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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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Frances Wright: 1813

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Author event in Frances Wright

1813

FW and her sister left their aunt Frances in Devon, to live for three years with James and Agnes Mylne in Glasgow.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Frances Trollope: 1813

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Author event in Frances Trollope

1813

Frances Trollope's husband, Thomas , took out a twenty-one year lease from Lord Northwick on Illots Farm near Harrow.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
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Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1813

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1813

Elizabeth Browne (later CET ) married Captain George Phelan , an Irish army officer.
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.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Gertrude Thimelby: 1813

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Author event in Gertrude Thimelby

1813

Arthur Clifford edited and published Tixall Poetry. GT is probably the author of all the poems in the second part of this volume; placed first is her piece on the death of her only child.
Thimelby, Gertrude. Tixall Poetry. Editor Clifford, Arthur, J. Ballantyne, 1813.
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Robert Southey: 1813

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1813

RS published in two volumes what became a classic biography, The Life of Nelson.
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.

Joanna Southcott: 1813

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Author event in Joanna Southcott

1813

JS 's publications this year included Copies of Letters sent to the Clergy of Exeter, from 1796 to 1800, The Book of Wonders, and The Second Book of Wonders. (Ann Underwood

Mary Somerville: 1813

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1813

On the advice of mathematician William Wallace , MS began her full-time study of the subject.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
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Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
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Harriet Smythies: Probably 1813

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Probably 1813

Harriet Maria Gordon (later HS ) was born at Margate in Kent. If the date is correct she was the eldest in a family of three.
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Anna Seward: 1813

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1813

The Beauties of Anna Seward , carefully selected and alphabetically arranged, under appropriate heads appeared; its compilation is ascribed in library catalogues to W. C. Oulton .
The British Library Catalogue and OCLC list W...

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1813

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1813

MAS 's interest in the Jansenist centre Port Royal led her to issue an anonymous translation and adaptation of one of its texts: Narrative of a Tour taken in the Year 1667, to La Grande...

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1813

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1813

SHR published at Boston a tiny epistolary novel in miniature format, Sarah; or, The Exemplary Wife, which had previously appeared in The Boston Weekly Magazine.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Emma Parker: 1813

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Author event in Emma Parker

1813

EP 's Aretas. A Novel, published this year, appears not to have survived.
Without having seen a copy of this work, which is unlisted in OCLC, it is reasonable to suppose that it...

Sarah Josepha Hale: 1813

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Author event in Sarah Josepha Hale

1813

Sarah Josepha Buell (later SJH ) married lawyer David Hale , who was her senior by a number of years.
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Tonkovich, Nicole. Domesticity with a Difference. University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
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Elizabeth Hamilton: 1813

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Author event in Elizabeth Hamilton

1813

EH spent three months in Ireland and stayed with Maria Edgeworth at Edgeworthstown.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-50.
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Elizabeth Hamilton: 1813

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Author event in Elizabeth Hamilton

1813

EH 's A Series of Popular Essays on the Mind was published.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-50.
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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.

Rachel Hunter: 1813

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1813

RH died at Norwich.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Inchbald: 1813

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1813

EI first met both Maria Edgeworth (with whom her friendship had begun two years earlier, when Edgeworth wrote to her in praise of A Simple Story) and Germaine de Staël .
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Ellis Cornelia Knight : January 1813

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January 1813

At the request of the Prince Regent (later George IV ), and the urgings of the princesses Mary , Elizabeth , and Sophia , ECK agreed to serve as one of the lady companions to...

Lady Caroline Lamb: January 1813

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January 1813

In order to get hold of a portrait of Byron which was held in the office of his publisher John Murray , LCL forged a note with his signature—at a time when forgery was a...

Mary Leadbeater: 1813

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1813

ML turned her didactic attention on the higher ranks in The Landlord's Friend, a sequel to Cottage Dialogues among the Irish Peasantry.
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.

J. S. Anna Liddiard: 1813

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Author event in J. S. Anna Liddiard

1813

JSAL published at DublinKenilworth and Farley Castle: with other Poems, dedicated to two famous Irishwomen, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the Ladies of Llangollen.
Liddiard, J. S. Anna. Kenilworth and Farley Castle: with Other Poems. Hibernia–Press Office, 1813.
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Harriet Martineau: 1813-1815

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Author event in Harriet Martineau

1813-1815

HM received the unexpected opportunity to study at the Rev. Isaac Perry 's School in her home town of Norwich. While there she discovered her hearing impairment.
Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. University of Michigan Press, 1980.
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Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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1813: In his discussion of the York Retreat Insane...

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1813

In his discussion of the York Retreat Insane Asylum , Samuel Tuke suggested that moral management of inmates could be more successful than physical restraints.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Bynum, William F. “Rationales for Therapy in British Psychiatry, 1780-1835”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 35-57.
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1813: The London Society for the Encouragement...

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1813

The London Society for the Encouragement of Faithful Female Servants was founded.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1813: Elizabeth Gurney Fry first visited Newgate...

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1813

Elizabeth Gurney Fry first visited Newgate Prison in London; horrified at conditions there, she began providing food and education for female and child prisoners, and agitated for prison reform.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Rose, June. Elizabeth Fry. Macmillan, 1980.
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