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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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Isabella Lickbarrow: 27 November 1818

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27 November 1818

A well-meaning plan to secure a gift of ten guineas for IL from local magnate Lord Lonsdale backfired when Lickbarrow wrote to decline the money, implicitly because she could not associate herself with the earl's...

Helen Maria Williams: December 1818

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December 1818

Publication was expected of the remainder of HMW 's translation of Humboldt 's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
88 (December 1818): 539-40

Mary Shelley: 1 December 1818

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1 December 1818

MS joined her husband in Naples after a journey which was long and tiring but not so dangerous as they had anticipated. They watched the flame from Mount Vesuvius as they drove along.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
239-41
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
42
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
161
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

Anne Plumptre: Probably December 1818

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Probably December 1818

AP 's last publication, the only one co-authored with her sister , was Tales of Wonder, of Humour, and of Sentiment.
The Gentleman's Magazine listed it this month, not as published but as nearly...

Annabella Plumptre: Probably December 1818

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Probably December 1818

AP 's last publication, the only one co-authored with her sister , Tales of Wonder, of Humour, and of Sentiments, was advertised a ready for publication.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
87.2 (1817): 538

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: December 1818

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December 1818

Sydney Morgan published Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Florence Macarthy. Henry Colburn, 1818, 4 vols.
title-page
Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
46 (1818): 534

Mary Brunton: 29 December 1818

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29 December 1818

MB died of puerperal fever, a few days after bearing her stillborn son.
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols.
2: 222

Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: 1819

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1819

EMA received land from Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in a seaside area outside Naples called Posillipo. She called the house which she built there the Villa Craven.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Beverley: 1819

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1819

EB published a pamphlet-sized poetry volume (24 pages) called A Poetical Olio.
Olio (meaning a mixed stew or casserole) is a deliberately undignified name.
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.

Caroline Bowles: 1819

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1819

CB 's adopted brother Colonel Bruce established for her an annuity of £150, saving her from financial ruin now that she had no parent living.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
xix

Selina Bunbury: 1819

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1819

As a result of her father 's bankruptcy, SB , along with her mother and siblings, moved from Beaulieu to Dublin.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Emily Frederick Clark : Early 1819

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Early 1819

EFC published with the Minerva Press her latest identified novel, The Esquimaux; or, Fidelity: A Tale, in three volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 477

Arthur Hugh Clough: 1 January 1819

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1 January 1819

AHC , poet, was born at Liverpool.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Maria Colling: 1819

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1819

Early in her teens MMC began work as a domestic servant in Tavistock for a General Hughes and his family.
Wright, W. H. Kearley. West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works. Elliot Stock, 1896.
107

Helen Maria Williams: 1819

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1819

In a poem for the wedding day of her nephew Athanase C. L. Coquerel, HMW wrote as a mother to urge him to make his marriage an equal one.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
221

Catharine Parr Traill: 1819

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1819

Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published another book of didactic stories for children: Reformation; or, The Cousins.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 99, attributes to her Disobedience; or, Mind What Mamma Says...

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1819

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1819

Under a pseudonymous description, the future CET published at Hythe in KentPoems Founded on the Events of the War in the Peninsula, describing herself on the title-page as the Wife of an Officer...

Ann Martin Taylor: 1819

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1819

AMT published, through Taylor and Hessey of London, a highly cautionary didactic novel entitled The Family Mansion. A Tale; it went through five editions by 1830.
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.

Elizabeth Strickland: 1819

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1819

The year after she moved to London, ES published her first book: Disobedience; or, Mind What Mamma Says, a slim volume written for children, giving her name as Miss Elizabeth Strickland.
The...

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : By January 1819

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By January 1819

The two genres favoured by EIS converged in A Traveller's Tale of the Last Century (with an earlier work in each mentioned on the title-page), a novel whose fictional male narrator presents himself as a...

Lydia Howard Sigourney: 1819

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1819

Lydia Howard Huntley (already a published poet) married a wealthy hardware merchant, bank president, and college trustee named Charles Sigourney , a widower with three sons.
Watts, Emily Stipes. The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. University of Texas Press, 1977.
84

Elizabeth Sewell: 1819-1828

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1819-1828

From a very early age ES attended a day-school run by a Miss Crooke, who was a friend of her mother.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
3, 12

Felicia Hemans: 1819

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1819

FH published a further volume of poems, Tales and Historic Scenes, in Verse; it sold out.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

Catherine Hutton: 1 January 1819

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1 January 1819

CH , at Bennett's Hill, signed the advertisement to her updated fourth edition of her father 's History of Birmingham (first published in 1781).
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Catherine Hutton: 1819-21

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1819-21

CH published in three volumes The Tour of Africa, a compilation held together by a male fictional narrator; she called herself its arranger.
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.