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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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Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: January 1808

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January 1808

Barbarina Wilmot (later BBBD ) was at Southill (probably the mansion of Southill Park) when she wrote a song for the tune of The Flowers of the Forest, titling it Nannie Attie.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
2: 245-6

Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1808

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1808

In the same year as her father 's second marriage, Sarah Stickney was sent to school.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Home Life and Letters of Mrs. Ellis. J. Nisbet, 1893.
5

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: 1808

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1808

SSW published her third novel, The Child of Mystery . . . Founded on Recent Events.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 289-90

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1808

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1808

The reading-book Limed Twigs, to Catch Young Birds, published as by the Authors of Original Poems, Rhymes for the Nursery, &c., &c., was another collaboration between Ann and Jane Taylor .
Wild birds...

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1808

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1808

Ann Taylor (without her sister Jane) published The Wedding Among the Flowers, a children's book on the model of William Roscoe 's The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
xxii

Anne Grant: 1808

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1808

AG issued her long-planned Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the Revolution: a life of Catalina Schuyler of New York Province and...

Anne Grant: 1808

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1808

AG published The Highlanders and Other Poems, again giving her name as Mrs. Grant, Laggan.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Christian Gray: 1808

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1808

CG 's first book of poetry, Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse, was published at Edinburgh, with a dedication to the dowager Countess of Kinnoull and a quotation from Milton on the title-page.
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: 1808

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1808

FH 's first volume, Poems, was published by subscription under her maiden name, Felicia Dorothea Browne.
It was reprinted in 1978 with England and Spain from the same year and Modern Greece, A...

Felicia Hemans: After 1808

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After 1808

Percy Shelley , having read her first volume of poems and heard a report of her from his cousin Thomas Medwin , attempted unsuccessfully and under a pseudonym to establish a correspondence with the teenaged...

Felicia Hemans: 1808

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1808

FH 's second volume of poetry, entitled England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism, appeared.
Hemans, Felicia. England and Spain. T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808.
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.

Margaret Holford, the younger : 1808

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1808

A poem by Margaret Holford the younger was anonymously printed at Bristol: Elegiac Ode to the Memory of Lieut.-Col. Vassall, dedicated to the bereaved mother, Mrs Spencer Vassall .
The dedication seems to...

Mary Howitt: 1808

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1808

Mary Botham (later MH ) and her sister Anna were sent to Mrs. Parker's Dame School at Uttoxeter in Staffordshire.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
62
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.

Henrietta Camilla Jenkin: 1807 or 1808

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1807 or 1808

Henrietta Camilla Jackson (later HCJ ) was born in Kingston, Jamaica, the only daughter in a family which also had three sons.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx.
xxiii

Mary Leadbeater: 1808

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1808

ML published at Dublin herPoems, with a lengthy subscribers' list. The copy at the University of California at Berkeley has an engraved portrait of Edmund Burke tipped in.
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.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Mary Shackleton Leadbeater”. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Alexander Street Press, edited by Stephen C. Behrendt and George Holmes, 2008.

Elizabeth Meeke: 1808

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1808

EM published, with her name, "There is a Secret, Find It Out!", a novel which quotes Griffith (probably Elizabeth Griffith ) on its title-page and borrows a character name from her stepsister Frances 's Evelina.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 281

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: 1808

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1808

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne , gave birth to her only child, a son (who bore the same names as her husband), at Edinburgh.
Nairne, Carolina Oliphant, Lady, and Caroline Oliphant. Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne. Editor Rogers, Charles, J. Grant, 1896.
38
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Adelaide O'Keeffe: 1808

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1808

Following her collaboration with Ann and Jane Taylor , AOK produced her own book of verse for children: Original Poems: Calculated to Improve the Mind of Youth, and Allure it to Virtue.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1 January 1808: The British settlement at Sierra Leone became...

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1 January 1808

The British settlement at Sierra Leone became a colony, intended to be self-governing, and to embody the Burke an concept of political trusteeship.
Harding, Anthony J. “Anna Maria Falconbridge: A Woman of Sensibility in West Africa, 1790-1793”. Spectacle in the Eighteenth Century Conference, Saskatoon, SK, 20 Oct. 2001.

1808-1834: Thomas Moore issued Irish Melodies (full...

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1808-1834

Thomas Moore issued Irish Melodies (full title A Selection of Irish Melodies, with symphonies and accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson) in a series of ten numbers.
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.
White, Terence de Vere. Tom Moore. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
72-3, 77, 80
Strong, L. A. G. The Minstrel Boy. Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
121, 132, 136

1808-9: Rudolph Ackermann published The Microcosm...

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1808-9

Rudolph Ackermann published The Microcosm of London in three volumes, a remarkable collection of engraved views of life in the capital.
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.

1808: A law was passed to compel clergymen to reside...

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1808

A law was passed to compel clergymen to reside in their parishes; it was hard to enforce, however, and absenteeism did not disappear.
Collins, Irene. “The Rev. Henry Tilney, Rector of Woodston”. Persuasions: Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Vol.
20
, 1998, pp. 154-64.
160

1808: The County Asylums Act was passed, developing...

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1808

The County Asylums Act was passed, developing a plan for state-subsidized pauper lunatic asylums throughout the provinces.
Walton, John. “The Treatment of Pauper Lunatics in Victorian England: The Case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816-1870”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 166-97.
167

1808: The Royal Lancastrian Society, later the...

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1808

The Royal Lancastrian Society , later the British and Foreign School Society , was founded in London by friends of the educator Joseph Lancaster .
Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
207-8
Martin, Christopher. A Short History of English Schools, 1750-1965. Wayland, 1979.
10-12

January 1808: Leigh Hunt (who had published his first book...

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January 1808

Leigh Hunt (who had published his first book of poems at seventeen and thus achieved an early niche as a theatre critic) began editing The Examiner, a Sunday paper which he initiated in collaboration...