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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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December 1825: Alexander I of Russia died at Taganrog from...

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December 1825

Alexander I of Russia died at Taganrog from malaria.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
126

By December 1825: The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey were...

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By December 1825

The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey were published with a memoir by R. H. Nicholas.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
33 (1825): 277

Mary Whateley Darwall: 5 December 1825

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Author event in Mary Whateley Darwall

5 December 1825

MWD died at Walsall, where she had been living with a son's family.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
209

Harriet Lee: 10 December 1825

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Author event in Harriet Lee

10 December 1825

HL 's stage adaptation of Kruitzner as The Three Strangers (written soon after the original tale) was first acted.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Russell Mitford: 20 December 1825

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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford

20 December 1825

Charles Kemble wrote to MRM (whose tragedy Charles the First had just been censored by the Lord Chamberlain) declining to produce her Foscari.
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.
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William Beckford: 21 December 1825

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21 December 1825

WB 's stupendous gothic tower at Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire collapsed for the second and final time, destroying much of the rest of the building as it fell.
Chapman, Guy Patterson. Beckford. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
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Chapman, Guy Patterson. Beckford. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
ODNB under William Beckford

24 December 1825: Insurrection in Russia was led by secret...

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24 December 1825

Insurrection in Russia was led by secret societies (whose members came to be known as Decembrists for their participation in this conspiracy) which unsuccessfully tried to prevent Tsar Nicholas I 's accession.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
115
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
127
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
254

Amelia Bristow: 26 December 1825

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Author event in Amelia Bristow

26 December 1825

Amelia Solomon married William Bristow at Christchurch Greyfriars in London, the same church where she had been baptised as a convert from Judaism eight years before.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Amelia Bristow. 8 Jan. 2016.

December 1825: The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed,...

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December 1825

The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed, dragging down seven other banks with it.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
274

Flora Tristan: By the end of 1825

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Author event in Flora Tristan

By the end of 1825

To support herself and her children, FT became a servant (probably a chambermaid) for two English ladies.
Tristan, Flora. “Introduction to her Life”. Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade, edited by Doris Beik and Paul Beik, Indiana University Press, 1993, p. ix - xxi.
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Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
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Caroline Bowles: 1826

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Author event in Caroline Bowles

1826

CB , as the authoress of Ellen Fitzarthur, published another volume of poetry and prose, entitled Solitary Hours.
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.

Anna Eliza Bray: 1826

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Author event in Anna Eliza Bray

1826

AEB , as Anna Elizabeth Bray, late Mrs. Charles Stothard, published her first novel, a historical romance, De Foix; or, Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Fourteenth Century, in three volumes.
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.

Mary Ann Browne: 1826

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Author event in Mary Ann Browne

1826

MAB first reached print, with poems contributed to the Berkshire Chronicle. Its editor, a Mr Hanshall , took her seriously and offered her advice.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Charlotte Bury: 1826

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Author event in Lady Charlotte Bury

1826

LCB (calling herself a Lady) published Suspirium Sanctorum; or, Holy Breathings: a Series of Prayers.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Lady Charlotte Bury: 1826

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Author event in Lady Charlotte Bury

1826

LCB published anonymously, with Saunders and Otley , the three-decker historical novel "Alla Giornata"; or, To the Day.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. "Alla Giornata"; or, To the Day. Saunders and Otley, 1826, 3 vols.
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Maria Callcott: 1826

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Author event in Maria Callcott

1826

Maria Graham (later MC )'s name appeared as editor on a volume entitled Voyage of H. M. S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Andrew Bloxam
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: 1826

Women writers item

1826

DPC met and impressed Dr Adam Clarke , Wesleyan preacher, scholar, and theologian, when he visited Shetland. After this they corresponded until his death in 1832.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Olivia Clarke: 1826

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Author event in Olivia Clarke

1826

A dozen of OC 's verse parodies appeared in print.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Cassandra Cooke: 1826

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Author event in Cassandra Cooke

1826

CC died in her early eighties.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Flora Tristan: Late 1825 or 1826

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Author event in Flora Tristan

Late 1825 or 1826

FT travelled with her employers to London, Switzerland, and Italy.
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
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Tristan, Flora. “Introduction to her Life”. Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade, edited by Doris Beik and Paul Beik, Indiana University Press, 1993, p. ix - xxi.
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Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
222

Catharine Parr Traill: 1826

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Author event in Catharine Parr Traill

1826

With or without sisterly collaboration, Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published a children's story as Prejudice Reproved; or, the History of the Negro Toy-Seller, as the author of The Telltale, Reformation, Disobedience, Early Lessons...

Catharine Parr Traill: 1826

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1826

Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published The Young Emigrants; or, Pictures of Canada. Calculated to Amuse and Instruct the Minds of Youth, a children's adventure story which anticipated her own later optimism about migration.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
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Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1826

Women writers item

1826

Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) published at least seven titles, including the sixteen-page children's tale Anne Bell; or, The Faults; she maintained a prolific output for the next decade and a half.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
307
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.

Mary Stockdale: 1826

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Author event in Mary Stockdale

1826

MS had specially bound a volume of her poetry in which she wrote the title Miscellaneous poems, by Mary R. Stockdale: published at various times and collected in 1826. It is now at the...

Emily Shirreff: Beginning in 1826

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Author event in Emily Shirreff

Beginning in 1826

ES 's family lived for three years in St-Germain-en-Laye near Paris, before moving to Avranches in Normandy in 1829.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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