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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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1817: The public whipping of female criminals was...

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1817

The public whipping of female criminals was banned; from 1820 they were no longer whipped in private either, though male criminals continued to be punished by whipping.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
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Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
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1817: James Shoolbred, a draper, opened an upper-class...

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1817

James Shoolbred , a draper, opened an upper-class shop at 155 Tottenham Court Road, London, which was a forerunner of the department store.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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Ferry, John William. A History of the Department Store. Macmillan, 1960.
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Jane Austen: 27 January-18 March 1817

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27 January-18 March 1817

JA began writing Sanditon when she had less than six months to live, and completed twelve chapters of it.
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.
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Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Robert Southey: By February 1817

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By February 1817

RS 's Wat Tyler, a play of revolutionary tendency written in 1794, was published without his authority. Its subject is the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 5 (1817): 187-9
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Hannah More: February-April 1817

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February-April 1817

HM contributed to the penny-halfpenny The Anti-Cobbett or Weekly Patriotic Register, set up under government influence to combat the radical Cobbett 's Weekly Political Register.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under William Cobbett

Anne Hart Gilbert: 16 February 1817

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16 February 1817

Shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, John Gilbert left his storekeeper job. He and AHG moved back from English Harbour to St John's, but sixteen months later he was reappointed and they...

Mary Taylor: 26 February 1817

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26 February 1817

MT was born at Gomersal in Yorkshire.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Ann Gomersall: 28 February 1817

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28 February 1817

AG was baptised in the Church of England at Portsmouth. Her parents were unlikely to have omitted this sacrament when she was little if they were Anglicans; it seems therefore that she probably converted...

Hannah More: March 1817

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March 1817

HM complained that a pirated edition had appeared (with a memoir of her life) of the songs or popular poems that she had written against sedition.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
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3 March 1817: The twenty-one-year-old John Keats issued...

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3 March 1817

The twenty-one-year-old John Keats issued his first publication in book form, modestly entitled Poems, containing almost all the poetry he is known to have written by then.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

4 March 1817: As in 1794 (another time of fermenting political...

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4 March 1817

As in 1794 (another time of fermenting political dissatisfaction) the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended as part of a package of anti-radical legislation.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Mary Shelley: 18 March 1817

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18 March 1817

Mary and Percy Shelley moved into Albion House, Marlow.
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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Anne Lister: 21 March 1817

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21 March 1817

AL wrote the entry with which editor Helena Whitbread chose to open her first volume: from this point, says Whitbread, the diary becomes more accessible.
Lister, Anne. I Know My Own Heart. Editor Whitbread, Helena, New York University Press, 1992.
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Lister, Anne. “Introduction”. I Know My Own Heart, edited by Helena Whitbread, New York University Press, 1992, p. xxiii - xxix.
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Elizabeth Carter: By April 1817

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By April 1817

EC 's nephew Montagu Pennington followed his first collection of her letters with another, of her correspondence with her almost lifelong friend Elizabeth Montagu (whose name he bore, as her godson).
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
17 (1817): 293

Olivia Clarke: After April 1817

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After April 1817

OC began privately circulating her rhyming-couplet burlesque of J. W. Croker 's attack in the Quarterly on her sister 's book France.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
17 (1817): 260
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Maria Edgeworth: By April 1817

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By April 1817

ME published Comic Dramas in Three Acts, containing Love and Law, The Two Guardians, and The Rose, Thistle and Shamrock (national symbols of England, Scotland and Ireland).
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
505
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 5 (1817): 507
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
17 (1817): 96

Jane Taylor: Spring 1817

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Spring 1817

JT found a lump in her breast; she was to live with cancer for the seven years which represented the greater part of her writing career after the family collaborations for children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Hays: By April 1817

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By April 1817

MH published a last novel, Family Annals; or, The Sisters.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
17 (1817): 294

Isabel Hill: April 1817

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April 1817

IH moved, presumably from Bristol, to stay with her brother Benson Hill at Archcliffe Fort in Dover.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Feb. 1842.
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April 1817: The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh...

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April 1817

The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine appeared; founder William Blackwood intended to offer Tory competition to the liberal Edinburgh Review.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 7-9, 11
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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3 April 1817: Mary Baker launched her brief career as Princess...

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3 April 1817

Mary Baker launched her brief career as Princess Caraboo, when an Overseer of the Poor at Almondesbury in Gloucestershire reported her presence to a local magistrate.
Gutch, John Matthew. “Caraboo, 1817”. Caraboo. A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, Practised upon the Benevolence of a Lady Residing in the Vicinity of the City of Bristol, By a Young Woman of the name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy.
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“Princess Caraboo”. The Museum of Hoaxes.

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: After mid-April 1817

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After mid-April 1817

Henry Moore published at Birmingham his life of MBF , which incorporates much of her own life-writing. He dated his preface 14 April.
Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, and Mary Bosanquet Fletcher. “Preface”. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher, edited by Henry, 1751 - 1844 Moore and Henry, 1751 - 1844 Moore, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837, pp. 3-12.
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George Henry Lewes: 18 April 1817

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18 April 1817

GHL , writer, was born in London.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press, 1991.
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Jane Taylor: 21 April 1817

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21 April 1817

JT published, anonymously, the highly original Rachel. A Tale, with an ugly heroine, an anti-romantically named male protagonist, Tomkins, and a courtship story still unconcluded by the end of the book.
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Jane Austen: 27 April 1817

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27 April 1817

JA made her will.
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.
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Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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