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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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Alicia Tyndal Palmer: April 1810

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April 1810

ATP published The Daughters of Isenberg: A Bavarian Romance.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 19 (1810): 448

From April 1810: The Rev. Joseph Wilkinson's Select Views...

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From April 1810

The Rev. Joseph Wilkinson 's Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire appeared in instalments, containing William Wordsworth 's introductory Description of the Scenery of the English Lakes and later text.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 158-9

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 12 April 1810

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12 April 1810

Dorothy Wordsworth wrote of STC : We have no hope of him. None that he will do anything more than he has already done.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 189

Mary Berry: After mid-April 1810

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After mid-April 1810

MB built on her earlier work as editor of Horace Walpole by editing and publishing in four volumes the letters written to him by one of his liveliest correspondents, Madame Du Deffand . Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury)

Before 21 April 1810: A British garrison defending Matagorda, Cadiz,...

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Before 21 April 1810

A British garrison defending Matagorda, Cadiz, was materially helped by the heroic conduct of a sergeant's wife, Mrs Reston .
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
58-9
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
80 (1810): 474

Amelia Bristow: May 1810

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May 1810

An apparently different Amelia Bristow from the later novelist (this one not Jewish but Northern Irish) published a volume of poems in which the longest pieces are The Maniac, which gives its name to...

Young, Mary Julia : May 1810

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May 1810

MJY for the first time included her anonymous novels in a list along with other novels and her name on the title-page of The Heir of Drumcondra; or, Family Pride, her last known work.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2:334

Sir Walter Scot : By May 1810

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By May 1810

Walter Scott published The Lady of the Lake, another narrative poem in six cantos.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 20 (1810): 112, 337-57
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.

Frances Arabella Rowden: May 1810

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May 1810

The year after taking on the Hans Place school as its headmistress, FAR published The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem, in two parts, printed by A. J. Valpy and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme

Ann Taylor Gilbert: After 12 May 1810

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After 12 May 1810

Jane and Ann Taylor clubbed with friends, Josiah Conder and others, to produce, anonymously, The Associate Minstrels.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
171

Margaret Fuller: 23 May 1810

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Author event in Margaret Fuller

23 May 1810

MF was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, USA, the eldest of seven children.
Blanchard, Paula. Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to Revolution. Addison-Wesley, 1987.
15
Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol.
29
, No. 22, 15 Nov. 2007, pp. 16-18.
16

23 May 1810: Following the death in London of the chevalier...

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23 May 1810

Following the death in London of the chevalier d'Éon, the body was dissected, and the British public was shocked to discover that he was anatomically a male.
Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-48.
38
Kates, Gary. Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman. HarperCollins, 1995.
xii-xxiii and n3

Elizabeth Bonhote: June 1810

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June 1810

EB published anonymously (as a Lady) at EdinburghFeeling; or, Sketches from Life; a Desultory Poem. With other Pieces.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 20 (1810): 223

Anna Maria Porter: 1 June 1810

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1 June 1810

AMP signed an agreement with Longman that within a year she and her sister would each deliver a new novel of the same length as The Hungarian Brothers.
Porter Family Correspondence at the Archives and Special Collections of Durham University Library. GB-0033-POR.

Mary Russell Mitford: By June 1810

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By June 1810

MRM 's first publication, a volume entitled Poems, appeared, dedicated to William Herbert .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 193
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

By June 1810: Eaton Stannard Barrett (famous for his later...

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By June 1810

Eaton Stannard Barrett (famous for his later parody novel The Heroine) entered the field of commentary on gender issues with Woman, A Poem.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 20 (1810): 223
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19: 246-50

June 1810: The dual-action or pedal harp was invented...

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June 1810

The dual-action or pedal harp was invented by Sébastien Erard : it quickly became a drawing-room success, and is still in use in concert halls.
CBC Arts Report. CBC Radio 2.
“A History of Sebastian Erard, Piano and Harp Maker”. U. K. Piano Page: Piano History.

Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : After 4 June 1810

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After 4 June 1810

MLCC 's last known published work was A Monody to the Memory of the Right Honourable the Lord Collingwood, dedicated as a friend to John Jervis, Lord St Vincent .
Champion de Crespigny, Mary, Lady. A Monody to the Memory of the Right Honourable the Lord Collingwood. Cadell and Davis, 1810.
prelims
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

7 June 1810: William Charles Macready (son of an actress...

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7 June 1810

William Charles Macready (son of an actress and an actor-manager) began his successful acting career as Romeo in a performance in Birmingham; he became a specialist in Shakespeare an roles.
“William Charles Macready (1793-1873)”. Theatre Database.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Barbara Hofland: June 1810

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June 1810

BH published at KnaresboroughTales, in Verse, for the Use of Children, of both Sexes, designed for a Midsummer Present.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
57-8

Frances Burney: Summer 1810

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Author event in Frances Burney

Summer 1810

FB discovered a lump on her breast: next year it was diagnosed as cancer.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
321

Catherine Cuthbertson: July 1810

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July 1810

CC , as the author of Santo Sebastiano and Romance of the Pyrenees, published with George RobinsonThe Forest of Montalbano. A Novel in four volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
(1810) 3d ser. 20: 335

Mary Ann Radcliffe: After July 1810

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After July 1810

MAR published by subscription, at Edinburgh, Scotland, Memoirs . . . in Familiar Letters to her Female Friend.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe. Printed for the author, 1810.
Feminist Companion Archive.
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.

Sarah Green: By July 1810

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By July 1810

SG issued The Reformist!!! A Serio-Comic Political Novel through the Minerva Press in two volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 20 (1810): 336

Anna Gordon: 11 July 1810

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11 July 1810

Anna Brown (also known as AG ) died in Old Aberdeen
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.