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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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Probably October 1807: William Hazlitt published A Reply to the...

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Probably October 1807

William Hazlitt published A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
444
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Harriet Taylor: 10 October 1807

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Author event in Harriet Taylor

10 October 1807

Harriet Hardy (later HT ) was born at 18 Beckford Row, Walworth, London.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2026, 2 vols.
208
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.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Jemima Tautphoeus: 23 October 1807

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23 October 1807

Jemima Montgomery (later JT ) was born at Seaview, Donegal, Ireland.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Lady Anne Barnard: 27 October 1807

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27 October 1807

LAB 's husband, Andrew Barnard , died in South Africa, where he had returned following the re-occupation of the Cape by the British the previous year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

29 October 1807: George Crabbe published Poems, including...

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29 October 1807

George Crabbe published Poems, including the important group of pieces about local life entitled The Parish Register.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Elizabeth Carter: November 1807

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November 1807

EC 's nephew Montagu Pennington included with his Memoirs of her the fullest selection yet of her poems, and some essays.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
12 (1807): 138

Hester Mulso Chapone: By November 1807

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By November 1807

There were published Posthumous Works by HMC ; this edition in fact adds chiefly letters to her writing already in print.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
77 (1807): 1040

Eliza Fenwick: November 1807-early 1808

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November 1807-early 1808

EF , still writing and publishing little books for children, also ran the Juvenile Library (a bookshop) for William and Mary Jane Godwin .
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Frances Reynolds : 1 November 1807

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1 November 1807

FR died at her own house in Queen Square, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Porter: By November 1807

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By November 1807

JP published Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney , with Remarks, a selection of brief moral pronouncements.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 12 (1807): 321

Ellen Weeton: Biography: 18 November 1807

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18 November 1807

EW wrote her earliest letter to her brother , who treated her badly throughout her adult life.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
1: 48

27 November 1807: The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later...

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27 November 1807

The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later the Adelphi), built by manufacturer John Scott, opened with an entertainment of speeches, songs, etc. written by his daughter, Jane Scott .
Johnson, Richard William. “An Unreliable Friend”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, pp. 27-8.
27, 28

Young, Mary Julia : December 1807

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December 1807

MJY broke with her usual practice and published anonymously when she turned to what Nicola Lloyd calls scandal fiction in A Summer at Brighton. A Modern Novel, dated 1807.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2:260

Emma Caroline Wood: Late 1807

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Late 1807

The father of Emma Caroline Michell (later ECM) settled his family at Rosewyn in Cornwall (near the village of Michell and not far from Truro) at the onset of Napoleon 's invasion of Portugal.
Bradhurst, Minna Evangeline. A Century of Letters. Printed for private circulation by R. E. Thomas and Newman, 1929.
3, 6

Priscilla Wakefield: By December 1807

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By December 1807

PW published with Darton and HarveySketches of Human Manners, Delineated in Stories.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 12 (1807): 445

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: December 1807

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December 1807

Elizabeth Thomas published another Minerva novel as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: The Husband and Wife; or, The Matrimonial Martyr, dated 1808 on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 288

Fanny Holcroft: By late 1807

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By late 1807

Fanny Holcroft published, with her name, a translation from French: Memoirs of the Life of the Great Condé, printed in London by R. Juigné .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Condé, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de. Memoirs of the Life of the Great Condé. Translator Holcroft, Fanny, R. Juigné, 1807.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: Late 1807

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Late 1807

Sydney Owenson followed her comic opera and poetry volume of this year with Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, written in Connaught, a collection blending fiction and non-fiction.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
76
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.

December 1807: A French army occupied Lisbon; Napoleon had...

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December 1807

A French army occupied Lisbon; Napoleon had ordered the invasion of Portugal because it was defying the Berlin Decrees which prohibited trade with Britain.
Collier, Simon. “Old Iron-Arse”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 30-1.
31

After December 1807: As a result of Napoleon's Berlin decree which...

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After December 1807

As a result of Napoleon 's Berlin decree which banned the export of silk thread to Britain, the Clark's and Coats' thread companies were established.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
10-11
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
78 (1807): 70

Clara Reeve: 3 December 1807

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3 December 1807

CR died at Ipswich in Suffolk.
Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977.
xiv, xxi
Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research, 1985.
376

Charlotte Nooth: 10 December 1807

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10 December 1807

CN composed birthday verses for the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Valpy , headmaster of Reading School .
Nooth, Charlotte. Original Poems. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815.
10-11

Anna Letitia Barbauld: January 1808

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January 1808

Rochemont Barbauld violently assaulted ALB when she intervened to try to speed up the compulsive washing which was making him late for an appointment.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlv
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
436-7

Susanna Blamire: 1808

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1808

Robert Anderson (1770-1833) included six songs by SB in the second, enlarged edition of his Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect.
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
86-7

Elizabeth Carter: 1808

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1808

Her nephew Montagu Pennington collected and edited three volumes of of EC 's letters to Catherine Talbot and Elizabeth Vesey .
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.