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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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Lady Charlotte Bury: 15 March 1809

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15 March 1809

Jack Campbell , first husband of the future LCB , died in Edinburgh.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Fanny Holcroft: 23 March 1809

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23 March 1809

FH 's father Thomas Holcroft , playwright, novelist, autobiographer, and self-made man of letters, died.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Thomas Holcroft: 23 March 1809

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23 March 1809

TH , novelist, playwright and autobiographer, died, destitute, in Clipstone Street, Marylebone, London.
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. 12 Nov. 2010, http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
lviii, liv
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
79 (1809): 286

Anna Seward: 25 March 1809

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25 March 1809

AS died in the Bishop's Palace at Lichfield, and died as few poets do, rich.
qtd. in
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Hester Lynch Piozzi: 26 March 1809

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26 March 1809

Gabriel Piozzi died after years of excruciating pain from gout, through which HLP nursed him devotedly.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
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Edward FitzGerald: 31 March 1809

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31 March 1809

EFG , poet and translator, was born as Edward Purcell at Bredfield House, Bredfield, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, the youngest but one in a family of eight.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Medora Gordon Byron: April 1809

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April 1809

Miss Byron, author of the English-woman (who was much later labelled as MGB ), published a second novel, Hours of Affluence, and Days of Indigence.
The title might bear some allusion to Byron 's...

Frances Wright: Late Spring 1809

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Late Spring 1809

FW 's brother, Richard , serving with the East India Company , was killed en route to India in a skirmish with the French.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Helena Wells: April 1809

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April 1809

HW (now Whitford) published by subscription Thoughts and Remarks, on Establishing an Institution for the Support and Education of Unportioned Respectable Females.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 16 (1809): 447

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : April 1809

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April 1809

EIS dated the introduction to her first book of travel writing: Summer Excursions through parts of Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Derbyshire and the South West, 1810.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
16: 447

1 April 1809: A print was published showing Messrs Lackington,...

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1 April 1809

A print was published showing Messrs Lackington, Allen and Co. Temple of the Muses at 17 Finsbury Square, London, a highly elegant bargain bookshop.
Benedict, Barbara M. “Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy”. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women’s Fiction" and Social Engagement, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 147-00.
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22 April 1809: A second British expeditionary force landed...

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22 April 1809

A second British expeditionary force landed at Lisbon, to replace those who had retreated from Corunna in Spain.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
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Jemima Kindersley: Shortly before 25 April 1809

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Shortly before 25 April 1809

JK died in Marylebone, London, in her late sixties. This was the day of her funeral.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Hamilton: By May 1809

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By May 1809

EH published Exercises in Religious Knowledge, a work on education for the lowest class:
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols.
1: 169
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 17 (1809): 445
that is, for those living on state aid or by charity.

Barbara Hofland: By May 1809

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By May 1809

Barbara Hoole (later Hofland) published, anonymously, her first story for children, The History of an Officer's Widow and her Young Family.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
79 (1809): 449

Anna Maria Mackenzie: By May 1809

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By May 1809

AMM titled her intentionally final novel The Irish Guardian, or Errors of Eccentricity, and published it through Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 302

May 1809: William Blake's exhibition of his own work...

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May 1809

William Blake 's exhibition of his own work opened at 28 Broad Street (his brother James's house); though scheduled to close in September, it ran until 2 June 1810.
Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000.
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Frances Trollope: 23 May 1809

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23 May 1809

Frances Milton married Thomas Anthony Trollope , on his thirty-fifth birthday, in her father 's parish of Heckfield in Hampshire.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 39
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Maria Edgeworth: June 1809

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June 1809

ME published three volumes of Tales of Fashionable Life, which Walter Scott called a series of moral fictions.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. ix - xlvii.
xlvi

Elizabeth Heyrick: Summer 1809

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Summer 1809

Before the annual bull-baiting at Bonsall in Derbyshire, EH and her sister bought the bull and thus saved it.
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
199

Elizabeth Montagu: June 1809

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June 1809

EM 's nephew Matthew Montagu edited and published a first, two-volume selection of her early letters.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 17: 224

1 June 1809: Samuel Taylor Coleridge began publishing...

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1 June 1809

Samuel Taylor Coleridge began publishing his periodical The Friend. It ran till 15 March 1810 before being rewritten and issued as a book in 1818.
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.

After June 1809: Progressive publisher Joseph Johnson died,...

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After June 1809

Progressive publisher Joseph Johnson died, and his two nephews, John Miles and Rowland Hunter , took over the business.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
490

Margaret Gatty: 3 June 1809

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3 June 1809

Margaret Scott (later MG ) was born at Burnham in Essex, the younger of the two daughters in her family.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Thomas Paine, 1737 - 1809: 8 June 1809

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8 June 1809

Thomas Paine , political thinker and radical, died at 59 Grove Street, New York.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Aldridge, Alfred Owen. Man of Reason: The Life of Thomas Paine. Lippincott, 1959.
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