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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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Anna Letitia Barbauld: December 1822

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December 1822

ALB sent the Monthly Repository two poems which were her last publications and probably her last literary writing. An address to the new year, 1823, looks forward; and Lines Written at the Close of the...

Mary Russell Mitford: December 1822

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December 1822

The Lady's Magazine published MRM 's Landscape Sketches, the germ of her later, famous Our Village.
Some sources mistakenly give date as 1819. According to Vera Watson , MRM 's diary proves that...

Late 1822: German bookseller Rudolph Ackermann published...

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Late 1822

German bookseller Rudolph Ackermann published the first illustrated English annual or gift book, the Forget-Me-Not.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
239, 279

Frances Power Cobbe: 4 December 1822

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4 December 1822

FPC was born in Dublin, the youngest of five and the only girl in her family.
Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 2 vols.
1: 2, 26
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
11, 20, 23

Anna Letitia Barbauld: 7 December 1822

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7 December 1822

ALB 's beloved brother John Aikin , who had been a support to her for so long, died after failing for several years.
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
152
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlvi

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: 9 December 1822

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9 December 1822

Court records indicate the first of four cases brought against DPC for small sums (about four to ten pounds) by her creditors. Two more cases followed in 1823 and one in 1835.
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

Matthew Arnold: 24 December 1822

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24 December 1822

MA , poet and critic, was born at Laleham near Staines in Middlesex.
Laleham was later re-assigned, with the whole district of Staines, to the county of Surrey.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Hannah Kilham: 26 December 1822

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26 December 1822

HK , who had been on one of her visits from Sheffield to Tottenham in London, set out for Ireland to work for famine relief.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
132

Late 1822: Charles Knight founded his eponymous publishing...

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Late 1822

Charles Knight founded his eponymous publishing firm in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 164

Lucy Aikin: 1823-1830

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1823-1830

After her father 's death, LA and her mother lived in Hampstead until her mother too died.
Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
xxv

Anna Atkins: Biography: 1823

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1823

A talented technical artist, Anna Children (later AA ) contributed more than two hundred illustrations to her father 's translation of Jean Lamarck 's Genera of Shells.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Elizabeth Beverley: 1823

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1823

EB published a new collection, The Book of Variety, of which many of the contents are old.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Eliza Dunlop: 1823

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1823

The widowed Eliza Law was married at Portpatrick in Scotland to David Dunlop , a lawyer who was also born in Northern Ireland and was two years older than she was.
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm.

Harriette Wilson: 1823

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1823

HW and William Henry Rochfort announced that they had been married in the Fleet Prison in London.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
184

Helen Maria Williams: 1823

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1823

Following the deaths of her mother in 1812 and of Stone in 1818, HMW moved from Paris to Amsterdam to live with one of her nephews.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Susanna Watts: 1823

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1823

SW anonymously edited an anthology of poems for children, The Selector, comprizing a Selection from the most celebrated British Poets, published at Royston in Hertfordshire; the editor calls herself he.
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.

Frances Trollope: 1823

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1823

Financial difficulties forced FT and family to rent out their newly built house, Julians, and resign themselves to the small farmhouse on their leased land in Harrow; their new home was the basis...

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1823

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1823

Elizabeth Phelan (later CET ) met John Britt , a deaf and dumb Irish boy who became the first of her three adoptive children. He died in 1831.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 311

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1823

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1823

Elizabeth Phelan gave her name as Charlotte Elizabeth on her first book to bear a name at all, The Shepherd Boy; and, The Deluge, aimed at a child audience.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
307

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1823-9

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1823-9

MMS published The Lady of the Manor (designed to give Confirmation instruction to upper-class girls) in a series of seven volumes through Houlston at Wellington.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
34 (1826): 611

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: 1823

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1823

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's metrical psalms, written in the sixteenth century, were first printed, in a limited edition, as by her brother Philip .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
898

Amelia Opie: January-October 1823

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January-October 1823

AO published over these months in the European Magazine a series of twelve Epistles by Mary, Queen of Scots amounting to a thousand lines in heroic couplets, spoken in the voice of the injured queen.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. xxxvii - lxx.
xlviii
Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009.
274n232

Sarah Josepha Hale: 1823

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1823

SJH 's first book was a volume of poetry, The Genius of Oblivion and Other Original Poems, published for much-needed money after her husband 's death, and subsidized by members of his Masonic lodge.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tonkovich, Nicole. Domesticity with a Difference. University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
53

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : 1823

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1823

LMH compiled her Devotional Exercises Extracted from Bishop Patrick 's Christian Sacrifice, published with her initials.
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.

Elizabeth Heyrick: 1823

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1823

EH published through Harvey and Darton an anonymous 24-page pamphlet: Cursory Remarks on the Evil Tendency of Unrestrained Cruelty; Particularly on that Practised in Smithfield Market.
Feminist Companion Archive.