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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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1807: The British parliament debated but rejected...

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1807

The British parliament debated but rejected a Parochial Schools Bill which would have provided the children of the poor with two years of free, compulsory education.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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1807: The world's first scheduled passenger service...

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1807

The world's first scheduled passenger service by steamboat opened, plying up the Hudson River from Manhattan, New York.
Jones, Jonathan. “A river runs through it”. Guardian Weekly, 7–13 Mar. 2002, p. 16.
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1807: The North Wales Chronicle (first English-language...

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1807

The North Wales Chronicle (first English-language newspaper in the region) began publication.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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1807: By this date plate glass was being used in...

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1807

By this date plate glass was being used in shopfronts, and displays of goods for sale were becoming more common.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
6

January 1807-June 1809: John Aikin (Anna Letitia Barbauld's brother)...

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January 1807-June 1809

John Aikin (Anna Letitia Barbauld 's brother) ran a Dissenting periodical, The Athenæum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information.
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/.

1807-1813: The widely publicized case of Ann Moore,...

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1807-1813

The widely publicized case of Ann Moore , the contentious Fasting Woman of Tutbury, raised the profile of self-starvation, or fasting girls and incited debate as to its causes.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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Hollis, Karen. “Fasting Women: Bodily Claims and Narrative Crises in Eighteenth-Century Science”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 523-38.
532, 534

Sophia Lee: 28 January 1807

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28 January 1807

SL 's last work, her comedy The Assignation, was produced at Drury Lane .
It has no connection with The Assignation: A Sentimental Novel in a Series of Letters, published by Noble in 1774.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xlviii

Charlotte Smith: Early February 1807

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Author event in Charlotte Smith

Early February 1807

CS 's Beachy Head, Fables, and Other Poems appeared, through Joseph Johnson , three months after her death.
Her biographers Hilbish (1941) and Fletcher (1998) both say the title-poem was the last thing she...

Charlotte Smith: February 1807

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Author event in Charlotte Smith

February 1807

CS 's The Natural History of Birds, prepared for the press before her death and also written for children, was posthumously published.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
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Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
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Elizabeth Heyrick: February 1807

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February 1807

EH , who already dressed from choice like a Quaker, wrote to the Society of Friends about admisssion.
Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott, 2008.
121

Anne Manning: 17 February 1807

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17 February 1807

AM was born in London, the eldest child in a large family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897.
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27 February 1807: Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born...

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27 February 1807

Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, USA.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Anna Maria Porter: After March 1807

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Author event in Anna Maria Porter

After March 1807

AMP published, with her name, The Hungarian Brothers, a historical romance which became probably her best-known work: she wrote the preface in this month and the book was out by July.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
259
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 255

2 March 1807: The US Congress prohibited the import of...

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2 March 1807

The US Congress prohibited the import of any more slaves from Africa after 1808.
Kennedy, David. “Leur Pays”. London Review of Books, 22 Feb. 2001, pp. 24-5.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: About 11 March 1807

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About 11 March 1807

Sydney Owenson 's comic opera, The First Attempt; or, Whim of a Moment, opened at the Theatre Royal, Dublin .
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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31 March 1807: The Duke of Portland, a Tory, formed the...

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31 March 1807

The Duke of Portland , a Tory, formed the British government for the second time.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

Anne Grant: April-August 1807

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Author event in Anne Grant

April-August 1807

This year AG lost two of her daughters to illness: Charlotte died on 21 April , Catherine in August.
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols.
1: 97, 121

April 1807: The African Institution was founded in London...

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April 1807

The African Institution was founded in London as a non-missionary society seeking to improve material conditions in Africa by promoting agriculture, industry, and the study of native languages.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
92, 94

Ann Jebb: 2 April 1807

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2 April 1807

Two days after the Tory Duke of Portland became Prime Minister, AJ wrote to John Disney , The Times of today begins to be afraid of peace: still I cry nothing but peace can save...

Mary Carpenter: 3 April 1807

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3 April 1807

MC was born at Exeter in Devon.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Eliza Mary Hamilton: 4 April 1807

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4 April 1807

Poet EMH was born in Dublin, the middle one in a gifted family of five children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Bannerman: Probably early 1807

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Author event in Anne Bannerman

Probably early 1807

AB left Scotland for Southern England, a course of action she had been considering for some time.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
131 and n38, 133 and n52

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: May 1807

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May 1807

Barbarina Wilmot (later BBBD ) composed her Sonnet On Seeing the Bust of the Late Sawrey Gilpin (an animal painter who had died two months before this, whom she loved and admired).
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
2: 251
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sawrey Gilpin

Germaine de Staël: 1 May 1807

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Author event in Germaine de Staël

1 May 1807

GS 's influential novel Corinne; ou, L'Italie was published; an English translation, Corinne; or, Italy, followed by the end of the year.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
123
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 12 (1807): 281

Maria Riddell : May 1807

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Author event in Maria Riddell

May 1807

MR penned a poem on Walter Scott 's home (at Lasswade near Melrose Abbey); this may be the last poetry that she wrote.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
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