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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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5 December 1821: The first known fatality in a railway accident...

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5 December 1821

The first known fatality in a railway accident occurred when carpenter David Brook was hit by a coal train during a storm.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
78

Dora Greenwell: 6 December 1821

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Author event in Dora Greenwell

6 December 1821

DG was born at Greenwell Ford, Lanchester, Durham, one of five children and her parents' only daughter.
Bett, Henry. Dora Greenwell. Epworth Press, 1950.
11, 13

Gustave Flaubert: 12 December 1821

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Author event in Gustave Flaubert

12 December 1821

Novelist GF was born at Rouen in France.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
119

12 December 1821: Phoebe Hessel died at Brighton, where a tombstone...

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12 December 1821

Phoebe Hessel died at Brighton, where a tombstone records her claim to have reached the age of a hundred and eight, and to have served for five years in the army, wearing men's clothes.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
105-6

Ellen Weeton: Biography: 22 December 1821

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Author event in Ellen Weeton: Biography

22 December 1821

EW was accused of assault; she was jailed and threatened with the lunatic asylum.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
2: 178

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde: 27 December 1821

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27 December 1821

Jane Frances Elgee (later Speranza or JFLW ) was born in Dublin.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 299
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988.
5-7

Lucy Aikin: By January 1822

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Author event in Lucy Aikin

By January 1822

LA published another 2-volume work of cultural history: Memoirs of the Court of King James the First.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
26: 542

Caroline Bowles: 1822

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Author event in Caroline Bowles

1822

CB , as the author of Ellen Fitzarthur, published her second book of poetry, The Widow's Tale and Other Poems.
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.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.

Anna Eliza Bray: 1822

Women writers item
Author event in Anna Eliza Bray

1822

The year after her first husband 's death, Anna Eliza Stothard married the Rev. Edward Atkyns Bray , vicar of Tavistock in Devon.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: About 1822

Women writers item

About 1822

In an unpublished poetic Fragment of an 'Essay on Woman', the teenaged Elizabeth Barrett countered Pope 's An Essay on Man, proclaiming that even in literature woman stands the equal of her Master Man.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Fragment of an ’Essay on Woman’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol.
12
, 1 Mar.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 11-12.
11
Hoag, Eleanor. “Note on ’Fragment of an ‘Essay on Woman’’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol.
12
, 1 Mar.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 7-9.
7

Lady Charlotte Bury: 1822

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Author event in Lady Charlotte Bury

1822

LCB issued anonymously with Blackwood of Edinburgh and Cadell of London a three-volume novel entitled Conduct is Fate.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Conduct is Fate. William Blackwood and T. Cadell, 1822, 3 vols.
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Sara Coleridge: 1822

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Author event in Sara Coleridge

1822

The young SC published a translation from the Latin of Martinus Dobrizhoffer : An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay, etc..
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.

Eliza Cook: Probably 1822

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Author event in Eliza Cook

Probably 1822

Joseph Cook , EC 's father, retired, and the family moved from London to a small farm near Horsham in Sussex.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Dacre: 1822

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Author event in Charlotte Dacre

1822

CD returned to poetry, publishing George IV , A Poem . . . To which are added, lyrics, designed for various melodies.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Frances Wright: 1822

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Author event in Frances Wright

1822

FW published her Epicurean tract, A Few Days in Athens.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
65, 68, 305

Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: 1822

Women writers item

1822

About two years after her husband's death EPW published, through Longman , her first poetry collection: The Enchanted Flute, with Other Poems, and Fables from La Fontaine.
The Bodleian Library copy has La Fontaine's...

Charlotte Maria Tucker : 1822

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Author event in Charlotte Maria Tucker

1822

CMT , still a baby, moved with her family from Friern Hatch to 3 Upper Portland Place, London.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 318

Catharine Parr Traill: 1822

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Author event in Catharine Parr Traill

1822

Catharine Strickland, later CPT , anonymously published another tale for children entitled Little Downy; or The History of a Field Mouse: A Moral Tale, with twelve colour engravings; it achieved some popularity.
The British...

Jane Taylor: 1822

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Author event in Jane Taylor

1822

JT and her family moved from the Peaked Farm at Ongar to a smaller house on the outskirts of the town.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
83-4

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : January 1822

Women writers item

January 1822

EIS published the two-volume Old Stories, whose dedication to Mrs Myddelton Biddulph , the present possessor of Chirk Castle, links it with an imposing thirteenth-century fortress rich in bloody legends.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 543-4

Arabella Shore: 1822

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Author event in Arabella Shore

1822

AS was baptised and therefore presumably born this year, the middle one of three writing sisters in a family of five children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Louisa Catherine Shore
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.

Emily Shirreff: 1822

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Author event in Emily Shirreff

1822

ES endured a fever at the age of seven, after which the loss of her memory necessitated her relearning the alphabet.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1822

Women writers item

1822

MAS published pseudonymously Asaph, a philosophical-historical poem about the Moravians .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1822

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Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson

1822

SHR 's final publication, at Boston two years before her death, was Biblical Dialogues between a Father and his Family in two volumes, a book of family instruction in the Bible.
Neither the British Library

Amelia Opie: By January 1822

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Author event in Amelia Opie

By January 1822

AO issued her last completed and published novel, Madeline, a Tale.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
26 (1822): 544