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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 Shelley: 13 September 1814

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13 September 1814

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , Shelley , and Claire Clairmont returned from abroad, in financial straits, to London, where they lived in a series of lodgings.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Helen Maria Williams: 14 September 1814

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14 September 1814

Henry Crabb Robinson visited HMW and recorded his impressions in his diary.
Michael-Johnston, Georgina. Helen Maria Williams: Liberty, Sensibility, and Education. University of Alberta, 1998.
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Ann Candler: 16 September 1814

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16 September 1814

AC died in her late sixties.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Barbara Hofland: Late 1814

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Late 1814

BH published, with her name and mention of previous publications, Ellen, the Teacher, a Tale for Youth.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
65

Amelia Beauclerc: By October 1814

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By October 1814

AB published anonymously (without mention of any earlier novels) through the Minerva Press , Montreithe; or, The Peer of Scotland. A Novel, in four volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 423
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 394

Elizabeth Beverley: By October 1814

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By October 1814

Reviews of EB 's solo stage performances appeared in the English provincial press.
Beverley, Elizabeth. The Indefatigable. Printed for the authoress, Wilson, 1830.
end-pages

Amelia Opie: By October 1814

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By October 1814

A three-volume publication entitled Duty. A Novel appeared as by the late Mrs. Roberts , author of Rose and Emily, wife of a Surrey clergyman, which was edited with an introductory memoir by AO .
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 403-4

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 7 October 1814

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7 October 1814

ATG bore her eldest son—after which she maintained in a series of happy letters that surely of the pleasures attending this time of peril the one-half was not told me.
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: 291

Jane West: 18 October 1814

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18 October 1814

Two people at Cheltenham, signing themselves E. and A. H., wrote a poem On receiving a Lock of Mrs. West's Hair; the Gentleman's Magazine printed it that month.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
84 (1814)ii: 366

Mercy Otis Warren: 19 October 1814

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19 October 1814

MOW died in Boston aged eighty-six.
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
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By 19 October 1814: The Episcopal Church in India was founded,...

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By 19 October 1814

The Episcopal Church in India was founded, with Thomas Fanshaw Middleton installed as the subcontinent's first Anglican bishop.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
227
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
76
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
82 (1814): i: 337

Mary Shelley: 22 October to 9 November 1814

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22 October to 9 November 1814

Percy Shelley (who was living with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ) spent these weeks in hiding in order to avoid arrest for debt.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45.
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Hannah More: 25 October 1814

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25 October 1814

Sir John Addington took the first portion
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
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of HM 's An Essay on the Character and Practical Writings of Saint Paul to London for her, to her publisher Cadell .
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
155
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Selina Davenport : By November 1814

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By November 1814

With her second book, The Hypocrite; or, The Modern Janus. A Novel (five volumes in length) SD became a Minerva Press author.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 395

Anna Jane Vardill: November 1814

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November 1814

AJV 'sThe Outcast, an Indian Tale (signed V.) became the first of a series in the European Magazine which ran until May 1815. Lomond's Isle. A Scotch Tale appeared in January, Count Bertram...

Anna Maria Porter: By November 1814

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By November 1814

AMP turned to Scandinavia for her next novel, The Recluse of Norway.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 529

Elizabeth Meeke: By November 1814

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By November 1814

EM published, again under her own name, a work of topical fiction, The Spanish Campaign. A Novel, re-issued very shortly as The Spanish Campaign; or, The Jew. A Novel.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 520, 616

November 1814: The Times made newspaper production more...

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November 1814

The Times made newspaper production more efficient and cost-effective through the introduction of a steam press; this was the first time this technology had been commercially used.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
133
Marchand, Leslie Alexis. The Athenæum: A Mirror of Victorian Culture. Octagon, 1971.
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Emily Shirreff: 3 November 1814

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3 November 1814

ES was born, the second in a family that totalled six children.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Hester Lynch Piozzi: Late 1814

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Late 1814

About five years into her second widowhood, HLP settled inexpensively in lodgings in Bath, at 17 New King Street.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
435

Frances Burney: 11 November 1814

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11 November 1814

FB and her husband returned to France, leaving their son at Cambridge University (where he had opted to remain) and intending to settle.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
355

Mary Brunton: December 1814

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December 1814

MB published her second novel, Discipline, as the author of Self-Control; the preface is dated November this year.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 394
Brunton, Alexander, and Mary Brunton. “Memoir”. Emmeline, Manners and Miller; John Murray, 1819.
lxvi

Medora Gordon Byron: By December 1814

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By December 1814

Miss Byron (later referred to as MGB ), published The Bachelor's Journal, inscribed or dedicated (without permission) to the Girls of England, with 1815 on its title-page.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 613

Mrs Ross: : By December 1814

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The mysterious MR published with her name Paired—Not Matched; or, Matrimony in the Nineteenth Century. A Novel in four volumes, with 1815 on its title-page.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1813): 616
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 419

Sarah Green: By December 1814

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By December 1814

SG , as the author of Private History and Romance Readers and Romance Writers, published The Fugitive; or, Family Incidents, with 1815 on its title-page.
Green, Sarah. The Fugitive; or, Family Incidents. Black, Parry, and Co., 1815, 3 Vols.
title-page
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 616