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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 Hays: 1815

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Author event in Mary Hays

1815

MH published The Brothers; or, Consequences. A Story of What Happens Every Day.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Barbara Hofland: By January 1815

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

By January 1815

BH published, with the Minerva Press , a four-volume novel, A Father as He Should Be, dedicated to Princess Elizabeth (one of the daughters of George III).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 1 (1815): 84
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
66

Anna Brownell Jameson: Perhaps 1815

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Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson

Perhaps 1815

Anna Brownwell Murphy (later ABJ ) published A First or Mother's Dictionary for Children. If this date is correct, her first job as a governess had just ended.
It is the Osborne Collection and...

Deborah Norris Logan: 1815

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Author event in Deborah Norris Logan

1815

DNL began writing a diary, which she kept for the remaining twenty-four years of her life; its seventeen volumes survive (with her other papers) at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania .
Premo, Terri L. “’Like A Being Who Does Not Belong’: The Old Age of Deborah Norris Logan”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.
107
, No. 1, Jan. 1983, pp. 85-112.
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James, Edward T. et al., editors. Notable American Women, 1607-1950. Harvard University Press, 1971, 3 vols.

Anne Mozley: 1815

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Author event in Anne Mozley

1815

AM moved with her family, as a child, from Gainsborough in Lincolnshire to Derby, where she spent most of her life.
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.

1815: Sister Mary Aikenhead founded the Order of...

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1815

Sister Mary Aikenhead founded the Order of the Irish Sisters of Charity in Dublin, primarily to provide home nursing for the poor; later the Order played an important part in girls' education.
Scanlan, Pauline. The Irish Nurse: A Study of Nursing in Ireland. Drumlin, 1991.
61
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
89, 99
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
201

: Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in...

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Winter 1814-15

Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in Brighton during the winter season in order to have access to the Prince Regent and attempt a conversion within the monarchy.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
35-6

1815: Advertising Duty went up from three shillings...

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1815

Advertising Duty went up from three shillings to three shillings and sixpence.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
25

1815: A woman called Miss Morgan printed a pamphlet...

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1815

A woman called Miss Morgan printed a pamphlet entitled The Gaol of the City of Bristol compared with what a Gaol ought to be: an indictment of prison conditions.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
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1815-1818: British magistrates were alarmed to find...

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1815-1818

British magistrates were alarmed to find that the incidence of sati in India was rapidly rising; in the first three years of data collection, the number of women burned rose from 378 to 839.
Mani, Lata. Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. University of California Press, 1998.
111-12

1815: Elizabeth Appleton published Private Education;...

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1815

Elizabeth Appleton published Private Education; or a Practical Plan for the Studies of Young Ladies. With an address to parents, private governesses, and young ladies.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
1-2

1815-22: Jean Lamarck's Histoire naturelle des animaux...

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1815-22

Jean Lamarck 's Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres (Natural History of Invertebrates), published over these years, was the first work to distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
282
Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
353, 360
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1815: Joseph Dufour of Paris, manufacturer of scenic...

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1815

Joseph Dufour of Paris, manufacturer of scenic panoramic wallpapers, issued a set of Views of India; he said such subjects aimed to bring the peoples of the world closer together.
Garnett, Oliver. “Paper Chase”. The National Trust Magazine, Vol.
90
, 1 June 2000–2026, p. 88.
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1815: The Soho Bazaar in Soho Square, London, became...

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1815

The Soho Bazaar in Soho Square, London, became the first of its kind established in the city.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1815: The Guardian Society was founded, with the...

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1815

The Guardian Society was founded, with the aim of clearing the City of London of vice.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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1815: District officials in India, after consulting...

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1815

District officials in India, after consulting with the Nizamat Adalat, decreed that widows with children below three years of age had to arrange for the children's welfare before committing sati or suttee.
Mani, Lata. Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. University of California Press, 1998.
110-11

By 1815: The number of capital crimes in Britain reached...

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By 1815

The number of capital crimes in Britain reached about 225 separate offences: up by at least sixty over the last fifty years, after rising steeply even before that.
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
165

1815: Robert Owen, in a ground-breaking pamphlet,...

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1815

Robert Owen , in a ground-breaking pamphlet, Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System, called for regulation of the employment of children in factories.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
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George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron: 2 January 1815

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2 January 1815

Lord Byron 's marriage to Annabella Milbanke was at least in part engineered by Lady Melbourne , mother-in-law of Lady Caroline Lamb . Annabella had refused Byron once before she accepted him.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
128-30, 134-5

8 January 1815: The battle of New Orleans was fought between...

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8 January 1815

The battle of New Orleans was fought between the British and the Americans, the last in the war of 1812.
Dupuy, R. Ernest, and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present. 2nd ed., Jane’s, 1986.
802, 804

Emma Parker: By February 1815

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Author event in Emma Parker

By February 1815

EP published with her name, through William Lindsell , The Guerilla Chief. A Novel, in three volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 1 (1815): 211

Ann Taylor Gilbert: February 1815

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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert

February 1815

ATG wrote about an overdue review: As to Miss Edgeworth, I feel in despair, for I cannot seclude myself, and nurse up my mind as I have always found necessary to composition.
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: 295

Ann Hatton: February 1815

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Author event in Ann Hatton

February 1815

AH published with Minerva , as Anne of Swansea, Secret Avengers; or, The Rock of Glotzden. A Romance, in four volumes, dedicated to the actress and author Catherine Smith .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 415

After February 1815: The Gaol Fees Abolition Act was passed following...

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After February 1815

The Gaol Fees Abolition Act was passed following its second reading on February 22.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
160-2
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
267-8
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
85 (1815): i: 263

Charlotte Brontë: 8 February 1815

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

8 February 1815

Elizabeth Brontë , the second of the Brontë children, was born.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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