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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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Mary Shelley: 25 August 1823

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25 August 1823

MS and her son arrived back in London after the month of travelling which closed the five momentous years in Italy, where two of her children and her husband had died.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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Helen Maria Williams: By September 1823

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By September 1823

HMW published a volume of Poems on Various Subjects, most of them written much earlier.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
219, 222n21

Sarah Flower Adams: 8 September 1823

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8 September 1823

At eighteen, Sarah Flower (later SFA ) broke the female record for the ascent of Ben Lomond in Scotland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
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Sarah Green: By October 1823

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By October 1823

SG set her name and mention of previous works on the title-page of Gretna Green Marriages; or, The Nieces. A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 556
Green, Sarah. Gretna Green Marriages; or, The Nieces. A Novel. A. K. Newman, 1823, 3 Vols.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: October 1823

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October 1823

Sydney Morgan published The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa, the seventeenth-century Neapolitan painter of wild mountain landscape: the title-page said 1824.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 182
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary: 9 October 1823

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9 October 1823

Mary Ann Shadd (who published her later writings as Cary) was born in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, the eldest of thirteen children.
Bearden, Jim, and Linda Jean Butler. Shadd: The Life and Times of Mary Shadd Cary. NC Press, 1977.
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Hannah Kilham: 26 October 1823

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26 October 1823

The same year that she returned from her visit to Ireland, HK sailed from Gravesend on a fact-finding trip to Gambia in Africa (her first): she kept a journal of what she saw.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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Catherine Gore : Later 1823-1838

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Later 1823-1838

CG bore ten children during these years, but by 1839 only three of them were alive, and she was survived by only two.
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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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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Amelia Opie: December 1823

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December 1823

AO told a story (accepted by successive biographers) that at this time she was working on a novel entitled The Painter and his Wife, which she left unfinished in manuscript.
Opie, Amelia, and Cecilia Brightwell. Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie. Fletcher and Alexander, 1854.
190
Macgregor, Margaret Eliot. Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend. Banta, Oct. 1932–Jan. 1933, http://PR 5115 O3Z7 M2.
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Jane Harvey: By late 1823

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By late 1823

JH switched publishers again, to Baldwin, Cradock and Joy , for her historical novel Mountalyth, A Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 556

2 December 1823: US President James Monroe promulgated the...

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2 December 1823

US President James Monroe promulgated the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the USA would not permit any European power to interfere in the affairs of any independent state in North or South America.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Felicia Hemans: 12 December 1823

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12 December 1823

FH 's The Vespers of Palermo was produced at London's Covent Garden theatre with Charles Kemble in the lead role; it was published the same year.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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Hemans, Felicia. The Vespers of Palermo. John Murray, 1823.

Eliza Fenwick: 14 December 1823

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14 December 1823

William Godwin recorded in his diary the death of John Fenwick , estranged husband of EF (who was then living at New Haven, Connecticut).
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. 12 Nov. 2010, http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.

Lady Caroline Lamb: 15 December 1823

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15 December 1823

LCL had a bad fall from a horse and was bedridden for more than a week. Characteristically, she used this as a spur for good resolutions of a new life: she gave up drink and...

Amelia Bristow: 1824

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1824

AB published anonymously, by subscription, The Faithful Servant; or, The History of Elizabeth Allen. A Narrative of Facts, for the use of female servants.
Bristow, Amelia. The Faithful Servant; or, The History of Elizabeth Allen. Francis Westley, 1824.
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Maria Callcott: 1824

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1824

After a visit home to Britain to sort out her affairs (including arranging publication of her Brazilian and Chilean journals, which both appeared this year), Maria Graham (later MC ) took up the post of...

George Eliot: 1824-8

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1824-8

Mary Anne Evans (later GE ) attended Mrs Lathom's boarding school at nearby Attleborough, where her sister was already a pupil.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
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Susan Ferrier: January 1824

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January 1824

SF published her second novel, The Inheritance, as the author of Marriage.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 573-4
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 Pipe Wolferstan: 1824

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1824

EPW published through LongmanEugenia, A Poem in Four Cantos.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: 1824

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1824

The Royal Literary Fund supplied SSW with five pounds to pay for an operation on the tumour in her breast.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: January 1824

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January 1824

SSW reported that despite ill health and near destitution she had finished the manuscript of a three-volume novel to be entitled The Baronet's Widow.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Ellen Weeton: Biography: 1824

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1824

Some time after formally separating from her husbandEW began a second autobiographical sketch or fragment, A History of the Life of Nelly Stock.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
2: 254-5

Queen Victoria: 1824

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1824

A German woman, Louise Lehzen , was hired as governess to Princess Alexandrina Victoria .
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1824

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1824

Elizabeth Phelan (later CET ), having separated from her abusive husband, began living with her brother, Captain John Browne , in Clifton near Bristol, and later in Sandhurst in Surrey.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 311, 313

Mariana Starke: 1824-8

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1824-8

MS was on the move again, travelling extensively in Europe from north (Russia and Scandinavia) to south (Portugal, Spain, perhaps Naples).
Feminist Companion Archive.