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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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Ann Jebb: October-November 1812

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October-November 1812

Following AJ 's death, excerpts from her personal correspondence were printed in the Monthly Repository in the substantial obituary by George Wilson Meadley .
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
601ff, 661ff

Mary Russell Mitford: By October 1812

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By October 1812

MRM published Watlington Hill: A Poem: it had nine pages of notes to thirty-seven of text.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
82 (1812): 344

10 October 1812: The fourth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was...

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10 October 1812

The fourth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , was opened with a special address by Lord Byron .
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
65, 67
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
123, 133
Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
359

Ann Hawkshaw: 14 October 1812

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14 October 1812

Ann Jackson, later AH , was born at Green Hammerton in the parish of Whixley, North Yorkshire.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Ann Gomersall, Ann Hawkshaw, J. S. Anna Liddiard, Plumptre Sisters, Mary Ridgway Stockdale, Medora Gordon Byron. 8 Jan. 2016.

19 October 1812: Napoleon's Grande Armée (which had numbered...

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19 October 1812

Napoleon 's Grande Armée (which had numbered 691,000 when it crossed the river Neman in Lithuania on 23 June) evacuated Moscow; fire had destroyed the city since their arrival in early September.
Henley, Jon. “Napoleon’s retreating army felled by parasites”. The Guardian, 31 Dec. 2005, p. 15.
15

Barbara Hofland: Late 1812

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Late 1812

BH published The Son of a Genius, dedicated to her thirteen-year-old son, quoting the book of Proverbs on the title-page.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
60-1

Anne Plumptre: November 1812

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November 1812

AP published a final novel, The History of Myself and My Friend, with 1813 on its title-page.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 2 (1812): 560

Sarah Green: By November 1812

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By November 1812

SG published with her name (Mrs Green) Raphael; or, Peaceful Life, a translation in two volumes from the German of Augustus Lafontaine .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 368
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: 11 November 1812

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11 November 1812

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin first met Percy Bysshe Shelley when he and his wife, Harriet Westbrook Shelley , dined with the Godwins at their house in Skinner Street.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xv

Jane Cave: Before 27 November 1812

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Before 27 November 1812

Jane Winscom (formerly JC ) died at Newport in Monmouthshire, aged fifty-eight; her funeral service took place on this day.
Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
36
, No. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 415-31.
421
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
83 (1813): 1: 88

Julia Stretton: 25 November 1812

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25 November 1812

Julia Cecilia Collinson (later JS ) was born at Gateshead in County Durham, the second daughter, but the eldest to survive, in a family which eventually numbered fifteen children (nine of them girls).
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Henry Mayhew: 25 November 1812

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25 November 1812

HM , journalist and social reformer (and author of plays and novels) was born in London, one of a family of seventeen children.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
18
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Brunton: Late 1812

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Late 1812

With a skeleton plan, MB began working on the novel which became Discipline.
Brunton, Alexander, and Mary Brunton. “Memoir”. Emmeline, Manners and Miller; John Murray, 1819.
lv

Maria Callcott: By December 1812

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By December 1812

Maria Graham (later MC ) published at Edinburgh her first travel book, Journal of a Residence in India, which her biographer calls rather dull.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
142

Henrietta Sykes: December 1812

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December 1812

HS published her only collection of tales, Stories of the Four Nations, writing as the author of her previous two works; the title-page bore the date of 1813.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 389

December 1812: The first volume appeared in German of the...

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December 1812

The first volume appeared in German of the folk tales collected by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ; volume two followed in 1816.
Flood, Alison. “Gruesome originals of Grimms’ tales”. Guardian Weekly, 12 Dec. 2014, p. 39.
(12 December 2014): 39

Leigh Hunt: 9 December 1812

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9 December 1812

LH and his brother John were summoned before the High Court on charges of seditious libel for a withering attack on the Prince Regent in The Examiner, in response to an adulatory article in...

Hannah More: By 15 December 1812

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By 15 December 1812

HM followed Practical Piety with a book of similar intention, addressed to young people: Christian Morals, dedicated to the Rev. Thomas Gisborne .
Gisborne was author of An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
200
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
112

Lady Charlotte Bury: Probably by 20 December 1812

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Probably by 20 December 1812

Lady Charlotte Campbell (later LCB ) published anonymously at Edinburgh and London her first novel of fashionable life, Self-Indulgence; A Tale of the Nineteenth Century, in two volumes.
Ferrier, Susan, and John Ferrier. Memoir and Correspondence of Susan Ferrier, 1782-1854. Editor Doyle, John Andrew, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson, 1929.
112-13
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Self-Indulgence. Printed by T. Allan for G. R. Clarke, 1812, 2 vols.
title-page

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 21 December 1812

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21 December 1812

Ann Taylor , on a visit to Ilfracombe in Devon, first met the Rev. Joseph Gilbert of Rotherham in Yorkshire.
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 .
2: 98

23 December 1812: Biographer and self-help advocate Samuel...

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23 December 1812

Biographer and self-help advocate Samuel Smiles was born at Haddington in East Lothian, near Edinburgh.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Eliza Cook: 24 December 1812

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24 December 1812

EC was born at 6 London Road, Newington, London.
The parish records show her birth on this day, and her baptism at St Mary's Church, Newington, on 3 February 1813. Until relatively...

24 December 1812: The first news of Napoleon's catastrophic...

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24 December 1812

The first news of Napoleon 's catastrophic retreat from Moscow reached Britain through a report in The Times.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
McCarthy, Voice 482

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: Around 1813

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Around 1813

Margaret Farmer, later Marguerite Blessington , moved to Manchester Square, London, under the protection of her future husband Charles, Viscount Mountjoy and Earl of Blessington .
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
27-8

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: 1813

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1813

DPC opened her own school at Lerwick.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.