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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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January 1816: William Cobbett in the Political Register...

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January 1816

William Cobbett in the Political Register made an offer to help Gentlemen in England and America, respectively, acquire the publications of the other country.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
461

Mary Shelley: 24 January 1816

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Author event in Mary Shelley

24 January 1816

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley) bore a son, whom she named William after her father .
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
41

Jane Taylor: From February 1816

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Author event in Jane Taylor

From February 1816

JT began writing as Q. Q. for The Youth's Magazine; her contributions continued until December 1822, and were collected in 1824.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
137n1

Tabitha Tenney: 6 February 1816

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Author event in Tabitha Tenney

6 February 1816

TT 's husband, Samuel Tenney , died. There was a proposal soon afterwards for writing his biography, but it seems to have come to nothing.
“Tenney, Samuel, (1748-1816)”. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Oxford University Press, 1986.
190, n69

15 February 1816: Lord Elgin petitioned the House of Commons:...

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15 February 1816

Lord Elgin petitioned the House of Commons : he wanted to compel the British Museum to buy his collection of ancient Greek artefacts, the Elgin Marbles (especially the famous frieze from the Parthenon in Athens).
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
282-6
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
132

Anne Bannerman: Early 1816

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Author event in Anne Bannerman

Early 1816

AB was instrumental in securing the papers of John Leyden (linguist, poet, and friend of Walter Scott , with whom she had had some kind of close relationship) for the use of James Morton ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: March 1816

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Author event in Percy Bysshe Shelley

March 1816

PBS published Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude; and other Poems.
Granniss, Ruth S. A Descriptive Catalogue. The Grolier Club, 1923.
38

Catherine Hutton: 1816

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Author event in Catherine Hutton

1816

William Hutton 's autobiography appeared the year following his death, in a form edited, completed, and published by his daughter, CH .
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.

2 March 1816: The publishing firm of Crosby went bankr...

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2 March 1816

The publishing firm of Crosby went bankrupt.
Caplan, Clive. “Jane Austen’s Banker Brother: Henry Thomas Austen of Austen and Co., 1801-1816”. Persuasions, Vol.
20
, 1998, pp. 69-90.
86

Maria Grey: 7 March 1816

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7 March 1816

Maria Shirreff (later Grey) was born the third of four surviving daughters; her two brothers had died during childhood.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
7, 9

14 March 1816: Dr Samuel Merriman demonstrated that stillborn...

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14 March 1816

Dr Samuel Merriman demonstrated that stillborn and maternal mortality rates had declined from 1657 to 1815.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Jane Austen: 15 March 1816

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15 March 1816

JA suffered financial loss (though less than other family members) when her brother Henry 's bank failed.
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.
10
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
26

Jane Austen: 1 April 1816

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1 April 1816

JA declined James Stanier Clarke 's invitation to write a historical romance about the royal house of Saxe-Coburg—which would have been radically unlike her almost-finished Persuasion.
The invitation was intended to compliment Princess Charlotte

Charlotte Brooke: After April 1816

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After April 1816

CB 's Reliques of Irish Poetry, was reprinted by subscription in a second Dublin edition, octavo, with the substantial A Memoir of Miss Brooke, dated in April, by Aaron Crossley Seymour .
Behrendt, Stephen C. “Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period: A different sort of other”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
12
, No. 2, 2005, pp. 153-75.
167
Brooke, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry, edited by Lesa Ni Mhunghaile, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2009, p. xxv - xliv.
xxxi
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.

Helen Maria Williams: April 1816

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April 1816

Sydney Morgan visited HMW , one of the idols of her girlhood,
Stevenson, Lionel. The Wild Irish Girl: The Life of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1776-1859). Reissued, Russell and Russell, 1969.
169
and was disappointed to find her a bulky, formless and faded old woman.
qtd. in
Stevenson, Lionel. The Wild Irish Girl: The Life of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1776-1859). Reissued, Russell and Russell, 1969.
170

Mary Somerville: April 1816

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Author event in Mary Somerville

April 1816

MS and her family moved to 12 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, after her husband was offered the post of Principal Inspector of the Army Medical Board.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
104, 106
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
211
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
10-11

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: April 1816

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April 1816

Sydney Morgan and her husband visited France, staying, mainly in Paris, for several months.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
137

Hannah Mary Rathbone: 8 April 1816

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8 April 1816

Hannah Mary Reynolds , aged seventeen, married her cousin Richard Rathbone , who was eleven years older.
“Papers of the Family of Richard Rathbone (RP VII)”. University of Liverpool Library, Special Collections and Archives: The Rathbone Papers.

14 April 1816: On Easter Day in Barbados a Black slave named...

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14 April 1816

On Easter Day in Barbados a Black slave named Bussa led about four hundred of his fellow workers in a rebellion which had been carefully planned several days before.
“Caribbean History. Black History. Barbados. Bussa”. itzcaribbean.com 2012, 2012.

14 April 1816: Bussa's Rebellion began in Barbados....

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14 April 1816

Bussa 's Rebellion began in Barbados.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
183
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
275

Charlotte Brontë: 21 April 1816

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21 April 1816

Charlotte Brontë , the third daughter in the family, was born in Thornton, near Bradford, in Yorkshire.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
71

George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron: 25 April 1816

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25 April 1816

Lord Byron sailed from Dover, four days after signing the separation papers which ended his marriage; he never returned to England.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “On Top of Everything”. London Review of Books, 16 Sept. 1999, pp. 12-13.
12

Mary Shelley: May-August 1816

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May-August 1816

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her family were abroad again, spending the summer on Lake Geneva, mostly at the historic Villa Diodati.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
41
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xvi
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
117-25
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
107

Lady Caroline Lamb: By Spring 1816

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By Spring 1816

LCL 's mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne , and sister-in-law, Lady Emily Cowper (later Palmerston) , were said to be seriously trying to end LCL 's marriage to William Lamb because of her notoriety.
Douglass, Paul. “Playing Byron: Lady Caroline Lambs Glenarvon and the Music of Isaac Nathan”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
8
, 1997, pp. 1-24.
3
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
160, 179-80

May 1816: Princess Charlotte (daughter of the Prince...

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May 1816

Princess Charlotte (daughter of the Prince of Wales ) married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg .
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
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