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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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Rachel Hunter: By December 1810

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By December 1810

RH published her final work, The Schoolmistress; A Moral Tale for Young Ladies, in two volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 21 (1810): 448

By December 1810: There was published The Mirror of the Graces;...

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By December 1810

There was published The Mirror of the Graces; or, The English Ladies' Costume, Collected by a Lady of Distinction.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 21 (1811): 448
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Nigro, Jeffrey A. “Estimating Lace and Muslin: Dress and Fashion in Jane Austen and her World”. Persuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 50-62.
58

Sarah Trimmer: 15 December 1810

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15 December 1810

ST died at Brentford near London.
Trimmer, Sarah. Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer. F.C and J. Rivington and J. Johnson, and J. Hatchard, 1814, 2 vols.
1: 63

24 December 1810: The Paris dispensary for the registering...

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24 December 1810

The Parisdispensary for the registering of prostitutes (set up by the police in 1802) was expanded; registration and medical checks were first made mandatory.
Norberg, Kathryn. “From Courtesan to Prostitute: Mercenary Sex and Venereal Disease 1730-1802”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 34-50.
44-5

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: 1811

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1811

SSW published with her name the 35-page Priory of St. Clair; or Spectre of the Murdered Nun. A Gothic Tale.
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Mary Tighe: 1811

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1811

As well as issuing MT 's major volume, William Tighe posthumously edited and issued from a private press her Mary, a Series of Reflections during Twenty Years, no place or publisher given.
Tighe, Mary. The Works of Mary Tighe, Published and Unpublished. Editor Henchy, Patrick, No. 6, Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 1957.
12-13

Mariana Starke: 1811

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1811

MS , as an author of many years' standing, published at Exeter a volume of poems, most of them translations from the Italian of Carlo Maria Maggi , with some original sonnets.
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Mary Somerville: 1811

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1811

One of the solutions Mary Greig (later Somerville) submitted to a contest problem in the Mathematical Repository was awarded a silver medal.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
210

Eleanor Sleath: Probably early 1811

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Probably early 1811

ES titled her next novel Pyrenean Banditti. A Romance.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 354-5

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1811

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1811

To the offence of her birth family, MAS won her fight to get property she owned (from her grandfather) made accessible to her husband .
Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858, 2 vols.
2: 75

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1811

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1811

SHR published with John West of BostonA Present for Young Ladies, gathering texts recited by the girls of her school at prize-giving, including Sketches of Female Biography.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Emma Parker: 1811

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1811

EP published two novels this year: Fitz-Edward and Virginia.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.

Alicia Tyndal Palmer: 1811

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1811

ATP published with Lackington a collection of three separate, loosely-linked stories entitled The Sons of Altringham.
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Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1811

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1811

Ann and Jane Taylor 's Hymns for Infant Minds was published as by the Authors of Original Poems.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Ann Hatton: 1811

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1811

AH published at Waterford in Ireland, printed for the authoress,
Hatton, Ann. Poetic Trifles. John Bull, 1811.
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Poetic Trifles, in two separate editions with different numbers of pages.
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Feminist Companion Archive.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
71

Elizabeth Heyrick: 1811

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1811

EH published Familiar Letters Addressed to Children and Young Persons of the Middle Ranks, with a quotation from Johnson 's Rambler on the title-page.
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Familiar Letters Addressed to Children and Young Persons of the Middle Ranks. Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1811.
title-page

Margaret Holford, the younger : 1811

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1811

Margaret Holford the younger published with her name a highly romantic collection of Poems, dedicated to her mother . Some of the contents date back nine years.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Howitt: From 1811

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From 1811

For about a year Mary Botham (later MH ) attended a Friends' School in Sheffield run by Hannah Kilham , who was soon to embark on a career as a writer and later on one...

Adelaide O'Keeffe: 1811

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1811

AOK paid a visit to Dublin, the scene of both her parents' early careers and of her own birth.
Link, Frederick M., and John O’Keeffe. “Introduction”. The Plays of John O’Keeffe, edited by Frederick M. Link and Frederick M. Link, Garland, 1981, p. 1: x - lix.
xvi

1811: Sir James Lawrence published The Empire of...

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1811

Sir James Lawrence published The Empire of the Nairs, or The Rights of Women, an account of the Hindu caste of the Nairs, which he said allowed women the same sexual liberty as men.
Coleman, Deirdre. “Claire Clairmont and Mary Shelley: identification and rivalry within the ’tribe of the Otaheite philosophers’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 309-28.
317-18

1811: John Frank Newton published The Return to...

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1811

John Frank Newton published The Return to Nature, or a Defence of the Vegetable Regimen.
Perkins, David. Romanticism and Animal Rights. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
117
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1811: The National Society for Promoting the Education...

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1811

The National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church was founded by the Church of England . It still exists, known as The National Society (Church of England) for Promoting Religious Education

1811: Army regulations set out the system whereby...

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1811

Army regulations set out the system whereby regiments ordered abroad on active service were allocated six soldiers' wives' tickets per company, distributed by ballot.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
133, 17-18, 2, and passim
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
170

1811: The divorce corset, a padded, triangular...

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1811

The divorce corset, a padded, triangular piece of metal with curved sides that separated the breasts, appeared on the market in the UK.
Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Revised, Faber and Faber, 1981.
74
Kunzle, David. Fashion and Fetishism: A Social History of the Corset, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture in the West. Rowman and Littlefield, 1982.
113

1811: Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital moved from Moorfields...

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1811

Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital moved from Moorfields in the City of London across the Thames to St George's Fields in Southwark.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
219