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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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1808-14: This period of Indian history was called...

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1808-14

This period of Indian history was called The Great Anarchy because Anglo-Indians (men of mixed race) were discharged from the British Army, where many had been doing well; feeling betrayed, many took service in...

1808: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Faust:...

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1808

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Faust: Part One; it followed his Faust: A Fragment, 1790.
Wood, Michael. “The Man without Predicates”. London Review of Books, 20 July 2000, pp. 11-13.
12

1808: John Heathcoat invented a net-making machine...

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1808

John Heathcoat invented a net-making machine to produce lace.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
11

1808: The Catholic Board was established in England...

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1808

The Catholic Board was established in England with the purpose of replying to printed material that opposed or criticized the institution of Roman Catholicism.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
50

1808: Arthur Young's General Report on Enclosures,...

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1808

Arthur Young 's General Report on Enclosures, commissioned by the Board of Agriculture , performed the analysis that its title suggests. An appendix traced, county by county, the effects of enclosure on the rural poor.
Easton, Celia A. “Jane Austen and the Enclosure Movement: the Sense and Sensibility of Land Reform”. Persuasions, Vol.
24
, 2002, pp. 71-89.
87

1808: Charles Fourier, social reformer, published...

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1808

Charles Fourier , social reformer, published his Théorie des quatre mouvements.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
364

Annie Tinsley: 11 January 1808

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Author event in Annie Tinsley

11 January 1808

AT was born Annette Turner at Preston in Lancashire, one of the numerous offspring of a hasty, an early, an ill-assorted, and ill-considered marriage.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
5

Mary Shelley: February 1808

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Author event in Mary Shelley

February 1808

The Godwin family, including young Mary , moved to 41 Skinner Street, Holborn, where they shared the premises with the Juvenile Library , their children's bookshop.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
148

William Godwin: February 1808

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February 1808

William Godwin and his second wife, Mary Jane , moved their children's bookshop, the Juvenile Library , to a new address, 41 Skinner Street.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
13-14 and n20
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
148

Anna Maria Bennett: 12 February 1808

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12 February 1808

AMB died at Brighton; nothing is known of her last years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna Letitia Barbauld: March 1808

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March 1808

ALB reported that her insane husband 's affection for her was gone, replaced by a violent antipathy. In response to her family's anxiety he went away, to try the experiment of temporary separation.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlv
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
137-8
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
439-40

March 1808: Napoleon's forces entered Madrid; on 12 July...

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March 1808

Napoleon 's forces entered Madrid; on 12 July Joseph Bonaparte was installed as King of Spain, following the successive abdication of two Spanish kings, father and son.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1165
Collier, Simon. “Old Iron-Arse”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 30-1.
30

Caroline Norton: 22 March 1808

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22 March 1808

Caroline Sheridan (later CN ) was born in London; she was the middle one of three girls in a family of seven children.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Huddleston, Joan, and Caroline Norton. “Introduction”. Caroline Norton’s Defense, Academy Chicago, 1982, p. I - XIII.
iii

Dorothy Wordsworth: Early 1808

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Early 1808

DW wrote her account of George and Sarah Green soon after the Greens died in a snowstorm crossing the moors; she continued for years to rework it, but it remained unpublished until 1936.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Wolfson, Susan J. “Individual in Community: Dorothy Wordsworth in Conversation with William”. Romanticism and Feminism, edited by Anne K. Mellor, Indiana University Press, 1988, pp. 139-66.
140, 143

Young, Mary Julia : 28 March 1808

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28 March 1808

MJY applied for financial assistance to the Royal Literary Fund . Her publisher, she said, owed her seventy pounds but had paid her only ten per cent of it.
Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18, 1 June 2008–2026.
letter 1

Maria Riddell : 30 March 1808

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30 March 1808

MR married as her second husband Phillips Lloyd Fletcher , a Welsh officer of dragoons, whose family owned land at Gwernheylod or Gwernhaylod near Ellesmere in Flintshire (south of Chester).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
127-8

Mary Matilda Betham: Probably by April 1808

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Author event in Mary Matilda Betham

Probably by April 1808

MMB published her second volume: Poems, dedicated to Catherine, Lady Boughton .
Editor Ernest Betham places Southey's letter about this book before one dated 4 April.
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905.
104, 106
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd series 14 (1808): 273

Sir Walter Scot : By April 1808

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By April 1808

Walter Scott published Marmion, another narrative poem in six cantos.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 13(1808): 387-401
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Amelia Opie: By April 1808

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Author event in Amelia Opie

By April 1808

AO published her second collection of poetry, The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems; a second edition followed the same year.
Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009.
517
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
xlvii n28
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Elizabeth Gunning: April 1808

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April 1808

EG (now Elizabeth Plunkett) published her first book since her marriage, The Exile of Erin. A Novel, with epistolary form, political content, and a play tucked in late in the novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 284

Frances Jacson: Spring or summer 1808

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Spring or summer 1808

FJ 's father died, blind and infirm. She and her sister Maria began an orphaned existence of staying with relations (some of them unwelcoming) for a year and four months before they were offered a...

Mary Martha Sherwood: April 1808

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April 1808

MMS met the Evangelical missionary Henry Martyn and discovered the doctrine of total human depravity, and her own ignorance of it.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan, 1946.
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Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
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Darton, F. J. Harvey, editor. The Life and Times of Mrs. Sherwood. Wells Gardner, Darton, 1910.
333

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: May 1808

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May 1808

Sydney Owenson made her second visit to London in very different circumstances from her first: she was now a celebrity.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1: 324
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
83-4

3 May 1808: Goya painted a picture of the defenders of...

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3 May 1808

Goya painted a picture of the defenders of Madrid facing a firing squad after the city's capture by Napoleon .
Newey, Glen. “Effing the Ineffable”. London Review of Books, 25 Nov. 1999, pp. 15-16.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: 7 May 1808

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7 May 1808

Samuel Taylor Coleridge , once ALB 's protegé, began a series of public attacks on her writing in lectures. He deplored the way traditional nursery stories were giving way to tales inculcating insipid goodyness.
qtd. in
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
445