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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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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: Perhaps about 1810

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Perhaps about 1810

SSW published The Ruffian Boy; or, Castle of Waldemar. A Venetian Tale, which came from Amelia Opie by way of a stage adaptation in melodrama form that did well at the new Surrey Theatre

Jane West: January 1810

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January 1810

JW described herself as the author of A Tale of the Times . . . on the title-page of The Refusal, a novel in three volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser 18 (1810): appendix

Lady Mary Walker: 1810

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1810

LMW, as Lady Mary Hamilton, published the novel in French with which Charles Nodier had been assisting her: La famille du duc de Popoli.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Stockdale: 1810

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1810

MS published her second poetry volume, The Mirror of the Mind, Poems, which also contains an autobiography.
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.

Robert Southey: 1810

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1810

RS published his epic poem The Curse of Kehama.
Wu, Duncan, editor. Romanticism: An Anthology. 2nd ed., Blackwell, 1998.
560

Robert Southey: 1810-19

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1810-19

RS published his History of Brazil in three volumes.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1810

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1810

MMS 's The History of Little Henry (a verse forerunner of Little Henry and His Bearer) was already on its second edition.
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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: 1810

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1810

The teenage PBS published a gothic novel, Zastrozzi, which was influenced by Charlotte Dacre 's novel Zofloya.
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.

Mary Prince: 1810

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1810

Back in Bermuda after years in the salt-pans, MP began saving her money in hopes of manumission from slavery.
Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Routledge, 1992.
285

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 1810

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1810

HLP copied out all her poems, in five volumes, for her adopted son John Salusbury Piozzi .
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
429-30

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1810

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1810

Ann and Jane Taylor 's satirical Signor Topsy-Turvy's Wonderful Magic Lantern; or, The World Turned Upside Down was published with their brother Isaac 's illustrations.
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.

Anne Grant: 1810

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1810

AG moved to Edinburgh, where lived from then until her death.
Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, 1972, p. ix - xxxvi.
xxvi, xxx

Sarah Green: January 1810

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January 1810

SG published, with Hookham , as The Author of the Private History of the Court of England, Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 323
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
no. 22
Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers. Editor Goulding, Christopher, Pickering and Chatto, 2010.
11

Ann Hatton: 1810

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1810

AH , as Ann of Swansea, published her first novel, Cambrian Pictures; or, Everyone has Errors, in three volumes, with E. Kerby , dedicated to Andrew Cherry , manager of the theatre at Swansea.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 324

Elizabeth Inchbald: January 1810

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January 1810

EI received a letter from novelist Maria Edgeworth containing carefully-formulated praise of the nearly twenty-year-old A Simple Story (which Edgeworth had just read for the third or fourth time).
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
159

Anna Brownell Jameson: 1810

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1810

ABJ 's father, Denis Murphy , was appointed Painter in Enamel to Princess Charlotte (daughter of the future George IV and Queen Caroline) and provided with an apartment in Windsor Castle.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
11

Anna Brownell Jameson: 1810-1814

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1810-1814

Anna Murphy (later ABJ ) was employed as a governess to the Marquess of Winchester's four sons.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
11, 13

Hannah More: By January 1810

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By January 1810

Another answer was published to HM 's Coelebs, challengingly entitled Coelebs in Search of a Mistress.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 18 (1809): back of volume

Sarah Murray : 1810

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1810

Sarah Aust (formerly SM ) issued a revised third edition of her two travel guides, in two volumes, combining their earlier titles and calling herself The Hon. Mrs. Murray Aust, of Kensington.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1810-1845: Estimated national expenditures on newspaper...

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1810-1845

Estimated national expenditures on newspaper advertising rose from £270,030 in 1810 to £507,540 in 1845.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
28

1810-1811: The Chiswick Press was established by Charles...

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1810-1811

The Chiswick Press was established by Charles Wittingham the Elder , when he moved his printing works to Chiswick; the name stayed when the press moved back into central London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
133-4

1810: Saartjie Baartman, later known as the Hottentot...

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1810

Saartjie Baartman , later known as the Hottentot Venus, sailed from Cape Town in South Africa for London, where she had been led to believe she could make her fortune by exhibiting herself.
McGreal, Chris. “Homeward bound”. Guardian Weekly, 6 Mar. 2002, p. 26.
26

1810-February 1812: During these years the price of wheat in...

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1810-February 1812

During these years the price of wheat in Britain and Ireland (which had been rising steeply since the 1790s) averaged an unprecedented 102 shillings a hundredweight.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
158
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
82 (1812): 199
Richards, Eric. Debating the Highland Clearances. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
221
A hundredweight (a measure...

1810: The independence struggles of the Spanish...

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1810

The independence struggles of the Spanish empire in South America began in what is now Bolivia (which secured its independence by a battle of 9 December 1824).
Collier, Simon. “Old Iron-Arse”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 30-1.
30
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

1810: The first Factory Act (a response mainly...

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1810

The first Factory Act (a response mainly to conditions of employment of young children) established the principle of the government's right to intervene in working conditions set by employers.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
44, 30