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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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Margaret Holford, the younger : 1809

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1809

Margaret Holford the younger scored her greatest success with her anonymous: Wallace , or, The Fight of Falkirk, a historical verse romance inspired by Walter Scott 's Marmion, 1808.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 1809

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Author event in Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847

1809

Mary Lamb and her brother Charles collaboratively published Poetry for Children: Entirely Original; of this, as of their other books, Charles said he had written one-third only, and that the issue of ascription was...

Elizabeth Meeke: 1809

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Author event in Elizabeth Meeke

1809

EM published as by GabrielliLanghton Priory. A Novel, whose action takes place in the present, since it opens in June 1801.
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.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: By January 1809

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By January 1809

Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan) published another novel, Woman; or, Ida of Athens.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 16 (1809): 111

1809: The London Society for the Promotion of Christianity...

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1809

The London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews was founded.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
75

1809: J. L. Chirol's An Enquiry into the Best System...

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1809

J. L. Chirol 's An Enquiry into the Best System of Female Education: or Boarding School and Home Education Attentively Considered was published.
Miller, Peter J. The Education of the English Lady, 1770-1820. University of Alberta, 1969.
132

1809: A still unidentified volcano somewhere in...

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1809

A still unidentified volcano somewhere in the tropics produced ash clouds, tsunamis, crop failure, and starvation in parts of what is now Indonesia. Historian Gillen D'Arcy Wood estimates that millions died, just six years before...

1809: Charles Napier (a student at military college;...

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1809

Charles Napier (a student at military college; later a general) wrote that soldiers ought to be encouraged to marry, but women be barred from going with their husbands on active service.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
139-40

1809: Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy,...

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1809

Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, in Danville, Kentucky.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
135-6

1809: A woman was officially ducked as a scold...

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1809

A woman was officially ducked as a scold at Leominster in Herefordshire.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
77

Edgar Allan Poe: 19 January 1809

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Author event in Edgar Allan Poe

19 January 1809

Short-story writer and poet EAP was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Kimbel, Bobby Ellen, and William E. Grant, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 74. Gale Research, 1988.
74: 304

Anna Jane Vardill: January 1809

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January 1809

AJV 's first, anonymous contribution to the European Magazine was an act of philanthropy: Address to the Patrons of the Refuge for the Destitute . Written by a Young Lady, at the Desire of a...

31 January 1809: The House of Commons held a hearing on Mary...

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31 January 1809

The House of Commons held a hearing on Mary Anne Clarke 's alleged selling, for her own profit, of positions in the army.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Mrs E. M. Foster: : February 1809

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February 1809

The Corinna of England, and a Heroine in the Shade: a Modern Romance was published as by the Author of the Winter in Bath, The Banks of the Wye, The Woman of Colour, Light and...

Jane West: February 1809

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Author event in Jane West

February 1809

JW published with LongmanThe Mother: A Poem, in Five Books; a second edition followed the next year.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 16 (1809): 224

Janet Hamilton: February 1809

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Author event in Janet Hamilton

February 1809

The barely teenage Janet Thomson married her father's assistant John Hamilton , in Glasgow. They went on to have ten children, of whom seven survived.
Gilfillan, George, and Janet Hamilton. “Janet Hamilton: Her Life and Poetical Character”. Poems, Sketches, and Essays, James Maclehose, 1885, pp. 1-13.
8
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

February 1809: The Quarterly Review was founded....

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February 1809

The Quarterly Review was founded.
Martin, Philip W. Byron: A Poet Before His Public. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
33
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

Mary Russell Mitford: 7 February 1809

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7 February 1809

MRM wrote a poem To the Memory of Sir John Moore, which she sent her father two days later, with apology for attempting a subject too grand for her.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
1: 63-4

Hannah Kilham: 10 February 1809

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10 February 1809

HK heard the educationalist Joseph Lancaster speak at the first of several meetings in Sheffield which resulted in the setting up of two Lancastrian Free Schools in the city, one for boys and one for...

Charles Darwin: 12 February 1809

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Author event in Charles Darwin

12 February 1809

CD , naturalist, was born at The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: From 22 February 1809

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From 22 February 1809

Sydney Owenson engaged in a successful campaign for pardon for a man named Barnaby Fitzpatrick , found guilty of stealing a banknote out of a letter.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1: 353-4

24 February 1809: Drury Lane Theatre was demolished by fir...

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24 February 1809

Drury Lane Theatre was demolished by fire.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
67
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
133, 139
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 1983.
861

March 1809: Byron published an anonymous satirical attack...

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March 1809

Byron published an anonymous satirical attack on the magazine reviewers: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 16 (1809): 336
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

10 March 1809: The labouring-class diarist William Rowbottom...

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10 March 1809

The labouring-class diarist William Rowbottom noted how working girls in Oldham near Manchester were besotted with soldiers.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
257

Hannah Cowley: 11 March 1809

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Author event in Hannah Cowley

11 March 1809

HC died at Tiverton in Devon, of a liver complaint: she had been planting flowers the day before she died.
Cowley, Hannah. The Works of Mrs. Cowley: Dramas and Poems. Wilkie and Robinson, 1813, 3 vols.
1: xx