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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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Hannah Brand: March 1821

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Author event in Hannah Brand

March 1821

HB died in her late sixties; her sister Mary survived her by five years.
Nichols, John, 1745 - 1826, and John Bowyer Nichols. Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. Printed for the author by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1817–1858, 8 vols.
6: 534-6

March 1821: Piedmont suffered a revolt instigated by...

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March 1821

Piedmont suffered a revolt instigated by the Carbonari ; its king, King Victor Emmanuel I , abdicated in favour of his brother Charles Felix ; but Austria put down the revolt, together with another in Naples.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
51, 273

Richard Francis Burton: 19 March 1821

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Author event in Richard Francis Burton

19 March 1821

Explorer, writer, and diplomat RFB was born at Torquay in Devon.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: By 20 March 1821

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Author event in Percy Bysshe Shelley

By 20 March 1821

PBS composed his most famous prose work, A Defence of Poetry, a poetic credo conceived as an answer to Thomas Love Peacock 's Four Ages of Poetry.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Isabella Banks: 25 March 1821

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Author event in Isabella Banks

25 March 1821

Isabella Varley (later IB ) was born at a house in Oldham Street in Manchester.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: By April 1821

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Author event in Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

By April 1821

EOB turned to history in her next biography, Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, mother of Elizabeth I .
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
25: 273

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: April 1821

Women writers item

April 1821

Elizabeth Barrett and her two eldest sisters became seriously ill. Her sisters recovered, but her own malaise persisted.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
1: xlvii, 325-7
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
22

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: April 1821

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Author event in Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson

April 1821

SSW began contributing to The Lady's Magazine; at the end of the same year she began to earn a pound a month by writing for Lee's Museum.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

April 1821: William Hazlitt published the first volume...

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April 1821

William Hazlitt published the first volume of Table Talk, a collection of essays.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
25: 275
Keynes, Geoffrey, Sir. Bibliography of William Hazlitt. Second Edition, St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1981.
60-1

April 1821-May 1829: The Greek War of Liberation was led by Greek...

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April 1821-May 1829

The Greek War of Liberation was led by Greek general Prince Alexander Ypsilantis , an officer in the service of Russia.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 45
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
68
Levey, Judith S., and Agnes Greenhall, editors. The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia. Columbia University Press, 1983.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Charles Baudelaire: 9 April 1821

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Author event in Charles Baudelaire

9 April 1821

CB , French poet and critic, was born in Paris.
Beum, Robert, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 217. Gale Research, 2000.

Deborah Norris Logan: 9 April 1821

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Author event in Deborah Norris Logan

9 April 1821

DNL 's husband, George Logan , died: this grief followed the deaths of two of their children.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mary Howitt: 16 April 1821

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Author event in Mary Howitt

16 April 1821

Mary Botham married William Howitt at the Friends' Meeting House, Carter Street, Uttoxeter.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
83

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: After April 1821

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After April 1821

Two years after her second marriage, BBBD had privately printed, again through John Murray , two volumes of Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
1: prelims
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Harriet Burney: By April 1821

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Author event in Sarah Harriet Burney

By April 1821

SHB had taken a position as companion to Charlotte Anne Gregor , a young heiress in very poor health.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
232-3
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
xlvi

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: May 1821

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May 1821

Elizabeth Barrett 's first independent publication, Stanzas, Excited by Some Reflections on the Present State of Greece, appeared in The New Monthly Magazine.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
7
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
36

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 2 May 1821

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Author event in Hester Lynch Piozzi

2 May 1821

HLP died at Clifton near Bristol, about six weeks after a fall in which she injured a leg.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
454, 456

Eleanor Anne Porden: 5 May 1821

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Author event in Eleanor Anne Porden

5 May 1821

EAP dated her quatrain poem in the style of an ode, printed for the author:
Porden, Eleanor Anne. Charity. 1821.
4
Charity, A Second Contribution in Aid of the Bedford Free School.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. Charity. 1821.
1

5 May 1821: The Manchester Guardian began publication...

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5 May 1821

The Manchester Guardian began publication in Manchester; the newspaper ran until 22 August 1959, when it changed its title to the Guardian and moved its offices to London.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

5 May 1821: Napoleon died in confinement on the island...

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5 May 1821

Napoleon died in confinement on the island of St Helena.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
80, 86
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
252

Charlotte Maria Tucker : 8 May 1821

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Author event in Charlotte Maria Tucker

8 May 1821

CMT , who later published as A. L. O. E., was born at Friern Hatch, Barnet, Hertfordshire, where her family was briefly staying in the course of their move from Edinburgh to London.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 317
Giberne, Agnes, and W. F. Tucker Hamilton. A Lady of England. Hodder and Stoughton, 1895.
10, 13

Felicia Skene: 23 May 1821

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Author event in Felicia Skene

23 May 1821

FS was born at Aix-en-Provence in Southern France, the youngest in her family of seven surviving children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under James Skene

Jane Welsh Carlyle: 26 May 1821

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Author event in Jane Welsh Carlyle

26 May 1821

Jane Welsh first met Thomas Carlyle .
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
19

Anna Eliza Bray: 28 May 1821

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Author event in Anna Eliza Bray

28 May 1821

Anna Eliza Stothard (later AEB ) was widowed when her first husband died after falling from a ladder while drawing a stained-glass window at Beer Ferrers in Devon.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 51
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Hays: Summer 1821

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Hays

Summer 1821

MH published with her name, unfinished, her second biography collection, Memoirs of Queens, Illustrious and Celebrated.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
258