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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: August 1815

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August 1815

After visiting the south-west coast during the summer, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Shelley set up home in Bishopsgate, London.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Charlotte Nooth: By August 1815

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By August 1815

CN 's volume of Original Poems appeared by subscription, bearing her name and a dedication to her late father , with a reminder that he had been surgeon to the Duke of Kent .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 2 (1815): 222

1 August 1815: The surveyor William Smith dated his first-ever...

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1 August 1815

The surveyor William Smith dated his first-ever geological map of Britain; the national Geological Society cold-shouldered him and published its own map, five years later, which was essentially a plagiarism of his.
Fortey, Richard. “Prophet of the Rocks”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 27-8.
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Winchester, Simon. The Map that Changed the World. HarperCollins, 2001.
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
5: 442

1 August 1815: The Apothecaries' Act was went into effect;...

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1 August 1815

The Apothecaries' Act was went into effect; it created a licensing system for apothecaries.
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
85 (1815): ii : 510

Jane Austen: 8 August 1815-6 August 1816

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8 August 1815-6 August 1816

JA began and finished Persuasion in less than a year, having completed her draft on 18 July 1816 and rewritten its conclusion.
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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August 1815: The Critical Review began the marketing ploy...

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August 1815

The Critical Review began the marketing ploy of monthly listings of Works in the Press; it ceased publication not long after this, in June 1817.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 2 (1815): 223
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.

Lady Eleanor Butler: 20 August 1815

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20 August 1815

Harriet Pigott , travelling in Europe, sent rare bulbous roots to LEB and Sarah Ponsonby for their garden.
Pigott, Harriet. The Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832, 2 vols.
2: 155

Mary Martin: 28 August 1815

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28 August 1815

MM was born at Ballynahinch Castle in Galway, Ireland; she was an only child.
Boylan, Henry, editor. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2nd ed., St Martin’s Press, 1988.

By July 1815: A Parliamentary Select Committee investigating...

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By July 1815

A Parliamentary Select Committee investigating potential ways to regulate the country's madhouses and improve their management published its first report.
Bynum, William F. “Rationales for Therapy in British Psychiatry, 1780-1835”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 35-57.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 2: 336

September 1815: The Irish Legion which had fought in Napoleon's...

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September 1815

The Irish Legion which had fought in Napoleon 's armies against England was disbanded; many of these soldiers emigrated to the USA.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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Judith Sargent Murray: 3 September 1815

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3 September 1815

John Murray , husband of JSM , died at Boston, six years after his disabling stroke.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
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Selina Davenport : By October 1815

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By October 1815

SD issued Donald Monteith, The Handsomest Man of the Age, another five-volume novel, with her name and mention of earlier publications.
A year before this Amelia Beauclerc had published, also with the Minerva Press

Mrs Ross: : By October 1815

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By October 1815

MR published with her name The Family Estate; or, Lost and Won. A Novel, with the Minerva Press .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 419

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 17 October-26 November 1815

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17 October-26 November 1815

Elizabeth Barrett visited Paris briefly with her parents shortly after France opened up to English travellers with the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
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Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 26 October 1815

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26 October 1815

MBF made what appears to be her last diary entry, recording her sense of the presence of Christ as well as of the nearness of death. She lived about six more weeks.
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837.
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Mary Bryan: By November 1815

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By November 1815

MB published her Sonnets and Metrical Tales when she was a widow.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.

Frances Jacson: By November 1815

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By November 1815

FJ published, with Colburn , Rhoda, a novel in three volumes, by the author of Things By Their Right Names, Plain Sense, &c.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 2 (1815): 560

Adelaide Kemble: 6 November 1815

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6 November 1815

AK was born at Covent Garden Chambers in London, the youngest of five children (one of whom died young).
Older reference sources mostly give a wrong year for her birth.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Austen: 15 November 1815

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15 November 1815

About a month before Emma appeared (on 23 December, with 1816 on its title-page), JA wrote to ascertain whether it was actually incumbent on
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Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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her to dedicate it to the Prince of Wales .
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Sarah Harriet Burney: 28 November 1815-30 December 1819

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28 November 1815-30 December 1819

SHB published two short novels grouped under a single title: Tales of Fancy.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
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Hester Lynch Piozzi: By December 1815

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By December 1815

HLP finished writing her last major work, left unfinished and unpublished: Lyford Redivivus; or, A Grandame's Garrulity: a study of proper names, signed An Old Woman.
Her title alludes to Edward Lyford 's...

Leah Sumbel: 4 December 1815

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4 December 1815

LS did imitations at the Haymarket (where she had made her London stage debut) for the benefit of her eighty-four-year-old mother.
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.

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 8 December 1815

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8 December 1815

MBF died after thirty years of widowhood, of respiratory disease.
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. Vignettes. Alexander Strahan, 1866.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Augusta Ada Byron: 10 December 1815

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10 December 1815

AAB , the only legitimate child of the poet Byron and later a remarkable mathematician, was born at 13 Piccadilly Terrace, London.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Maria Theresa Kemble: 12 December 1815

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12 December 1815

MTK appeared in her dramatic comedy Smiles and Tears; or, The Widow's Stratagem.
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.
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