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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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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: Late spring 1818

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Late spring 1818

Sydney Morgan and her husband left Dublin for London, heading for another visit to France and this time onwards to Italy.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 80
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
164, 177
Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan the Novelist. Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses, 1990.
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Early 1818: William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets,...

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Early 1818

William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets, the last of his Lectures on the English Poets, with a statement on gender issues.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
112

Karl Marx: 5 May 1818

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5 May 1818

KM , economist and philosopher, was born in Trier, Prussia.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
129

11 May 1818: The Royal Coburg Theatre in London (later...

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11 May 1818

The Royal Coburg Theatre in London (later the Royal Victoria Hall and eventually the Old Vic) opened its doors. In 1821 or 1822 it unveiled its looking-glass curtain, made of 63 mirrors or parts of...

Helen Maria Williams: 22 May 1818

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22 May 1818

John Hurford Stone , partner of HMW , died after a winter confined to his room by ill health in which Williams and her half-sister Persis tended him devotedly. His death left her bereft.
Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press, 2002.
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Emily Eden: Later 1818

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Later 1818

After her mother's death, EE and her sister Frances moved from Kent to London to live with their brother George .
Claridge, Elizabeth et al. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Virago, 1983, p. v - xx.
vii
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Gale Research, 1981–2026, Numerous volumes.
102
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Elizabeth Strutt: June 1818

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June 1818

ES published with the Minerva Press , as Mrs. Strutt, her first work since her second marriage: Genevieve; or, The Orphan's Visit, A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 469

Sir Walter Scot : June 1818

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June 1818

Walter Scott published another novel, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, pseudonymously (as Jedediah Cleishbotham), in the second series of Tales of My Landlord.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
(1818) 19:574

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: June 1818

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June 1818

Charles Lamb 's Works were published. A number of Mary Lamb 's poems appeared there, without her name.
Prance, Claude Annett. Companion to Charles Lamb: A Guide to People and Places, 1760-1847. Mansell, 1983.
187

: The great landowner and land improver Thomas...

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Early summer 1818

The great landowner and land improver Thomas Coke of Holkham held a sheep-shearing fair attended by seven thousand people.
Winchester, Simon. The Map that Changed the World. HarperCollins, 2001.
152

Mary Bryan: June 1818-September 1827

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June 1818-September 1827

Letters exchanged between MB and Sir Walter Scott survive for these years; the correspondence, however, may not have ended in 1827.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.

Elizabeth Bonhote: 11 June 1818

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11 June 1818

EB died at Bungay, aged seventy-four.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
lxxxviii: 2 (1818) 88

Mary Shelley: 11 June 1818

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11 June 1818

MS and her family settled briefly in Bagni di Lucca in Italy.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
213
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
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Lucy Aikin: July 1818

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July 1818

LA met Hester Lynch Piozzi in or near Bath.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters. Editor Le Breton, Philip Hemery, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
115-16

Elizabeth Beverley: Summer 1818

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Summer 1818

The Brighton Herald published two poems, pious in tone, by EB , which were subsequently reprinted in her Poetical Olio.
Beverley, Elizabeth. A Poetical Olio. Printed for the author by T. Denham, 1819.

Anna Eliza Bray: February 1818

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February 1818

Anna Eliza Kempe (later AEB ) married artist Charles Alfred Stothard , an illustrator of sculpted monuments, from whose father she had been taking lessons.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

Anna Eliza Bray: July-November 1818

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July-November 1818

Anna Eliza Stothard (later AEB ) toured France with her husband .
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

Anna Maria Porter: By July 1818

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By July 1818

For her next novel, again historical, The Fast of St Magdalen, AMP chose the sixteenth century and a pair of young Italian lovers whose fate is bound up with that of the Medici family.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 467
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
262

Judith Sargent Murray: By July 1818

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By July 1818

JSM moved from Boston with her daughter and grand-daughter to Natchez, Mississippi, though she continued to list herself as a resident of Boston (for instance, when she drew up her will in March 1820)...

Catherine Hubback: 7 July 1818

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7 July 1818

Catherine Anne Austen (later CH ) was born at Chawton House in Hampshire; she was a fourth daughter, far down among a family of eleven brothers and sisters.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
594
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
411
Gilson, David. A Bibliography of Jane Austen. Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1982.
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Emily Brontë: 30 July 1818

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30 July 1818

Emily Brontë , the fourth of the Brontë daughters, was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Priscilla Wakefield: August 1818

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August 1818

PW 's portrait, executed by T. C. Wageman , was reproduced in the Lady's Monthly Museum.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
87

Frances Wright: 3 August 1818

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3 August 1818

FW and her sister Camilla boarded the American ship Amity, sailing to New York.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Mary Ann Radcliffe: Shortly before 6 August 1818

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Shortly before 6 August 1818

MAR died in Lochend Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, of a decline. Since her son Joseph is known to have lived later in East Lochend's Close, it may be that she died in his house.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Anne Radcliffe. 1 June 2016.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe. Printed for the author, 1810.
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Mary Bryan: 16 August 1818

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16 August 1818

MB sent Scott , in a letter, a poem entitled The Village Maid.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.