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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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Percy Bysshe Shelley: 29 August 1811

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29 August 1811

PBS , just nineteen, married sixteen-year-old Harriet Westbrook , a schoolfriend of his sisters, after an elopement to Scotland from her oppressive boarding-school.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Théophile Gautier: 30 August 1811

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30 August 1811

TG , novelist and poet, was born in Tarbes, France.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
119

Leah Sumbel: September 1811

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September 1811

LS published her scandalous Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, late Wells . . . Written by Herself. Including Her Correspondence with Major Topham , Mr. Reynolds , &c ., a life-story dedicated...

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 3 September 1811

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3 September 1811

The Taylor family (including Ann and Jane ) left Colchester for Ongar in Essex (a place lastingly associated with their name).
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
53-4
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 192

9 September 1811: Thomas Moore's comic opera M. P., or The...

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9 September 1811

Thomas Moore 's comic opera M. P., or The Blue-Stocking premiered at The Theatre Royal, English Opera House .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Anne Hunter: By 11 September 1811

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By 11 September 1811

AH contributed nineteen songs to George Thomson 's A Select Collection of Original Welsh Airs adapted for the Voice.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 116
Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009.
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Frances Burney: 30 September 1811

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30 September 1811

FB underwent a radical mastectomy—without anaesthetic and without personal support, since she deviously secured the absence of husband and son; she sorely missed her sisters.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Medora Gordon Byron: October 1811

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October 1811

Miss Byron, later called MGB , published her longest work yet: The Englishman, A Novel, from Minerva in six volumes, bearing the date of 1812.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 24 (1811): 224

Jane Welsh Carlyle: October 1811

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October 1811

Jane Welsh (later JWC ) was tutored by Edward Irving , then the master of the local Mathematical School .
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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Hanson, Lawrence, and Elisabeth Hanson. Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Octagon Books, 1975.
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Susan Ferrier: Early October 1811

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Early October 1811

SF and her father made a visit, which was her first, to Walter Scott at Ashistiel (his estate near Selkirk), when he was an eminent poet but not yet a novelist. They had stormy...

Mrs Ross: : By October 1811

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By October 1811

Mrs Ross , a novelist about whom nothing is known except her works, published anonymously with the Minerva Press her apparently earliest book, The Cousins; or, A Woman's Promise and a Lover's Vow.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 354

Jane Porter: October 1811

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October 1811

JP contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine a heartfelt obituary on her friend Percival Stockdale .
McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 1825–1846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
20
, No. 2, 1 June 2009–2026, pp. 45-62.
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Ann Radcliffe: Late 1811

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Late 1811

After returning from a visit to the Isle of Wight, AR seems to have retired, without her husband , to stay with relatives at Windsor.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
218, 225

Jane Austen: 30 October 1811

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30 October 1811

JA first became a published author, with Sense and Sensibility (formerly Elinor and Marianne).
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
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Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : November 1811

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November 1811

LMH set her name (with the utmost repugnance)
Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. The Countess and Gertrude. F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811, 4 vols.
1: xxix
to The Countess and Gertrude; or, Modes of Discipline, a four-volume didactic bildungsroman.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 24 (1811): 336

Mary Hays: About November 1811

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About November 1811

MH 's brother got married: she and her mother and unmarried sister were not happy about this, probably at least in part for financial reasons.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.

Barbara Hofland: November 1811

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November 1811

The Minerva Press published, with an engraved frontispiece and a title-page saying 1812, BH 's one-volume novel The History of a Clergyman's Widow and her Young Family.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Barbara Hofland: November 1811

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November 1811

BH 's The Daughter-in-Law, which appeared with 1812 on its title-page, was later said to have been her first novel published after her move to London, though no copy of the first edition...

Ann Jebb: 2 November 1811

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2 November 1811

The latest letter of AJ 's that Meadley printed, written ten weeks before her death, expresses continuing anguish over this detestable war.
qtd. in
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
667

Isabella Lickbarrow: 2 November 1811

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2 November 1811

IL not only used this month to title the earliest dated poem in her volume of 1814, but on this day contributed anonymously to the Westmorland Advertiser, or Kendal Chronicle.
Lickbarrow, Isabella. Poetical Effusions. Printed for the authoress by M. Branthwaite; sold by J. Richardson, 1814.
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Sarah Murray : 5 November 1811

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5 November 1811

Sarah Aust, formerly SM , died at her home, Noel House in Kensington, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

10 November 1811: In Nottinghamshire weavers caused alarm by...

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10 November 1811

In Nottinghamshire weavers caused alarm by breaking into a factory where machines did the weaving; such rioters were called frame-breakers or Luddites.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
81 (1811): 2, 476, 581

Ann Hatton: 14 November 1811

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14 November 1811

AH dated her dedication to Sicilian Mysteries; or, The Fortress del Vechii, A Romance, published in five volumes perhaps in December, but with 1812 on the title page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 365

Priscilla Wakefield: December 1811

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December 1811

PW published Instinct Displayed, in a Collection of Well-Authenticated Facts, Exemplifying the Extraordinary Sagacity of Various Species of The Animal Creation.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 24 (1811): 447

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: By December 1811

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By December 1811

SFG 's De l'influence des femmes sur la littérature française was published both at Paris and at London (both editions being in French).
Dow, Gillian. “’Naughty French Books’”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
10
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2006, pp. 1-4.
4 and n11
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.