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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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Maria Edgeworth: August 1825

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August 1825

ME (with all her writing about Ireland long behind her) visited Killarney in County Kerry with Sir Walter Scott and J. G. Lockhart .
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
215, 420

Anna Atkins: Biography: 30 August 1825

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30 August 1825

Anna Children married John Pelly Atkins , a railway promoter who in 1847 was high sheriff of Kent.
Atkins, Anna, and John George Children. Memoir of J. G. Children, Esq. Privately printed by J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1853.
296, 234, 295
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Harriette Wilson: Late August 1825

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Late August 1825

The three final instalments of HW 's Memoirs appeared as a single paper-bound package: the delay since May may have been caused by Stockdale 's involvement in a libel case.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle: September 1825

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September 1825

Jane Welsh visited Thomas Carlyle 's family at Hoddom in Dumfriesshire.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
61, 63

Hannah More: 1 September 1825

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1 September 1825

HM described the bedroom to which she was confined as My Bastile [sic];
qtd. in
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
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at this date she had not been downstairs for seven years, and had the use of two rooms only.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Harriette Wilson: 13 September 1825

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13 September 1825

HW followed her Memoirs with Paris Lions and London Tigers, a roman a clef.
The Dictionary of National Biography disbelieved that it was her own work; the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography continues to...

Frances E. W. Harper: 24 September 1825

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24 September 1825

Frances Ellen Watkins (later Harper) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy. Wayne State University Press, 1994.
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27 September 1825: The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened...

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27 September 1825

The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened for business.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Elizabeth Cobbold: By October 1825

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By October 1825

After her death, EC 's poems were collected and edited by Laetitia Jermyn , with a memoir.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
32 (1825): 550

Sarah Green: By October 1825

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By October 1825

SG published what seems to be her last novel, Parents and Wives; or, Inconsistency and Mistakes, with her name and an extensive listing of previous titles.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
32 (1825): 549

Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: October 1825

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October 1825

HRM published a volume of stories entitled Gratitude, and Other Tales (and dated 1826), in which lives of women take centre stage.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 631

Anne Katharine Elwood : 9 October 1825

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9 October 1825

Nearly two years after her marriage AKE left England with her husband . She crossed the English Channel from Dover, and then took an overland route to Bombay.
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Narrative of a Journey Overland from England. Colburn and Bentley, 1830.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, 1978.
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Lady Caroline Lamb: By mid-October 1825

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By mid-October 1825

A deed of legal separation between LCL and William Lamb was drawn up and finally signed by both parties.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
271, 300

Sara Coleridge: By late 1825

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By late 1825

SC had begun to experiment with opium (like her father ), which undoubtedly contributed to her worsening depression.
qtd. in
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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Adelaide Procter: 30 October 1825

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30 October 1825

AP was born at 25 Bedford Square, London, the eldest of six children.
Thomas, Leesther. A Poetry of Deliverance with Tractarian Affinities: A Study of Adelaide A. Procter’s Poetry. Florida State University, 1994.
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Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate, 1998.
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Jessie Boucherett: November 1825

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November 1825

JB , later a prominent feminist reformer, was born at Willingham in Lincolnshire; she was the youngest child in her family.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
“Obituary: Miss Emilia Jessie Boucherett”. Times, 21 Oct. 1905, p. 8.

Margaret Croker: After November 1825

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After November 1825

MC died: the exact date is not known; but she is last heard of in this month, in her final application to the Royal Literary Fund .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Ann Taylor Gilbert: November 1825

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November 1825

ATG and her family moved to Nottingham, where she lived for the rest of her life.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
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Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
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Charlotte Dacre: 7 November 1825

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7 November 1825

CD died in Lancaster Place, London, after a long and painful illness.
qtd. in
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Kim Ian Michasiw, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. vii - xxx.
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Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: 23 November 1825

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23 November 1825

Mary Anne Roscoe married Thomas Jevons , an ironmaster and inventor.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Fanny Kemble: By 27 November 1825

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By 27 November 1825

An attack of smallpox was said to have left FK 's complexion permanently scarred.
Mavor calls her disease smallpox; Marshall says it was German measles. Biographer Catherine Clinton believes FK 's mother deliberately exposed her...

Mary Russell Mitford: 28 November 1825

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28 November 1825

George Colman the younger wrote—not to MRM but to a man, Raymond Stephenson —the information that the Lord Chamberlain had rejected her tragedy Charles the First.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 51

29 November 1825: Psychiatrist Jean-Martin Charcot was born...

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29 November 1825

Psychiatrist Jean-Martin Charcot was born in Paris.
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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Anne Grant: By 30 November 1825

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By 30 November 1825

A group of mostly prominent people petitioned the government for a pension for AG . When she heard the amount was to be £98 a year, she indignantly declined, but was after all persuaded to accept.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna Letitia Barbauld: December 1825

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December 1825

Lucy Aikin edited and posthumously issued a volume of ALB 's poems and mostly unpublished prose pieces (some epistolary) as A Legacy for Young Ladies. The whole has been called a conduct book.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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