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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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Felicia Hemans: June 1821

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June 1821

FH 's Dartmoor, A Poem won a prize of fifty guineas from the Royal Society of Literature .
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
235
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
277

Catherine Hutton: June 1821

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Author event in Catherine Hutton

June 1821

CH was reading Jane Austen : at this stage she saw Austen's novels as trifles, but agreeable ones.
Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers, 1891.
175

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 15 June 1821

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15 June 1821

Sydney Morgan 's Italy was published in an expensive quarto.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
178

Lucie Duff Gordon: 24 June 1821

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Author event in Lucie Duff Gordon

24 June 1821

Lucie Austin (later LDG ), only child of Sarah and John Austin , was born at the then 1 Queen Square in London.
This part of the square was later replaced by what is now Queen Anne's Gate.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
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Anna Eliza Bray: 29 June 1821

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Author event in Anna Eliza Bray

29 June 1821

A scant month after her husband's death, Anna Eliza Stothard (later AEB ) gave birth to her only child, a daughter named Blanch Anna Eliza .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 51
Bray, Anna Eliza. “Introduction”. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray, edited by John A. Kempe, Chapman and Hall, 1884, pp. 1-36.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: By July 1821

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By July 1821

Elizabeth Barrett was sent to the Spa Hotel in Gloucester, where she stayed until May of the next year undergoing inconclusive medical examination and treatment.
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
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Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
1: xlvii

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : By July 1821

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By July 1821

LMH published, with her name, the novel Heraline; or, Opposite Proceedings.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
25 (1821): 578

Mary Ann Kelty: July 1821

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July 1821

MAK published, anonymously, her first, part-epistolary, religious novel, The Favourite of Nature: A Tale, which reflects the influence of her admired Jane Austen .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 521

Anne Lister: July 1821

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Author event in Anne Lister

July 1821

AL began to fear she had contracted venereal disease from M— (Marianna Lawton ), who might have got it from her husband.
Lister, Anne. I Know My Own Heart. Editor Whitbread, Helena, New York University Press, 1992.
158

4 July 1821: The second Haymarket Theatre (that is not...

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4 July 1821

The second Haymarket Theatre (that is not the New Theatre, Haymarket, or the King's Theatre, now Her Majesty's, but the present Theatre Royal) was opened, somewhat to the south of the former New Theatre.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
95, 283

Anna Letitia Barbauld: 7 July 1821

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7 July 1821

ALB met Charles Lamb and his sister Mary . Charles had already, in the privacy of a letter, railed at the cursed Barbauld Crew whose didactic tales had driven out old, wild tales,
qtd. in
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
446
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: By 13 July 1821

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By 13 July 1821

PBS had Adonais, his elegy on the death of Keats , printed at Pisa. He sent a copy of this edition to John Gisborne on this date. The poem was printed at London...

Elizabeth Beverley: About July 1821

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About July 1821

The Coronation Sermon (a work of which EB seems to have been particularly proud, about the crowning of George IV and the surrounding scandal) apparently bore the dignified title A Glass for Kings.
Beverley, Elizabeth. Odd Thoughts. Printed for the authoress, 1825.
title-page
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Eleanor Anne Porden: About 19 July 1821

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About 19 July 1821

EAP published her Ode on the Coronation of His Most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth
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.

19 July 1821: George IV's coronation was marred for many...

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19 July 1821

George IV 's coronation was marred for many by the exclusion of his estranged wife, Caroline, and her highly visible efforts to participate.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
248
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
230
Luttrell, Barbara. The Prim Romantic. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
204

28 July 1821: Peru declared its independence from Spain,...

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28 July 1821

Peru declared its independence from Spain, but Simon Bolivar , first president of the new republic, was not secure in his position for a good while longer.
“Library of Congress Country Studies”. Country Studies/Area Handbook Series, 2003.

Maria Callcott: 31 July 1821

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31 July 1821

The year after their return from Italy, Maria Graham (later MC ) and her first husband sailed for Brazil.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
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Frances Wright: August 1821

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Author event in Frances Wright

August 1821

The Utilitarian and political theorist Jeremy Bentham first made contact with FW .
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Elizabeth Inchbald: 1 August 1821

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1 August 1821

EI died at Kensington House, a London lay community of Roman Catholics.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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L. E. L.: August 1821

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Author event in L. E. L.

August 1821

Letitia Landon 's The Fate of Adelaide, A Swiss Tale of Romance, and Other Poems was published by John WarrenJohn Warren with the financial assistance of her grandmother.
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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4 August 1821: In the USA the Saturday Evening Post began...

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4 August 1821

In the USA the Saturday Evening Post began life as an unillustrated newspaper. By 1839 it had declared itself to be a family paper whose list of values included Pure Literature . . . Science...

7 August 1821: George IV's estranged wife, Queen Caroline,...

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7 August 1821

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

12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...

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12 August-3 September 1821

The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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Elizabeth Gaskell: Autumn 1821

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Author event in Elizabeth Gaskell

Autumn 1821

Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson (later EG ) began attending a progressive Dissenting boarding school run by Maria Byerley and her sisters.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Frances Wright: By Autumn 1821

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By Autumn 1821

FW had moved to Paris, where she lived for about three years.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.