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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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Eleanor Anne Porden: About September 1819

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About September 1819

EAP 's congratulatory Ode to Lord Belgrave (son of the Earl of Grosvenor) appeared: one of the occasional poems she wrote for formal occasions involving potential patrons.
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.

Jane Welsh Carlyle: 19 September 1819

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19 September 1819

John Welsh , father of JWC , died of typhus fever.
Hanson, Lawrence, and Elisabeth Hanson. Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Octagon Books, 1975.
29-30

19 September 1819: Keats, walking in the fields near Winchester,...

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19 September 1819

Keats , walking in the fields near Winchester, composed his Ode to Autumn.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
426
Keats, John. Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends. Editor Colvin, Sir Sidney, Macmillan, 1891.
320 and n1

19 September 1819: A Reform meeting in favour of universal suffrage,...

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19 September 1819

A Reform meeting in favour of universal suffrage, involving 30,000 men and women, was held at Clayknowes, the east side of Glasgow.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
89 (1819): 267

25 September-20 November 1819: The Briton, a radical weekly, began a month...

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25 September-20 November 1819

The Briton, a radical weekly, began a month after the Peterloo Massacre and appeared each Saturday for two months.
Keen, Paul, and Kevin Gilmartin, editors. The Popular Radical Press in Britain 1817-1821. Pickering and Chatto, 2003, 6 vols.

Mariana Starke: October 1819

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October 1819

MS dated the introduction to her new guidebook, Travels on the Continent.
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.

Jane Harvey: October 1819

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October 1819

JH wrote a poem to support the keelmen (workers in coal shipping) of the Tyne in their dispute with their employers.
Harvey, Jane. Fugitive Pieces. Currie and Bowman, 1841.
4

Jane Harvey: October 1819

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October 1819

JH published at Derby, with her name and a listing of previous titles, another three-volume novel, Any Thing But What You Expect.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 479

Lady Caroline Lamb: October 1819

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October 1819

LCL anonymously published A New Canto to satirize Byron 's Don Juan (of which only two cantos were so far in print).
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
299

Mary Shelley: 9 October 1819

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9 October 1819

MS and her husband arrived in Florence after travelling via Pisa and Empoli from Leghorn.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
298
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

11 October 1819: The Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, owned...

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11 October 1819

The Theatre Royal , Bury St Edmunds, owned by its architect, William Wilkins , opened as a state-of-the-art modern theatre.
Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal. http://www.theatreroyal.org/.
Kuti, Elizabeth. Email to Orlando about conference, 19 April 2010.

15 October 1819: Richard Carlile was convicted on charges...

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15 October 1819

Richard Carlile was convicted on charges of blasphemous libel for his publication of Thomas Paine 's Age of Reason and Elihu Palmer 's Principles of Nature.
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
201-3
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

18 October 1819: The Sans Pareil theatre (which had hitherto...

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18 October 1819

The Sans Pareil theatre (which had hitherto performed burlettas and other works by Jane Scott ) changed hands and became The Adelphi .
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
14, 16-17, 283
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.
under Jane M. Scott

J. S. Anna Liddiard: By late October 1819

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By late October 1819

JSAL died at Corballis in County Meath. The Bristol Mercury reported her death on the 30th of October, though it mentions the wrong Corballis.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Ann Gomersall, Ann Hawkshaw, J. S. Anna Liddiard, Plumptre Sisters, Mary Ridgway Stockdale, Medora Gordon Byron. 8 Jan. 2016.
Wright, Julia M. “J. S. Anna Liddiard”. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, edited by Stephen Behrendt, 2008.

November 1819-February 1820: These crisis months saw (besides the death...

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November 1819-February 1820

These crisis months saw (besides the death of George III and growth of the scandal surrounding Queen Caroline) the passage of the notoriously repressive Six Acts
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
659-60

Alethea Lewis: 11 November 1819

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11 November 1819

AL 's husband died suddenly, out in the fields.
Shippen, Eliza Pearl. Eugenia de Acton (1749-1827). University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945.
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Mary Shelley: 12 November 1819

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12 November 1819

MS , now in Florence and for five months childless, bore a second son, Percy Florence , her only offspring to survive.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
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Mary Somerville: 13 November 1819

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13 November 1819

MS 's husband, William , was appointed Physician to the Royal Hospital , also called Chelsea College .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
13, 31-2

George Eliot: 22 November 1819

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22 November 1819

GE was born Mary Anne Evans at South Farm, Arbury, Warwickshire, the youngest child in her family to survive.
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
7
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 4 December 1819

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4 December 1819

In the same year that her estranged first husband died, Barbarina Wilmot was married again at Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire, to Thomas (Tim) Brand (1774-1851), who just two months before the wedding had become...

Hannah More: By 10 December 1819

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By 10 December 1819

A different publisher, Rivington , issued a volume of HM 's new tracts and ballads against sedition and impiety, written over the last two or three years.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
275-6

Isabella Kelly: 16 December 1819

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16 December 1819

IK published, as Mrs. Hedgeland, a tiny, selective encyclopaedia: Instructive Anecdotes for Youth.
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.

Sir Walter Scot : 18 December 1819

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18 December 1819

Walter Scott , as the author of Waverley, published his English historical novel Ivanhoe, with 1820 on its title-page.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
212n15

24 December 1819: The Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act...

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24 December 1819

The Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act (one of the notorious Six Acts) was passed.
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
163
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
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Margaret Emily Shore: 25 December 1819

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25 December 1819

MES was born at Bury St Edmunds.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Louisa Catherine Shore
Shore, Margaret Emily. “Introduction”. Journal of Emily Shore, edited by Arabella Shore et al., New edition, Kegan Paul, 1898, p. v - xiii.
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