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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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After 1820: From this date, social purity organizations...

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After 1820

From this date, social purity organizations were succesful in driving the most egregious (and mostly working-class) bawdy and rowdiness from the streets.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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By January 1820: John Clare published his first volume, Poems...

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By January 1820

John Clare published his first volume, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, By . . . a Northamptonshire Peasant.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
22 (January 1820): 565

Early 1820: In Spain a revolt of Liberals along with...

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Early 1820

In Spain a revolt of Liberals along with a troop uprising resulted in a defeat of supporters of absolute monarchy.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 45
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
90 (1820): i: 167

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 16 January 1820

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16 January 1820

HLP celebrated what she called her eightieth birthday (though most would call it her seventy-ninth) with a splendid ball for six hundred people in the Assembly Rooms at Bath.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Brontë: 17 January 1820

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17 January 1820

AB , the youngest of the family, was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Felicia Hemans: By 22 January 1820

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By 22 January 1820

FH 's short poem of religious inquiry entitled The Sceptic, A Poem appeared in print.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, 2000, p. xiii - xxix; various pages.
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Margaret Croker: After 23 January 1820

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After 23 January 1820

MC published, with her name, A Monody on His Late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent (father of Queen Victoria ).
Croker, Margaret. A Monody on His Late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. Francis Westley, 1820.
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Queen Victoria: 23 January 1820

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23 January 1820

Edward, Duke of Kent , died of pneumonia less than eight months after the birth of his daughter Alexandrina Victoria , future queen of England.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Mary Shelley: 26 January 1820

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26 January 1820

The day after the baptism of her two-month-old baby, Percy Florence , MS moved with her husband and son from Florence to Pisa in first an uncomfortable boat and then a jolting carriage.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
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29 January 1820: King George III died and George IV (already...

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29 January 1820

King George III died and George IV (already Regent) assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
426
Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
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Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Hannah Kilham: February 1820

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February 1820

HK visited a ship from Africa tied up on the River Thames, and found two West African sailors willing to teach her: Mahmadee taught her his language, Mande, and Sandanee taught her his, Wolof.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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Robertson, Fiona, and Fiona Robertson, editors. “Hannah Kilham (1774-1832)”. Women’s Writing 1778-1838, An Anthology, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 485-7.
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Ferguson, Moira. “Hannah Kilham: Gender, the Gambia, and the Politics of Language”. Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834, edited by Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh, Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 114-48.
120

6 February 1820: Eighty-six freed slaves set sail towards...

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6 February 1820

Eighty-six freed slaves set sail towards Africa from the USA to found a settlement which eventually became the nation-state of Liberia.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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Queen Victoria: 12 February 1820

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12 February 1820

After the Duke of Kent died, his impoverished wife and daughter (the Princess Alexandrina Victoria ) were forced to move into Kensington Palace and live at the expense of Prince Leopold .
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Emma Caroline Wood: 16 February 1820

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16 February 1820

Emma Caroline Michell married the Reverend John Page Wood .
Venn, John, 1834 - 1923, and John Archibald Venn. Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge University Press, 1922–1954.
Bradhurst, Minna Evangeline. A Century of Letters. Printed for private circulation by R. E. Thomas and Newman, 1929.
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19 February 1820: Madame Vestris starred in a comic opera at...

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19 February 1820

Madame Vestris starred in a comic opera at Drury Lane Theatre to mixed reviews; she did not achieve fame until she started playing male roles.
Appleton, William Worthen. Madame Vestris and the London Stage. Columbia University Press, 1974.
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Anne Lister: 21 February 1820

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21 February 1820

AL met Sibella Maclean , another important one among her many lovers.
Lister, Anne. Miss Lister of Shibden Hall. Editor Green, Muriel, Book Guild, 1992.
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23 February 1820: In the Cato Street Conspiracy, a group of...

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23 February 1820

In the Cato Street Conspiracy, a group of revolutionaries picked this day to assassinate members of the Cabinet at a private dinner; the plot failed.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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Georgina Munro: By 25 February 1820

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By 25 February 1820

GM was born shortly before this if, as seems plausible, she was the baby christened as Georgina Charlotte Munro at Gillingham in Kent on this day.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Amelia Beauclerc: By March 1820

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By March 1820

AB published her last known work, Disorder and Order. A Novel, in three volumes with Minerva , with her name and list of four previous titles.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 493
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.

Maria Edgeworth: March 1820

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March 1820

ME published Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth , Esq. Begun by himself and concluded by his daughter, Maria Edgeworth.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. ix - xlvii.
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Felicia Hemans: Spring 1820

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Spring 1820

FH met Reginald Heber (then a writer and the rector of Hodnet in Shropshire, who later became bishop of Calcutta); he was her first eminent literary acquaintance, and quickly became her friend and mentor.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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Hannah Kilham: 1820

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1820

HK published anonymously, as first fruits of her study of African languages, Ta-Re Wa-Loof, Ta-Re boo Juk-a. First Lessons in Jaloof: that is, in the Wolof tongue.
Robertson, Fiona, and Fiona Robertson, editors. “Hannah Kilham (1774-1832)”. Women’s Writing 1778-1838, An Anthology, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 485-7.
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Ferguson, Moira. “Hannah Kilham: Gender, the Gambia, and the Politics of Language”. Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834, edited by Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh, Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 114-48.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Russell Mitford: By March 1820

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By March 1820

MRM 's father had to acknowledge the serious financial difficulties which had been for some time increasing, not staved off by a long legal battle.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 193

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: By 6 March 1820

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By 6 March 1820

Elizabeth Barrett 's father had her classical epic poem The Battle of Marathon privately printed in fifty copies for her fourteenth birthday.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press, 1973, 6 vols.
1: xlv
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
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L. E. L.: 11 March 1820

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11 March 1820

Eighteen-year-old Letitia Landon 's first poem, Rome, was published in the Literary Gazette, signed L.
L. E. L. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages.
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Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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