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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 Taylor: By May 1817

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By May 1817

JT and her mother, Ann Martin Taylor , published a collaborative work: Correspondence Between a Mother and her Daughter at School.
Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
43 (1817): 455

Mariana Starke: May 1817-June 1819

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May 1817-June 1819

MS travelled extensively in Europe: it was apparently now that she visited the South of France, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, and Russia.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Felicia Hemans: By May 1817

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By May 1817

FH published anonymously, through John Murray , Modern Greece, A Poem.
Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
43 (1817): 453
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, 2002, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
24
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.

May 1817: Opposition publisher William Hone was arrested...

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May 1817

Opposition publisher William Hone was arrested for blasphemous libel on the strength of three political pamphlets that parodied the Book of Common Prayer.
Barrell, John. “Like Unruly Children in a Citizenship Class”. London Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2005, pp. 23-5.
23-4

9 May 1817: Catholic Emancipation was voted down in parliament...

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9 May 1817

Catholic Emancipation was voted down in parliament by the narrowest of margins: 243 votes to 241.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.

Jane Austen: 24 May 1817

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24 May 1817

JA 's sister, Cassandra , moved with her from Chawton to 8 College Street, Winchester, for the sake of a Hospital & capital Surgeons.
qtd. in
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.
11
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
395

Medora Gordon Byron: 27 May 1817

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27 May 1817

Julia Maria Byron (who was perhaps the novelist Miss Byron who is identified in literary sources as Medora Gordon Byron ) married the Rev. Robert Heath . She thus ceased to be Miss Byron shortly...

Catherine Hutton: By June 1817

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By June 1817

CH published, in three volumes from Longman , The Welsh Mountaineer: A Novel.
A work with the same title, by a Dr Arthur Mower of Edinburgh, had been published by Crosby in 1811.
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.

By June 1817: Thomas Moore published his hugely successful...

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By June 1817

Thomas Moore published his hugely successful poem Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 5 (1817): 562-81
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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June 1817: Byron published Manfred, A Dramatic Poem,...

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June 1817

Byron published Manfred, A Dramatic Poem, written between summer 1816 and April 1817: his first attempt at dramatic form, and last incarnation of the Byronic hero.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1963–1968, p. 1: v - xx.
1: xiv-xv

Joanna Baillie: 7-26 June 1817

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7-26 June 1817

JB 's The Election, skilfully revised as an opera by Samuel James Arnold, ran at the Lyceum Theatre or English opera house in London, with a further performance on 18 July.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
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Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 168

9 June 1817: Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth led an uprising...

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9 June 1817

Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth led an uprising of 300 men, who marched from Pentridge in Derbyshire to nearby Nottingham.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

Maria Edgeworth: 13 June 1817

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13 June 1817

ME suffered a blow she had long dreaded: the death of her father .
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Mary Shelley: 14 June 1817

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14 June 1817

The firm of John Murray declined to publish Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus, which had been offered to them through H[orace] (or Horatio) Smith , a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley , the author 's husband.
Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
52
, 31 Mar. 2012.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 17 June 1817

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17 June 1817

Sydney Morgan published France, an account of the area around the capital only.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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Maria Edgeworth: 21 June 1817

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21 June 1817

ME published, together, two novels which are short by the standards of the day: Harrington, A Tale; and, Ormond, A Tale.
Manly, Susan. “Maria Edgeworth (1768-1846)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
10
, No. 2, 1 June 2006–2026, pp. 1-3.
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Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Charlotte Brontë: 26 June 1817

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26 June 1817

Patrick Branwell Brontë , the only son of the family, was born: he was known as Branwell.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Isa Blagden: 30 June, either 1816 or 1817

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30 June, either 1816 or 1817

IB was born, possibly as an illegitimate child.
Different information is given as to the date of her birth by two sources: her death certificate and her tombstone, which reads 1816-1873.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, 1970, p. xix - xxxiii.
xxxii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Amelia Beauclerc: By July 1817

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By July 1817

AB published The Deserter. A Novel, again in four volumes from Minerva , this time giving her name as well as mentioning her two previous books.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
17 (1817): 565
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 441
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.

Helen Maria Williams: By July 1817

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By July 1817

HMW published The Leper of the City of Aoste: A Narrative, a religious tale translated from the French of Xavier de Maistre .
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
215
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
(1817) 17: 565

Lucy Hutchinson: By July 1817

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By July 1817

Julius Hutchinson , a great-great-grandson of LH who had already published her life of her husband, issued a volume containing two more of her texts: On the Principles of the Christian Religion, Addressed to her...

By July 1817: The first edition of Observations on the...

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By July 1817

The first edition of Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind or Insanity was published in England by prominent European phrenologist John Caspar Spurzheim .
Cooter, Roger. “Phrenology and British Alienists, ca. 1825-1845”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 58-104.
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Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
44 (1817): 548

July 1817: Coleridge published Biographia Literaria,...

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July 1817

Coleridge published Biographia Literaria, his philosophical autobiography, a landmark in Romantic literary criticism. He had finished writing it in September 1815.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Introduction”. Biographia Literaria, edited by John Shawcross, Oxford University Press, 1968, p. xi - xcvii.
1: xcii n2
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
17 September 2009

12 July 1817: Henry David Thoreau, essayist and naturalist,...

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12 July 1817

Henry David Thoreau , essayist and naturalist, was born in Concord, Massachusetts, USA.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Germaine de Staël: 14 July 1817

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14 July 1817

GS died in Paris at the age of fifty one; dozens of articles appeared about her in the British press that summer.
Staël, Germaine de. Dix années d’exil. Treuttel and Würtz, 1821.
xviii
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
80, 126
Gardiner, Ann T. “Germaine de Staël in the Times, July 1817”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
11
, No. 2, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 223-34.
223ff