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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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13 January 1818: William Hazlitt delivered the first of eight...

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13 January 1818

William Hazlitt delivered the first of eight talks which were published as Lectures on the English Poets.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19: 287
Keynes, Geoffrey, Sir. Bibliography of William Hazlitt. Second Edition, St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1981.
xxiii, 38-9

19 January 1818: John Holland wrote An Elegy on the Death...

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19 January 1818

John Holland wrote An Elegy on the Death of Esther Caterer , Librarian of Surry Street Book Rooms in Sheffield, imagining the grief of the bereaved books.
Crawford, Robert. “T. S. Eliot, Poets and Libraries”. The Author, Vol.
29
, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2015, pp. 26-9.
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Mary Martha Sherwood: February 1818

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February 1818

MMS wrote an Advertisement for a new edition of The Indian Pilgrim, published at Wellington in Shropshire within weeks of the first edition.
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.

Sarah Savage: After February 1818

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After February 1818

John Bickerton Williams , who was related to Savage's birth family, the Henrys, published at ShrewsburyMemoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage, with excerpts of her diary.
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829.
iv
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.

Harriet Martineau: February 1818-April 1819

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February 1818-April 1819

HM spent a happy fifteen months at a girls' school in Bristol run by her beloved aunt Mrs Robert Rankin ; while here she also became devoted to Unitarian minister and religious teacher the Rev....

By February 1818: Byron published Beppo, a light-hearted narrative...

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By February 1818

Byron published Beppo, a light-hearted narrative poem in stanzas.
Santucho, Oscar José, and Clement Tyson, Jr Goode. George Gordon, Lord Byron: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Secondary Materials in English, 1807-1973. Scarecrow Press, 1977.
188

12 February 1818: Chile (after chafing against the rule of...

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12 February 1818

Chile (after chafing against the rule of Spain since the Spanish monarchy was engulfed in the wake of the French Revolution) was proclaimed an independent republic with Bernardo O'Higgins as first president.
“Library of Congress Country Studies”. Country Studies/Area Handbook Series, 2003.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 16 February 1818

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16 February 1818

Margaret Farmer married Charles, Viscount Mountjoy and Earl of Blessington , following the accidental death in October 1817 of her drunkard first husband .
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
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Mary Shelley: 11 March 1818

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11 March 1818

Mary and Percy Shelley , with their two children William and baby Clara, left England for Italy.
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995.
44
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
149-50
Shelley, Mary. “Chronology”. The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, p. xxxvii - xlii.
xxxviii

Anna Letitia Barbauld: By 20 March 1818

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By 20 March 1818

ALB drafted a blank-verse elegy for Princess Charlotte —which suggests that the reception of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven had not completely silenced her.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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Lady Charlotte Bury: 21 March 1818

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21 March 1818

Lady Charlotte Campbell , in Italy, married the Reverend Edward John Bury as her second husband.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
57

Eleanor Anne Porden: 30 March 1818

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30 March 1818

EAP , visiting the expeditionary ships Alexander and Isabella (in dock at Deptford), had the idea for writing The Arctic Expeditions. A Poem, published that year.
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.

Cecil Frances Alexander : Early April 1818

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Early April 1818

Cecil Frances Humphreys (later CFA ) was born at her parents' home, 25 Eccles Street, Dublin.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Cyber Hymnal. http://www.cyberhymnal.org.

Catherine Fanshawe: Spring 1818

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Spring 1818

Late at night after a party given by poet and classicist William Sotheby , CF composed a verse trilingual harangue entitled Liberty, written as if spoken by the Italian poet Ugo Foscolo .
Fanshawe, Catherine. Memorials of Miss Catherine Maria Fanshawe. Editor Harness, William, Privately printed by Vacher and Sons, 1865.
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Ann Martin Taylor: By April 1818

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By April 1818

AMT published Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Children.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19 (1818): 285

Amelia Opie: By April 1818

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By April 1818

AO published four volumes of New Tales; they included what became one of her best-known stories, The Ruffian Boy.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19 (1818): 266
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
xxxviii

Felicia Hemans: April 1818

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April 1818

FH published her Stanzas on the National Calamity, the Death of the Princess Charlotte in Blackwood's Magazine.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, 2000, p. xiii - xxix; various pages.
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Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii.
xvi

Maria Jane Jewsbury: Spring 1818

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Spring 1818

At the age of eighteen, MJJ published her first work, the poem Curiosity and Scandal, in the Coventry Herald.
Gillett, Eric, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. “Maria Jane Jewsbury: A Memoir”. Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, Oxford University Press, 1932, p. xiii - lxvii.
xv-xvi
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
66
, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
180

Elizabeth B. Lester: By April 1818

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By April 1818

EBL published The Physiognomist. A Novel, as the author of The Bachelor and the Married Man; this ensured that it has been usually attributed to Mrs Ross .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 464

By April 1818: John Keats published Endymion: A Poetic ...

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By April 1818

John Keats published Endymion: A Poetic Romance.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19 (1818): 204
McLean, Thomas. “Off-Stage Dramas: Jane Porter, Edmund Kean, and the Tragedy of SwitzerlandKeats-Shelley Review, Vol.
25
, No. 2, Maney Publishing, Sept. 2011, pp. 147-59.
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By April 1818: Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare,...

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By April 1818

Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare, in fact a further extension of a project begun by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler .
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19 (1818): 283
Price, Leah. “The Poetics of Pedantry from Thomas Bowdler to Susan Ferrier”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 75-88.
80

Elizabeth Cobbold: 9 April 1818

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9 April 1818

EC published at Ipswich her Monody to the Memory of Mrs. Byles, printed on a black-bordered quarter-sheet single leaf of paper.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

James Anthony Froude: 23 April 1818

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23 April 1818

J. A. (James Anthony) Froude , historian, was born at Dartington Rectory, Dartington, Devon.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Strickland: After May 1818

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After May 1818

Following the death of their father , it may be that ES was the architect of the plan that she and her sister Agnes should move from Reydon Hall in Suffolk to London to make...

Agnes Strickland: About 1818

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About 1818

After their father's death the eldest Strickland sister, Elizabeth , moved from Reydon Hall to London; Agnes followed her by degrees, by visits at first.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
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