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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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Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: By May 1807

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By May 1807

Mary Jane Godwin (whom Charles and Mary Lamb disliked and called privately Bad Baby) published their prose Tales from Shakespear : Designed for the Use of Young Persons, with Charles's name only, though...

1 May 1807: The British parliament finally abolished...

National or international item

1 May 1807

The British parliament finally abolished the slave trade with effect both at home and in the colonies: a delayed victory for the abolitionist movement.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 581, 651, 689, 710
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
863, 1081
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
242
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
178
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
92

Probably early May 1807: William Wordsworth published Poems in Two...

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Probably early May 1807

William Wordsworth published Poems in Two Volumes; the Critical Review commented unkindly: A silly book is a serious evil; but it becomes absolutely insupportable when written by a man of sense.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 11 (1807): 399

Eliza Nugent Bromley: 23 May 1807

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23 May 1807

ENB submitted a request for financial aid to the Royal Literary Fund , enumerating her various works. On 19 JuneHer request was Negativ'd.
“Mrs. Eliza Nugent Bromley”. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/AELMKX416881308/NCCO?u=edmo69826&sid=bookmark-NCCO&xid=55357e7f&pg=1.
5

23 May 1807: Novelist Samuel Warren was born at The Rackery,...

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23 May 1807

Novelist Samuel Warren was born at The Rackery, in Wrexham, Wales.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
190

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: Spring 1807

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Spring 1807

Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan) published a volume of poems as The Lay of an Irish Harp.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
76

Elizabeth Strutt: By June 1807

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By June 1807

ES published, as Mrs. Byron, another novel, Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Noble Families.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 245

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: June 1807

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June 1807

Mary Lamb had another bout of mental illness; this one interrupted both her summer holiday with Thomas Clarkson 's family and her writing of Mrs Leicester's School.
Bottoms, Janet. “Every One Her Own Heroine: Conflicting Narrative Structures in Mrs Leicesters SchoolWomens Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 39-53.
40
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
240-1

Charlotte Nooth: Summer 1807

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Summer 1807

CN spent these months in what is today Northern Ireland: both County Down and County Antrim.
Nooth, Charlotte. Original Poems. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815.
73ff

Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: Early June 1807

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Early June 1807

ESG died at Plymouth in Devon. Her burial there there on 14 June was recorded by the Ipswich Journal as that of Eliz[abe]th Sarah Villa Real Cooch.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Elizabeth Sarah Villa Real Gooch. 26 Jan. 2016.
Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. “Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real—Mrs Gooch”. All Things Georgian, 1 May 2014.

Elizabeth Inchbald: 13 June 1807

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13 June 1807

An essay by EI , To the Artist, in Prince Hoare 's periodical The Artist, interestingly relates the two sides of her literary career, as novelist and dramatist.
Nachumi, Nora. “Those Simple Signs: The Performance of Emotion in Elizabeth Inchbalds A Simple StoryEighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 3, Apr. 1999, pp. 317-38.
325n27

Flora Tristan: 14 June 1807

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14 June 1807

When FT was four years old, her father Mariano de Tristan (a Peruvian aristocrat) died intestate, leaving questions about his daughter's legitimacy and her inheritance.
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
14, 222

Eliza Nugent Bromley: By 19 June 1807

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By 19 June 1807

ENB died in London, in Wilmot Street, Bloomsbury, in very embarrassed circumstances.
“Mrs. Eliza Nugent Bromley”. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/AELMKX416881308/NCCO?u=edmo69826&sid=bookmark-NCCO&xid=55357e7f&pg=1.
6

Harriet Corp: By July 1807

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By July 1807

HC published her anonymous religious novel An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, which proved an enduring success.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 11 (1807): 335

Charlotte Dacre: July 1807

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July 1807

CD 's third novel, The Libertine, in four volumes, reached three editions by the end of its publication year.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 246
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36.
35

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: By July 1807

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By July 1807

SSW dedicated to Mary Champion de Crespigny (as Lady de Crespigny) her second novel, The Fugitive Countess; or, Convent of St. Ursula. A Romance.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 260

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : By July 1807

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By July 1807

EIS published a third novel, The Wedding Day.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 258

Regina Maria Roche: By July 1807

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By July 1807

RMR published with Minerva another sentimental gothic novel in four volumes, The Discarded Son; or, Haunt of the Banditti, A Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 256

Rachel Hunter: By July 1807

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By July 1807

RH published at NorwichFamily Annals; or, Worldly Wisdom. A Novel, in five volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 250
Hunter, Rachel. Family Annals. 2nd edition, J. F. Hughes, 1808, 5 vols.
title-page

Maria Susanna Cooper: 3 July 1807

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3 July 1807

MSC died at the house of Robert Bransby Cooper , her eldest son, Furney Hill at Dursley in Gloucestershire. She left him the responsibility of organising new editions of her works.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cooper, Bransby Blake. The Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. John W. Parker, 1843, 2 vols.
1: 20

4 July 1807: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot, was...

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4 July 1807

Giuseppe Garibaldi , Italian patriot, was born at Nice.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
546

Sarah Harriet Burney: By August 1807

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By August 1807

SHB was again devoting herself to the care of her elderly father , who had had a stroke and was living as an invalid.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
xlii

By September 1807: Byron published his second verse collection,...

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By September 1807

Byron published his second verse collection, Hours of Idleness, a year after the first was suppressed.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 12 (1808): 47-53
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Somerville: 23 September 1807

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23 September 1807

Samuel Greig , first husband of Mary Greig (later MS ), died after only three years of marriage.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
4

Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: After 1 October 1807

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After 1 October 1807

HRM issued in her birth name and by (mostly Irish) subscription through the Minerva Press a novel she had been trying to publish for some years: A Peep at our Ancestors. An Historical Romance...