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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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Eleanor Anne Porden: September 1821

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Author event in Eleanor Anne Porden

September 1821

EAP and her father began a tour of France.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. John Franklin’s Bride. Editor Gell, Edith M., First, John Murray, 1930.
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Anne Brontë: 15 September 1821

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Author event in Anne Brontë

15 September 1821

AB 's mother died at the age of thirty-eight, leaving her youngest daughter only twenty months old.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Langland, Elizabeth. Anne Brontë: The Other One. Barnes and Noble, 1989.
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Charlotte Brontë: 15 September 1821

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

15 September 1821

The Brontës' mother, Maria Brontë , died at the age of thirty-eight, having fallen ill in January with cancer, probably of the uterus.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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L. E. L.: 22 September 1821

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Author event in L. E. L.

22 September 1821

The famous initials L. E. L were used for the first time: on Landon's poems Bells and Stanzas on the Death of Miss Campbell in the Literary Gazette.
L. E. L. “Introduction”. The Fate of Adelaide, edited by Francis Jacques Sypher, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1990.
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Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel: 27 September 1821

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Author event in Henri-Frédéric Amiel

27 September 1821

HFA , Swiss writer and diarist, was born at Geneva.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Dorothea Primrose Campbell: By October 1821

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By October 1821

A. K. Newman , owner of the Minerva Press , published DPC 's single novel, Harley Radington. A Tale.
Campbell, Dorothea Primrose. Harley Radington. A. K. Newman, 1821.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Maria Edgeworth: October 1821-1822

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Author event in Maria Edgeworth

October 1821-1822

ME spent the winter season in London with two sisters; they visited extensively in country mansions and suburban villas.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Ellen Weeton: Biography: October 1821

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Author event in Ellen Weeton: Biography

October 1821

EW 's husband was released on bond, having entered into recognizances after arrest for assaulting her.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
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Mary Martha Sherwood: October 1821

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October 1821

MMS published at WellingtonThe History of George Desmond; founded on facts which occurred in the East Indies . . . as a useful caution to young men going out to that country.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 698

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1821-2

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1821-2

MAS published a work of scholarship, Biblical Fragments, in two volumes, with her name, and an epigraph in Latin from St Augustine about belief in God.
The first volume was reviewed by October 1821...

Caroline Herschel : October 1821

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Author event in Caroline Herschel

October 1821

CH , increasingly concerned about her brother's deteriorating health, wrote the last entry in her Day-Book: because, she said, now one day passed like another.
qtd. in
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
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Lady Caroline Lamb: Autumn 1821

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Author event in Lady Caroline Lamb

Autumn 1821

LCL published another satire on Byron 's writing: Gordon, A Tale, A Poetical Review of Don Juan, in two cantos.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: October 1821

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October 1821

Colburn included in a supplement to his New Monthly MagazineSOLM 's riposte to the critics of her Italy: A Letter to the Reviewers of Italy.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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October 1821: The Edinburgh School of Arts was founded...

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October 1821

The Edinburgh School of Arts was founded by Leonard Horner , to educate mechanics, that is workmen, in branches of physical science deemed to be practical in their trades.
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
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Scotland, James. The History of Scottish Education. University of London Press, 1969, 2 vols.
I: 304, 306

Marion Moss: 22 October 1821

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Author event in Marion Moss

22 October 1821

MM was born, the fifth daughter among twelve children.
“Jewish Encyclopedia”. JewishEncyclopedia.com, 2002.

22 October 1821: The Rising Star, the first steamship to traverse...

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22 October 1821

The Rising Star, the first steamship to traverse the Atlantic from east to west, left Gravesend.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Elizabeth Rigby: Late 1821

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Late 1821

Around the time of her father 's death, ER 's family moved to Framingham Earl, near Norwich, where he owned an estate.
ER 's biographer Marion Lochhead refers throughout to Framlingham, a town...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: 30 October 1821

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30 October 1821

Novelist FMD was born at Moscow Mariinskii Hospital.
This date, given in Old Style (or the Julian calendar) which was still in use in Russia, would be 11 November in New Style (the Gregorian calendar).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Isabel Pagan: 3 November 1821

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3 November 1821

IP died at Muirkirk in Ayrshire; she was buried in the kirkyard there.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Caroline Lamb: 11 November 1821

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11 November 1821

Lady Bessborough , mother of LCL , died in Florence.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Charlotte Godley: 14 November 1821

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14 November 1821

Charlotte Wynne or Griffith-Wynne (later CG ) was born in North Wales, most likely at her parents' home, Voelas (or Foelas) near Betws-y-Coed, now in Conwy.
Garner, Jean. “The First ‘First Lady’: Charlotte Godley, 1821-1907”. Remembering Godley, edited by Mark Stocker, Hazard Press, 2001, pp. 56-77.
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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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/.
Godley, Eveline C., and Charlotte Godley. “Charlotte Godley—An Impression”. Letters from Early New Zealand, edited by John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken and John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1951, p. xvii - xx.
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Burke, John, editor. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s Peerage.
under Aylesford

Henry Thomas Buckle: 24 November 1821

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24 November 1821

The future historian HTB was born in London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: December 1821

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December 1821

SSW , facing prison for a debt of one pound nine shillings, incurred when a window got broken, told the Royal Literary Fund , I am of that sex whose earnings at the best of...

Elizabeth B. Lester: 1821-1822

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Author event in Elizabeth B. Lester

1821-1822

EBL published her final novel, The Woman of Genius. Its title-page lists no previous work, but a listing elsewhere as by the author of The Bachelor and the Married Man again produced ascription to...

December 1821: Byron published his verse drama Cain: A Mystery;...

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December 1821

Byron published his verse drama Cain: A Mystery; the title-page said 1822.
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.
Simpson, Michael. “Byrons Cain at the Barbican Centre, London (29th November 1995 to 7th March 1996)”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Dec. 1997–28 Feb. 1998, pp. 41-6.
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