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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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Jane Harvey: June 1822

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June 1822

JH published, with A. K. Newman of the Minerva Press , Singularity, A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 535

Lady Caroline Lamb: By June 1822

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By June 1822

LCL published, anonymously in two volumes, her second novel, Graham Hamilton, whose manuscript she had delivered to Colburn two years previously.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 538-9

Catherine Crowe: 6 June 1822

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6 June 1822

Catherine Stevens married Major John Crowe , who was her elder by about seventeen years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Shelley: 16 June 1822

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16 June 1822

MS suffered a dangerous miscarriage.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
42

Anna Maria Porter: By July 1822

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By July 1822

AMP published Roche-Blanche; or, The Hunters of the Pyrenees. A Romance.
It was listed in the Quarterly Review, but not reviewed there.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
27 (1822): 558

Sarah Green: By July 1822

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By July 1822

SG published with her name (mentioning a number of her previous works on the title-page) Who is the Bridegroom? or, Nuptial Discoveries.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
27 (1822): 558

Anna Brownell Jameson: Summer 1822

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Summer 1822

Having been dismissed in Paris (where the Rowleses decided to hire a French governess instead), Anna Murphy (later ABJ ) returned home.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
15, 17

Mary Ann Kelty: By July 1822

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By July 1822

As the author of The Favourite of Nature, MAK published her second novel, Osmond: A Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 538
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852.
163

After July 1822: The Bishop of Clogher was arrested for sexual...

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After July 1822

The Bishop of Clogher was arrested for sexual involvement (sodomy) with a guardsman.
Crompton, Louis. Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in Nineteenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1985.
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By July 1822: Thomas De Quincey published Confessions of...

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By July 1822

Thomas De Quincey published Confessions of an English Opium Eater in book form, following its serialization in the London Magazine the previous year.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
27 (1822): 554

Percy Bysshe Shelley: 8 July 1822

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8 July 1822

PBS , poet and husband of Mary Shelley , drowned near La Spezia in Italy when his boat capsized in a storm.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

: Members of a male homosexual group meeting...

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Summer 1822

Members of a male homosexual group meeting in Vere Street, London, were arrested for sodomy; some were found guilty and sentenced to hang.
Crompton, Louis. Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in Nineteenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1985.
163-70

By 9 July 1822: The ladies of England subscribed for a gigantic...

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By 9 July 1822

The ladies of England subscribed for a gigantic statue of the Greek hero Achilles cast in metal from captured foreign guns, for Hyde Park in London, to honour the Duke of Wellington .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(9 July 1822): 3

Anne Lister: 13-14 July 1822

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13-14 July 1822

AL visited Plas Newydd at Llangollen in Wales, hoping to meet Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby .
Lister, Anne. I Know My Own Heart. Editor Whitbread, Helena, New York University Press, 1992.
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Eliza Fenwick: 15 July 1822

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15 July 1822

EF , her daughter Eliza Anne Rutherford , four grandchildren, Servant, Dog, Cat, Parrot, & Macaw,
qtd. in
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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arrived from Bridgetown, Barbados, at New Haven, Connecticut.
Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019.
183
Paul, Lissa. “Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840): Morality, Motherhood and the Colonial Encounter in Early Nineteenth Century Bridgetown”. Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Vol.
57
, 2011, pp. 98-112.
110

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 18 July 1822

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18 July 1822

Charles and Mary Lamb embarked on their first trip abroad, heading for Paris.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
318-19

22 July 1822: Parliament passed Martin's Act, which rendered...

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22 July 1822

Parliament passed Martin's Act, which rendered cruelty to large domestic animals like horses and cattle illegal; the act made no provisions for the treatment of cats and dogs.
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

22 July 1822: The New Marriage Act (short for the Act for...

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22 July 1822

The New Marriage Act (short for the Act for the Better Prevention of Clandestine Marriages) was passed, reforming the requirements as to parental consent.
Laws, Civil and Ecclesiastical, Respecting Marriage; including an abstract of the New Marriage Act. Briscoe, 1822.

Mary Howitt: August 1822

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August 1822

MH and her husband moved to Lower Parliament Street in Nottingham. They lived in Nottingham (later in a larger house in Market Place) until spring 1836.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
90, 131, 133
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 172

Anna Brownell Jameson: August 1822-1825

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August 1822-1825

Anna Murphy (later ABJ ) was employed as a governess by Mr Littleton (afterwards Lord Hatherton) of Teddesley Park in Staffordshire.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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August 1822: Sir Thomas Phillips founded Middle Hill Press...

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August 1822

Sir Thomas Phillips founded Middle Hill Press in Middle Hill, Worcestershire.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 206

12 August 1822: The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known...

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12 August 1822

The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known as Viscount Castlereagh , killed himself: he was seen as the political author of Wellington 's victories and of repressive policies at home.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1282

14-29 August 1822: George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning...

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14-29 August 1822

George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning monarch to do so since the 1630s); Sir Walter Scott laid on a lavish display of Scottish national pride.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
235, 387n12, 403n94
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Ann Kelty: 16 August 1822

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16 August 1822

MAK 's father died unexpectedly: he dropped dead in London, where he had taken Mary Ann on a sight-seeing expedition. Her mother had died just a few months before.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852.
160-3

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 25 August 1822-1828

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25 August 1822-1828

Marguerite Blessington travelled extensively in Europe with her second husband and latterly with Count Alfred D'Orsay , garnering material for her writings.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
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