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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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1822: Charles Fourier published Traite de l'association...

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1822

Charles Fourier published Traite de l'association domestique-agricole.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
364

1822: Despite Wellington's objections, the Congress...

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1822

Despite Wellington 's objections, the Congress of Verona authorized French military intervention in Spain, where the new liberal regime had divided into factions.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 45

Eliza Ogilvy: 6 January 1822

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6 January 1822

Eliza Anne Harris Dick (later EO ) was born at Perth in Scotland.
Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
xvi
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.

Mary Sewell: 14 January 1822

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14 January 1822

Mary and Isaac Sewell 's son, Philip , was born in London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

27 January 1822: The National Congress of Epidaurus declared...

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27 January 1822

The National Congress of Epidaurus declared Greek independence from Turkey; in practice, however, this was not fully achieved until 1829.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 45
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
116
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Ann Hatton: By February 1822

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By February 1822

AH published with A. K. Newman (who was no longer using the Minerva name) her five-volume novel Guilty or Not Guilty; or, A Lesson for Husbands. A Tale.
The subtitle was the proposed title...

Ellen Weeton: Biography: After 2 February 1822

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After 2 February 1822

EW wrote an autobiographical sketch, A Retrospect, for her then six-year-old daughter (to whom her husband had just denied her access).
Her first editor dated this work 1809, which does not fit its description:...

Ellen Weeton: Biography: By early February 1822

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By early February 1822

EW lost the right to visit her daughter when she signed a deed of separation from her husband .
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
2: 184
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998.
382

Eliza Lynn Linton: 10 February 1822

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10 February 1822

Eliza Lynn , later Linton, was born at Crosthwaite Vicarage near Keswick in Cumberland, the youngest of twelve children.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
18
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Layard, George Somes. Mrs. Lynn Linton: Her Life, Letters, and Opinions. Methuen, 1901.
1, 2-3

Charlotte Guest: March 1822

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March 1822

Lady Charlotte Bertie (later Guest) began writing her first staccato one-line diary entries at the age of nine, in a blank book given her by her stepfather .
Guest, Revel, and Angela V. John. Lady Charlotte: A Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.
3

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 2 March 1822

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2 March 1822

One of four parts of Marguerite Blessington 's first publication, The Magic Lantern; or, Sketches of Scenes in the Metropolis, appeared anonymously in the Literary Gazette.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J., Jr Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114.
12

Harriette Wilson: April 1822

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April 1822

HW first encountered, walking by night in a romantically furtive manner, a man who proved to be William Henry Rochfort , an Irish colonel, out without leave from the Fleet Prison , where he was...

Eleanor Anne Porden: By April 1822

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By April 1822

EAP published her epic poem: Coeur de Lion ; or, The Third Crusade. A Poem, in Sixteen Books, dedicated with permission to George IV .
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
27 (1822): 271

Barbara Hofland: By April 1822

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By April 1822

BH published with LongmanTales of the Manor, with a quotation from Cervantes on the title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 536
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
72

Maria Callcott: 9 April 1822

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9 April 1822

Thomas Graham , husband of the future MC , died on shipboard on a voyage from Brazil to Chile. Maria found herself a widow, thousands of miles from home.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
201

Frances Trollope: After 19 April 1822

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After 19 April 1822

FT wrote her first publicly circulated poem, Lines Written on the Burial of the Daughter of a Celebrated Author in memory of Lord Byron 's illegitimate daughter Allegra .
Hall, N. John. Salmagundi: Byron, Allegra, and the Trollope Family. Beta Phi Mu, 1975.
32, 36

Catharine Maria Sedgwick: 27 April 1822

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27 April 1822

CMS 's first novel, A New-England Tale; or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners, was licensed: it appeared anonymously that year, with a title-page stanza from Robert Burns , dedicated to Maria Edgeworth .
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New-England Tale. Bliss and White, 1822.
prelims
Damon-Bach, Lucinda L., and Victoria Clements, editors. “Editorial Materials”. Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, Northeastern University Press, 2003, p. various pages.
xxxv

Mary Shelley: 30 April 1822

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30 April 1822

Having spent four days travelling from Pisa, MS and her family moved into their house at Lerici, almost on the seashore; she was still there when her husband was drowned.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
410 and n3
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
42

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: May 1822

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May 1822

Ten months after her final recognised appearance in the columns of The Ladies' Monthly Museum, DPC sent in another packet of manuscript, but if the magazine printed its contents they have not been identified.
Walker, Constance. “Dorothea Primrose Campbell: A Newly Discovered Pseudonym, Poems and Tales”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
21
, No. 4, Nov. 2014, pp. 592-08.
601, 608

Phebe Gibbes: Some time before 8 May 1822

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Some time before 8 May 1822

PG must have died some time before (perhaps long before) this date, on which her death is first explicitly mentioned.
The Phebe Gibbs who was buried at Marylebone, London, on 14 August 1805 was probably...

Maria Callcott: 9 May 1822-18 January 1823

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9 May 1822-18 January 1823

The newly widowed Maria Graham (later MC ) lived these eight months at Valparaiso in Chile, before returning to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
205-6, 227

Charlotte Elliott: Before 9 May 1822

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Before 9 May 1822

CE composed occasional poems, social and some of them humorous, which were appended years later to the 1871 edition of Thoughts in Verse on Sacred Subjects.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Babington, Eleanor et al. “Biographical Sketch”. Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, Religious Tract Society, 1873, pp. 13-58.
16-17, 24

Ann Radcliffe: 17 May-12 November 1822

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17 May-12 November 1822

AR kept a record of her health and heavy consumption of medicines, in an album which began as a commonplace-book with notes of historical and geographical reading.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
238, 242

Anna Jane Vardill: 19 May 1822

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19 May 1822

AJV , aged forty-one, was married in London. She became the second wife of James Niven , an advocate who had previously represented her mother's family and was more than a decade older than...

Anna Jane Vardill: June 1822

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June 1822

AJV 's final contribution to the European Magazine appeared the month after her wedding to James Niven : a satirical piece about marriage, entitled My Godmother's Legacy; or the Art of Consoling. Section VI.—Husbands and Wives.
De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine. Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826. 2007, http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag/.