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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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Eleanor Sleath: 1 April 1823

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1 April 1823

ES married as her second husband the Rev. John Dudley . His wife Ann had died in February, and they were already separated. This time the wedding took place, like those of Sleath's siblings, in...

Amelia Opie: April 1823

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April 1823

The European Magazine printed AO 's story The Shipwreck.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
229
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

Barbara Hofland: April 1823

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April 1823

BH published with LongmanIntegrity. A Tale, in an edition of a thousand copies, one of a series of novels titled from virtues.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
74

Margaret Holford, the younger : By April 1823

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By April 1823

Margaret Holford the younger published a volume of seven translations of historical short fictions: Italian Stories.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 557

Joanna Baillie: Early spring 1823

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Early spring 1823

JB edited a poetry anthology entitled A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 418

Catherine Fanshawe: Early spring 1823

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Early spring 1823

Joanna Baillie included four poems by Catherine Fanshawe , anonymously, in A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors, Edited for the Benefit of a Friend.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 420

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 4 April 1823

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4 April 1823

An evening at Thomas Monkhouse 's London home brought together Wordsworth , Coleridge , Charles Lamb , Thomas Moore , and Samuel Rogers . Mary Lamb , also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
323-6

Anna Letitia Waring : 19 April 1823

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19 April 1823

ALW was born at Plas-y-Velin, Neath, Glamorgan, in Wales.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Feminist Companion agree on this year; some other reference books say 1820.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911.
3
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.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Julian, John, editor. A Dictionary of Hymnology. Dover Publications, 1957, 2 vols.
Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Catherine Cuthbertson: By May 1823

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By May 1823

CC , as the author of the Romance of the Pyrenees, published another novel, The Hut and the Castle. A Romance, in four volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 553

Maria Edgeworth: May 1823

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May 1823

ME travelled to Scotland with two of her sisters.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
418

May 1823: William Hazlitt published his scandalously...

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May 1823

William Hazlitt published his scandalously erotic Liber Amoris.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.
n28

May 1823-October 1831: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin composed a novel...

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May 1823-October 1831

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin composed a novel in verse (of eight cantos), Eugene Onegin, which has been praised as his greatest and most sophisticated work.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
799
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
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Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
91
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
799

Grace Elliott: 15 May 1823

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15 May 1823

GE died in the mayor's house at Ville d'Avray near Sèvres in France, after a long illness.
Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books, 2016.
204
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Somerville: Mid-1823

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Mid-1823

MS and her husband gave up their house in Bloomsbury and moved to Chelsea, less because of William 's new position there than because of financial concerns.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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Felicia Hemans: Around June 1823

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Around June 1823

John Murray published FH 's The Siege of Valencia, A Dramatic Poem; The Last Constantine, With Other Poems.
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
277
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.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, 2002, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
87

Sarah Wentworth Morton: 1823

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1823

SWM 's My Mind and its Thoughts, in Sketches, Fragments, and Essays appeared by subscription in Boston. It was her last publication, and the only one to bear her name.
Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931.
97, 99, 113

Elizabeth Gunning: 20 July 1823

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20 July 1823

Mrs Plunkett, formerly EG , died at Melford House, Long Melford, Suffolk, after a severe illness.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
93 (1823): ii: 190

Coventry Patmore: 23 July 1823

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23 July 1823

Future poet CP was born in Woodford, Essex, the eldest of four children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Maria Edgeworth: August 1823

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August 1823

ME spent two weeks at Abbotsford in Melrose with Sir Walter Scott and his family.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
418

Anna Wheeler: August 1823

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August 1823

AW failed in her attempt to arrange a meeting between Charles Fourier (whom she had met in Paris this year) and Robert Owen .
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
350

Frances Trollope: August 1823

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August 1823

FT and her husband took a holiday in France.
Critic Johanna Johnston suggests that the trip took place in 1821.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Eleanor Anne Porden: 6 August 1823

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6 August 1823

After entertaining serious doubts, EAP finally married John Franklin , at 55 Devonshire Street, in the house where she was born.
The old Dictionary of National Biography gave the date of the wedding as...

Charlotte Yonge: 11 August 1823

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11 August 1823

Charlotte Mary Yonge was born, at Otterbourne in Hampshire.
Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Her Life and Letters. Macmillan and Co., 1903.
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18 August 1823: A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara,...

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18 August 1823

A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara, partly as a consequence of the hostility of local authorities to the activities which the Church Missionary Society was undertaking among slaves.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
85
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xii
da Costa, Emilia Viotti. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Anne Lister: 20 August 1823

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20 August 1823

AL wrote in her diary a statement echoing Rousseau : I know my own heart, and understand my fellow man. From this her editor Helena Whitbread titled the first printed volume of the diary.
The...