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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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Maria Theresa Kemble: 18 May 1808

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18 May 1808

MTK played Lady Elizabeth Freelove (opposite her husband ) in her comic interlude The Day After the Wedding; or, a Wife's First Lesson, at Covent Garden .
Feminist Companion Archive.

Caroline Chisholm: 30 May 1808

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30 May 1808

Caroline Jones (later CC ) was born at Wootton, three miles from Northampton, the youngest of twelve children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Dorothy Wordsworth: Late May 1808

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Late May 1808

DW , with William and Mary Wordsworth and their family, moved from Dove Cottage to Allan Bank, another rented house in Grasmere.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 133-4

Sarah Green: By June 1808

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By June 1808

SG published anonymously, with Crosby , a two-volume roman à clef entitled The Private History of the Court of England, one of whose topics is the career of the writer Mary Robinson .
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6 June 1808: The cornerstone of the new Court House at...

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6 June 1808

The cornerstone of the new Court House at Carlisle was laid. In it was placed a sealed bottle or time capsule containing newspapers, a bank note and other money, the order for construction, the original...

Elizabeth Hamilton: By July 1808

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By July 1808

EH published her third novel, The Cottagers of Glenburnie: A Tale for the Farmer's Inglenook, dedicated to Hector Macneill .
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
290n17
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 274

Felicia Hemans: 1808

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1808

Felicia Dorothea Browne met Captain Hemans of the King's Own Regiment , who departed soon afterwards to fight in Spain, where the Peninsular War engaged him for three years.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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12 July 1808: A British expeditionary force under Sir Arthur...

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12 July 1808

A British expeditionary force under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sailed to relieve Corunna in Spain.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
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Ellen Weeton: Biography: August 1808

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August 1808

EW moved to Dale Street, Liverpool.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
2: synopsis

Elizabeth, Smith: By August 1808

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By August 1808

Fragments in Prose and Verse by a young lady, lately deceased [Elizabeth Smith ] was published at Bath, collected and edited after Smith's death by Henrietta Maria Bowdler , and including translations.
It...

Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw: By September 1808

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By September 1808

MACB , as Priscilla Parlante, published, with her own frontispiece to each volume, Memoirs of Maria, Countess d'Alva, the earlier of her two historical novels.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 15 (1808): 104

Sarah Harriet Burney: Just after 8 September 1808

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Just after 8 September 1808

SHB published an epistolary novel, again anonymously: Geraldine Fauconberg.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
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20 September 1808: The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, was completely...

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20 September 1808

The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden , was completely destroyed by fire.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
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25 September 1808: Novelist Captain Philip Meadows Taylor was...

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25 September 1808

Novelist Captain Philip Meadows Taylor was born in Liverpool.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Medora Gordon Byron: By October 1808

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By October 1808

The first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the Minerva Press: The English-Woman, A Novel. Not until a British Library (then the British Museum ) catalogue of 1885 was the...

Mrs E. M. Foster: : October 1808

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October 1808

An epistolary novel published as The Woman of Colour, A Tale was ascribed to the Author of Light and Shade, The Aunt and the Niece, Ebersfield [sic] Abbey, etc. MEMF is not generally accepted...

Henrietta Sykes: October 1808

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October 1808

HS anonymously published her first novel, the historicalMargiana; or, Widdrington Tower. A Tale of the Fifteenth Century.
The title is often given as beginning Morgiana.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 288

Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: By October 1808

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By October 1808

The fourth novel to appear by HRM was The Old Irish Baronet; or, Manners of My Country, again in three volumes and under her birth name, advertised as published on this day.
Peace, Mary et al., editors. “Corvey Women Writers on the Web: an Electronic Guide to Literature 1796-1834 (CW3)”. Sheffield Hallam Corvey: The Corvey Project at Sheffield Hallam University.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 283

By October 1808: Thomas Clarkson published his History of...

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By October 1808

Thomas Clarkson published his History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade, by the British Parliament (abolition dated from 1 May 1807).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 15 (1808): 133-4
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Young, Mary Julia : November 1808

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November 1808

MJY published a second novel without her name, A Summer at Weymouth; or, The Star of Fashion, as by the Author of A Summer at Brighton.
Nicola Lloyd gives this title wrongly...

Joanna Baillie: 7 November 1808

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7 November 1808

Constantine Paleologus by JB was staged in Liverpool at the Theatre Royal , under the title of The Band of Patriots.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
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Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1998, pp. 469-00.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: 11 November 1808

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11 November 1808

ALB 's husband drowned himself in the New River on a wild and rainy night. He had made his will ten days before this, leaving everything to her. His body was found next day in...

Mercy Otis Warren: 28 November 1808

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28 November 1808

MOW 's husband, James Warren , died; three of their sons were already dead.
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: Late 1808

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Late 1808

Monthly Repository published ALB 's Memoir of the Rev. R. Barbauld.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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Olivia Clarke: December 1808

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December 1808

Olivia Owenson married Dr Arthur Clarke , who was more than thirty years her senior; not long after this he was knighted.
Someone, however, has submitted to the International Genealogical Index the information that the...