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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: 10 March 1812

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Author event in Adelaide O'Keeffe

10 March 1812

Jane Porter wrote to AOK from Portland Place, London, to congratulate her on Patriarchal Times: a letter which was reproduced in the fourth edition.
O’Keeffe, Adelaide. Patriarchal Times. 4th edition, C. and J. Rivington, 1826.
prelims

10 March 1812 to September 1818: Byron published the first two cantos of his...

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10 March 1812 to September 1818

Byron published the first two cantos of his narrative-reflective poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1963–1968, p. 1: v - xx.
1: ix, xiii, xv
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
10 March 2010

Anna Jane Vardill: April 1812

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Author event in Anna Jane Vardill

April 1812

AJV 's second published volume, The Pleasures of Human Life, a poem titled in a form which had become something of a cliché, bore her name and was dedicated to Princess Charlotte .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
448
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
166
Vardill, Anna Jane. The Pleasures of Human Life. A Poem. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812.
prelims

Ann Hatton: April 1812

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Author event in Ann Hatton

April 1812

AH , in her late forties, was strongly advised by her eldest brother against marrying another bad actor.
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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Elizabeth Helme: April 1812

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Author event in Elizabeth Helme

April 1812

EH 's Magdalen; or, The Penitent of Godstow; An Historical Novel, appeared with her name in three volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 1 (1812): 448

John Forster: 2 April 1812

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2 April 1812

JF , historian and biographer, was born in Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Margaret Sandbach: 28 April 1812

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28 April 1812

Margaret Roscoe, who became MS , was born in Liverpool, the only sister to two brothers, one of whom died in infancy.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Felicia Hemans: By May 1812

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By May 1812

The Domestic Affections and Other Poems appeared under the author's birth name, Felicia Dorothea Browne.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 1 (1812): 560
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii.
xv

Barbara Hofland: May 1812

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May 1812

BH published at KnaresboroughA Season at Harrogate, in a Series of Poetical Epistles, from Benjamin Blunderhead, Esquire, to his Mother, in Derbyshire.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Robert Browning: 7 May 1812

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7 May 1812

RB , poet, was born in Southampton Street, Camberwell, near London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
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Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: 11 May 1812

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11 May 1812

Henry Crabb Robinson (another friend of EOB ) reported a pleasant evening at her house, with other women writers.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1872, 2 vols.
199-200
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.

Mary Stockdale: Soon after 11 May 1812

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Soon after 11 May 1812

MS published with her father's firm The Christian Poet's Lament over the Christian Statesman, An Elegy on the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, the assassinated Tory Prime Minister.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

11 May 1812: Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot...

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11 May 1812

Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons in London by a Liverpool merchant, John Bellingham , who had been ruined in the course of trade with Russia...

12 May 1812: Edward Lear, writer and artist, was born...

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12 May 1812

Edward Lear , writer and artist, was born at Holloway, London.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Lucy Aikin: 13 May 1812

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13 May 1812

LA met Henry Crabb Robinson and William Wordsworth .
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1872, 2 vols.
1: 200

Mary Somerville: 18 May 1812

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18 May 1812

After nearly five years as a widow, Mary Greig married her first cousin Dr William Somerville , a medical doctor in the service of the British Army .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Charlotte Guest: 19 May 1812

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19 May 1812

Lady Charlotte Bertie (later Guest) was born at a seventeenth-century mansion, Uffington House near Stamford in Lincolnshire, the eldest child in her family.
Guest, Revel, and Angela V. John. Lady Charlotte: A Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, Earl of, John Murray, 1950.
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Ellen Weeton: Biography: 23 May-22 June 1812

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23 May-22 June 1812

Sailing from Liverpool in the ship Brilliant, EW spent a month visiting the Isle of Man.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
2: 14-18

Ann Taylor Gilbert: Spring 1812

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Spring 1812

Ann Taylor (later ATG ) was invited (as a consequence of her long letter to Josiah Conder about More 's Coelebs) to review regularly for the evangelical Eclectic Review.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
xxii
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: 202

Sarah Harriet Burney: By June 1812

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By June 1812

SHB published her next novel, Traits of Nature, with her name.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 362
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 2 (1812): 112

Maria Edgeworth: June 1812

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June 1812

ME published three more volumes of Tales of Fashionable Life, including The Absentee.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. ix - xlvii.
xlvi

Eliza Fenwick: June 1812-Spring 1814

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Author event in Eliza Fenwick

June 1812-Spring 1814

EF served a second stint as a governess, working for the Honner or Honnor family at Lee Mount near Cork in Ireland.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019.
124-30

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: By June 1812

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By June 1812

Elizabeth Thomas published another Minerva novel as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: The Vindictive Spirit.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 373

Frances Jacson: June 1812

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June 1812

Fifteen years after her most recent book, FJ published a novel entitled Things By Their Right Names, with a different publisher, Robinson , and under a pseudonym, A Person without a Name.
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.

Mary Shelley: Between 7 June 1812 and 30 March 1814

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Between 7 June 1812 and 30 March 1814

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later MS ) spent two lengthy visits with the Baxter family, acquaintances of her father who lived at Dundee in Scotland.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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