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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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Ellen Weeton: Biography: December 1808

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December 1808

EW became a governess for Edward Pedder , Esq., at Dove's Nest in Ambleside.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
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Ellen Weeton: Biography: December 1808

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December 1808

EW made an early attempt at keeping a journal.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
1: 128ff

Anne Steele: Late 1808

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Late 1808

AS 's composite, three-volume edition from 1780 was reprinted at Boston, Massachusetts, under the title of The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele.
Broome, J. R. A Bruised Reed. Anne Steele: Her Life and Times. Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007.
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B., J. R., and Anne Steele. “Introduction”. Hymns, London Gospel Standard Baptist Trust, 1967.
xxi-xxii

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: By December 1808

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By December 1808

Mary Lamb and her brother Charles published a second collaborative work for children, Mrs Leicester's School; or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by Themselves, bearing the date of 1809.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 15 (1808): 444

Hannah More: December 1808

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December 1808

HM 's novel, Coelebs in Search of a Wife, appeared anonymously: its title-page said 1809.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
191

Maria Riddell : 15 December 1808

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15 December 1808

MR died at Chester less than nine months after her second marriage; many sources erroneously give the date of her death as 1812.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
132
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Austen: 16 December 1808

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16 December 1808

JA marked her birthday, the fourth anniversary of Anne Lefroy 's death, with an elegiac poem.
Austen, Jane. Minor Works. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Revised, Oxford University Press, 1965.
440-2

20 December 1808-13 January 1809: British forces under Sir John Moore (and...

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20 December 1808-13 January 1809

British forces under Sir John Moore (and the women accompanying them) suffered fearful hardship in retreating through the mountains towards Corunna in north-west Spain.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
101, 104-6
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Clara Balfour: 21 December 1808

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21 December 1808

Clara Lucas (later CB ) was born in the New Forest in Hampshire.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Agnes Strickland: Christmas Eve 1808

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Christmas Eve 1808

AS 's father moved his family to the Elizabethan mansion of Reydon Hall near Southwold in Suffolk, which he had bought for them.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
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Maria Callcott: 30 December 1808

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30 December 1808

Maria Dundas (later MC ) sailed for India with her naval-officer father , sister and brother; it was May 1809 when they reached Bombay.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
89
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth, Smith: December 1808

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December 1808

Memoirs of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock . Translated from the German by the author of Fragments in Prose and Verse (Elizabeth Smith ) was posthumously published at Bath through the agency of Henrietta Maria Bowdler

Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: 1809

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1809

As E. Benger, EOB published A Poem, Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in 1806.
Oxford University Libraries Catalogue. http://library.ox.ac.uk/.
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy et al. “A Poem, Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in 1806”. Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, R. Bowyer, 1809.
title-page, 101

Harriet Corp: 1809

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1809

HC , as the author of The Antidote, published A Sequel to the Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Maria Edgeworth: 1809

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1809

Richard Lovell Edgeworth published, with his name, Essays on Professional Education, which was in fact a collaboration between himself and ME .
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
210-11

Priscilla Wakefield: 1809

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1809

PW published with Darton, Harvey and Co.Variety; or, Selections and Essays, consisting of anecdotes, curious facts . . . with occasional reflections.
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.

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: 1809

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1809

Elizabeth Thomas gave her next Minerva novel (again published as by Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle) an exotic title: Monte Video; or, The Officer's Wife and Her Sister.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 309

Eleanor Sleath: Early 1809

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Early 1809

ES 's third novel, The Bristol Heiress; or, The Errors of Education, set in England instead of continental Europe, reads more like satire than gothic and runs to five volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 308

Mary Ann Radcliffe: 1809

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1809

J. F. Hughes published the notorious Manfroné; or, The One-Handed Monk as by Mary Anne Radcliffe, and also switched to her the attribution of The Mysterious Baron (published in 1808 as by Eliza Ratcliffe).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Alicia Tyndal Palmer: 1809

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1809

ATP published The Husband and Lover, An Historical Moral Romance.
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.

Amelia Opie: 1809

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1809

AO 's memoir of her husband was published in his Lectures on Painting; King and Pierce say that some time after April 1807 she edited his Lectures and Memoirs.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
xxxviii
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
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Sarah Green: January 1809

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January 1809

SG , as Author of The Private History of the Court of England, published Tales of the Manor, with Crosby , in two volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 297
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Ham: 1809

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1809

EH began a novel, based on her experiences in Ireland during the political repression following the actions of the Thrashers in 1805, which later became The Ford Family in Ireland.
Ham, Elizabeth. The Ford Family in Ireland. Newby, 1845, 3 vols.
prelims

Felicia Hemans: 1809

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1809

Felicia Dorothea Browne (later FH ) and her family moved to a house with a lower rent in a village called Bronwylfa, near St Asaph in Flintshire.
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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Barbara Hofland: 1809

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1809

Barbara Hoole (later BH ) moved from Attercliffe near Sheffield to Harrogate on the Yorkshire coast, where she opened a school.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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