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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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10 December 1806: Charles Lamb's farce Mr H— opened at Drury...

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10 December 1806

Charles Lamb 's farce Mr H— opened at Drury Lane . Its dashing coxcomb protagonist cuts a swathe through the ladies at Bath until it comes out that his name is Hogsflesh, when they drop him hurriedly.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
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Lady Caroline Lamb: 19 December 1806

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Author event in Lady Caroline Lamb

19 December 1806

William Lamb , as a new MP, made his maiden speech by invitation immediately following the Speech from the Throne: LCL attended in men's clothes in the Strangers' Gallery to hear him.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Sarah Austin: 1807

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Author event in Sarah Austin

1807

The young Sarah Taylor (later SA ) was sent to London to stay with her mother's friend the writer Anna Letitia Barbauld .
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985.
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Anne Bannerman: 1807

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1807

AB published through Mundell , with a subscription list of three hundred, Poems, A New Edition.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: Around 1807

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Around 1807

Margaret Farmer (later Marguerite Blessington) , who was separated from her husband , began living under the protection of Captain Thomas Jenkins .
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
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Henrietta Maria Bowdler: 1807

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1807

HMB published at Bath an expurgated edition of twenty of Shakespeare 's plays, in four volumes, as The Family Shakespeare.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Harriet E. Wilson: 1807 or 1808

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Author event in Harriet E. Wilson

1807 or 1808

According to the US census of 1860 (for Massachusetts), Harriet Adams (later HEW ) was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA.
Wilson, Harriet E. “Introduction”. Our Nig, edited by Henry Louis, Jr Gates, Vintage Books, Random House, 1983, p. xi - lix.
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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: 1807

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1807

T. and R. Hughes published SSW 's anonymous 38-page chapbook The Castle Spectre; or, Family Horrors. A Gothic Story, derived from Matthew Lewis 's drama of the same title, 1796.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

Susanna Watts: 1807

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Author event in Susanna Watts

1807

An application to the Royal Literary Fund was secretly made on SW 's behalf by a relation of Elizabeth Heyrick (perhaps her mother) and the publisher Richard Phillips ; they got her a grant of...

Robert Southey: 1807

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Author event in Robert Southey

1807

RS edited an anthology, Specimens of the Later English Poets, published in three volumes with Longman , which was unusually hospitable to women.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. 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. 201-15.
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Joanna Southcott: 1807

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Author event in Joanna Southcott

1807

Hymns; or, Spiritual Songs was compiled and published by Philip Pullen from the prophetic writings of JS .
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 Ann Radcliffe: By 1807

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Author event in Mary Ann Radcliffe

By 1807

MAR was living on charity in Portobello near Edinburgh.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe. Printed for the author, 1810.
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Feminist Companion Archive.

Mary Ann Radcliffe: 1807

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Author event in Mary Ann Radcliffe

1807

MAR dated the first four of the letters which make up her Memoirs.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe. Printed for the author, 1810.
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Feminist Companion Archive.

Eliza Parsons: 1807

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Author event in Eliza Parsons

1807

EP published apparently her final work, The Convict, or Navy Lieutenant. A Novel.
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.

Felicia Hemans: From about 1807

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From about 1807

The two elder brothers of Felicia Dorothea Browne (later FH ) served in the Peninsular War with the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley, 1836, 2 vols.
I: 25-6
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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L. E. L.: 1807

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Author event in L. E. L.

1807

At the age of five, Letitia Landon (later LEL ) began her education at the reputable Frances Rowden 's school for young women at 22 Hans Place, just a few doors from her own house in Chelsea.
L. E. L. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages.
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Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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Eliza Kirkham Mathews: 1807

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Author event in Eliza Kirkham Mathews

1807

EKM 's second surviving novel for adults, Griffith Abbey; or, Memoirs of Eugenia, appeared posthumously from Oddy and J. Goodwin as by Mrs C. Mathews.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Meeke: 1807

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Author event in Elizabeth Meeke

1807

EM published, in four volumes, translations of two French novels: Julien; or, My Father's House by François-Guillaume Ducray-Duménil , and Elizabeth; or, The Exiles of Siberia by Sophie de Cottin .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 245-6, 248

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 1807

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1807

Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan) published Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies, with English Words imitated and translated from the Works of the Ancient Irish Bards.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies. Preston, 1807.
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1807: The Female Penitentiary was founded in London...

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1807

The Female Penitentiary was founded in London as a refuge for fallen and destitute women, but it took in fewer than sixty women a year.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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1807: The first passenger railway in the UK was...

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1807

The first passenger railway in the UK was established: in Wales between Swansea and Oystermouth.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
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1807: The Church Missionary Society set up a Corresponding...

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1807

The Church Missionary Society set up a Corresponding Committee in Calcutta with the intention of beginning missionary work there.
Church Missionary Society Archive: Section VI: Missions to India. Adam Matthew.

1807: Thomas Saddington developed a method of preserving...

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1807

Thomas Saddington developed a method of preserving fruit by canning.
Drummond, Jack Cecil et al. The Englishman’s Food: A History of Five Centuries of English Diet. 2nd ed., Pimlico, 1991.
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1807: The Geological Society of London was founded;...

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1807

The Geological Society of London was founded; it adhered to empiricist methodology and did not admit women until the twentieth century.
Cannon, Susan Faye. Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period. Dawson; Science History Publications, 1978.
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Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
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Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
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1807: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published Phenomenology...

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1807

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published Phenomenology of Spirit, his first significant work, a retrospective account of the Enlightenment.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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