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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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Mary Ann Radcliffe: 15 June 1809

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15 June 1809

MAR complained to her daughter Mary McKenzie about a grand-daughter, Geddes McKenzie, who was living with her, though neither was happy with the arrangement.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. “Letter to her daughter Mrs McKenzie”. Scottish Catholic Archives, 15 June 1809.

Mary Cowden Clarke: 22 June 1809

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22 June 1809

Mary Victoria Novello (later MCC ) was born in the same house as her father before her: 240 Oxford Street (then Oxford Road), London.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
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Margaret Catchpole: July-August 1809

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July-August 1809

MC , by now renting a small farm only twenty acres but half of it cleared in New South Wales, wrote in October of floods during these months that went over the tops of houses.
Heney, Helen, editor. Dear Fanny, Women’s Letters to and from New South Wales, 1788-1857. Australian National University Press, 1985.
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Anne Grant: Earlier 1809

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Earlier 1809

AG contributed at least one song (about a skylark) to George Thomson 's first volume of A Select Collection of Original Welsh Airs Adapted for the Voice.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1:107

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: July 1809 to early 1813

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July 1809 to early 1813

Sydney Owenson —already famous for her writing—lived with the wealthy and fashionable Marquess and Marchioness of Abercorn .
G. E. Cokayne 's Complete Peerage gives the marchioness's name as Anne Jane; biographer Mary Campbell gives...

Grisell Murray: By July 1809

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By July 1809

Fifty years after her death, some of the more striking passages
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 1822.
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of GM 's writings about both her parents reached print as Lady Murray's Narrative, appended to George Rose 's Observations on the...

Jane Austen: 7 July 1809

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7 July 1809

JA , with her mother , her sister , and their friend Martha Lloyd , moved from Southampton to the security of Chawton Cottage in Hampshire.
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
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Jane Austen: Summer 1809

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Summer 1809

In settling in at Chawton, it seems JA rediscovered one of her juvenile albums of fiction.
Austen-Leigh, William, and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh. Jane Austen: A Family Record. Editor Le Faye, Deirdre, British Library, 1989.
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Ellen Weeton: Biography: 17 July 1809

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17 July 1809

EW told her brother she planned to write an essay upon the pitiable state of old maids for some Magazine or Paper.
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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Lady Eleanor Butler: August 1809

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August 1809

Lady Louisa Clarges left LEB and Sarah Ponsonby £500 in her will.
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.
291

Elizabeth Inchbald: August 1809

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August 1809

EI selected and published (without prefaces) the seven volumes of A Collection of Farces and Other Afterpieces.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 17 (1809): 447

Alfred Tennyson: 6 August 1809

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6 August 1809

AT (later poet laureate) was born at Somersby, Lincolnshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna Jane Vardill: By August 1809

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By August 1809

AJV issued her first full-length publication, a volume of juvenilia entitled Poems and Translations, under the anonymous designation by a Lady.
De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine. Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826. 2007, http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag/.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

J. S. Anna Liddiard: 17 August 1809

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17 August 1809

JSAL dated the conclusion of her first volume of poetry: Poems, published at Dublin with her name and the date of 1810, dedicated to her husband .
Liddiard, J. S. Anna. Poems. Hibernia–Press Office, 1810.
prelims, 94
Liddiard, J. S. Anna. Poems. Hibernia–Press Office, 1810.
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Anne Hart Gilbert: September 1809

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September 1809

AHG and her sister Elizabeth launched a Methodist Sunday school (the first in the West Indies) at the naval centre of English Harbour, Antigua, which was open to both slave and free children of...

Anne Mozley: 17 September 1809

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17 September 1809

AM was born at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, one of eleven children.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

18 September 1809: The new Covent Garden Theatre was opened,...

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18 September 1809

The new Covent Garden Theatre was opened, only to become the scene of massive riots.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
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Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
330-48
Historians disagree on the exact figures for the cost of building and the number seated. Henry Saxe Wyndham

21 September 1809: The political rivals Canning of the British...

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21 September 1809

The political rivals Canning of the British Foreign Office and Castlereagh , who was about to be removed from the War Office , fought a dawn duel on Putney Heath south of London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Canning, Castlereagh

Mary Brunton: Autumn 1809

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Autumn 1809

MB and her husband travelled to Harrogate in Yorkshire for the sake of her health.
Brunton, Alexander, and Mary Brunton. “Memoir”. Emmeline, Manners and Miller; John Murray, 1819.
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Medora Gordon Byron: By October 1809

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By October 1809

A Modern Antique (who has been identified with MGB or Miss Byron) responded very promptly to Hannah More 's Coelebs in Search of a Wife, by publishing a novel entitled Celia in Search...

Hannah Cowley: By October 1809

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By October 1809

Anna Matilda published in four volumes The Italian Marauders. A Romance; it may be by HC .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 18 (1809): 223

Anna Maria Porter: By October 1809

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By October 1809

AMP published a second historical romance, Don Sebastian; or, The House of Braganza.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 18 (1809): 224

Emma Parker: October 1809

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October 1809

EP published in two volumes with the Minerva Press , as Emma De Lisle, A Soldier's Offspring; or The Sisters. A Tale.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 18 (1809): 223

4 or 6 October 1809: Spencer Perceval assumed office as Prime...

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4 or 6 October 1809

Spencer Perceval assumed office as Prime Minister. He was a Tory, an Evangelical, and an abolitionist, strongly committed to the war against France.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Barrell, John. “Shoot first, ask questions later”. The Guardian, 12 May 2012, p. Review 6.
Review 6

Mary Howitt: 14 October 1809

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14 October 1809

Mary Botham (later MH ) and her sister set out on the formidable journey to Ann Alexander's Friends' School (run by Sarah Bevan and Anna Woolley ) at Croydon in Surrey.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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