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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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Germaine de Staël: May 1813

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May 1813

GS left Coppet, eluding Napoleon 's spies, and travelled to St Petersburg through countries not yet under his sway (Austria, Bohemia, and Poland); she then visited Stockholm.
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, 2001, pp. 12-35.
31-2

Catherine Hutton: 1 May 1813

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1 May 1813

CH dated her dedication to her beloved and respected Father of The Miser Married: A Novel, which was published by July with her name.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 383

4 May 1813: Ann Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury,...

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4 May 1813

Ann Moore , the fasting woman of Tutbury, signed her mark to a confession that she had not, as claimed, lived for long periods entirely without nourishment.
A Full Exposure of Ann Moore: The Pretended Fasting Woman of Tutbury. 3rd, with additions, Printed for the author and sold by R. Baldwin and T. Wayte, 1813.
22, 3-4, 19-20
Hollis, Karen. “Fasting Women: Bodily Claims and Narrative Crises in Eighteenth-Century Science”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 523-38.
531-4

5 May 1813: Søren Kierkegaard, existentialist philosopher,...

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5 May 1813

Søren Kierkegaard , existentialist philosopher, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the youngest of his parents' seven children.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
300

Lady Caroline Lamb: 10 May 1813

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10 May 1813

After almost a year's separation, Byron and LCL had a meeting brokered by Lady Melbourne and Lady Bessborough with the idea of convincing Caroline that the affair was over.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
148-9

10 May to 14 August 1813: The British Institution held a retrospective...

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10 May to 14 August 1813

The British Institution held a retrospective exhibition of 141 paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds at its Pall Mall Picture Galleries: a major event of the social season, both cultural and patriotic.
Barchas, Janine. What Jane Saw. 2013, http://www.whatjanesaw.org.

13 May 1813: Henry Grattan's Catholic Emancipation Bill...

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13 May 1813

Henry Grattan 's Catholic Emancipation Bill (introduced on 30 April) was deferred for lack of support in Parliament.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
106
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: By May 1813

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By May 1813

Sydney Morgan and her husband moved to 35 Kildare Street, Dublin, a newly-fashionable street in which the Shelbourne Hotel was to be built eight years later.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 28
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
121-2

Amelia Opie: June 1813

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June 1813

AO published Tales of Real Life in three volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 3 (1813): 666

Germaine de Staël: 18 June 1813

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18 June 1813

GS arrived in London in the course of her lengthy second exile from France, this time as an antibonapartist.
Staël, Germaine de. Dix années d’exil. Treuttel and Würtz, 1821.
xviii
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
125

William Edmonstoune Aytoun: 21 June 1813

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21 June 1813

WEA , poet, was born at Edinburgh.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

21 June 1813: The British victory at the aptly-named Vitoria...

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21 June 1813

The British victory at the aptly-named Vitoria ended the Peninsular War by driving the French out of Spain.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
12

Anna Swanwick: 22 June 1813

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22 June 1813

AS was born in Liverpool, the youngest in a family of three daughters.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
12

Joanna Baillie: 29 June 1813

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29 June 1813

Through her friendship with Mary Berry , JB met Germaine de Staël .
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
45

Germaine de Staël: July 1813

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July 1813

GS , Réflexions sur le suicide (Reflections on Suicide), was published in London after first appearing in Sweden.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
74
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 4 (1813): 112

Felicia Hemans: By mid 1813

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By mid 1813

Arthur Wynne , the eldest of FH 's five sons, was born at her new home in Daventry, Northamptonshire, within a year of her wedding.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Barbara Hofland: July 1813

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July 1813

BH published with G. and S. Robinson the epistolary Iwanowna; or, The Maid of Moscow. A Novel; the title-page identifies her only by a list of some of her previous work.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 381
Feminist Companion Archive.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1 July 1813: The Charter Act proclaimed the undoubted...

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1 July 1813

The Charter Act proclaimed the undoubted sovereignty of the Crown of the United Kingdom
Marshall, Peter James. Problems of Empire: Britain and India, 1757-1813. Allen and Unwin, 1968.
31
over British India, removing from the East India Company its trade monopoly in that country. .
Marshall, Peter James. Problems of Empire: Britain and India, 1757-1813. Allen and Unwin, 1968.
31, 101
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
83 (1813): ii: 69

By July 1813: Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale...

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By July 1813

Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale in verse, written from late 1812 to early 1813, in a deliberately unfinished state.
The Edinburgh Review. A. and C. Black.
21 (1813): 299-309
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
150-1

Henrietta Sykes: 23 July 1813

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23 July 1813

HS died, after making her will while she was gravely ill.
S.: anciently of Flockton, in the Parish of Thornhill . . . A Narrative Genealogy. 1865.

By August 1813: Some materials from John Aubrey's archive...

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By August 1813

Some materials from John Aubrey 's archive on famous persons, later known as Brief Lives, were published.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 4 (1813): 223
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Bennett, Kate. “John Aubrey’s Collections and the Early Modern Museum”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xvii
, No. 3-4, Apr.–Oct. 2001, pp. 213-34.
n2

Robert Southey: August 1813

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August 1813

RS was appointed Poet Laureate on the death of Henry James Pye .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

August 1813: The Critical Review published its first welcome...

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August 1813

The Critical Review published its first welcome to Eaton Stannard Barrett 's famous parody of sentimental novels, The Heroine, or Adventures of the Fair Romance Reader.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 4 (1813): 223, 623-9
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: September 1813

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September 1813

The Ladies' Monthly Museum printed its first two poems by DPC : To Oscar and To the Sun, of which she chose to reprint only the second (in her second collection).
Walker, Constance. “Dorothea Primrose Campbell: A Newly Discovered Pseudonym, Poems and Tales”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
21
, No. 4, Nov. 2014, pp. 592-08.
606

Isabella Kelly: September 1813

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September 1813

IK published her first fiction for eight years: Jane de Dunstanville; or, Characters As They Are, a Novel, for the author, by J. Souter.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 4 (1813): 335
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.