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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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1814: With encouragement from the Archbishop of...

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1814

With encouragement from the Archbishop of Dublin, Francis Ball returned to the Bar Convent at York (where she had been a pupil) as a novice, with the purpose of qualifying herself to improve the...

1814: A British soldier in Palermo in Sicily sold...

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1814

A British soldier in Palermo in Sicily sold his wife for two pounds to a drummer, who soon sold her on to the regimental armourer.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
50

Ellen Wood: 17 January 1814

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17 January 1814

Ellen Price (later EW ) was born at Worcester, the eldest in her family, born (as recent research has revealed) only two months after her parents' wedding.
While the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...

Jane Austen: 21 January 1814-29 March 1815

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Author event in Jane Austen

21 January 1814-29 March 1815

JA precisely dated the fourteen months it took her to write Emma.
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.
9, 10
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
24

Elizabeth Hervey, 1748 - 1820: : January 1814

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January 1814

Elizabeth Hervey published her final novel, Amabel; or, Memoirs of A Woman of Fashion, to which for the first time she set her name (on the dedication, not the title-page).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 107
Garside, Peter. “The English Novel in the Romantic Era: Consolidation and Dispersal”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 2: 15 - 103.
2: 399

Margaret Catchpole: 31 January 1814

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31 January 1814

Governor Lachlan Macquarie of New South Wales granted MC a full pardon.
“Margaret Catchpole Papers, 1797-1917; 1801-1870”. State Library of New South Wales: PICMAN Database.

Lucy Aikin: By February 1814

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By February 1814

LA anonymously published her only novel, Lorimer, A Tale.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 222

James Malcolm Rymer: Biography: 1 February 1814

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1 February 1814

JMR was born in the Holborn district of London. He was baptized on the 30th of October at St Andrew's, Holborn, the same church where Ann Ward (later famous as the gothic novelist Ann...

February 1814: Severe cold weather gave an opportunity for...

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February 1814

Severe cold weather gave an opportunity for the first frost fair in London since 1788: from Blackfriars Bridge a double line of stalls set up on the ice did a roaring trade.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
134

1 February 1814: The first number appeared of the New Monthly...

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1 February 1814

The first number appeared of the New Monthly Magazine: published initially by Henry Colburn , it was said to be the earliest monthly to incorporate a miscellany of articles.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
459-60
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
179, 180n4

1 February 1814: Byron published his oriental narrative poem...

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1 February 1814

Byron published his oriental narrative poem The Corsair, which was a huge and immediate success.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 144-55, 222
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.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
1 February 2008

9 February 1814: Mary Balfour's Kathleen O'Neil. A Grand National...

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9 February 1814

Mary Balfour 's Kathleen O'Neil. A Grand National Melo Drame had its opening performance at the Belfast theatre.
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.
“Kathleen O’Neil by George Pepper”. Forgotten Books.

Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan: 27 February 1814

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27 February 1814

Margaret Bingham, Countess of Lucan , died in St James's Place, London after fifteen years as a widow.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
8: 238

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : By March 1814

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By March 1814

EIS issued at London The Spanish Guitar: A Tale for the use of Young Persons. It is now rare; the only copy listed in OCLC WorldCat was published at Boston, with her name...

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 1 March 1814

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1 March 1814

Sydney Morgan dated her preface to O'Donnel: A National Tale, her first novel since her marriage, which appeared the same month.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 335
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. O’Donnel. Henry Colburn, 1814, 3 vols.
xii

Frances Burney: 28 March 1814

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28 March 1814

FB published her last novel, The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties, with a lengthy dedication to her father .
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
317

31 March 1814: The victorious allied armies entered Paris...

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31 March 1814

The victorious allied armies entered Paris to reclaim France for monarchical government.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
13
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
17: 48

Maria Edgeworth: April 1814-early 1816

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April 1814-early 1816

ME was distracted from her writing by concern for her father 's health: he was suffering painful bouts of intestinal and kidney disease.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
233-4

Catherine Fanshawe: Spring 1814

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Spring 1814

The letter that CF wrote about her first meeting with Germaine de Staël (also, apparently, her first meeting with Byron ) concentrates firmly on de Staël: Eloquence is a great word, but not too big...

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: Probably about June 1814

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Probably about June 1814

MAS , on a tour of Holland, Flanders, and France after the end of the war, visited Zeist near Utrecht and fed her interest in the Moravians .
Zeist was a leading centre of the Dutch Moravians.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858, 2 vols.
2: 84
Empaytaz, Henri Louis, and Lewis Way. Some Particulars relating to the late Emperor Alexander. Translator Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne, 1830.
40-3

Ann Hatton: By April 1814

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By April 1814

AH , as Ann of Swansea, published with the Minerva PressConviction; or, She Is Innocent! A Novel, respectfully dedicated to an unnamed Friend (male).
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 398

Elizabeth Helme: Probably April 1814

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Probably April 1814

There appeared bearing EH 's name Modern Times; or, The Age We Live In. A Posthumous Novel. The dedication, by permission, to Countess Cowper (wife of the fifth earl) was signed by William Helme

1 April 1814: The Gas, Light and Coke Company began to...

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1 April 1814

The Gas, Light and Coke Company began to lay gas mains made of cast-iron pipe in Westminster.
Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.
510
Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
25
Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
4: 269

Mary Bryan: Before 6 April 1814

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Before 6 April 1814

MB 's husband, Edward Bryan , died intestate; he left Mary his executrix, but also left her and her six children to the care of James Bedingfield .
Bryan, Mary, and Jonathan Wordsworth. Sonnets and Metrical Tales 1815. Woodstock Books, 1996.
iv-v
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Orlando about Mary Bryan, Helen Maria Williams. 8 Mar. 2010.

Fanny Kingsley : 13 April 1814

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13 April 1814

FK was born at Taplow House, near Maidenhead in Buckinghamshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Frances Eliza Kingsley