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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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Charlotte Nooth: By August 1816

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By August 1816

CN followed her poetry volume with Eglantine; or, The Family of Fortescue, an unusual novel whose dedication to Lady Shepherd is dated 20 July.
Lady Shepherd is presumably Lady Mary Shepherd, who published philosophical...

Hannah More: 12 August 1816

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12 August 1816

This was the first day on which children born in Ceylon were no longer born into domestic slavery: HM celebrated this in a poem.
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
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By 16 August 1816: It was reported that 3,000 emigrants from...

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By 16 August 1816

It was reported that 3,000 emigrants from Britain and Ireland to the USA had become destitute there and applied to the consul in New York to be assisted home.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
86 (1816): 269, 361

28 August 1816: The Dey or Governor of Algiers signed a peace...

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28 August 1816

The Dey or Governor of Algiers signed a peace treaty with England and Holland, one article of which decreed an end to the practice of making slaves of Christians captured in battle.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
86 (1816 no. 2): 354-5

Jane Taylor: By September 1816

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By September 1816

JT 's Essays in Rhyme, on Morals and Manners, finished that spring, were published with her name.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 4 (1816): 269
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
141

Harriet Beecher Stowe: September 1816

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September 1816

When Harriet Beecher (later Stowe) was five years old, her mother, Roxana Beecher , died of consumption.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Eliza Fay: 9 September 1816

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9 September 1816

EF died in Calcutta, where she had arrived again in May, leaving no money and no will.
Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, 1925, pp. 7-24.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: By October 1816

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By October 1816

Elizabeth Thomas published her eighth and last Minerva Press title, again as Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle: Claudine; or, Pertinacity. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 453-4

Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: By October 1816

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By October 1816

With Purity of Heart; or, The Ancient Costume. A Tale (and with a different publisher and different pseudonym), Elizabeth Thomas entered the specific battle-ground surrounding Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 438

Mrs Ross: : By October 1816

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By October 1816

MR published, with her name and reference to earlier titles, The Balance of Comfort; or the Old Maid and Married Woman. A Novel; the title-page said 1817.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 452

Mary Shelley: 9 October 1816

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9 October 1816

Fanny Imlay , sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and elder daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft , killed herself in a boarding-house in Swansea.
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
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16 October 1816: At Derby thirty-five rioters went on trial...

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16 October 1816

At Derby thirty-five rioters went on trial for treason; nineteen were sentenced to hang.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.

Mary Matilda Betham: By late 1816

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By late 1816

Matilda Betham published The Lay of Marie , A Poem, dedicated to Lady Bedingfield and advertising itself as from a diss. by G. de la Rue on Marie de France, and abstracts of her lays.
Lamb, Charles, 1775 - 1834, and Mary, 1764 - 1847 Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Jr, Cornell University Press, 1975, 3 vols.
3: 236
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.

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: November 1816

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November 1816

DPC dated the introduction to her second edition of Poems, published by subscription at London that year, in octavo.
Campbell, Dorothea Primrose. Poems. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1816.
Introduction

Melesina Trench: After 1 November 1816

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After 1 November 1816

MT 's Campaspe, an Historical Tale, And Other Poems appeared at Southampton, bearing the previous year's date.
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Second edition, revised, Parker and Bourn, 1862.
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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.

Emma Parker: By November 1816

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By November 1816

EP published with Egerton a novel entitled Self-Deception. In a Series of Letters, in only two volumes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 4 (1816): 511

Eliza Fenwick: 12 November 1816

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12 November 1816

EF 's eighteen-year-old son, Orlando (who just a few days before had been fizzing with health and dawning business success), died of yellow fever in Barbados.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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15 November 1816: A meeting was held at Spa Fields in Bristol,...

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15 November 1816

A meeting was held at Spa Fields in Bristol, with the object of starting a petition for various reforms including general male suffrage.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.

Sir Walter Scot : By December 1816

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By December 1816

Walter Scott published his short novel Old Mortality, pseudonymously (as Jedediah Cleishbotham), with The Black Dwarf, in the first series of Tales of My Landlord.
Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
(1817) 42: 548

Ann Hatton: December 1816

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December 1816

AH issued through Minerva , anonymously except for reference to her previous works, her four-volume Gonzalo de Baldivia; or, A Widow's Vow. A Romantic Legend, published with 1817 on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 447

Hannah More: By December 1816

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By December 1816

HM told Sir John Addington that she had hastily scribbled a poetic Address to the Spa Fields Meeting to offset a gathering in Bristol which she regarded as seditious.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
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Hannah More: 11 December 1816

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11 December 1816

HM told Sir John Addington she had rewritten one of the earlier Cheap Repository Tracts (the famous Village Politics, now titled The Village Disputants) to fit the new political and economic situation.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
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Mary Shelley: 30 December 1816

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30 December 1816

Mary and Percy Shelley were married at St Mildred's Church in London.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
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Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Catherine Maria Grey: 30 December 1816

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30 December 1816

CMG was married at Marylebone in London to John Grey , who at the time of the wedding was a Captain in the 10th Regiment of Hussars (which had fought at Waterloo). She had the...

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: Between 1817 and 1821

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Between 1817 and 1821

DPC corresponded with Walter Scott , who offered moral and some material support.
Scott, Sir Walter. “Papers of Sir Walter Scott”. MSS 3278. 102, 3888.20, 3890. 89, 208, 261, National Library of Scotland, 1817.