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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 Austen: 15 July 1817

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15 July 1817

On St Swithin 's day, three days before she died, JA wrote a comic but also potentially serious poem which imagines the saint cursing the fashionable occasion of Winchester races with rain.
Austen, Jane. Minor Works. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Revised, Oxford University Press, 1965.
451-2

Eliza Fletcher: 15 July 1817

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15 July 1817

Three months after the death of her daughter Grace , EF sat down to writeA Memoir of Grace Fletcher, in the form of a letter to her surviving children.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
295

Mary Somerville: 17 July 1817

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17 July 1817

MS left London with her husband and eldest daughter for Paris, where they spent a fortnight meeting French scientists.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
108, 111, 113
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
210-11
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
19, 21-4

Jane Austen: 18 July 1817

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18 July 1817

JA died at Winchester. The unusual symptoms of her illness have been read as suggesting Addison's Disease, or more recently cancer or tuberculosis. An article in Lupus: Science & Medicine in April 2021 argues...

Henrietta Euphemia Tindal: Shortly before 19 July 1817

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Shortly before 19 July 1817

Henrietta Euphemia Harrison (later HET ) was born, the only child of her parents to survive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Marsh: 30 July 1817

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30 July 1817

Anne Caldwell married Arthur Cuthbert Marsh at Audley in Staffordshire.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Selina Davenport : By August 1817

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By August 1817

SD chose for her next book the arresting title Leap Year, or, Woman's Privilege. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 444

Mary Somerville: August 1817

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August 1817

MS , with her daughter and husband , arrived in Switzerland for six weeks of travelling.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
26-7

Barbara Hofland: August 1817

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August 1817

BH published The Good Grandmother and her Offspring, a Tale, dedicated to Mrs Haugh of Doncaster, with a quotation from the book of Proverbs.
Mrs. Haugh was headmistress of a school; BH

Hannah Griffitts: 24 August 1817

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24 August 1817

HG died in Philadelphia.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.

Mary Prince: August 1817

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August 1817

MP was baptised a Christian by an Anglican clergyman, James Curtin ; though empowered to baptise her in the name of the Trinity, he would not let her attend his Sunday school without her owner's permission.
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
73-4

Harriet Corp: By September 1817

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By September 1817

HC , as the author of An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life and of other works, printed for the Author her Cœlebs Deceived, whose title and topic were suggested by Hannah More

Mary Shelley: 2 September 1817

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2 September 1817

MS bore a second daughter; she named her Clara.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
42

6 September 1817: Drury Lane Theatre installed gas lighting...

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6 September 1817

Drury Lane Theatre installed gas lighting in the auditorium and on stage.
Booth, Michael R. et al. Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
83

Caroline Norton: 12 September 1817

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12 September 1817

Tom Sheridan , father of Caroline (later CN ), died of tuberculosis at the Cape (now Cape Province) in South Africa while she was still a child.
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996.
159: 243
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Thomas Sheridan (1775-1817)
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
23-4

Percy Bysshe Shelley: 20 September 1817

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20 September 1817

PBS finished composing his revolutionary manifesto poem Laon and Cythna, which was published the following year as The Revolt of Islam.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
550
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Introductory Note to The Revolt of IslamThe Revolt of Islam, 1901.
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Frances Burney: 24 September 1817

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24 September 1817

The year before her husband 's death (and while he was away on a visit to France) FB underwent an extraordinary adventure when she was cut off by the tide on the cliffs above the...

Catherine Cuthbertson: By October 1817

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By October 1817

CC published with Baldwin, Cradock and Joy , in five volumes, Rosabella; or, A Mother's Marriage. A Novel, anonymously except for title-page mention of four previous novels.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 444

Mary Whateley Darwall: By October 1817

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By October 1817

MWD moved back to Walsall.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
209

Mary Shelley: By October 1817

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By October 1817

MS published, anonymously, a History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
18 (1817): 258

Anna Maria Porter: By October 1817

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By October 1817

AMP published her historical novel The Knight of St John.
Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
44 (1817): 349

Elizabeth B. Lester: By October 1817

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By October 1817

EBL published two novels: The Quakers, A Tale, which has always been known as hers, and The Bachelor and the Married Man; or, the Equilibrium of "The Balance of Comfort", previously attributed to...

Jane Marcet: 9 October 1817

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9 October 1817

The death of JM 's father, Anthony Haldimand , meant that she and her husband came into a considerable inheritance.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: 30 October 1817

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30 October 1817

HRM called herself Mrs Mosse late Henrietta Rouviere (and mentioned all of her five previous books) on the title-page of her novel A Bride and No Wife, advertised this day in four volumes with...

Elizabeth Beverley: Probably late 1817

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Probably late 1817

EB , as Mrs. R. Beverley, author of The Mirror, published a pamphlet sermon entitled Modern Times.
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.