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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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Charlotte Brontë: 23 April 1814

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

23 April 1814

Maria Brontë , the eldest of the Brontë children, was baptized.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
59

Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: By May 1814

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Author event in Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

By May 1814

EOB published Klopstock and His Friends: A Series of Familiar Letters, written between the years 1750 and 1803: her own translation.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5: 558

Sarah Trimmer: By May 1814

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By May 1814

Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Sarah Trimmer, With Original Letters, and Meditations and Prayers, selected from her journal appeared posthumously.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 559

Anne Grant: By May 1814

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By May 1814

AG published with her name Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A Poem, in Two Parts, dedicated to Charles Grant Jr, Esq., MP.
Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, 1972, p. ix - xxxvi.
xxvii
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 557

Adelaide O'Keeffe: By May 1814

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By May 1814

AOK published a two-volume work of fictionalised ancient history, Zenobia , Queen of Palmyra: A Narrative, Founded on History.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 560

After May 1814: A new Copyright Act was passed, which gave...

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After May 1814

A new Copyright Act was passed, which gave authors protection for twenty-eight years, or their lifetime, whichever was the longer.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1814): 610
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
171

Grace Elliott: Later 1814

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Later 1814

Some time following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, GE returned from England to France. (Louis XVIII re-entered Paris on 2 May.)
Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press, 1955.
151-2

2 May 1814: A committee charged with investigating abuses...

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2 May 1814

A committee charged with investigating abuses at Bedlam made a visit of inspection and found inmates treated like vermin.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
112-13

Mary Shelley: 5 May 1814

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5 May 1814

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley renewed their acquaintance after her second return from Dundee.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Jane Austen: 9 May 1814

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9 May 1814

JA 's Mansfield Park was published, probably about six months after its acceptance.
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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Germaine de Staël: 12 May 1814

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12 May 1814

GS returned to Paris from exile in England after the abdication of Napoleon .
Staël, Germaine de. Dix années d’exil. Treuttel and Würtz, 1821.
xviii
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
125

Harriet Downing: 23 May 1814

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23 May 1814

HD 's husband, George William Downing , declared bankruptcy.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Lucy Aikin: 28 May 1814

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28 May 1814

Henry Crabb Robinson , visiting LA with Charles and Mary Lamb , reported Aikin as admiring both the wit and the fine face of Lamb.
qtd. in
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.
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Maria Callcott: By June 1814

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By June 1814

MC published at London, as Maria Graham, a guidebook: Letters on India.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 654

Joanna Baillie: June to October or November 1814

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June to October or November 1814

JB and her mother and sister travelled for some months in Wales.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 194-5

8 June 1814: Novelist and playwright Charles Reade was...

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8 June 1814

Novelist and playwright Charles Reade was born at Ipsden House, Ipsden, Oxfordshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Mary Stockdale: 21 June 1814

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21 June 1814

The death of MS 's father made a sad change . . . in her affairs, and left her to support her aged Widowed Mother and herself.
Stockdale, Mary. A Wreath for the Urn. Mary Stockdale, 1818.

22 June 1814: In a civic procession at Taunton in Somerset,...

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22 June 1814

In a civic procession at Taunton in Somerset, to mark the end of the war, six women's friendly societies marched alongside male trade and professional groups.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
237

Mary Shelley: 26 June 1814

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26 June 1814

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , over her mother 's grave in St Pancras churchyard, told Percy Bysshe Shelley that she loved him.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xv

30 June 1814: A petition against the re-opening of the...

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30 June 1814

A petition against the re-opening of the slave trade by the restored French monarchy was presented to the House of Lords .
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
354

Maria Edgeworth: By July 1814

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By July 1814

ME published a Continuation of Early Lessons.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
505
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 102

Harriette Wilson: 1 July 1814

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1 July 1814

A masquerade ball was held at Burlington House, Piccadilly, to celebrate the abdication of Napoleon and his confinement on the island of Elba: this was HW 's last grand public appearance.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
140

Jane West: By July 1814

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By July 1814

JW published with her name Alicia de Lacy. An Historical Romance; she dated her introduction 7 March and the work was advertised as in press the next month.
Longman listed it in a flyer...

Melesina Trench: After July 1814

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After July 1814

MT launched her career as a pamphleteer with the three-page leaflet A Few Words on the Subject of the Slave Trade, addressed to English Women, published by J. Brettell in London.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth, Smith: After 1 July 1814

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After 1 July 1814

Posthumous publications by Elizabeth Smith were completed with A Vocabulary, Hebrew, Arabic and Persian, edited by John Frederick Usko .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.