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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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Mary Russell Mitford: By September 1813

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By September 1813

MRM published another volume of poetry, Narrative Poems on the Female Character, in the Various Relations of Human Life, dedicated to Lord Holland .
It was mentioned as in the press by the Gentleman's...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: By September 1813

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By September 1813

PBS published his long poem Queen Mab, following quickly on Byron 's The Giaour.
Granniss, Ruth S. A Descriptive Catalogue. The Grolier Club, 1923.
28-9

Henrietta Battier: Autumn 1813

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Autumn 1813

HB died in Sandymount, Dublin.
O’Donoghue, David James. The Poets of Ireland. Gale Research, 1968.

Catherine Cuthbertson: By October 1813

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By October 1813

CC published with Robinson and Cradock and Joy , in five volumes, Adelaide; or, The Counter-Charm. A Novel, anonymously but for mention of her previous titles.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 378
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
(1813) 4th ser. 4: 559

Germaine de Staël: October 1813

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October 1813

GS 's De l'Allemagne (Germany), a work on German culture and politics suppressed by Napoleon , was finally published by John Murray at London, from a copy of proofs which she had hidden.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
69-70, 75
Lessenich, Rolf. “Literary Views of English Rhine Romanticism 1760-1860”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
10
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1999, pp. 480-18.
490
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
138

Regina Maria Roche: October 1813

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October 1813

RMR published through the Minerva Press , with her name, a historical novel entitled Trecothick Bower; or, The Lady of the West Country. A Tale; the title-page said 1814.
Bibliographers Deborah McLeod and...

Barbara Hofland: By October 1813

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By October 1813

BH published The Merchant's Widow and her Family. A Novel, with a title-page quotation from Samuel Johnson and a date of 1814.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 4 (1813): 448

Barbara Hofland: October 1813

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October 1813

BH published with the Minerva Press a novel for adults entitled Patience and Perseverance; or, The Modern Griselda. A Domestic Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 381
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
62

Harriet Jacobs: Autumn 1813

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Autumn 1813

HJ was born at Edenton, North Carolina, the elder of two children.
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Editor Yellin, Jean Fagan, Harvard University Press, 1987.
223

10 October 1813: Mark Pattison, future Tractarian, scholar,...

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10 October 1813

Mark Pattison , future Tractarian , scholar, author, and Oxford academic, was born at Hornby in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Fanny Holcroft: November 1813

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November 1813

FH 's first novel, The Wife and the Lover, in three volumes, was listed as published under the name of Miss Holcroft. Volumes two and three bore the date 1814.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 382

Cassandra, Lady Hawke: 13 November 1813

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13 November 1813

Cassandra, Lady Hawke , died some months short of her sixtieth birthday.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Anna Jane Vardill: November 1813

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November 1813

Another of AJV 's contributions to the European Magazine appeared signed with her full initials: Epitaph designed for William Franklin , Esq. late Governor of New Jersey: Ob. Nov. 16, aged 82.
De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine. Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826. 2007, http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag/.

29 November 1813: Byron published The Bride of Abydos; the...

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29 November 1813

Byron published The Bride of Abydos; the Critical Review printed its notice the following month.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 4 (1813): 653-8
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Maria Edgeworth: December 1813

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December 1813

ME brought out Patronage, a large, ambitious novel set in England, which she had begun twenty-six years before and concentrated on since May 1809.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
211
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. ix - xlvii.
xlvi

Anne Plumptre: December 1813

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December 1813

AP published Travels in the Morea, Albania, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire, translated from the French of François Charles Pouqueville .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 4 (1813): 604

Grace Elliott: 10 December 1813

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10 December 1813

GE 's daughter, Georgiana , died following a fall while she was pregnant.
Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books, 2016.
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16 December 1813: The Common Council of the City of London...

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16 December 1813

The Common Council of the City of London heard a petition from householders in the principal City streets against prostitutes plying their trade there.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Ann Taylor Gilbert: 24 December 1813

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24 December 1813

Ann Taylor married the Rev. Joseph Gilbert , a childless widower and classical tutor at RotherhamTheological College .
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
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Eliza Fenwick: 28 December 1813

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28 December 1813

EF 's daughter advertised in the Barbados Mercury-Gazette a new girls' school in Bridgetown, Barbados, which she would run with Fenwick (who, however, only arrived to join her nearly a year later).
Paul, Lissa. “Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840): Morality, Motherhood and the Colonial Encounter in Early Nineteenth Century Bridgetown”. Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Vol.
57
, 2011, pp. 98-112.
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By late 1813: The York County Hospital relented and allowed...

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By late 1813

The York County Hospital relented and allowed lady visitors access to its patients.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
141

Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: 1814

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1814

EMA re-used material from her Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople in what she called a second edition of it, with some additional letters, whose title-page reads Letters from the Right Honorable Lady Craven to...

Medora Gordon Byron: January 1814

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January 1814

A second novel appeared as by a Modern Antique, who has (much later) been identified as Miss Byron and with MGB: The English Exposé; or, Men and Women Abroad and At Home.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 395

Jane Welsh Carlyle: By 1814

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By 1814

By the age of thirteen, Jane Welsh had written a novel, which does not survive and was never published.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990.
108
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
81

Harriet Corp: 1814

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1814

HC , as the author of Cottage Sketches and other works, published another didactic work, Familiar Scenes, Histories, and Reflections.
This work is not mentioned in Garside et al., The English Novel. The...