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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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1823: Dr James Blundell first suggested that women...

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1823

Dr James Blundell first suggested that women undergoing a Caesarian birth should be sterilized immediately to forestall the likelihood of a second Caesarian.
Wood, Clive. Vasectomy and Sterilization. Temple Smith, 1974.
91

1823: The London Mechanics' Institution was founded...

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1823

The London Mechanics' Institution was founded in London by Dr Birkbeck; in 1920 it became Birkbeck College, University of London .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
801
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
16-17

1823: Ann Deane published with her initials (but...

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1823

Ann Deane published with her initials (but revealing her class and gender as a lady) A Tour through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan . . . between the years 1804 and 1814: with remarks...

1823-1825: Two thousand three hundred Irish families...

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1823-1825

Two thousand three hundred Irish families were relocated to Canada; their passage was the most major such scheme yet funded by the state.
Fitzpatrick, David. Irish Emigration 1801-1921. Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1984.
17-8
Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
41
, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
19
Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
41
, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
20

1823: The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany...

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1823

The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany began to appear quarterly in Edinburgh.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
72

1823: The sixth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...

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1823

The sixth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica dropped the typographical long s which had been used up to the fifth edition, in 1817.
Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
292

1823: The translation into English of folk tales...

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1823

The translation into English of folk tales collected by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm paved the way for the development in English of this branch of children's literature.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
82
Flood, Alison. “Gruesome originals of Grimms’ tales”. Guardian Weekly, 12 Dec. 2014, p. 39.

1823: Elizabeth Scott issued an anthology, Specimens...

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1823

Elizabeth Scott issued an anthology, Specimens of British Poetry, whose representation of women poets is unusually good.
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.

1823: William Huskisson, as MP for Liverpool and...

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1823

William Huskisson , as MP for Liverpool and President of the Board of Trade , secured the equalization of customs duties in Britain and Ireland, a big step on the road towards free trade.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Huskisson

1823: A dayschool admitting poor Catholic children...

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1823

A dayschool admitting poor Catholic children was opened at Rathfarnham Abbey in Dublin (a novelty in Ireland).
Atkinson, Norman. Irish Education: A History of Educational Institutions. Allen Figgis, 1969.
77

9 January 1823: John Thurtell was executed for the murder...

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9 January 1823

John Thurtell was executed for the murder of William Weare after media coverage which has made this seem the first trial by newspaper.
Clark, Lorna J. “Review of Mary Shelley, The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume III, Betty Bennett, editor”. TEXT, Vol.
8
, 1995, pp. 435-44.
441

Barbara Hofland: Early 1823

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

Early 1823

BH published The Daughter of a Genius, a Tale for Youth, dedicated to the young ladies of Mrs Haugh's School at 23 Newman Street, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
BH had already dedicated a book to...

Lucy Aikin: Just after February 1823

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Just after February 1823

LA published a biography of her father : Memoir of John Aikin, M.D.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
93 (1823) 1: 160

Mary Shelley: February 1823

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February 1823

MS 's father-in-law, Sir Timothy Shelley, offered to support her orphaned son, Percy Florence , but only if she relinquished her claim to him.
Shelley, Mary. “Chronology”. The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, p. xxxvii - xlii.
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Mary Shelley: February 1823

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February 1823

MS published her second novel to reach print: Valperga; or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca, as by the author of Frankenstein.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45.
44

Catherine Gore : 1823

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1823

CG used all her initials and her recently-acquired married name, Catherine G. F. Gore, in publishing her first book: a poetry volume entitled The Two Broken Hearts: A Tale.
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.

Mary Russell Mitford: February to May 1823

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

February to May 1823

MRM was intermittently ill from the strain of writing—or rather the strain of theatre managers' quarrels and problems in actually obtaining the money she had supposedly earned.
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: 10, 14

1 February 1823: James Fenimore Cooper published The Pioneers,...

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1 February 1823

James Fenimore Cooper published The Pioneers, the first of his series known as Leather-Stocking Tales.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
227
Ford, Mark. “Time of the Red-Man”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 18, 25 Sept. 2008, pp. 27-9.
27-8

Ann Radcliffe: 7 February 1823

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Author event in Ann Radcliffe

7 February 1823

AR died in the early hours, after a month of severe asthma attacks; her literary silence had led many to suppose she was dead already.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
242, 203

Eleanor Anne Porden: Early 1823

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Author event in Eleanor Anne Porden

Early 1823

EAP wrote, in disguised handwriting, a Valentine to John Franklin under the title The Esquimaux Girl's Lament.
Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages.
97-8

Catherine Gore : 15 February 1823

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15 February 1823

Catherine Moody married Charles Arthur Gore , an officer in the 1st Regiment of the Life Guards , at St George's, Hanover Square, London.
Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Dissertation Thesis, University of Arkansas, May 1992.
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Simons, Gary. Email to Isobel Grundy about Catherine Gore. 12 Oct. 2016.

Lady Caroline Lamb: March 1823

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March 1823

LCL published, again anonymously, in three volumes, her third and final novel, Ada Reis, A Tale.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
300

William Hazlitt: Early March 1823

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Early March 1823

WH , obsessed with Sarah Walker (later Tomkins) , his landlady's daughter, arranged a trial of her virtue by sending an agent to attempt her seduction.
Nicholl, Charles. “A Being full of Bewitching”. London Review of Books, 18 May 2000, pp. 15-18.
15-17

Mary Russell Mitford: 15 March 1823

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

15 March 1823

MRM 's Julian (a five-act verse tragedy) had the first of its eight performances at Covent Garden .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 194
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: April 1823

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April 1823

In GenoaMarguerite Blessington formed a friendship with Lord Byron ; her conversations with him over nine weeks became the basis of her most popular book.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
68
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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