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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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Louisa Stuart Costello: 1814

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1814

Following her father's death, LSC moved with her mother and brother to Paris.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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.

Helen Maria Williams: 1814

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1814

HMW published a translation from the French of Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland : Researches, Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Ann Martin Taylor: January 1814

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January 1814

AMT (mother of Ann and Jane Taylor ) published with her name Maternal Solicitude for a Daughter's Best Interests.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 108

Robert Southey: 1814

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1814

RS published the narrative poem Roderick, the Last of the Goths.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe: 1814

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1814

EPS kept another extant diary, of a tour made in Wales. Another similar one survives, written in the year 1831.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lydia Howard Sigourney: 1814

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1814

Lydia Howard Huntley (later LHS ) opened a school for girls (her second) in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, which offered a progressive curriculum of more than merely ornamental learning.
Kunitz, Stanley J., and Howard Haycraft, editors. American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. H. W. Wilson, 1938.
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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.

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1814

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1814

MMS 's Little Henry and His Bearer was printed at Wellington in Shropshire.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mrs Ross: : By January 1814

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By January 1814

MR published The Modern Calypso; or, Widow's Captivation, A Novel.
The non-modern Calypso alluded to is the island enchantress in Homer 's Odyssey, who keeps Odysseus in thrall for seven years. This novel...

Emma Robinson: 1814

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1814

ER was born in London.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988.

Mary Prince: By about 1814

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By about 1814

MP managed to get herself sold to owners at St George's, Antigua; manumission was easier to arrange in Antigua than in Bermuda.
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
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Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Routledge, 1992.
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Anna Maria Porter: 1814

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1814

AMP published Tales of Pity on Fishing, Shooting and Hunting. Intended to Inculcate in the Mind of Youth, Sentiments of Humanity Toward the Brute Creation.
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.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Amelia Opie: 1814

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1814

AO accepted a proposal of marriage from a nobleman, Lord Herbert Stuart ; but she later broke off the engagement.
Stuart, the second son of the fourth Earl (later the first Marquess) of Bute, was...

Elizabeth Helme: By 1814

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EH died. The precise date has not yet been established, but a work of 1812 was published without the designation posthumous which appears on Modern Times, 1814.
The Feminist Companion gives the date as...

Margaret Holford, the elder: 1814

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1814

Another five-act comedy by the elder Margaret Holford , The Way to Win Her, published in The New British Theatre, seems to be her latest recorded work.
Holford, Margaret, the elder. “The Way to Win Her”. The New British Theatre, edited by John Galt, Valpy, 1814, pp. 401-72.
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Christian Isobel Johnstone: 1814

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1814

Christian Isobel McLeish (later Johnstone) anonymously issued what may or may not be her first book: a four-volume novel, The Saxon and the Gael; or, The Northern Metropolis: including a view of the Lowland and...

Fanny Kemble: 1814

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1814

FK was sent to an elegant school for young ladies
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
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in Bath.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
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Isabella Lickbarrow: 1814

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1814

IL published with her name at Kendal, by subscription and in order to raise money for herself and her orphan sisters, a volume entitled Poetical Effusions.
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.

Anne Lister: By 1814

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By 1814

Some years after her first sexual experience with Eliza Raine , AL had become the lover of Marianna Belcome, later Lawton .
Lister, Anne. No Priest But Love. Editor Whitbread, Helena, New York University Press, 1992.
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Hannah More: January 1814

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January 1814

There appeared anonymously another response to HM 's novel, this time supportive, which has been mistakenly attributed to her: Coelebs Married. Being Intended as a Continuation of Coelebs in Search of a Wife.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 107

1814: A Parliamentary Select Committee reported...

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1814

A Parliamentary Select Committee reported on the issue of vagrancy, as did another in 1821.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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January 1814: Exceptionally cold weather led to a celebratory...

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January 1814

Exceptionally cold weather led to a celebratory ice fair on the frozen Thames at London, with ox-roasts on the ice.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
156

1814: Johann Bernhard Logier's invention of the...

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1814

Johann Bernhard Logier 's invention of the chiroplast (a device for placing on the keyboard of an instrument which forced the fingers into the correct position) revolutionised the teaching of the piano and related instruments.
Ruwe, Donelle. “Girls Play Pianos, but Boys Shouldn’t Play Flute: Late Eighteenth-Century Radical Music Masters and the Novels of Adelaide O’Keeffe”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 31 Mar. 2005.

1814: The York Lunatic Asylum began to allow access...

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1814

The York Lunatic Asylum began to allow access to charitable female visitors.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1814: John Colin Dunlop published The History of...

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1814

John Colin Dunlop published The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age.
Warner, William Beatty. Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750. University of California Press, 1998.
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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.

1814: George Stephenson's first steam railway engine...

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1814

George Stephenson 's first steam railway engine made successful trials.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.