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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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1813: An Act of Parliament conferred legal status...

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1813

An Act of Parliament conferred legal status on the Unitarians by absolving them of the official charge of blasphemy.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
67

1813: The monthly Female Preceptor, essays on the...

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1813

The monthly Female Preceptor, essays on the duties of the female sex, conducted by a lady and dedicated to Hannah More , began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
216
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.

1813: The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society for...

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1813

The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society for the Visiting, Relieving, and Investigating the Condition of the Poor (founded the previous year) raised £38 by holding a charity bazaar in London.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
49-50, 244

1813: Dulwich Picture Gallery in the London borough...

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1813

Dulwich Picture Gallery in the London borough of Southwark was designed by architect Sir John Soane as the world's first purpose-built public art gallery.
Beard, Mary. “Half-Wrecked”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 24-5.
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1813: Robert Owen published A New View of Soci...

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1813

Robert Owen published A New View of Society.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
727

1813: The Shetland poet Margaret Chalmers (born...

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1813

The Shetland poet Margaret Chalmers (born at Lerwick in 1858 and left in poverty with her sisters and aged mother after the death of their brother William at the battle of Trafalgar) published her Poems...

Jane Austen: 28 January 1813

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28 January 1813

JA 's second completed novel was published: Pride and Prejudice, finally revised from First Impressions in 1811-1812.
Margaret Holford the elder had used the title First Impressions; or, The Portrait in 1801.
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
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Selina Davenport : Early 1813

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Early 1813

SD 's first novel, published as by a Lady, bore the elaborate title of The Sons of the Viscount and the Daughters of the Earl. A Novel, depicting Recent Scenes in Fashionable Life and...

Mrs Ross: : By February 1813

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By February 1813

MR published one of her two Minerva books of this year, The Strangers of Lindenfeldt; or, Who is my Father? A Novel, with her name and mention of her previous novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 388

Regina Maria Roche: By February 1813

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By February 1813

RMR published through the Minerva PressThe Monastery of St. Columb; or, The Atonement, A Novel, in five volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 387

23 February 1813: William Elmes published in Caricature Magazine...

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23 February 1813

William Elmes published in Caricature Magazine a print entitled Exporting Cattle Not Insurable, showing sailors taking prostitutes on board ship.
McCreery, Cindy. “True Blue and Black, Brown and Fair: prints of British sailors and their women during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 135-52.
140-1, 151 n19

Isabella Hamilton Robinson: 27 February 1813

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27 February 1813

Isabella Hamilton Walker (who later wrote as IHR ) was born in Bloomsbury, London.
Summerscale, Kate. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace. 1st ed., Bloomsbury USA, 2012.
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William Wordsworth: March 1813

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Author event in William Wordsworth

March 1813

WW was appointed Distributor of Stamps for Westmorland, a job with the Internal Revenue which involved collecting the tax payable on stamps for various official documents.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 244

Harriette Wilson: March 1813

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March 1813

HW set out from Charmouth in Dorset for Falmouth in Cornwall with the intention of sailing to Lisbon to rejoin the Marquess of Worcester , only to hear that he had eloped with another mistress.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Mary Somerville: 5 March 1813

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Author event in Mary Somerville

5 March 1813

MS gave birth to her daughter Margaret.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Janet Little: 15 March 1813

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15 March 1813

JL died in Causey Head at Loudoun Castle, Galston.
Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, 1976, pp. 78-91.
88-9

Maria Edgeworth: 30 March 1813

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30 March 1813

ME , with her parents and a sister, crossed the Irish Channel, travelling to London by way of Wales, Liverpool, Manchester, Shrewsbury, Derby, and Cambridge.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: April 1813

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April 1813

EOB published, with her name, her second novel, The Heart and the Fancy, or Valsinore, a Tale.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 3: 447

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : April 1813

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April 1813

The Curate and his Daughter: a Cornish Tale, a fourth novel by EIS , appeared, mentioning four of her previous titles.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 388-9

Mrs Ross: : April 1813

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April 1813

MR published what seems to have been her second novel this year, The Marchioness!!! or, "The Matured Enchantress".
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 3 (1813): 448
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 387-8

Barbara Hofland: April 1813

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

April 1813

BH published The Sisters. A Domestic Tale, with a title-page quotation from Zimmerman .
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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28 April 1813: The Act to build Regent Circus (now Regent...

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28 April 1813

The Act to build Regent Circus (now Regent Street), a grand shopping thoroughfare, was brought before parliament; construction was completed in 1820.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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29 April 1813: Ghanshyam Surmono gave British District Magistrates...

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29 April 1813

Ghanshyam Surmono gave British District Magistrates in India instructions on the correct legislative attitude and procedure towards the practice of sati or suttee, the death by fire of a widow at her husband's funeral.
Mani, Lata. Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. University of California Press, 1998.
110, 113-14

Maria Susanna Cooper: May 1813

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May 1813

Robert Bransby Cooper published another posthumous short novel or novella by his mother, MSC : The Wife, or Caroline Herbert, which he had revised in manuscript.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3 (May 1813): 560
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 703

Hannah Cowley: By April 1813

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By April 1813

HC 's Works, including the plays already printed, three long poems, and some short unpublished pieces, appeared posthumously in three volumes with an anonymous memoir of her.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 3 (1813): 447