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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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Percy Bysshe Shelley: By 17 August 1818

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By 17 August 1818

PBS made (and Mary Shelley transcribed) the first English translation of Plato 's Symposium to attempt even approximate honesty about its homosexual content.
Gonda, Caroline. “Lodore and Fanny Derhams Story”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 329-44.
337

Maria Callcott: September 1818

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September 1818

Maria Graham (later MC ) sailed on the HMS Ganymede with her husband to Italy. They arrived in December in Naples, and in early 1819 reached Rome, where they stayed for at least a year.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
167
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Selina Davenport : September 1818

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September 1818

Again SD went for an eye-catching title, this time in An Angel's Form and a Devil's Heart. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 461

Melesina Trench: After September 1818

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After September 1818

MT issued, through her usual Southampton printer, another pamphlet, Lines on Reading the last Canto of [Byron 's] Childe Harold.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Somerville: Autumn 1818

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Autumn 1818

MS returned to Britain, and re-settled in London, after her ten months abroad.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
30

Felicia Hemans: September 1818

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September 1818

Captain Alfred Hemans left his wife, FH , near the time of his youngest son 's birth, for a short stay in Rome which turned into a permanent desertion.
Scholars are virtually unanimous in portraying...

Catherine Marsh : 15 September 1818

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15 September 1818

CM was born at her childhood home, the vicarage of St Peter's Church at Colchester in Essex, the youngest of her parents' five children.
O’Rorke, Lucy. The Life and Friendships of Catherine Marsh. Longmans, Green & Co., 1917.
1-2
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Marsh

Anne Plumptre: 20 September 1818

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20 September 1818

In her will (witnessed by John and Susannah Taylor of Norwich), AP left everything to her brother Robert, a barrister.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
xii

Mary Shelley: September 1818

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September 1818

MS moved from Bagni di Lucca to Este and then to join her husband in Venice, where he had gone to visit Byron .
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
226-7
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xvii
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
157-8

Mary Shelley: 24 September 1818

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24 September 1818

On the day that MS arrived in Venice, her one-year-old daughter, Clara, died from dysentery, exacerbated by her journey across Italy.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
227
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
158
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xvii

Lady Charlotte Bury: Autumn 1818

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Autumn 1818

LCB and her new husband visited mountain sanctuaries in Tuscany: Certosa near Vallombrosa, and the convents of Camaldoli and Laverna.
Bury, Lady Charlotte, and Edward John Bury. The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany. John Murray, 1833.
vii

Adelaide O'Keeffe: October 1818

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October 1818

AOK dated the dedication of her children's book National Characters Exhibited in Forty Geographical Poems: with Plates to Lady Susan and Lady Louisa Somerset.
The dedicatees were daughters of the Duke of Beaufort; AOK may...

Frances Burney: 2 October 1818

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2 October 1818

After her husband 's death, FB moved back from Bath to London.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
414-15

4 October 1818: Frank Smedley, novelist, cousin and mentor...

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4 October 1818

Frank Smedley , novelist, cousin and mentor of Menella Bute Smedley , was born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Anne Plumptre: 20 October 1818

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20 October 1818

AP died in Norwich.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
xxviii

Abigail Adams: 28 October 1818

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28 October 1818

AA died shortly before her seventy-fourth birthday after contracting typhus fever.
Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Little, Brown, 1980.
190

28 October 1818: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, novelist and playwright,...

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28 October 1818

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev , novelist and playwright, was born in Orël, Russia.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
238

November 1818: George III's wife, Queen Charlotte, died...

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November 1818

George III 's wife, Queen Charlotte , died.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
455

By November 1818: Thomas Love Peacock published his satirical...

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By November 1818

Thomas Love Peacock published his satirical novel Nightmare Abbey.
Van Doren, Carl. The Life of Thomas Love Peacock. Russell and Russell, 1966.
113
Mulvihill, James. Thomas Love Peacock. Twayne, 1987.
58

1 November 1818: William Hazlitt gave the first lecture in...

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1 November 1818

William Hazlitt gave the first lecture in his series entitled Lectures on the English Comic Writers.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
21 (1819): 264
Keynes, Geoffrey, Sir. Bibliography of William Hazlitt. Second Edition, St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1981.
46-7

Margaret Croker: After 2 November 1818

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After 2 November 1818

MC published, with her name and a quotation from Byron , A Tribute to the Memory of Sir Samuel Romilly.
Romilly, a reforming lawyer, killed himself after his wife's death.
Croker, Margaret. A Tribute to the Memory of Sir Samuel Romilly. John Souter, 1818.
title-page

Mary Stockdale: After 2 November 1818

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After 2 November 1818

MS published A Shroud for Sir S. Romilly , An Elegy, on the reforming lawyer who had died by his own hand.
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.

2 November 1818: Sir Samuel Romilly, well known as an energetic...

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2 November 1818

Sir Samuel Romilly , well known as an energetic and popular reforming MP and lawyer, killed himself by cutting his throat.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
88 (1818): 465-67

15 November 1818: The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle was signed...

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15 November 1818

The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle was signed by the European powers, agreeing to withdraw the allied army of occupation from France.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
88 (1818): 621

Mary Shelley: 20 November 1818

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20 November 1818

MS and her family arrived at Rome, where they stayed less than two weeks, busily sightseeing.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
237ff