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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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Anne Brontë: Early May 1825

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Early May 1825

Maria Brontë , the eldest of the Brontë sisters and a surrogate mother to AB , died of consumption; Elizabeth, the second daughter, also died in mid-June.
Charlotte Brontë's character Helen Burns in Jane Eyre...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: 20 May 1825

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20 May 1825

ABB was born as Antoinette Louisa Brown in Henrietta, Rochester, New York, in the Brown family's second farm home, a two-room log cabin.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
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Maria Jane Jewsbury: 23 May 1825

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23 May 1825

MJJ called on theWordsworth family at Rydal Mount for the first time.
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.
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, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: June 1825

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June 1825

ALB 's niece Lucy Aikin posthumously published her aunt's Works, with a memoir.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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Charlotte Brontë: 1 June 1825

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1 June 1825

Emily and CB were removed permanently from the Clergy Daughters' School, after their consumptive elder sister Elizabeth had been sent home the previous day.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Susanna Watts: By June 1825

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By June 1825

As a result of the boycott launched by SW and Elizabeth Heyrick the previous year (targeted at shops as well as consumers), almost a quarter of the population of Leicester had given up sugar.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004.
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Mary Somerville: Summer 1825

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Summer 1825

MS undertook her first scientific investigation: she designed and conducted a number of experiments to determine the effect of light on magnetism.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
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Mary Martha Sherwood: By June 1825

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By June 1825

MMS published another novel, Juliana Oakley: A Tale, which reached a seventh edition in 1837, and had a sequel, Ermina, in 1827.
The earliest editions of Ermina listed by OCLC Worldcat are two...

Mary Shelley: June 1825

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June 1825

MS turned down a marriage proposal from actor-manager John Payne , a friend of Washington Irving .
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Barbara Hofland: June 1825

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June 1825

BH published with Longman , in an edition of a thousand copies, Moderation, A Tale; many more editions followed.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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June 1825: During this month in a decade of banking...

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June 1825

During this month in a decade of banking panics, seventy banks around Britain suspended payments.
Uglow, Jennifer S. The Pinecone. Faber and Faber, 2012.

R. D. Blackmore: 7 June 1825

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7 June 1825

Richard Doddridge Blackmore , novelist, was born at The Old Rectory, Longworth, Berkshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Helen Craik: 11 June 1825

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11 June 1825

HC died at Flimby Lodge, near Maryport in Cumberland, aged seventy-four.
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

21 June 1825: Historian William Stubbs was born at Knaresborough...

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21 June 1825

Historian William Stubbs was born at Knaresborough in Yorkshire.
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.

Mrs Alexander: 23 June 1825

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23 June 1825

Annie French , who later wrote as Mrs Alexander, was born in Dublin.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
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.

Caroline Norton: Spring 1825

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Spring 1825

Caroline Sheridan (later CN ) was launched on her first Londonseason as a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl: her elder sister came out that year, as Caroline did the next year.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Huddleston, Joan, and Caroline Norton. “Introduction”. Caroline Norton’s Defense, Academy Chicago, 1982, p. I - XIII.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: July 1825-June 1826

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July 1825-June 1826

Elizabeth Barrett and her sister Henrietta stayed with their paternal grandmother at Hastings.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, 14 vols. to date.
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Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
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L. E. L.: July 1825

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July 1825

LEL published a metrical romance entitled The Troubadour, Catalogue of Pictures and Historical Sketches.
L. E. L. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages.
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L. E. L. “Introduction”. Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon "L.E.L.", edited by Francis Jacques Sypher, Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1990, pp. 9-22.
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26 July 1825: Public outcry was generated when a large...

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26 July 1825

Public outcry was generated when a large but gentle lion named Nero was baited by trained fighting dogs.
Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate : The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Harvard University Press, 1987.
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Hanes, Bailey C. The New Bulldog. 5th ed., Howell Book House, 1991.
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26 July 1825: Irish Evangelical Emma Parnell married Edward...

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26 July 1825

Irish Evangelical Emma Parnell married Edward Bligh (later Fifth Earl of Darnley ); she afterwards used her position to influence the religious views of those around her towards evangelicalism.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Eliza Fletcher: By August 1825

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By August 1825

EF privately printed, through Thomas Davidson of London, her Elidure and Edward, Two Historical Dramatic Sketches, dedicated to her grandchildren; she called it a metrical transcript of the author's mind.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
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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.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
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Amelia Opie: Later 1825

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Later 1825

AO published Illustrations of Lying, in all its Branches, a didactic mock treatise which defines different types of lie (social, self-protective, etc.) and illustrates them with fictional examples.
Macgregor, Margaret Eliot. Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend. Banta, Oct. 1932–Jan. 1933, http://PR 5115 O3Z7 M2.
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King, Shelley. “Westward Ho!: Charting the Transatlantic Travels of Amelia Opie’s Tales”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, St John’s, Newfoundland, 15 Oct. 2010.

Anne Grant: August 1825

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August 1825

Although she was beginning to find movement difficult, AG toured her beloved Highlands.
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
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Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: By August 1825

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By August 1825

HRM published a novel entitled A Father's Love and a Woman's Friendship; or The Widow and her Daughters, her first for about eight years; as usual she mentioned her previous publications on the title-page.
Peace, Mary et al., editors. “Corvey Women Writers on the Web: an Electronic Guide to Literature 1796-1834 (CW3)”. Sheffield Hallam Corvey: The Corvey Project at Sheffield Hallam University.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Amelia Opie: 11 August 1825

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11 August 1825

AO , who had left the Unitarian church in 1814 and taken the decision to convert to Quakerism, had her application to join the Society of Friends accepted.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
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