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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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Charlotte Brontë: February 1825

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Author event in Charlotte Brontë

February 1825

Maria Brontë , the original of Helen Burns in Jane Eyre, was removed from the Clergy Daughters' School, seriously ill with consumption. She died at home in early May.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Harriette Wilson: February 1825

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February 1825

HW began, with the first instalment, to issue her Memoirs through John Joseph Stockdale : four volumes followed the more numerous, briefer instalments.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
198

21 February 1825: Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed a short...

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21 February 1825

Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed a short poem which is sadly characteristic of his later state of mind. He entitled it Work Without Hope.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 February 2011

Eleanor Anne Porden: 22 February 1825

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Author event in Eleanor Anne Porden

22 February 1825

EAP died of tuberculosis, six days after her husband embarked on an expedition to look for the Northwest Passage.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. John Franklin’s Bride. Editor Gell, Edith M., First, John Murray, 1930.
305

Eliza Fenwick: After March 1825

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Author event in Eliza Fenwick

After March 1825

EF moved with her family from New Haven to New York, where they opened another Seminary for Young Ladies at 663 Broadway.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Paul, Lissa. “Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840): Morality, Motherhood and the Colonial Encounter in Early Nineteenth Century Bridgetown”. Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Vol.
57
, 2011, pp. 98-112.
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Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019.
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Felicia Hemans: Spring 1825

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Spring 1825

FH moved with her mother , sister, and children from Bronwylfa (where she had been living with them since before her husband left) to a nearby house, Rhyllon near St Asaph; this was also...

Flora Tristan: 2 March 1825

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Author event in Flora Tristan

2 March 1825

FT left her husband, André Chazal , while pregnant with their third child.
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
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Annie Keary: 3 March 1825

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3 March 1825

AK was born at Bilton Ainsty in Yorkshire, the sixth child in a family which in the end numbered eight.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882.
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Caroline Herschel : 7 March 1825

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7 March 1825

CH announced in a letter from Hanover to her nephew John in England the completion of her Catalogue of . . . Star-Clusters and Nebulae.
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: 9 March 1825

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9 March 1825

ALB died at Stoke Newington of a general decline in health complicated by asthma.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
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Le Breton, Anna Letitia. Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld, including Letters and Notices of her Family and Friends. George Bell and Sons, 1974.
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Harriette Wilson: 25 March 1825

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25 March 1825

HW (who had composed but not yet issued her account of her friend Julia Johnstone 's death in 1815) was confronted with the first instalment of Johnstone's Confessions, written to confute her own Memoirs.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 29 March 1825

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29 March 1825

Charles Lamb , brother of Mary , retired from the office of the East India Company on grounds of ill-health (no concept of retirement for any other reason was recognised).
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
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Elizabeth Heyrick: April 1825

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April 1825

The inaugural meeting of the LeicesterFemale Society for the Relief of the British Negro Slaves (later the Ladies Negro Friendly Society) chose EH (joint originator of the city's abolitionist boycott of sugar) as its...

Maria Jane Jewsbury: April 1825

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April 1825

MJJ 's first book, the initial volume of Phantasmagoria; or, Sketches of Life and Literature, appeared with only her initials.
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.
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 105-18.
107, 109
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.
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April 1825: The European Magazine and London Review ceased...

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April 1825

The European Magazine and London Review ceased publication.
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.

Frances Arabella Rowden: 6 April 1825

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6 April 1825

FAR , aged rather more than fifty, was married at the house of the British ambassador in Paris to her former employer Dominique de St Quintin or Quentin , who was now a widower and...

Barbara Hofland: Early 1825

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Early 1825

BH published with J. HarrisAlfred Campbell, the Young Pilgrim; Containing Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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8 April 1825: Lucy Townsend hosted a meeting at which the...

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8 April 1825

Lucy Townsend hosted a meeting at which the first British slavery association for women was formed, the Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves (which later changed its name to the Female Society for Birmingham

Emma Jane Worboise: 20 April 1825

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20 April 1825

EJW , later an evangelical novelist and editor of The Christian World Magazine, was born in Legge Street, Birmingham, the eldest of her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

R. M. Ballantyne: 24 April 1825

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24 April 1825

RMB , novelist and writer of boys' stories, was born at Edinburgh.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Louisa Stuart Costello: By May 1825

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By May 1825

LSC published Songs of a Stranger, a volume which she dedicated to the Rev. William Lisle Bowles , who was famous for his sonnets.
Costello, Louisa Stuart. Songs of a Stranger. Published for the author by Taylor and Hessey, 1825.
prelims

Ann Martin Taylor: By May 1825

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By May 1825

AMT published a religious work, The Itinerary of a Traveller in the Wilderness, Addressed to Those who are Performing the same Journey.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
32 (1825): 267

Regina Maria Roche: By May 1825

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By May 1825

RMR published The Castle Chapel. A Romantic Tale.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
32 (1825): 267

4 May 1825: The writer Thomas Henry Huxley was born in...

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4 May 1825

The writer Thomas Henry Huxley was born in Ealing.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Desmond, Adrian. Huxley: The Devil’s Disciple. Michael Joseph, 1994.
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Lady Anne Barnard: 6 May 1825

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6 May 1825

LAB died in Berkeley Square, London, at the age of seventy-four.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.