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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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Elizabeth Isabella Spence : Probably January 1824

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Probably January 1824

EIS issued How to be Rid of a Wife, and The Lily of Annandale: Tales: the title-page said 1823.
The English Catalogue of Books 1801-1836 dates this January 1834 [sic].
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 565
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 565

Mary Martha Sherwood: January 1824

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Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood

January 1824

MMS published her revised and corrected text of The Spanish Daughter, a novel composed by her father, the Rev. George Butt .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 572

Frances Sheridan: 1824

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Author event in Frances Sheridan

1824

FS 's granddaughter Alicia Lefanu published Memoirs of FS , which incorporate a good deal of Sheridan's own writing.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
xxxix
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
13

Mary Shelley: During the 1820s

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Author event in Mary Shelley

During the 1820s

MS befriended the cross-dresser Mary Diana Dods and her companion, Isabel Robinson .
Gonda, Caroline. “Lodore and Fanny Derhams Story”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 329-44.
339, 343n33

Sir Walter Scot : 1824

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Author event in Sir Walter Scot

1824

Sir Walter Scott published another novel by the author of Waverley, St. Ronan's Well; within a couple of years Christian Isobel Johnstone borrowed the name of one of its characters.
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Regina Maria Roche: By January 1824

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By January 1824

RMR published through A. K. Newman another regional novel, The Tradition of the Castle; or, Scenes in the Emerald Isle; it may have been out by October 1823.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 588-9

Julia Pardoe: 1824

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Author event in Julia Pardoe

1824

JP started young, making her first appearance in print with an anonymous volume of poetry, The Nun, a Poetical Romance, and Two Others, dedicated to her uncle William Pardoe , which was written in...

Alicia Tyndal Palmer: 1824

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Author event in Alicia Tyndal Palmer

1824

ATP appealed for money, apparently for the first time, to the Royal Literary Fund , which made her a grant of £20.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1824

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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert

1824

ATG contributed to James Montgomery 's anthology The Chimney-Sweeper's Friend, and Climbing-Boy's Album.
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Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
xxv

Ann Gomersall: 1824

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Author event in Ann Gomersall

1824

AG published, for the author, at Newport, Isle of Wight, her last work, Creation, A Poem.
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.

Catherine Gore : 1824

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Author event in Catherine Gore

1824

CG published (as well as her first novel this year) The Bond, a Dramatic Poem, a gothic melodrama in three acts.
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Elizabeth Ham: 1824

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1824

Harris and Son , London, published, anonymously, The Infant's Grammar; or, A Pic-nic Party of the Parts of Speech; this is probably EH 's work of that title (though she does not mention the subtitle).
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.

Ann Hatton: January 1824

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January 1824

AH published with A. K. NewmanWoman's a Riddle. A Romantic Tale, dedicated to the American writer Margaretta Faugeres in fond remembrance of the time they had spent together in the USA.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 578-9

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : 1824

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1824

The anonymous novel Annaline; or, Motive-Hunting was published: it has been somewhat unconvincingly ascribed to LMH , presumably on account of the form taken by its title.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : 1824

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1824

LMH followed up the success of her first book of reminiscences with two, more personal, volumes: Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts and Opinions.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : 1824-7

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1824-7

LMH kept a Travelling Diary during her rambles around England and Wales.
Castro, J. Paul de. “Laetitia Hawkins and Boswell”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
185
, 18 Dec. 1943, pp. 373-4.
373

Barbara Hofland: January 1824

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Author event in Barbara Hofland

January 1824

BH published another virtue novel, Patience, with a title-page quotation from Saint Paul .
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
75

Catherine Hutton: 1824

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Author event in Catherine Hutton

1824

CH anonymously supplied materials for the memoir of Robert Bage that appeared in volume 9 of Scott 's Ballantyne's Novelists' Library; catalogues list the prefatory notices as by Scott.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
1 (1846): 436
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Maria Jane Jewsbury: January 1824-April 1825

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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury

January 1824-April 1825

MJJ published two prose sketches entitled Boarding School Reminiscences and The Complaint of a Schoolmistress in the London journal Album.
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
66
, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
181

1824: John Lizars of Edinburgh performed the first...

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1824

John Lizars of Edinburgh performed the first ovariotomy in Britain; it was later discovered that the patient had been misdiagnosed and the operation was unnecessary.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
136-7
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
205
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929–2026, 1-20.

1824: The Jamaica Assembly, as representatives...

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1824

The Jamaica Assembly, as representatives of the people (that is, of the white plantation owners), declared their determination to resist attempts by the British Parliament to implement abolition of slavery.
Almeida, Joselyn M. “Locating Romanticism’s Transatlantic Song”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
10
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1999, pp. 401-23.
410-11

1824: Self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning,...

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1824

Self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning , a friend of Elizabeth Philpot , discovered a skeleton of the Plesiosaurus dinosaur and sold it to the Duke of Buckingham for £200.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
105

1824: Irish poet Thomas Moore published a piece...

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1824

Irish poet Thomas Moore published a piece of political fiction: Memoirs of Captain Rock, The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, With Some Account of His Ancestors.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
96

1824: The Combination Acts of 1799-1800 prohibiting...

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1824

The Combination Acts of 1799-1800 prohibiting trade unions and strikes were repealed.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
765
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Croom Helm, 1986, pp. 41-67.
55

1824: Parliament legally defined the measurement...

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1824

Parliament legally defined the measurement of a yard (equal to three feet) on the basis of the length of a pendulum with a period of one second, placed at Greenwich.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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