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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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Isabel Hill: October 1820

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October 1820

IH 's first play, The Poet's Child, a five-act verse tragedy, was published by her brother Benson Earle Hill in an edition which sold out in a few days.
Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Feb. 1842.
182

By October 1820: A revolution in Naples—instigated by the...

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By October 1820

A revolution in Naples—instigated by the Carbonari (a secret political society founded in 1815)—provoked Ferdinand I to grant a constitution, which included the establishment of an elected parliament.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
26, 50-1, 273

October 1820: At the Congress of Troppau, Britain and France...

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October 1820

At the Congress of Troppau, Britain and France rejected Metternich 's proposal that the Holy Alliance should intervene to restore the status quo in any member nation experiencing revolution.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
27
Chernow, Barbara A. et al., editors. The Columbia Encyclopedia. 5th ed., Columbia University Press, 1993.
under Congress of Troppau

By 25 October 1820: William Godwin published his Answer to Malthus,...

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By 25 October 1820

William Godwin published his Answer to Malthus, arguing that human beings were not increasing to the point of being unable to feed themselves.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
26 (1821): 148
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Graham, Kenneth W. “Beckford, Godwin, Austen, and the Divisive 1790s”. Persuasions, Vol.
24
, 2002, pp. 33-46.
37
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. 12 Nov. 2010, http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.

Anna Eliza Bray: November 1820

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November 1820

The future AEB , as Mrs. Charles Stothard, published Letters Written During a Tour Through Normandy, Brittany and Other Parts of France in 1818, with illustrations by her husband .
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
157
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: November 1820

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November 1820

BBBD celebrated one of her most important literary relationships with a friendship poem entitled To Ugo Foscolo , with a Snuff-box.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
2: 269

Ann Hatton: November 1820

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November 1820

AH published with Minerva her five-volume Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments. A Novel, as Anne of Swansea, with 1821 on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 518

Adelaide Kemble: November 1820

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November 1820

Actor Charles Kemble , father of Fanny and AK , took on the share of his brother John Philip Kemble in Covent Garden Theatre . Within a couple of years he took on the major...

November 1820: George IV's bill for divorcing Queen Caroline...

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November 1820

George IV 's bill for divorcing Queen Caroline was abandoned.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
248
Carretta, Vincent. George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
358

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 4 November 1820

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4 November 1820

Mary Lamb 's poem A Lady's Sapphic, an attempt to render Sappho 's style and metre in English, was anonymously printed in The Champion.
Prance, Claude Annett. Companion to Charles Lamb: A Guide to People and Places, 1760-1847. Mansell, 1983.
188

Menella Bute Smedley: By 14 November 1820

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By 14 November 1820

MBS was born in Wandsworth, South London, the last but one of five children, of whom four lived to grow up.
Smedley, Edward. Poems by the late Edward Smedley. Baldwin and Cradock, 1837.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Routledge, 1905–1907, 12 vols.
8: 327
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.

17 November 1820: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first known...

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17 November 1820

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's first known publication, The Battle of Lovell's Pond, appeared in the Portland Gazette.
Robertson, Eric Sutherland. Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Kennikat Press, 1972.
21-3

28 November 1820: Philosopher Friedrich Engels was born in...

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28 November 1820

Philosopher Friedrich Engels was born in Barmen, Germany.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
129

December 1820: The Constitutional Association (at the opposite...

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December 1820

The Constitutional Association (at the opposite end of the political spectrum from the various Constitutional Societies ) was formed in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819, with the aim of silencing...

17 December 1820: The weekly John Bull, titled from a popular...

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17 December 1820

The weekly John Bull, titled from a popular nationalistic personification of Britain, was launched in London. From 1856 to 1860 it ran under the title John Bull and Britannia, then reverted to...

Mary Russell Mitford: 20 December 1820

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20 December 1820

MRM wrote in her diary, about her intention of composing tragedies for the stage, God grant I may make some money of it.
qtd. in
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 110. Gale Research, 1991.
110: 201

Dion Boucicault: 26 December 1820

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26 December 1820

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (later DB ), actor and playwright, was born in Dublin, the youngest of his mother's five children.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Maria Abdy: 1821

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1821

Maria Smith married John Channing Abdy , the rector of a Southwark church (variously given as St John's or St George the Martyr's).
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.
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
1
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press, 1997–1998, 2 vols.
2: 178

Joanna Baillie: 1821

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1821

JB reprinted together the three successive volumes of her Series of Plays on the Passions.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Joanna Baillie: January 1821

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January 1821

After JB 's visit to Scotland, she published Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters, which included poems on William Wallace and the woman she calls Lady Griseld Baillie .
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 168
Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 4, 1998, pp. 469-00.
492n28
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
24 (1821): 572

Joanna Baillie: 1821

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1821

Poetical Miscellanies collected some work by JB along with that of others.
qtd. in
Feminist Companion Archive.

Elizabeth Bentley: 1821

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1821

EB published at Norwich her second volume, Poems; Being the Genuine Compositions of Elizabeth Bentley, of Norwich, again by subscription.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 1821

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1821

Marguerite Blessington took the six-week tour through the Netherlands to Paris which the following year she made the subject of a book.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
no. 50: 56

Selina Bunbury: 1821

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1821

SB 's first published work, A Visit to My Birthplace (one of a number of her early books to deal with Protestant society in Ireland) is said to have appeared this year, though only...

Lady Eleanor Butler: January-July 1821

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January-July 1821

LEB kept the last of her surviving journals; over thirty-six years, only nine are extant today.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
11-12
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages.
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