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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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Adelaide O'Keeffe: April 1811

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April 1811

AOK published Patriarchal Times; or, The Land of Canaan: A Figurate History, in Seven Books. Comprising Interesting Events, Incidents, & Characters, Founded on the Holy Scriptures, a novelistic prose re-telling from Genesis.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 351

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: 15 April 1811

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15 April 1811

DPC 's Poems were published in duodecimo at Inverness, for her sole benefit, by the kindness of the publisher J. Young .
Campbell, Dorothea Primrose. Poems. J. Young, 1811.
8-9

Mary Brunton: By 19 April 1811

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By 19 April 1811

MB had finished correcting Self-Control for a second edition.
Brunton, Alexander, and Mary Brunton. “Memoir”. Emmeline, Manners and Miller; John Murray, 1819.
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Charlotte Dacre: By May 1811

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By May 1811

CD published her last novel, The Passions.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36.
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Mary Tighe: May 1811

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May 1811

MT 's family (probably her widower and her brother John Blachford rather than her poet brother-in-law William Tighe ) published with Longman , London, a handsome, quarto, posthumous volume of her work: Psyche, with...

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: By May 1811

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By May 1811

Elizabeth Thomas published another Minerva novel as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: Mortimer Hall; or, The Labourer's Hire.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 355-6

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : May 1811

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May 1811

EIS 's Sketches of the Present Manners, Custom, and Scenery of Scotland, with Incidental Remarks on the Scottish Character appeared in print. There was a second edition this year.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
23:112

Anna Seward: May 1811

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May 1811

AS 's six-volume Letters . . . written between the years 1784 and 1807 were posthumously published: not edited by Scott (as she had requested).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 23 (1811): 112

Elizabeth Inchbald: May 1811

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May 1811

EI selected and published (without prefaces) The Modern Theatre, including in it work of her own.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 23 (1811): 112

Maria Elizabetha Jacson: By May 1811

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Using her initials, M. E. J., as well as authoress of Botanical Dialogues, Maria Jacson , sister of novelist Frances Jacson , issued her third book, Sketches of the Physiology of Vegetable Life...

Elizabeth Meeke: May 1811

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May 1811

EM used the name of Gabrielli again for Stratagems Defeated. A Novel, which was published by the Minerva Press under its new owner, A. K. Newman .
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 348-9

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: By May 1811

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By May 1811

Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan) published The Missionary: An Indian Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 351

May 1811: Two teachers in Elgin in Scotland, Miss Woods...

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May 1811

Two teachers in Elgin in Scotland, Miss Woods and Miss Pirie , sued for libel the grandmother of a pupil who had accused them of lesbian behaviour.
Moore, Lisa L. Dangerous Intimacies: Towards a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Duke University Press, 1997.
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Helen Craik: June 1811

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June 1811

HC wrote for the Farmer's Magazine a sequence of two letters containing a memoir of her father, William Craik of Arbigland Hall, Dumfriesshire.
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32.
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Charlotte Dacre: June 1811

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June 1811

CD had her three children by Byrne baptised.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Kim Ian Michasiw, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xxx.
xi

Anne Grant: June 1811

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June 1811

AG published with her name Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: To Which are Added, Translations from the Gaelic, and Letters Connected With Those Formerly Published.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 23 (1811): 224

Harriet Beecher Stowe: 14 June 1811

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14 June 1811

Harriet Beecher, later HBS , was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the seventh child in her family.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Maria Callcott: 27 June 1811

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27 June 1811

The first glimpse of England (the Isles of Scilly) was sighted from the ship on which Maria Graham (later MC ) was sailing home from India, having embarked in February.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
150
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Fanny Fern: 9 July 1811

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9 July 1811

Sara Payson Willis , later novelist and journalist FF , was born in Portland, Maine, USA, the fifth of nine children in her family.
Walker, Nancy A. Fanny Fern. Twayne, 1993.
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William Makepeace Thackeray: 18 July 1811

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18 July 1811

Future novelist WMT was born (two months premature) in Calcutta, India, his parents' only child.
Monsarrat, Ann. An Uneasy Victorian. Cassell, 1980.
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Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: After 29 July 1811

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After 29 July 1811

Widowed for the second time by the Duke of Devonshire 's death, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire , engaged in battles with his family for money, and revealed the paternity of her two children by him.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
398

Anna Maria Porter: August 1811

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August 1811

AMP published her only book of verse, Ballad Romances, and Other Poems.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 23 (1811): 448

Elizabeth Gunning: August 1811

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August 1811

Elizabeth Plunkett (formerly Gunning) published Sentimental Anecdotes, translated from the French of Jeanne-Isabelle-Pauline Polier de Bottens, baronne de Montolieu .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 349

August 1811: Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review...

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August 1811

Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Matilda Charlotte Houstoun: 16 August 1811

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16 August 1811

Matilda Charlotte Jesse (later the novelist and travel writer MCH ) was christened at All Saints, West Bromwich, Staffordshire; her date of birth was likely shortly before this date.
Before this parish record was...