoirs of Mrs. Crouch . Including a Retrospect of the Stage, during the Years she Performed, dedicated To the Dramatists and Performers.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
8 (1806): 372

Ann Taylor Gilbert: By August 1806

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By August 1806

Ann and Jane Taylor 's Rhymes for the Nursery was published, as by the Authors of Original Poems.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 8 (1806): 440

Elizabeth, Smith: 7 August 1806

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7 August 1806

Elizabeth Smith died at Coniston, aged twenty-nine. It was fourteen months since she had been struck down.
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
212

31 August 1806: Charles Lever, novelist and editor, was born...

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31 August 1806

Charles Lever , novelist and editor, was born at Dublin.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Charlotte Dacre: Between 1806 and 1809

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Between 1806 and 1809

CD bore her three children by Nicholas Byrne , whom she did not marry for several more years.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Kim Ian Michasiw, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xxx.
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Joanna Southcott: September 1806

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September 1806

After her associate Richard Brothers had emerged from a ten-year prison sentence and claimed in print to be the Messiah, JS published her Answer to Mr. Brothers's Book.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
144

13 September 1806: Charles James Fox died, only nine months...

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13 September 1806

Charles James Fox died, only nine months after he had assumed power as British Prime Minister following the death of his great rival and opponent, William Pitt .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 29 September 1806

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29 September 1806

Mary Anne Galton married Lambert Schimmelpenninck , a Bristol trader of Dutch extraction.
Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858, 2 vols.
2: 48-9
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. “Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1778-1856)”. The Literary Encyclopedia, 25 May 2005.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: By September 1806

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By September 1806

Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan) published the novel which is still her best-known: The Wild Irish Girl.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1: 291-2

Maria Susanna Cooper: October 1806

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October 1806

The widowed MSC left Shotesham in Norfolk, not without regret and emotional reluctance, and moved across the country to live at the home of her eldest son, Robert Bransby Cooper, a Tory member...

Catherine Cuthbertson: October 1806

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October 1806

As the author of the Romance of the Pyrenees, CC published with RobinsonSanto Sebastiano; or, The Young Protector. A Novel, in five volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 229

Anne Grant: By October 1806

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By October 1806

AG published Letters from the Mountains: Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, Between the Years 1773 and 1807, a chronicle of Highland life and family joys derived from letters written to her close...

Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe: 26 October 1806

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26 October 1806

John Graves Simcoe , husband of EPS , died at Exeter after falling ill at sea. He had been despatched on a mission to Portugal, intended as an interim assignment before taking up the...

Charlotte Smith: 28 October 1806

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28 October 1806

CS died at Tilford near Farnham in Surrey, perhaps of uterine cancer.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiv
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
329-30, 336-7

Elizabeth Hamilton: By November 1806

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By November 1806

EH published Letters, Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman, on the Formation of Religious and Moral Principle, on the education of the upper classes for government and leadership roles.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 9: 295

Georgiana Chatterton : 11 November 1806

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11 November 1806

Georgiana Iremonger (later GC) was born at 24 Arlington Street, Piccadilly, London, her parents' only child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
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Lucy Hutchinson: By December 1806

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By December 1806

LH 's life of her husband was at last published, by her great-great-grandson Julius Hutchinson , about 140 years after she wrote it, as the Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
10: 66
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973.

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: About December 1806

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About December 1806

Mary Lamb began on the new writing project which became Mrs Leicester's School. She was hard at work on it as the year ended, but six months later she was interrupted by another episode...

Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: 4 December 1806

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4 December 1806

Henrietta Rouviere married, at the church of Marylebone, London, a businessman named Isaac Mosse , who in 1814 issued a book on universal grammar entitled Enclytica.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Loeber, Rolf, and Magda Loeber. A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900. Four Courts, 2006.
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