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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 Taylor: 1 March 1819

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Author event in Jane Taylor

1 March 1819

Taylor and Hessey , publishers of JT 's most recent works, issued The Authoress. A Tale by the Author of Rachel. The attribution to Taylor is not universally accepted
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 487

Elizabeth B. Lester: March 1819

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth B. Lester

March 1819

EBL published another anonymous novel, Hesitation; or, To Marry, or, Not to Marry?, whose title she must have insisted on, since her publisher, Longman , had advised her to change it.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 481, 449

Mary Brunton: March 1819

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Author event in Mary Brunton

March 1819

MB 's widower published a posthumous volume: a life of her and some fragments (primarily the unfinished novel Emmeline) and travel diaries, prayers, and letters (with intelligent criticism of contemporary fiction).
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 476-7
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Shelley: 5 March 1819

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Author event in Mary Shelley

5 March 1819

After the winter months in Naples, MS and her family moved back to Rome (the Holy city,
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
251
as she called it in her diary, where she also quoted six lines from...

Olivia Clarke: By April 1819

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Author event in Olivia Clarke

By April 1819

OC 's five-act comedy The Irishwoman was published with her name at London and Dublin, after a successful run at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
21 (1819): 559
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
384

Helen Maria Williams: By April 1819

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Author event in Helen Maria Williams

By April 1819

HMW completed Letters on the Events which have passed in France since the Restoration in 1815.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
216, 219n20
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
(1819) 21:560

Lady Rachel Russell: By April 1819

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Author event in Lady Rachel Russell

By April 1819

Mary Berry published a brief biography of LRR , with some unpublished letters including thirty to her husband .
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
21 (1819): 558

Elizabeth Inchbald: April 1819

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Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald

April 1819

EI moved to Kensington House in London, a large establishment mainly for Roman Catholics (and her second attempt at choosing a religious domicile); she remained there until her death.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
148
Inchbald, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Simple Story, edited by Jane Spencer and Joyce Marjorie Sanxter Tompkins, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. vii - xxxiii.
xxxiii

By April 1819: George Crabbe published another collection...

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By April 1819

George Crabbe published another collection of narrative poems: Tales of the Hall.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
21 (1819): 560

1 April 1819: The Peace Society (founded in 1816) began...

National or international item

1 April 1819

The Peace Society (founded in 1816) began publishing a periodical, The Herald of Peace.
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
23 and n1, 31, 35n5

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 4 April 1819

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4 April 1819

Sydney Morgan and her husband , after some time in Paris, left to pursue their journey to Italy.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
170

Margaret Holford, the younger : Probably by late April 1819

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Probably by late April 1819

Margaret Holford the younger dedicated her next volume of verse, The Past, to Lady Isabella King , who had opened her home for single ladies in Bailbrook House near Bath three years before.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 705
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Caroline Bowles: May 1819

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Author event in Caroline Bowles

May 1819

CB travelled to Bristol, hoping that a change of climate would improve her health.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
23

Frances Wright: May 1819

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Author event in Frances Wright

May 1819

FW left New York to travel to various locations including Philadelphia and Montreal.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
33

Anne Lister: May-June 1819

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Author event in Anne Lister

May-June 1819

AL made her first visit abroad: with her Aunt Anne to France, and particularly Paris.
Lister, Anne. Miss Lister of Shibden Hall. Editor Green, Muriel, Book Guild, 1992.
40, 54

Jane Marcet: After May 1819

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After May 1819

JM , as the author of Conversations on Chemistry, published a book from a manuscript she had long had by her: Conversations on Natural Philosophy (that is to say physics).
It was preparing for...

Adelaide O'Keeffe: After May 1819

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Author event in Adelaide O'Keeffe

After May 1819

AOK published with her name a novel set in modern times, the epistolary, pedagogical Dudley.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 483

May 1819: John Lingard, a Roman Catholic priest, published...

Writing climate item

May 1819

John Lingard , a Roman Catholic priest, published the first three volumes of his influential History of England.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
21 (1819): 560
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
574
Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
47: 446

May 1819, May 1820: These months were scheduled for the removal...

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May 1819, May 1820

These months were scheduled for the removal of thousands of subsistence farmers and their families from the Highland estates of Lord and Lady Stafford (later the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland ) in the Sutherland...

Margaret Catchpole: 13 May 1819

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Author event in Margaret Catchpole

13 May 1819

MC died from influenza at Richmond in New South Wales.
Donkin, Nance, and Edwina Bell. Margaret Catchpole. Collins, 1974.
63

22 May 1819: The Savannah, the first ship to use steam...

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22 May 1819

The Savannah, the first ship to use steam in crossing the Atlantic, left Savannah, Georgia, for Liverpool.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
77
Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
84

Queen Victoria: 24 May 1819

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Author event in Queen Victoria

24 May 1819

Alexandrina Victoria , fifth in line to the throne and the future Queen of England, was born at Kensington Palace.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
22, 24
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xiii

Julia Ward Howe: 27 May 1819

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Author event in Julia Ward Howe

27 May 1819

Julia Ward (later Howe) was one of six living children born in her family in New York City on Marketsfield Street near the Battery.
Howe, Julia Ward. Reminiscences, 1819–1899. Houghton Mifflin, 1899.
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Anna Atkins: Biography: 31 May 1819

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Author event in Anna Atkins: Biography

31 May 1819

John George Children , father of Anna Atkins , when well into middle age, made a third marriage to an old friend, a widow of long standing, named Eliza Towers.
Atkins, Anna, and John George Children. Memoir of J. G. Children, Esq. Privately printed by J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1853.
202-3, 269
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

31 May 1819: Walt Whitman, poet, was born in Long Island,...

Writing climate item

31 May 1819

Walt Whitman , poet, was born in Long Island, New York, USA.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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