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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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Camilla Crosland: 9 June 1812

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9 June 1812

Camilla Dufour Toulmin (later CC ) was born in Aldermanbury, near St Paul's Cathedral, in London, the elder of two children.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 30
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

9 June 1812: The Earl of Liverpool became Prime Minister...

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9 June 1812

The Earl of Liverpool became Prime Minister following the assassination of Spencer Perceval .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
202
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Barrell, John. “Shoot first, ask questions later”. The Guardian, 12 May 2012, p. Review 6.
Review 6

19 June 1812: Following years of strained British-American...

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19 June 1812

Following years of strained British-American relations, US president Madison declared war on Britain (including British Canada); this began the War of 1812.
Keller, Betty. Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson. Douglas and McIntyre, 1981.
I: 9
Dupuy, R. Ernest, and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present. 2nd ed., Jane’s, 1986.
794-5, 802, 804

29 June 1812: Sarah Siddons, the famous actress, now aged...

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29 June 1812

Sarah Siddons , the famous actress, now aged fifty-six, played her last night (as Lady Macbeth) at the Covent Garden Theatre .
Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
355-8, 373
Booth, Michael R. et al. Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
47
Macqueen-Pope, Walter James. Ladies First: The Story of Woman’s Conquest of the British Stage. W. H. Allen, 1952.
328

Mary Bryan: Summer 1812

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Summer 1812

MB 's brother took her to London, to the exhibition of paintings at Somerset House.
Bryan, Mary, and Jonathan Wordsworth. Sonnets and Metrical Tales 1815. Woodstock Books, 1996.
130

Harriette Wilson: Summer 1812

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Summer 1812

HW propositioned Byron by letter (have you any objection to introduce yourself to a very impertinent young woman . . . ?) but he turned her offer down.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
127

3 July 1812: After the British victory at Salamanca in...

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3 July 1812

After the British victory at Salamanca in Spain, Susannah Dalbiac , searching the battlefield for her husband, found and saved the life of a cousin with a serious head wound.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
56-7

Ellen Weeton: Biography: 10 July 1812

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10 July 1812

After returning to Liverpool from her travels, EW moved to Milnsbridge near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, to take up a two-year governess post in the Armitage family.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
2: 47
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998.
382

Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : 20 July 1812

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20 July 1812

MLCC died at Richmond House in Richmond (a riverside mansion designed in part by Robert Adam ).
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
82: 2 (August 1812): 188

Louisa Anne Meredith : 20 July 1812

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20 July 1812

Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM ) was born at 47 Newhall Street in Birmingham, the only child of comparatively elderly parents.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 259
Rae-Ellis, Vivienne. Louisa Anne Meredith: A Tigress in Exile. St David’s Park, 1990.
19

Catherine Hutton: 26 July 1812

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26 July 1812

CH sent a friend, as a great secret, a copy of the first volume of her newly printed novel Oakwood Hall; yet it remained unpublished for more than six more years.
Her motivation for...

Lady Caroline Lamb: 29 July 1812

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29 July 1812

LCL made a strange and inconsistent attempt to elope with Byron ; she dressed as a page-boy with an overcoat covering her disguise, and apparently surprised him when she turned up. The project was not...

Felicia Hemans: 30 July 1812

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30 July 1812

Felicia Dorothea Browne married Captain Alfred Hemans ; in course of time he became a major source of the sorrow which, she felt, shaped her life.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
24-5
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii.
xv-xvi

Anna Wheeler: August 1812

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August 1812

After twelve years of marriage, AW took both her daughters (of whom the younger, Rosina , was the future novelist Rosina Bulwer Lytton) and left her husband .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.
72-3
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
349

Barbara Hofland: August 1812

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August 1812

BH 's first full-length novel (designed, that is for adults), appeared in four volumes from Minerva , under the name of an old-fashioned Englishman and entitled Says She to her Neighbour, What?
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 366
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.
59-60

Lady Caroline Lamb: 12 August 1812

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12 August 1812

LCL , on impulse, ran away from the house of her parents-in-law and pawned a ring, intending to flee abroad. But she sent farewell notes, which enabled Byron to track her and deliver her to...

Frances Burney: 16 August 1812

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16 August 1812

FB landed at Deal in Kent, after a blockade-running voyage from France in an American-captained ship.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
324-5

Geraldine Jewsbury: 22 August 1812

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22 August 1812

GJ was born at Measham in Derbyshire.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
1

Harriette Wilson: September 1812-spring 1813

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September 1812-spring 1813

During Lord Worcester 's absence abroad, HW put in a brief spell at Ryde on the Isle of Wight, then spent some months in retirement at Charmouth on the Dorset coast.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
122-5

Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: September 1812

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September 1812

The Minerva Press advertised HRM 's new novel, Arrivals from India, or Time's a Great Master, with her married name and mention of previous works, and with highly selective quotes from the Critical Review...

Caroline Norton: September 1812

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September 1812

The young Caroline Sheridan (later CN ) and her sisters were left with maternal aunts in Scotland while their parents went abroad, heading for the Cape of Good Hope in a desperate attempt to repair...

By September 1812: George Crabbe published Tales in Verse....

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By September 1812

George Crabbe published Tales in Verse.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1812) 82: 241

Lady Anne Barnard: From late 1812

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From late 1812

After her sister Margaret's marriage to Sir James Bland Burges (which preceded Margaret's death by only two years), LAB lived in Berkeley Square.
Crawford, Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, twenty-fifth Earl of. Lives of the Lindsays. 2nd ed., John Murray, 1858, 3 vols.
2: 384
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir James Bland Burges

Georgiana Fullerton: 23 September 1812

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23 September 1812

Georgiana Charlotte Leveson-Gower (later GF ) was born at Tixall Hall at Tixall in Staffordshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mary Ann Browne: 24 September 1812

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24 September 1812

MAB was born at Bray in Berkshire, the eldest of three children.
Dublin University Magazine. William Curry, Jun.
25 (March 1845): 327
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.