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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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Amelia Beauclerc: By January 1816

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By January 1816

AB published with the Minerva Press , as the author of Montreithe, Husband Hunters!!! A Novel
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 427
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.

Mary Bryan: 1816

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Author event in Mary Bryan

1816

A work by MB 's friend, patron, and future second husband, James Bedingfield , was printed by her press, in her name.
Waldron, Mary, and Isobel Grundy. Letter about Mary Bryan to Isobel Grundy. 2000.

Georgiana Chatterton : 1816

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Author event in Georgiana Chatterton

1816

Georgiana Iremonger (later GC ) attended a school at Winchester in Hampshire.
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
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Charlotte Dacre: 1816

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Author event in Charlotte Dacre

1816

CD 's The Libertine was translated into French as Angelo, comte d'Albine; ou, Les dangers du vice.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36.
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Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 1816

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1816

Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire re-issued her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard at Paris with her own Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland.
Bess's work...

Harriet Downing: 1816

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1816

HD issued by subscription her first volume: Mary; or, Female Friendship: A Poem in Twelve Books, with her full name, printed for the author.
Downing, Harriet. Mary; or, Female Friendship. James Harper, 1816.
title-page

Eliza Dunlop: 1816

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Author event in Eliza Dunlop

1816

Eliza Law (later ED ) bore her daughter Mary Sophia Georgina Law at Coleraine in northern Ireland.
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm.

Maria Edgeworth: 1816

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Author event in Maria Edgeworth

1816

R. Hunter , successor to Joseph Johnson , issued ME 's father 's Readings on Poetry, with a preface and final chapter by Maria.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
505

Frances Wright: 1816

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1816

FW and her sister Camilla moved from Glasgow to London, in search of an occupation which would be socially beneficial.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Helen Maria Williams: 1816

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1816

HMW published at London a book entitled On the Late Persecution of the Protestants in the South of France.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Helen Maria Williams: January 1816

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January 1816

The Lady's Monthly Museum did a disapproving biographical sketch of HMW .
Michael-Johnston, Georgina. Helen Maria Williams: Liberty, Sensibility, and Education. University of Alberta, 1998.
140

Priscilla Wakefield: 1816

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1816

PW published An Introduction to the Natural History and Classification of Insects.
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.

Anna Jane Vardill: January 1816

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January 1816

With The Invisible Cap. A Tradition of Tabby-Hall, AJV opened a European Magazine series which, she said, began when the hermitage of the previous series was seized by a group of spinsters, who left...

Melesina Trench: 1816

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1816

MT published, again at Southampton, a tract entitled Thoughts on Education, by a Parent, rather more substantial than most of her locally-published pamphlets.
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.

Ann Martin Taylor: 1816

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1816

AMT published The Present of a Mistress to a Young Servant, Consisting of Friendly Advice and Real Histories—a book designed to be given to servants by their employers.
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.

Elizabeth Strutt: Probably between 1816 and 1818

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Probably between 1816 and 1818

Elizabeth Byron married, as her second husband, Jacob George Strutt , an etcher, artist, and writer from Colchester in Essex.
Living Authors, 1816, calls her a widow; she was Mrs. Strutt when she...

Mary Stockdale: 1816

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1816

Presumably driven by the need to earn money for herself and her mother, MS followed her father and brother into the family trade by opening a bookshop and publishing business in Piccadilly.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Stockdale
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.

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1816

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1816

MMS returned from India to England with her husband, her three surviving younger children, and two orphan girls.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
509, 515

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1816

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1816

MAS published Narrative of the Demolition of the Monastery of Port Royal des Champs, including biographical memoirs of its latter inhabitants.
Port Royal was demolished in 1709 by order of Louis XIV .
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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.

Amelia Opie: 1816

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Author event in Amelia Opie

1816

AO published a novel, Valentine's Eve, which a recent critic has called a pious but confused melodrama.
qtd. in
Thame, David. “Amelia Opie’s Maniacs”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 309-26.
312

Anne Hart Gilbert: 1816

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1816

AHG and her sister Elizabeth Hart Thwaites founded the Female Refuge Society of Antigua .
Ferguson dates this 1815, but an earlier editor said 1816.
Ferguson, Moira, editor. The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
55, 112

Christian Gray: 1816-26

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Author event in Christian Gray

1816-26

These were years of successive droughts in Scotland; at some time during the decade CG 's family farm failed.
Drummond, Peter Robert. Perthshire in Bygone Days: One Hundred Biographical Essays. W. B. Whittingham, 1879.
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Ann Hatton: By January 1816

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By January 1816

AH , as Anne of Swansea, published with Minerva her five-volume Chronicles of an Illustrious House; or, The Peer, the Lawyer, and the Hunchback. A Novel: a satirical, à clef attack on many...

Felicia Hemans: 1816

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1816

FH 's The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy, A Poem was published as by a Lady; for the second, revised, edition she switched to John Murray as her publisher.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Hemans, Felicia. The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy. W. Baxter, 1816.

Barbara Hofland: 1816

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1816

The same year that BH took in her husband's illegitimate son, she and her family moved out from London to Twickenham.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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