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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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J. S. Anna Liddiard: By December 1811

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By December 1811

JSAL published at Bath her second poetry collection, titled from its main piece, The Sgelaighe; or A Tale of Old, giving her name as Mrs Liddiard.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd series 24 (December 1811): 447
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Meeke: By December 1811

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By December 1811

Again publishing in her own name, EM may have launched a fictional debate on marriage with the lengthily-titled Matrimony, The Height of Bliss, or the Extreme of Misery. A Novel, whose titlepage said 1812...

Joanna Baillie: By 16 December 1811

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By 16 December 1811

JB published a third instalment of her Plays on the Passions, with 1812 on its title-page.
Carhart gives the date of July 1812.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
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Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 118

Lucy Aikin: 1812

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1812

LA met Elizabeth Hamilton while visiting Edinburgh.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Lucy Aikin: January 1812

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January 1812

The Critical Review listed the publication of a translation from French, by LA , of The Life of Ulrich Zwingli, the Swiss leader of the Protestant Reformation.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 1 (1812): 112
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Brunton: 1812

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1812

MB and her husband visited London. She found England, from the time she entered it, very different from Scotland.
Brunton, Alexander, and Mary Brunton. “Memoir”. Emmeline, Manners and Miller; John Murray, 1819.
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Dorothea Primrose Campbell: By 1812

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By 1812

DPC had become a teacher.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1812

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1812

Jane Welsh (who became JWC ) studied under James Brown at the Mathematical School and was a boarder at Mrs Hemming's establishment for girls at Haddington.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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Harriet Corp: 1812

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1812

HC published another work of fiction, Cottage Sketches; or, Active Retirement, as by the author of An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 364

Charlotte Dacre: 1812

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1812

CD 's Zofloya was translated into French by Madame de Viterne as Zofloya; ou, Le Maure.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36.
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Eliza Fenwick: 1812

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1812

EF published through M. J. Godwin her interactive grammar book: Rays from the Rainbow, Being an Easy Method for Perfecting Children in the First Principles of Grammar . . . .
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Celia Fiennes: 1812

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1812

CF 's travel writing was first publicly mentioned when Robert Southey quoted it in his Omniana; or, Horæ Otiosiores (About Everything; or, Leisure Hours) as the work of a lady.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: 1812

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1812

SSW issued through the same publisher another work with a date on it: Edward and Agnes; or, The Twin Orphans of Rosemount Farm. A Village Tale.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Sarah Trimmer: January 1812

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January 1812

ST 's An Essay on Christian Education (expanded from The Guardian of Education) appeared posthumously.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 1 (1812): 112

Jane Taylor: 1812-16

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1812-16

JT , in Devon and Cornwall, enjoyed the most fertile period of her writing life.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
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Leah Sumbel: 1812

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1812

LS was granted a licence for a play and entertainment (not identified) to be performed at the Haymarket . Nothing more, however, was heard of it.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.

Mary Stockdale: January 1812

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January 1812

MS published for the Author, through her father 's firm , a work which had first appeared in the Morning Post: The Widow and Her Orphan Family, An Elegy.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 1 (1812): 112

Joanna Southcott: 1812

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1812

JS published an An Answer to Thomas Paine 's Third Part of The Age of Reason.
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.

Anne Plumptre: 1812

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1812

AP published the first volume of Travels in Southern Africa in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, translated from the German of Henry Lichtenstein .
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
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Elizabeth Ham: 1812

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1812

With great presumption, she said, EH began writing a long narrative poem on the story of Edwy and Elgiva.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
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J. S. Anna Liddiard: January 1812

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January 1812

The monthly La Belle Assemblée (founded six years before) carried a poem by JSAL , identified as Mrs Liddiard.
Wright, Julia M. “J. S. Anna Liddiard”. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, edited by Stephen Behrendt, 2008.

1812: This was an especially bad year for poor...

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1812

This was an especially bad year for poor people in England: the price of bread was high and wages low, and enclosure of common land was still escalating.
Curry, Mary Jane. “’Not a day went by without a solitary walk’: Elizabeth’s Pastoral World”. Persuasions, Vol.
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, No. 175-86, 2000.
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Around 1812: The publishing firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode...

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Around 1812

The publishing firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode was established in London; it originated from the publishing business begun by William Strahan some fifty years earlier.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 133

By 1812: The first British gas company was establ...

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By 1812

The first British gas company was established.
Debeir, Jean-Claude et al. In the Servitude of Power: Energy and Civilization through the Ages. Translator Barzman, John, Zed Books, 1991.
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1812: A book was published offering advice to governesses...

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1812

A book was published offering advice to governesses or young women unexpectedly reduced from affluence to a dependent situation.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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