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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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Anne Plumptre: July 1814-September 1814

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Author event in Anne Plumptre

July 1814-September 1814

AP made the first of several tours in Ireland: to Dublin, Belfast, and Carrickfergus.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
xxvii

Sarah Green: By July 1814

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Author event in Sarah Green

By July 1814

SG apparently revised and published a work left behind by a deceased fellow-author: The Carthusian Friar; or, The Mysteries of Montanville. A Posthumous Romance.
Green, Sarah. “Introduction: Romantic Reading and Writing: The Creation and Consumption of the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel; A Note on the Text”. Romance Readers and Romance Writers, edited by Christopher Goulding, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. ix - xxii, xxix-xxxi.
x and n15
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : By July 1814

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By July 1814

LMH collaborated with her brother Henry in writing and publishing Sermonets.
The original Dictionary of National Biography ascribed these to Henry alone.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
12 (1814): 257

Barbara Hofland: By July 1814

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

By July 1814

BH published, with the Minerva Press , dedicated by permission to the queen , A Visit to London; or, Emily and her Friends. A Novel.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 104
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
4

Elizabeth Meeke: By July 1814

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By July 1814

Still under her own name, EM varied the appearance of her next work by reverting to a one-word title: Conscience. A Novel.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 102

Sir Walter Scot : 7 July 1814

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Author event in Sir Walter Scot

7 July 1814

Walter Scott caused a sensation with Waverley, his first novel, a historical work published anonymously with a dedication to the sentimental novelist Henry Mackenzie .
Manning, Susan. “Julie de Roubigné: Last Gasp, or First Fruits?”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
24
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 161-73.
164

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 11 July 1814

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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert

11 July 1814

ATG registered strong professional objection to the new editor of the Eclectic Review polishing her style: sentences weakened down to rule, till they are ready to die.
qtd. in
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 287

Ellis Cornelia Knight : 12 July 1814

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12 July 1814

ECK was dismissed from the service of Princess Charlotte , the month after the princess had broken off her engagement to William, Prince of Orange .
Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960.
186

Mary Shelley: 28 July 1814

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28 July 1814

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley met in Hatton Garden, London, to elope to France; with them went her stepsister, Claire Clairmont .
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
41
Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 297-08.
298

Eliza Fenwick: August 1814

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Author event in Eliza Fenwick

August 1814

EF , after many doubts about whether to join her daughter, Eliza Anne , in Barbados, embarked with her son Orlando on the two-month voyage there.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Harriette Wilson: By August 1814

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By August 1814

HW had moved from London, where it appeared her best days of celebrity were over, to Paris, settling at 35 rue de la Paix.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
143-5

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: After 1 August 1814

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After 1 August 1814

SSW published with her name a characteristic, 31-page chapbook, The Spectres; or, Lord Oswald and Lady Rosa, including an account of the Marchioness of Civetti. . . . An Original Romantic Tale.
The date...

Priscilla Wakefield: By August 1814

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By August 1814

PW published The Traveller in Africa, Containing some Account of the Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, and Inhabitants, again a compilation from published writings by others.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 216

Mary Shelley: August to September 1814

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August to September 1814

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , Shelley , and Claire Clairmont travelled through France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
41

Anne Grant: August 1814

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August 1814

AG lost two more children: a daughter, Anne, who died in Scotland, and Duncan, who died at Surat in India. News of his death did not reach her until much later.
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
282

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : By August 1814

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By August 1814

LMH published, again with her name and with Rivington , the novel Rosanne; or, A Father's Labour Lost.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 215

Lady Caroline Lamb: August 1814

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August 1814

LCL was visiting Paris, where the Bourbon monarchy had just been restored. She was in the train of the Duke of Wellington , who had been appointed ambassador there (and had received his ducal...

Probably August 1814: William Wordsworth published his poem The...

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Probably August 1814

William Wordsworth published his poem The Excursion.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 260

6 August 1814: Byron published Lara, the third of three...

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6 August 1814

Byron published Lara, the third of three narrative poems in little more than a year which served to establish the image of the Byronic hero.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 203, 214
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
6 August 2008

7 August 1814: Pope Pius VII re-established the order of...

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7 August 1814

Pope Pius VII re-established the order of the Jesuits , and Roman Catholic missionary work began again with vigour.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
336
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
64, 83
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

13 August 1814: The Dutch colony of the Cape of Good Hope...

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13 August 1814

The Dutch colony of the Cape of Good Hope was ceded to Britain.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

28 August 1814: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, novelist, short...

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28 August 1814

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , novelist, short story writer and journalist, was born at Dublin.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Ellen Weeton: Biography: September 1814

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Author event in Ellen Weeton: Biography

September 1814

EW married Aaron Stock of Wigan.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
2: 134
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998.
382

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: By September 1814

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By September 1814

Elizabeth Thomas , as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle, published her sixth Minerva Press work: The Prison-House; or, The World We Live In. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 406

Jane Harvey: September 1814

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September 1814

JH published a gossipy, domestic novel, Records of a Noble Family.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 398