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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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28 June 1820: Parliament granted leave to Henry Brougham...

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28 June 1820

Parliament granted leave to Henry Brougham to present a Parish Schools Bill to provide for schools established and maintained by the Anglican clergy.
Hyndman, Michael. Schools and Schooling in England and Wales: A Documentary History. Harper and Rowe, 1978.
234
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
90 (1820)

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Summer 1820

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Summer 1820

PBS published his lyrical drama
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works of Shelley. Editors Hutchinson, Thomas and Geoffrey Maurice Matthews, Oxford University Press, 1970.
204
Prometheus Unbound.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works of Shelley. Editors Hutchinson, Thomas and Geoffrey Maurice Matthews, Oxford University Press, 1970.
204

Elizabeth Grant: July 1820

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July 1820

EG and her family returned to the Doune on their estate of Rothiemurchus in the Highlands, using it now as their primary home.
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Tod, Andrew, Canongate, 1988, 2 vols.
2: 155

Elizabeth Ham: From probably summer 1820

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From probably summer 1820

EH worked as a governess at Clifton near Bristol, in the family of Charles Abraham Elton , a poet whose work she already admired.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
220, 222-3

Lady Caroline Lamb: Summer 1820

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Summer 1820

In one more belated public linking of herself with Byron , LCL appeared at Almack's in London dressed as his fictional Don Juan and attended by devils.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
299

Jane Porter: 5 July 1820

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5 July 1820

Mary Russell Mitford declined to feel sorry for JP , who was, she said, sick . . . of her condemned play (that is since Switzerland failed). Her disease is wounded vanity.
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: 341

Judith Sargent Murray: 6 July 1820

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6 July 1820

JSM died in Natchez, Mississippi, which, apparently, she still thought of not as her home but as a place of exile from Boston.
Harris, Sharon M., and Judith Sargent Murray. “Introduction”. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, edited by Sharon M. Harris and Sharon M. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. xv - xliv.
xliii
Skemp, Sheila L. First Lady of Letters. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
378 and n25

Mary Delany: Later 1820

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Later 1820

MD 's Letters to Mrs. Frances Hamilton , from the year 1779 to the year 1788 were posthumously published.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
24 (1820): 271

Early July 1820: Keats published Lamia, Isabella, The Eve...

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Early July 1820

Keats published Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and other Poems.
Keats, John. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, Oxford University Press, 1921, p. ix - lxxxii.
lxxxli

Dorothy Wordsworth: 10 July 1820 - mid-February 1821

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10 July 1820 - mid-February 1821

DW wrote her Journal of a Tour on the Continent.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
2: 7, 336

Sarah Harriet Burney: 13 July 1820

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13 July 1820

The Morning Chronicle printed a sonnet by Charles Lamb in praise of Blanch, heroine of SHB 's Country Neighbours.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
487

Barbara Hofland: Probably summer 1820

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Probably summer 1820

BH published a pamphlet on the quarrel between George IV and Queen Caroline, entitled An Englishwoman's Letter to Mrs. Hannah More.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
70

Barbara Hofland: By August 1820

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By August 1820

BH published Tales of the Priory, with her name, acknowledging her indebtedness to Crabbe by a quotation on the title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 498
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
24 (1820):176
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
70-1

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: August 1820

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August 1820

Charles Lamb , brother of Mary , began writing his best-known works: essays contributed under the pen-name of Elia to the London Magazine.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
317
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.

Elizabeth B. Lester: By August 1820

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By August 1820

EBL published Tales of the Imagination, whose naming of previous works on the title-page again caused the work to be attributed to Mrs Ross.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 501

Mary Shelley: 6-19 August 1820

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6-19 August 1820

MS wrote a thirty-page children's story, Maurice; or, The Fisher's Cot, for the eleventh birthday of Laurette, daughter of her friend Lady Mountcashel (Shelley's mother's former pupil Margaret King).
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24.
414

17 August 1820: The trial of Queen Caroline for adultery...

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17 August 1820

The trial of Queen Caroline for adultery began; it was abandoned in November, when public outrage over it sparked fears of revolution.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
5: 380
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Later 1820: Charles Robert Maturin published his Melmoth...

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Later 1820

Charles Robert Maturin published his Melmoth the Wanderer, a gothic novel which recalls the medieval legend of the Wandering Jew.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Emma Caroline Wood: Between later 1820 and 1827

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Between later 1820 and 1827

During these years ECW gave birth to almost half of her large family: to six children, only two of whom survived.
Sources conflict over the total number of children she had. The confusion might result...

John Keats: September 1820

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September 1820

JK , mortally ill with tuberculosis, sailed for Italy with his friend Joseph Severn .
Keats, John. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, Oxford University Press, 1921, p. ix - lxxxii.
lxxxli

Sir Walter Scot : 2 September 1820

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2 September 1820

Sir Walter Scott , as the author of Waverley (knighted this year), published The Abbot, a historical novel whose view of Mary Queen of Scots stands in complex relationship to the trial of Queen...

Frances Arabella Rowden: After 3 September 1820

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After 3 September 1820

FAR 's final publication was A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times, a collection of ancient and modern literary lives.
Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829.
1829, iv

Matilda Hays: 8 September 1820

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8 September 1820

MH was born in London.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

By 18 September 1820: A nationwide campaign of women petitioning...

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By 18 September 1820

A nationwide campaign of women petitioning on behalf of Queen Caroline was one factor in the abandoning of her trial for adultery.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
265, 399n59
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelleys Mythological Dramas Midas and ProserpineWomens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 385-11.
387

Maria Callcott: By October 1820

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By October 1820

MC published, as Maria Graham, Three Months Passed in the Mountains East of Rome.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
24 (1820): 279