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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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By May 1816: Samuel Taylor Coleridge published (together)...

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By May 1816

Samuel Taylor Coleridge published (together) Christabel, Kubla Khan, and The Pains of Sleep.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 3 (1816): 504-10
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

By May 1816: William Hazlitt edited, completed, expanded,...

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By May 1816

William Hazlitt edited, completed, expanded, and published The Life of Thomas Holcroft, which had been left unfinished when the radical Thomas Holcroft died.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 3 (1816): 434-51
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
xv

5 May 1816: John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print...

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5 May 1816

John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print with a sonnet entitled O Solitude in Leigh Hunt 's Examiner.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
279
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
5 May 2011

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 8 May 1816

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Author event in Hester Lynch Piozzi

8 May 1816

HLP , urgently in need of cash, sold the contents of Streatham Park, which were carefully listed room by room for this purpose.
Wall, Cynthia. “The English Auction: Narratives of Dismantlings”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
31
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 1-25.
12-13

Lady Caroline Lamb: 9 May 1816

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Author event in Lady Caroline Lamb

9 May 1816

LCL published, anonymously in three volumes through Henry Colburn , her first and most controversial novel, Glenarvon.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
184
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 433

Jane Austen: Spring 1816

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Author event in Jane Austen

Spring 1816

JA first mentioned feeling ill; that summer, aged forty, she already suspected she might not recover.
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
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
379

Medora Gordon Byron: By June 1816

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By June 1816

A Modern Antique (which has until recently been interpreted as a pseudonym for Miss Byron or MGB) published The Spinster's Journal: doubly pseudonymous, since at the end she signs it as her narrator,...

Jane Harvey: By June 1816

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By June 1816

JH returned to the castle titles of her early career with Brougham Castle, A Novel, in two volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 431
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 4 (1816): 102

J. S. Anna Liddiard: By June 1816

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By June 1816

JSAL published her Theodore and Laura, A Tale, as part of a composite volume with her husband 's Mont St. Jean, A Poem (and, unmentioned on the title-page, her own Ode on the Year...

Christian Milne: June 1816

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June 1816

CM was visited at her home by the novelist and travel-writer Elizabeth Isabella Spence (who was Scots-born though living in England, and who took a great interest both in her life-story and in her poetry).
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.
52

June 1816: Lady Isabella King opened at Bailbrook House...

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June 1816

Lady Isabella King opened at Bailbrook House near Bath a communal home for single gentlewomen (or Protestant nunnery): a project going back to Mary Astell , which King picked up from Sarah Scott 's Millenium Hall.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Grace Aguilar: 2 June 1816

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Author event in Grace Aguilar

2 June 1816

GA was born at Hackney in North London.
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
137
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.

Catherine Hutton: 13 June 1816

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13 June 1816

CH wrote to the publisher Baldwin that Longman's had invited her to contribute to a female paper bearing the names of Barbauld , Inchbald , Edgeworth , and Hamilton .
Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers, 1891.
159

: The launching of the first Rhine pleasure...

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Spring 1816

The launching of the first Rhine pleasure boat powered by steam amazed onlookers and was reported in newspapers. The first cross-Channel steamer began operating the same year.
Lessenich, Rolf. “Literary Views of English Rhine Romanticism 1760-1860”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
10
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1999, pp. 480-18.
490, 499
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
135

Mary Shelley: 16 June 1816

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16 June 1816

MS , during a wakeful night at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva, saw in a waking dream, with shut eyes, but acute mental vision, the figures which became the two protagonists, creator and...

Eliza Meteyard: 21 June 1816

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21 June 1816

EM was born in Lime Street, Liverpool, the only girl in a family of six children.
Allibone wrongly dates her birth as 1822.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

Selina Davenport : By July 1816

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By July 1816

SD 's next novel, The Original of the Miniature, was published in only four volumes, with the author's name and mention of previous works.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 429-30

Barbara Hofland: By July 1816

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By July 1816

BH published Matilda; or, The Barbados Girl, a Tale for Young People: the title varied in different printings, sometimes omitting Matilda.
Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
42 (1816): 50
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.

Christian Isobel Johnstone: Summer 1816

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Summer 1816

The novelist Elizabeth Isabella Spence stayed with CIJ in Dunfermline; she knew Johnstone's first novel and called her home the abode of genius.
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.
303

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: 7 July 1816

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7 July 1816

RBS , playwright, theatre manager, and politician, died in London.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
478
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

9 July 1816: The port city of Buenos Aires formally declared...

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9 July 1816

The port city of Buenos Aires formally declared its independence from Spain, which it had been striving for since the upheaval of the Peninsular War. A constitution for a federal nation of Argentina did not...

Elizabeth Hamilton: 23 July 1816

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Author event in Elizabeth Hamilton

23 July 1816

EH died at Harrogate in Yorkshire.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-50.
50

Margaret Holford, the younger : By late July 1816

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By late July 1816

Margaret Holford the younger issued a second verse romance, Margaret of Anjou, in ten cantos.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 548
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Joanna Baillie: July 1816

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July 1816

JB , with her mother and sister , left England for a tour of the Continent, including the battlefield of Waterloo, the Rhine, the Alps, Geneva, and Paris.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 354

Sarah Harriet Burney: Summer 1816

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Author event in Sarah Harriet Burney

Summer 1816

SHB suffered an unnamed illness which was treated with leeches.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
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