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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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Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1817

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1817

Jane Welsh (later JWC ) attended Miss Hall's Finishing School at Edinburgh.
Hanson, Lawrence, and Elisabeth Hanson. Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Octagon Books, 1975.
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Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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Emily Frederick Clark : 1817

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1817

EFC dedicated by permission to Colonel, later Sir John, McMahon (with gratitude in her woe) a volume of seven short fictions, Tales at the Fire Side; or, A Father and Mother's Stories.
McMahon (whom...

Eliza Fay: 1817

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Author event in Eliza Fay

1817

EF 's Original Letters from India, left unfinished at her death, were posthumously published at Calcutta.
Fay, Eliza, and E. M. Forster. Original Letters from India. Hogarth Press, 1925.
25

Helen Maria Williams: 1817

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Author event in Helen Maria Williams

1817

HMW and John Hurford Stone became naturalized French citizens.
Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints, 1977.
183

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : 1817

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1817

The final travel book by EIS , Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816, used letters sent to Jane Porter during her journey.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.
prelims v

Jane Porter: January 1817

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January 1817

JP published another historical novel, The Pastor's Fire-Side.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 5 (1817): 101

Anne Plumptre: 1817

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1817

AP published a Narrative of a Residence in Ireland.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
xxviii

Sarah Pearson : 1817

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1817

SP settled in a cottage in the village of Wentworth in Yorkshire (a village which was also home to the estate and immense mansion Wentworth Woodhouse). The cottage was provided for her by her...

Emma Parker: 1817

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1817

EP published with Egerton a volume of essays written at various periods, entitled Important Trifles: Chiefly Appropriate to Females on their Entrance into Society.
Parker, Emma. Important Trifles. T. Egerton, 1817.
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qtd. in
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Elizabeth Heyrick: 1817

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1817

EH anonymously published Exposition of One Principal Cause of the National Distress, particularly in manufacturing districts: with some suggestions for its removal, a call for action in a social and political crisis.
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.

Fanny Holcroft: Early 1817

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Early 1817

FH issued her second and last novel, Fortitude and Frailty.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 447

Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: 1817-1819

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1817-1819

Mary Anne Roscoe (later Jevons) kept a literary diary during these years, recording her daily studies and earliest attempts at poetry.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1817: Britain signed treaties with Spain and Portugal...

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1817

Britain signed treaties with Spain and Portugal which made slave-trading illegal (Portugal retained the right to trade in slaves south of the equator, though not north of it) and gave British ships the right of...

1817: The Juvenile Review, a periodical giving...

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1817

The Juvenile Review, a periodical giving serious attention to pedagogical writing and books for children, began publication in London.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
43

1817: The Scotsman newspaper began publication...

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1817

The Scotsman newspaper began publication at Edinburgh.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
140
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.

1817: Thomas Leybourn published The Mathematical...

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1817

Thomas Leybourn published The Mathematical Questions proposed in the Ladies' Diary, and their original answers, together with some new solutions, from its commencement in the year 1704 to1816.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

January 1817: Publisher Henry Colburn founded another periodical,...

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January 1817

Publisher Henry Colburn founded another periodical, the Literary Gazette, to go with his New Monthly Magazine.
Vargo, Lisa. “Lodore and the Novel of Society”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 425-40.
427
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
147

1817: The eccentric Baron Karl von Drais launched...

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1817

The eccentric Baron Karl von Drais launched his Laufmaschine or running machine, a forerunner of the bicycle, having two wheels and a saddle for sitting astride, which became popular as the draisine or velocipede.
Robb, Graham. “Two Wheels Good”. London Review of Books, 6 July 2006, pp. 30-1.
30

1817: The Times had a circulation of over 6,000....

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1817

The Times had a circulation of over 6,000. By 1878 it was over 60,000.
Onslow, Barbara. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Macmillan, 2000.
10

1817: In a year of famine or scarcity across Europe,...

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1817

In a year of famine or scarcity across Europe, Britain passed the Poor Employment Act, offering lavish government loans (at 5% interest) to private or employers taking on large numbers of labourers.
Webb, Patrick. “Emergency Relief during Europe’s Famine of 1817 Anticipated Crisis-Response Mechanisms of Today”. JN. The Journal of Nutrition, Vol.
132
, No. 7, 2002, pp. 2092-5.
2092-2095

1817: This year, Parliamentary Select Committees...

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1817

This year, Parliamentary Select Committees discussed public houses, licensing laws, the social background of prostitutes, child offenders, and the practice of rewarding informers.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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From about 1817: The Australian Aborigines were subjected...

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From about 1817

The Australian Aborigines were subjected to brutal and rapid near-extermination.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
926

1817: Physician John Haslam published Medical Jurisprudence...

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1817

Physician John Haslam published Medical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity according to the Law of England.
Walker, Nigel. Crime and Insanity in England. Edinburgh University Press, 1968.
89

1817: David Ricardo (1772-1823), a London writer...

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1817

David Ricardo (1772-1823), a London writer and thinker of Sephardic Jewish descent, published his influential On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

January 1817: The Prince Regent, on his way to open Parliament,...

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January 1817

The Prince Regent , on his way to open Parliament , was the target of (probably) a stone which broke the window of the state coach; like a similar missile hurled at his father on...