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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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Christmas 1819: William Wordsworth presented Lady Mary Lowther...

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Christmas 1819

William Wordsworth presented Lady Mary Lowther with a little manuscript volume of poems: those by women were mostly copied from the pages of Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
288
Wordsworth, William, and Anne Finch. Poems and Extracts Chosen by William Wordsworth for an Album presented to Lady Mary Lowther, Christmas 1819. Editor Littledale, Harold, H. Frowde, 1905.

Sarah Flower Adams: 1820

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1820

Sarah Flower (later SFA ) moved to Dalston, a neighbourhood in London, with her family.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
20

Sarah Austin: 1820s-1830s

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Author event in Sarah Austin

1820s-1830s

SA gave language lessons and became a translator in order to supplement the insecure family income.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985.
66-71

Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: By January 1820

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By January 1820

EOB 's second biographical work was Memoirs of Mr. John Tobin, a neglected dramatist who had died in 1804.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
22: 561
Feminist Companion Archive.

Caroline Bowles: 1820

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1820

CB anonymously published her first book, the narrative poem Ellen Fitzarthur: A Metrical Tale.
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.
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.

Maria Callcott: 1820

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1820

Maria Graham (later MC ) published Memoirs of the Life of Nicholas Poussin, the first book-length study in English of the French seventeenth-century painter.
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.

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: 1820

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1820

SSW , who had already been eking out her earned income with appeals to charity, developed breast cancer.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: 1820

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1820

There was published by W. Mason in two volumes The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey, or The Mystery of the Blue and Silver Bag; A Romance, with SSW 's name.
Her name appears, as usual...

Anna Wheeler: 1820

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1820

AW 's estranged husband, Francis Massey Wheeler , died in Ireland.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
350

Anna Wheeler: 1820

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1820

Some time this year, AW met the socialist economist William Thompson at Jeremy Bentham 's house in Queen's Square Place, London.
Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. “Introduction”. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, edited by Michael, b. 1913 Foot and Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994.
vii

Flora Tristan: Probably 1820

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Probably 1820

After moving back from rural France to Paris, FT found a job as a colourist with a lithographer named André Chazal .
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
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Jane Taylor: By January 1820

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By January 1820

JT , already ill with cancer, provided an introduction to A Mother's Journal during the Last Illness of her Daughter, S[arah] Chisman: this was written by a Mrs Whitty about her daughter.
Some sources...

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1816

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1816

MMS published her first chapbook for children: The History of Little George and His Penny; she went on to plenty more.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
163

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1820

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1820

MMS published at Wellington in ShropshireThe Governess; or, The Little Female Academy, adapted from Sarah Fielding .
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Governess. F. Houlston, 1820.
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Mary Sewell: After 1820

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After 1820

MS wrote her first book, Walks With Mama.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Frances Arabella Rowden: 1820

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1820

FAR published a book for schools about ancient myth: A Christian Wreath for the Pagan Deities, or An Introduction to the Greek and Roman Mythology.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Regina Maria Roche: By January 1820

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By January 1820

After several years of silence RMR , probably driven by a need for money, published through A. K. Newman another novel, The Munster Cottage Boy, A Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 505

Amelia Opie: 1820

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1820

AO published Tales of the Heart, in which many of the tales are fairly long.
Thame, David. “Amelia Opie’s Maniacs”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 309-26.
313

Anne Grant: 1820

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1820

AG visited Jean Burns , the widow of Robert , in Dumfries.
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
286

Elizabeth Ham: About 1820

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About 1820

EH showed her long poem Elgiva and her Infants' Grammar to a newly established bookseller at Dorchester, to ask advice about publishing them.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
220

Elizabeth Hervey, 1748 - 1820: : 1820

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1820

Elizabeth Hervey died, six years after her last novel, which was the first she ever published under her own name.
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.

Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: 1820

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1820

Mary Anne Roscoe (later Jevons) edited the slight and pretty Poems for Youth, By a Family Circle, a collection written by members of her family; she was also a contributor.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Sophia Lee: 1820

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1820

A novelette appeared which was clearly a spin-off from SL 's The Recess: it is entitled (in part) Rose Douglas; or, The Court of Elizabeth; its heroine is sole survivor of twins born...

Isabella Lickbarrow: 1820

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1820

IL 's two surviving sisters entered Lancaster Asylum, both suffering from severe depression.
Wu, Duncan. “Out of poverty, riches”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 Aug. 2004.

Deborah Norris Logan: 1820

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1820

DNL wrote a long poem, Recollections, which was published in 1899 at the end of her memoir of her husband .
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.