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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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Jean Ingelow: 17 March 1820

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17 March 1820

JI was born at Boston in Lincolnshire, the eldest of ten children.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
35

Sophia Lee: 24 March 1820

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Author event in Sophia Lee

24 March 1820

Hester Lynch Piozzi began a letter which almost admiringly describes SL living as a recluse and refusing to admit the visitors drawn by her fame.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xxxvii-xxxviii and n118

26 March 1820: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin completed Ruslan...

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26 March 1820

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin completed Ruslan and Lyudmilla, a narrative, mock-epic, fairy-tale poem in six cantos.
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
28-9

Cassandra Cooke: 29 March 1820

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Author event in Cassandra Cooke

29 March 1820

The Rev. Samuel Cooke , husband of CC , died at his parish of Great Bookham, aged seventy-nine.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
605

Mary Sewell: 30 March 1820

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Author event in Mary Sewell

30 March 1820

Mary Sewell was living at 26 Church Plain, Yarmouth when she bore her daughter, Anna , who became famous as the author of Black Beauty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna Sewell: 30 March 1820

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30 March 1820

AS was the first of two children born to a Quaker family at 26 Church Plain, Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
259
Chitty, Susan. The Woman Who Wrote Black Beauty: A Life of Anna Sewell. Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.
44
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Russell Mitford: Late March 1820

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Late March 1820

Following his financial losses, MRM 's father moved his family from his mansion of Bertram House near Reading to a labourer's cottage in the village of Three Mile Cross nearby.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
1: 330
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 194

Anne Brontë: Early April 1820

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Author event in Anne Brontë

Early April 1820

AB was only three months old when her family moved to Haworth, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
89

Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 8 April 1820

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8 April 1820

Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire , formally left her name in Queen Caroline's visiting book in Rome, only a few days before Caroline left the city in a rage at the diplomatic and social...

Maria Edgeworth: 22 April 1820

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Author event in Maria Edgeworth

22 April 1820

ME set off with two younger sisters to tour Switzerland; they also visited Paris again.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
407-10

George Eliot: By April 1820

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By April 1820

Baby Mary Anne Evans (later GE ) moved with her family from Arbury in Warwickshire to Griff House near Nuneaton, an idyllic setting that profoundly influenced her.
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.
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Herbert Spencer: 27 April 1820

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Author event in Herbert Spencer

27 April 1820

HS , philosopher and sociologist, was born at 12 Exeter Road in Derby.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
262
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Shelley: About May 1820

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Author event in Mary Shelley

About May 1820

MS wrote two dramas based on Greek myth: Proserpine, for an all-female cast, and Midas, with an all-male one.
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24.
414
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelleys Mythological Dramas Midas and ProserpineWomens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 385-11.
385
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45.
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Mary Bryan: 22 December 1818

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22 December 1818

The widow MB was married secretly, at St Clement Danes in London, to Dr James Bedingfield , the friend whom her first husband had appointed to look after her and her children.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.

Frances Wright: 10 May 1820

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10 May 1820

FW set sail on the James Monroe to return from the USA to England.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Florence Nightingale : 12 May 1820

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12 May 1820

FN was born at Villa La Columbaia in Florence, Italy.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Margaret Holford, the younger : After 18 May 1820

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After 18 May 1820

The only novel published by Margaret Holford the younger was historical, set in the middle ages: Warbeck of Wolfstein.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 498

Caroline Bowles: June 1820

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Author event in Caroline Bowles

June 1820

CB had her first meeting, in London, with Robert Southey , the Poet Laureate.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
xix

Eliza Fletcher: Summer 1820

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Author event in Eliza Fletcher

Summer 1820

EF wrote her Dramatic Sketches, Elidure in three weeks and Edward in two, after reading Milton 's History of Britain, that Part especially now call'd England, 1670.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
122-3, 150

June 1820: William Pickering established his own bookshop...

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June 1820

William Pickering established his own bookshop and publishing firm at 31 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London; he specialized in the antiquarian book trade.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 246

Mary Shelley: Early June 1820

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Early June 1820

MS recorded in her diary reading Memoirs which are almost certainly those of her mother written and published by her father .
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
319

Anne Evans: Biography: 4 June 1820

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Author event in Anne Evans: Biography

4 June 1820

AE was born at Sandhurst in Berkshire.
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.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, 1880, p. vii - xxix.
xxix

Melesina Trench: After 4 June 1820

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Author event in Melesina Trench

After 4 June 1820

MT printed through J. Ridgway (brother-in-law of her earliest publisher) A Monody on the Death of Mr. Grattan
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

By 10 June 1820: The Astronomical Society of London (later...

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By 10 June 1820

The Astronomical Society of London (later the Royal Astronomical Society) was founded: on this day it held an early meeting.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
383
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
93
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
90 (1820): ii: 632

20 June 1820: The Lambeth General Lying-In Hospital advertised...

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20 June 1820

The LambethGeneral Lying-In Hospital advertised in The Times for female visitors, lamenting its shortage of funds and desiring the aid these women could offer.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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