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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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Eliza Fenwick: By 23 July 1810

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By 23 July 1810

EF wrote to Mary Hays that she was ensconced as a governess with the Mocattas at 33 Wyck Street in Chiswick, a Jewish family who had been bankers in London for close to two...

Anna Seward: August 1810

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August 1810

AS , Poetical Works, was posthumously published, edited at her express desire by Walter Scott (at this date a famous poet but not yet a novelist).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 20 (1810): 448

Mary Martha Sherwood: August 1810

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August 1810

MMS , in Calcutta, was asked to translate Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress into Hindoostannee [sic]; this grew into a project for an analogue, The Indian Pilgrim.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
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Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Indian Pilgrim. Houlston, 1818.
title-page

Anna Letitia Barbauld: 23 August 1810

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23 August 1810

In her fifty-volume edited collection The British Novelists, ALB sought to raise the status of the novel to that of a canonical genre.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
424
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlv

September 1810: Leigh Hunt began editing The Reflector, a...

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September 1810

Leigh Hunt began editing The Reflector, a quarterly journal which was in circulation for two years.
Blainey, Ann. Immortal Boy: A Portrait of Leigh Hunt. St Martin’s Press, 1985.
48-9
Johnson, R. Brimley. Leigh Hunt. Haskell House, 1970.
77-8
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
80 (1810): 258

1 September 1810-24 August 1811: James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, anonymously...

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1 September 1810-24 August 1811

James Hogg , the Ettrick Shepherd, anonymously published his Edinburgh journal, the Spy.
Crawford, Robert. “Bad Shepherd”. London Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2001, pp. 29-30.
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John Brown, 1810 - 1882: 22 September 1810

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22 September 1810

JB , physician and essayist, was born at Biggar in Lanarkshire, Scotland, the elder of two sons.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Bannerman: By late 1810

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By late 1810

It seems that AB was back in Scotland again after her few years in England; she lived at the house of a Mr Hope , perhaps again as a governess.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
132

28 September 1810: Abraham Goldsmid, a London banker, committed...

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28 September 1810

Abraham Goldsmid , a London banker, committed suicide; his suicide was symptomatic of the current financial collapse.
“Death of Mr. Abraham Goldsmid”. Times, 29 Sept. 1810, p. 3.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Gaskell: 29 September 1810

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29 September 1810

EG was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson at 93 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, her parents' eighth and youngest child.
Accord to biographer Jenny Uglow , at the time of Elizabeth Gaskell's birth, this address was known as Lindsey Row.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Germaine de Staël: October 1810

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October 1810

GS was set to publish De l'Allemagne (Germany) in Paris when Napoleon suppressed it because of its sympathy with nascent nationalist feeling in Germany; it waited three years for publication.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
69-70
Lessenich, Rolf. “Literary Views of English Rhine Romanticism 1760-1860”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1999, pp. 480-18.
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Lonchamp, Frédéric-Charles. L’Œuvre Imprimé de Madame Germaine de Staël. Suisse, 1949.
55-61

Alethea Lewis: By October 1810

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By October 1810

AL published, as Eugenia de Acton and with the Minerva Press , a four-volume novel entitled The Discarded Daughter. This was her last known work.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
63 (1810): 209-10
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
355

Ann Hatton: 15 October 1810

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15 October 1810

A play called Zaffine, or the Knight of the Bloody Cross by a Lady of Swansea (who was probably AH ) was given at Swansea for the benefit of Edmund Kean .
Henderson, Jim. “Ann of Swansea: a life on the edge”. National Library of Wales Journal, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-47.
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25 October 1810: George III suffered the onset of a fifth...

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25 October 1810

George III suffered the onset of a fifth attack of porphyria.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
143-4

Caroline Scott: 27 October 1810

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27 October 1810

Caroline Douglas married Captain (later Admiral) Sir George Scott , thereby acquiring the surname which had been her mother's birth name.
Stuart, Lady Louisa, and J. Steven Watson. Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas. Editor Rubenstein, Jill, Scottish Academic Press, 1985.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Amelia Beauclerc: By November 1810

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By November 1810

AB published her first novel, Eva of Cambria; or, The Fugitive Daughter; this and her Ora and Juliet; or, Influence of First Principles, 1811, were both, by mistake, misascribed.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 21 (1810): 335
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 339

Maria Susanna Cooper: November 1810

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November 1810

Robert Bransby Cooper , eldest son of the writer MSC , published a posthumous volume of his mother's short fiction: Moral Tales, bearing the date of 1811.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
21 (November 1810): 336

Maria Edgeworth: November 1810

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November 1810

After visiting Kilkenny (the furthest west she had been in Ireland), ME went on to Dublin, where she heard Sir Humphry Davy lecture.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
215-16

Sarah Green: By November 1810

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By November 1810

SG published The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 323-4

Barbara Hofland: Late 1811

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Late 1811

BH and her second husband moved from Yorkshire to London.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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By November 1810: Monsieur Appert perfected his canning process...

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By November 1810

Monsieur Appert perfected his canning process for preserving food; the French Chamber of Arts awarded him a substantial premium for his invention.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 22 (1811): 335
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
80 (1810): 475

Mary Boyle: 12 November 1810

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12 November 1810

MB was born in Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, London.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
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Mary Brunton: Probably January 1811

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Probably January 1811

MB published at Edinburgh and London her first, anonymous novel, Self-Control; she dated her dedication of it to Joanna Baillie this month.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 341

Percy Bysshe Shelley: By December 1810

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By December 1810

PBS published his second book of poetry, Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson . Being poems found amongst the papers of that noted female who attempted the life of the King in 1786.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 21 (1810): 448
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Emma Parker: December 1810

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December 1810

EP published, with her name and 1811 on the title-page, Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. A Novel, in four volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 21 (1810): 448