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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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Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 19 October 1809

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19 October 1809

Lady Elizabeth Foster married her long-time lover, the Duke of Devonshire , three years after the death of his first wife, Georgiana , her intimate friend.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

25 October 1809: A celebration was held for George III's silver...

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25 October 1809

A celebration was held for George III 's silver jubilee (coincidentally the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt).
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
216-19

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: November 1809

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November 1809

Elizabeth Barrett 's family took up residence in the mansion her father built at Hope End, Herefordshire. They lived there until September 1832.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
9-10

Elizabeth Gunning: November 1809

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Author event in Elizabeth Gunning

November 1809

Elizabeth Plunkett (formerly Gunning) published Dangers through Life; or, The Victim of Seduction, A Novel.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 18 (1809): 336

Frances Jacson: November 1809

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November 1809

FJ and her sister Maria Elizabetha , single women in their fifties, were saved from their life as peripatetic dependent relations by the offer of the dear old mansionSomersal Herbert Hall or Somersal Hall...

Jane Warton: 3 November 1809

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3 November 1809

JW died, aged eighty-seven, at Wickham in Hampshire; her memory remained unimpaired to her last moments.
qtd. in
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
, No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92.
85
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Thomas Wharton

Elizabeth Rigby: 17 November 1809

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Author event in Elizabeth Rigby

17 November 1809

ER was born at Norwich.
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages.
1: 1

Lady Eleanor Butler: 22 November 1809

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22 November 1809

Mary Carryll , servant and warm friend to LEB and Sarah Ponsonby and their last close link with the old Irish past,
qtd. in
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
140
died after some months' illness.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
140-1

Fanny Kemble: 27 November 1809

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27 November 1809

FK was born in London during public riots (directed at her father) demanding a return to Old Prices in the theatre.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
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Mary Tighe: Probably December 1809

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Probably December 1809

MT wrote her final poem, On receiving a branch of mezereon. Which flowered at Woodstock. December 1809.
Mezereon is a shrub grown both for flowers and ornamental berries. Woodstock was the childhood home of Sarah Ponsonby .
Tighe, Mary. Keats and Mary Tighe. Editor Weller, Earle Vonard, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966.
307-10

Elizabeth Heyrick: Probably December 1809

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Probably December 1809

EH anonymously published A Christmas-Box, for the Advocates of Bull Baiting.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 41-67.
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December 1809: Posing as a male and calling herself James...

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December 1809

Posing as a male and calling herself James Barry, Margaret Bulkley or Bulkeley entered Edinburgh Medical School, thus launching what became a distinguished career in medicine.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
99
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cohen, Deborah. “A Vast Masquerade”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 5, 2 Mar. 2017, pp. 34-5.

Mary Ann Radcliffe: 5 December 1809

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5 December 1809

Lord Traquair wrote a testimonial recommending MAR as a suitably respectable candidate for a place in Mr Gillespie's Asylum (also called Mr Gillespie's Hospital) in Edinburgh.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe. Printed for the author, 1810.
537

Maria Callcott: 9 December 1809

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9 December 1809

Maria Dundas (later MC ) married Thomas Graham (a naval officer like her father), whom she had met on the boat sailing out to India.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
142
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

15 December 1809: The Old Price Riots at the new Covent Garden...

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15 December 1809

The Old Price Riots at the new Covent Garden Theatre , which had raged since 18 September, ended with a formal apology from manager Charles Kemble to the audience.
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
123
Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
330-48

Sarah Flower Adams: 1810

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1810

Her mother , who had been frequently ill, died while Sarah Flower (later SFA ) was still a child.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
9, 16
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.

Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw: 1810

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1810

MACB published, again as Priscilla Parlante, a second historical novel as extraordinary as her first: Ferdinand and Ordella.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Lady Charlotte Bury: 1810-1815

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1810-1815

The recently widowed Lady Charlotte Campbell (later LCB ) served as Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess of Wales (wife of the Prince Regent, later Queen Caroline).
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Emily Frederick Clark : 1810

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1810

EFC published by subscription a volume of Poems: Consisting Principally of Ballads, dedicated to Lady Lonsdale (eldest grand-daughter of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ).
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Clark, Emily Frederick. Poems: Consisting Principally of Ballads. F. C. and J. Rivington, 1810.
prelims

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 1810

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1810

Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre) began work on her earliest play (of the four published in 1821): Gonzalvo of Cordova, which she based on a part of the little novel
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
1: prelims
Gonzalve de...

Charlotte Dacre: 1810

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1810

CD 's Zofloya was pirated in a chapbook entitled The Daemon of Venice, by Thomas Tegg , a highly successful publisher in this style.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36.
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Mary Whateley Darwall: 1810

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1810

MWD 's daughter Elizabeth published The Storm with Other Poems, including probably four by her mother.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
199-200, 225

Eliza Fenwick: 1810

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1810

EF published through TabartInfantine Stories, Composed Progressively, in words of One, Two, and Three Syllables.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: By January 1810

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By January 1810

As Miss Wilkinson, SSW published Convent of Grey Penitents; or, The Apostate Nun. A Romance.
The sub-title had appeared already the previous year on a chapbook entitled The Mysterious Novice; or, Convent of...

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: About 1810

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About 1810

SSW 's several publications this year include the appearance at Stirling of The Tragical History of Crazy Jane and Young Henry.
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.