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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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1810: James Sheridan Knowles's first play, Leo;...

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1810

James Sheridan Knowles 's first play, Leo; or the Gypsy, was performed in Waterford, Ireland.
Meeks, Leslie Howard. Sheridan Knowles and the Theatre of His Time. Principia Press, 1933.
131-2

1810: The Ladies' Benevolent Society of Liverpool...

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1810

The Ladies' Benevolent Society of Liverpool was founded, to provide clothing and food to the poor of that city.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
101

1810: The Surrey Theatre in Blackfriars Road, Lambeth,...

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1810

The Surrey Theatre in Blackfriars Road, Lambeth, was opened by Robert Elliston on the site of the former Royal Circus ; with various ups and downs it continued as a theatre until 1920.
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.

1810: Evangelical missionary Henry Martyn finished...

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1810

Evangelical missionary Henry Martyn finished a comprehensive Urdu version of the Bible; this is the only original translation into any language from a comparable date that is still being used today.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
216, 227

1810-19: Fiction-writing during this decade was dominated...

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1810-19

Fiction-writing during this decade was dominated by women, even more than during the previous decade.
Belanger, Jacqueline. “Some Preliminary Remarks on the Production and Reception of Fiction Relating to Ireland, 1800-1829”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
4
, May 2000.

1810: Alexander Chalmers published an influential...

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1810

Alexander Chalmers published an influential anthology, Works of the British Poets, in 21 volumes.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
207

Barbara Hofland: 28 January 1810

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28 January 1810

Barbara Hoole (then a schoolmistress) married Thomas Christopher Hofland , landscape painter and art teacher, whose precarious income ensured that she continued writing.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
3

Joanna Baillie: 29 January 1810

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29 January 1810

The Family Legend by JB was staged at the Theatre Royal , Edinburgh, by Henry Siddons (son of the great Sarah).
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
142
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 246

Medora Gordon Byron: February 1810

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February 1810

Miss Byron (who was later called MGB ) published another novel, The Modern Villa and the Ancient Castle; or, The Peer and the Alderman.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 19 (1810): 223

Maria Edgeworth: By February 1810

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By February 1810

ME revised Belinda for inclusion in A. L. Barbauld 's series of The British Novelists.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
494-5

Elizabeth, Smith: February 1810

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February 1810

Elizabeth Smith 's The Book of Job; Translated from the Hebrew (done in the year 1803) was posthumously published, edited by Francis Randolph .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
CR 3d ser 19 (February 1810): 323
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
232
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Eleanor Sleath: By February 1810

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By February 1810

ES published a shorter work: The Nocturnal Minstrel; or, The Spirit of the Wood. A Romance in two volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 332
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.

Regina Maria Roche: By February 1810

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By February 1810

RMR published through the Minerva Press a historical romance, The Houses of Osma and Almeria; or, Convent of St. Ildefonso, A Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 330

Sarah Green: February 1810

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February 1810

SG 's The Festival of St Jago. A Spanish Romance, in two volumes with the Minerva Press , was one of perhaps four titles in a phenomenally productive year.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 19 (1810): 223
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 322-3

Jane Harvey: By February 1810

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By February 1810

JH published Ethelia, A Tale, in three volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 19 (1810): 224

Barbara Hofland: Probably early 1810

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Probably early 1810

BH , as Mrs. B. Hoole, began issuing Little Dramas for Young People, on Subjects taken from English History
This page mentioning this publication, bound in at the back of the volume in the...

Elizabeth Meeke: By February 1810

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By February 1810

EM published with her name her translation of The Unpublished Correspondence of Madame du Deffand.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 19 (1810): 224

Charlotte Nooth: 8 February 1810

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8 February 1810

CN composed a poem she entitled Stanzas to the Memory of Doctor Henry Moyes , the Blind Philosopher, since, she said, others had neglected to commemorate him.
Nooth, Charlotte. Original Poems. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815.
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Mary Ann Radcliffe: 9 February 1810

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9 February 1810

MAR , after interruptions from sickness and weariness, pressed on with her Memoirs.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe. Printed for the author, 1810.
129
Feminist Companion Archive.

By March 1810: George Crabbe published The Borough, a poem...

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By March 1810

George Crabbe published The Borough, a poem in twenty-four letters about life in a country town.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 19 (1810): 335
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Sophia Woodfall: 3 March 1810

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3 March 1810

SW married, at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire, where she was living at the time, John McGibbon or MacGibbon, who was listed as then living at Rochdale in Lancashire.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Sophia Woodfall. 23 Nov. 2016.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mary Tighe: 24 March 1810

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24 March 1810

MT died of tuberculosis at Woodstock, Co. Kilkenny, her brother-in-law 's estate.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
426
Weller, Earle Vonard, and Mary Tighe. “Introduction / Memoir of Mary Tighe”. Keats and Mary Tighe, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966, p. vii - xxi.
xix
Tighe, Mary. Keats and Mary Tighe. Editor Weller, Earle Vonard, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966.
306, 311

Lucy Aikin: April 1810

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April 1810

LA published her first work of major significance, her verseEpistles on Women, Exemplifying their Character and Condition in Various Ages and Nations.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 19 (1810): 447

Jane Porter: By April 1810

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By April 1810

JP scored another great success with a new historical novel, The Scottish Chiefs, which features particularly the thirteenth-century patriot William Wallace .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 329
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.

Anne Plumptre: April 1810

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April 1810

AP published a Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France . . . including some Authentic Particulars respecting the Early Life of the French Emperor . . ..
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 19 (1810): 448