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

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25 August 1822-1828

Marguerite, Countess of Blessington , kept a diary during her travels through Europe.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
67, 195

Sarah Harriet Burney: September 1822-March 1829

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Author event in Sarah Harriet Burney

September 1822-March 1829

SHB held her most glamorous and successful governess position, with the family of Lord Crewe (who also employed the parents of Charles Dickens as butler and housekeeper).
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
xlvii, xlix
Allen, Michael. “Frances Anne Crewe”. Burney Letter, Vol.
12
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2006, pp. 9-10.
9

Grace Elliott: By September 1822

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Author event in Grace Elliott

By September 1822

GE was settled at a property she had bought in Ville d'Avray near Sèvres in France. Here she spent her last years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press, 1955.
153
Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books, 2016.
203 and n

Mary Shelley: September 1822

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September 1822

MS , now a widow, moved with her son from Lerici to Genoa, where she lived for almost a year before returning to London.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
42

Eleanor Anne Porden: By September 1822

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By September 1822

Both of EAP 's elderly parents died: first her mother , then her father , leaving Eleanor Anne, still in her twenties, to live her life independently.
Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages.
48

7 September 1822: Brazil was declared independent from Portugal...

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7 September 1822

Brazil was declared independent from Portugal by its former Portuguese regent, who constituted himself Emperor Pedro I of Brazil .
The World Factbook. http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20060716100200/http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/.
under Brazil
“Library of Congress Country Studies”. Country Studies/Area Handbook Series, 2003.

7 September 1822: An article in the Manchester Guardian commented...

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7 September 1822

An article in the Manchester Guardian commented on the revolution in communications brought about by steam power at sea, with a weekly service between London and Rotterdam keeping almost perfect time.
The Manchester Guardian.
7 September 1822

Dorothy Wordsworth: 14 September - 1 October 1822

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14 September - 1 October 1822

DW covered these dates on her second tour of Scotland in some detail; then Joanna Hutchinson fell ill, and this upset both the final weeks of the journey and her account of it.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
2: 339, 396

George Sand: 17 September 1822

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17 September 1822

Aurore Dupin (later GS ) married Casimir Dudevant , a country squire and illegitimate son of a baron who had, however, adopted him. She had refused to marry unless her mother could live with her...

Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: By October 1822

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By October 1822

EOB published another, more ambitious historical biography, Memoirs of the Life of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
28: 267
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
220

Regina Maria Roche: By October 1822

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By October 1822

RMR published, with A. K. Newman (who was no longer using the Minerva Press name), a double work entitled Bridal of Dunamore; and, Lost and Won. Two Tales; the title-page said 1823.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
28 (1822): 269
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 563

Frances Jacson: By October 1822

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By October 1822

FJ published with Colburn , as the author of Rhoda, &c, a novel entitled Isabella.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
28 (1822): 269

Harriet Martineau: October and December 1822

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October and December 1822

Under her pseudonym of Discipulus, HM first reached print with an article in the Unitarian Monthly Repository on Female Writers on Practical Divinity, issued in two parts. In February 1823 she published another...

October 1822: Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written...

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October 1822

Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written around the previous summer) in The Liberal, a journal which he and Leigh Hunt briefly published at Pisa.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1963–1968, p. 1: v - xx.
1: xvii
Pinto gives the date as October...

Caroline Herschel : 10 October 1822

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10 October 1822

Left alone and desolate at the death of her brother William on 22 August, CH set out from Slough to return to Hanover to live with her remaining family and devote herself to those who...

Mary Howitt: 17 October-31 December 1822

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17 October-31 December 1822

Writing as Wilfred and Wilfreda, William and Mary Howitt published a series of pieces in the short-lived periodical Kaleidoscope.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
153

Jane Marcet: 18 October 1822

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18 October 1822

JM 's husband, Alexander Marcet , died suddenly on a visit back to London from Geneva, where they had been intending to settle.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

20 October 1822: Thomas Hughes, novelist, was born at Uffington...

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20 October 1822

Thomas Hughes , novelist, was born at Uffington near Faringdon, Berkshire.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
163

Lydia Howard Sigourney: November 1822

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November 1822

LHS anonymously published Traits of the Aborigines of America: A Poem, written in 1817 (before her marriage).
Blanck, Jacob et al., editors. Bibliography of American Literature. Yale University Press, 1955–1991, 9 vols.
7: 433

Catherine Hutton: By November 1822

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By November 1822

CH had come seriously to admire Jane Austen : Her novels are pictures of common life, something like mine, but much more varied, and her character is either something like mine, or what I would...

Anna Brownell Jameson: November 1822

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November 1822

Anna Murphy, later ABJ , published in the London Magazine, under the initials A. J., a poem which later appeared as Farewell to Italy in Diary of an Ennuyée.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
27
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
238

November 1822: At the Congress of Verona, European powers...

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November 1822

At the Congress of Verona, European powers discussed the implications of the recent revolution in Spain; but there was resistance to Metternich 's proposal to establish an Italian commission to oversee the police...

Sara Coleridge: 6 November 1822-June 1823

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6 November 1822-June 1823

SC and her mother travelled south for a reunion with her father at Highgate on the edge of London.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: 8 November 1822

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8 November 1822

ALB sent the Monthly Repository a correct text of her five-stanza poem A Thought on Death; they had printed it inaccurately in a text derived from an unauthorised appearance.
The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 33 vols.
17(1822) 679

Barbara Hofland: 28 November 1822

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28 November 1822

BH dated the dedication of her Adelaide; or, The Intrepid Daughter, a Tale. Including Historical Anecdotes of Henry the Great and the Massacre of St Bartholomew, published with 1823 on its title-page.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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