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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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Sarah Green: February 1824

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Author event in Sarah Green

February 1824

SG , as a Cockney, published Scotch Novel Reading; or, Modern Quackery. A Novel Really Founded on Facts.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 578
Green, Sarah. Scotch Novel Reading. A. K. Newman and Co., 1824, 3 Vols.
title-page

Hannah Kilham: 8 February 1824

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Author event in Hannah Kilham

8 February 1824

HK sailed from Gambia for Sierra Leone, where she arrived in Freetown on the 15th.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
163

Mary Anne Duffus Hardy: 19 February 1824

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Author event in Mary Anne Duffus Hardy

19 February 1824

Mary Anne MacDowell, later MADH , was born in Fitzroy Square, London, when that part of town was in its zenith, and was a favourite locality for great artists.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
199
She was an only child.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Louisa Catherine Shore: 20 February 1824

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Author event in Louisa Catherine Shore

20 February 1824

LCS was born at Potton in Bedfordshire, the youngest girl in a family of three sisters and two brothers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

March 1824-May 1829: Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary...

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March 1824-May 1829

Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen.
Wheeler, Stephen, and Thomas J. Wise. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage Landor. Bibliographical Society, 1919.
57-69
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 2 March 1824

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Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson

2 March 1824

SHR died in Boston, Massachusetts.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

5 March 1824: On the threat of a Burmese invasion of India,...

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5 March 1824

On the threat of a Burmese invasion of India, Britain declared war on Burma.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
287
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
170

Sophia Lee: 13 March 1824

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Author event in Sophia Lee

13 March 1824

SL died at her home in Clifton near Bristol.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xlviii

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 16 March 1824

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16 March 1824

A month before her sister Jane died of cancer, ATG expected her to survive: she had previously called Jane's illness the Lord's doing,
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
2: 42
implying that it must therefore be good.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
2: 45

Hannah Kilham: 18 March 1824

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Author event in Hannah Kilham

18 March 1824

HK set sail from Sierra Leone back to Gambia.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
175

William Allingham: 19 March 1824

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Author event in William Allingham

19 March 1824

WA , poet and editor (no relation to the later detective-story writer Margery Allingham ), was born at Ballyshannon in Donegal.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Eliza Fenwick: 24 March 1824

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Author event in Eliza Fenwick

24 March 1824

EF described herself to Mary Hays as deaf, short-sighted, toothless, and overweight.
Fenwick, Eliza, and Mary Hays. The Fate of the Fenwicks. Editor Wedd, Annie F., Methuen, 1927.
232

Sarah Harriet Burney: By 26 March 1824

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By 26 March 1824

SHB was living in a boarding-house in Bath, which she found a constricting life.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
liv

Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 30 March 1824

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30 March 1824

Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire , died in Rome, eighteen years precisely after the death of her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire .
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
399

Caroline Bowles: Early 1820s

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Author event in Caroline Bowles

Early 1820s

By this time CB was a successfully publishing writer, who contributed poetry, reviews, essays, and fiction to periodicals such as Blackwood's.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
74
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 334

Maria Callcott: By April 1824

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Author event in Maria Callcott

By April 1824

MC published, as Maria Graham, Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, and Residence There, During part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
243
qtd. in
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
31 (1824): 1

Jane Williams: 1824

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Author event in Jane Williams

1824

JW 's Miscellaneous Poems was privately printed by Priscilla Hughes at Brecknock, while she was still in her teens.
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.
Fraser, Maxwell. “Jane Williams (Ysgafell) 1806-1885”. Brycheiniog, Vol.
7
, 1961, pp. 95-114.
99

Jane Taylor: 1824

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Author event in Jane Taylor

1824

JT 's writings for The Youth's Magazine were posthumously collected as The Contributions of Q. Q. to a Periodical Work.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
137n1

Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880: April 1824

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April 1824

Sarah Anna Robinson (later Sarah Lewis) was born near Baltimore, Maryland.
Kunitz, Stanley J., and Howard Haycraft, editors. American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. H. W. Wilson, 1938.
466

Mary Russell Mitford: By April 1824

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

By April 1824

The publisher George Whittaker issued a first volume of MRM 's Our Village: Sketches of Rural Life, Character, and Scenery under her name: four more volumes followed.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
31 (1824): 166
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 195

Sydney Thompson Dobell: 5 April 1824

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Author event in Sydney Thompson Dobell

5 April 1824

STD , poet and critic, was born at Cranbrook in Kent.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Jane Taylor: 13 April 1824

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Author event in Jane Taylor

13 April 1824

JT died after a long struggle with breast cancer, at the family home in Ongar in Essex.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
xxv
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
163

George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron: 19 April 1824

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19 April 1824

Byron , having travelled to Greece to help in its war of independence from the Ottoman Empire , died of fever at Missolonghi.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Charlton: May 1824

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Author event in Mary Charlton

May 1824

Through a different publisher, Moore , MC issued her Past Events, An Historical Novel, of the Eighteenth Century, without her name though with mention of previous publications.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 573
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Lydia Maria Child: May 1824

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May 1824

Hobomok, a historical novel about race relations and the first book by Lydia Maria Francis (later LMC ), was published as By an American.
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992.
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Osborne, William S. Lydia Maria Child. Twayne, 1980.
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