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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 Leadbeater: Probably late 1814

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Probably late 1814

ML published at Dublin and LondonTales for Cottagers, Accomodated to the Present Condition of the Irish Peasantry, which included some pieces written by her mother, Elizabeth Shackleton .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 401

Joanna Southcott: 4 December 1814

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4 December 1814

JS , who had announced that despite her age she was pregnant with divine issue, fell gravely ill.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
208

Eleanor Tatlock: 5 December 1814

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5 December 1814

Eleanor Tatlock was married to a clergyman, the Rev. John Wilson, at Matlock in Derbyshire. She was his second wife.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Eleanor Tatlock. 17–18 Aug. 2016.

Hannah Kilham: 5 December 1814

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5 December 1814

HK wrote in her diary: Are not Friends peculiarly called upon to act as school missionaries?—that is to work for African education.
qtd. in
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
95

Elizabeth Moody: 10 December 1814

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10 December 1814

EM died at Turnham Green, near London.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
84 (1814): 2: 613

24 December 1814: The Treaty of Ghent ended the British-US...

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24 December 1814

The Treaty of Ghent ended the British-US war, or War of 1812; Britain re-acquired all the territories it had held before the war.
Dupuy, R. Ernest, and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present. 2nd ed., Jane’s, 1986.
804

Joanna Southcott: 27 December 1814

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27 December 1814

JS , widely seen as a female Messiah, died: her 100,000 followers (this was said to be their number in London alone) waited four more days, hoping for a posthumous childbirth.
She was said to...

Margaret Bryan: 1815

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1815

MB published the last of her three books, A Comprehensive Astronomical and Geographical Class Book for the use of Schools and Private Families.
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.

Jane Welsh Carlyle: By 1815

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By 1815

The young Jane Welsh (later Carlyle) had composed a five-act tragedy of extreme bloodiness.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990.
108

Mary Charlton: 1815

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1815

A Mrs Charlton who may well be MC edited and published Pathetic Poetry for Youth, Calculated to Awaken the Sympathetic Affections.
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.

Louisa Stuart Costello: 1815

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1815

LSC , still in her teens and living in Paris after her father's death, published her first volume of poetry, The Maid of the Cyprus Isle, and Other Poems.
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.

Lady Mary Wroth: 1815

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1815

Sir Egerton Brydges reprinted extracts from LMW 's Urania.
Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
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Jane West: 1815

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1815

JW published her next and shorter novel anonymously: Vicissitudes of Life; Exemplified in the Interesting Memoirs of a Young Lady, in a Series of Letters.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 422

Melesina Trench: 1815

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1815

MT published at Bath, for the benefit of the House of Protection there, Ellen, a Ballad, Founded on a Recent Fact, And Other Poems
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.

Jane Taylor: 1815

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1815

JT 's Display. A Tale for Young People, was published with her name.
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.

Ann Martin Taylor: By January 1815

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By January 1815

AMT published Practical Hints to Young Females, on the Duties of a Wife, a Mother, and the Mistress of a Family.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 1 (1815): 86

Henrietta Sykes: 1815

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1815

Hymns and Poems on Moral Subjects, which appeared by subscription this year, has been attributed to HS (who died in 1813), but is not by her.
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.

Leah Sumbel: 1815

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1815

LS , being destitute, claimed some money from the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund ; the fund responded by allotting her an annuity of £55 a year.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Eleanor Sleath: 1815

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1815

ES used different publishers, Black and Co. and J. Harris , for her final work, Glenowen; or, The Fairy Palace. A Tale, published with four pages of engraved plates.
This work is not listed...

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1815

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1815

MAS published, with her name, an illustrated work of aesthetics: Theory on the Classification of Beauty and Deformity.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Ann Radcliffe: 1815

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1815

AR 's Poems were published without her knowledge or consent.
Her biographer Rictor Norton believes, however, that her husband may have consented.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
232-3

Eleanor Anne Porden: 1815

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1815

EAP published, with her name, The Veils; or, The Triumph of Constancy. A Poem, in Six Books.
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 Grant: 1815

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1815

AG and her remaining family moved to a house in Princes Street, Edinburgh.
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
284

Elizabeth Grant: 1815

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1815

EG was forced to renounce a passionate love because of violent hatred between the fathers of herself and her lover, an animosity that had been strong ever since the fathers' college days.
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Tod, Andrew, Canongate, 1988, 2 vols.
2: 14-22

Elizabeth Gunning: 1815

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1815

The last novel by Elizabeth Plunkett née Gunning came out under two titles—The Man of Fashion, A Tale of Modern Times and The Victims of Seduction; or, Memoirs of a Man of Fashion, A...