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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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Margaret Holford, the younger : 16 October 1826

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16 October 1826

Margaret Holford the younger , aged nearly fifty, became the third wife of the Rev. Septimus Hodson , who was ten years older. The wedding was at South Kirkby in Yorkshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Welsh Carlyle: 17 October 1826

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17 October 1826

Jane Welsh married Thomas Carlyle at Templand near Penfillan, Dumfriesshire.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
71
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 55. Gale Research, 1987.
55: 42

Mary Cowden Clarke: 1 November 1826

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1 November 1826

The seventeen-year-old Mary Novello became engaged to the older scholar and critic Charles Cowden Clarke .
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
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Mary Russell Mitford: Early November 1827-September 1832

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Early November 1827-September 1832

A further four volumes of MRM 's Our Village appeared, one by one.
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: 65, 137

Mary Russell Mitford: 4 November 1826

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4 November 1826

MRM 's five-act verse tragedy Foscari had the first of its fifteen performances at Covent Garden .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

L. E. L.: December 1826

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December 1826

LEL moved out of her grandmother's home into an apartment in the attic of the house which accommodated her old school.
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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Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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L. E. L.: December 1826

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December 1826

LEL published The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems, with a date of 1827.
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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9 December 1826: The Literary Gazette printed a Key to Marianne...

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9 December 1826

The Literary Gazette printed a Key to Marianne Spencer Hudson 's silver-fork novel, Almack's (titled after the well-known elite gentlemen's club of the same name), which had already reached its second edition this year. The...

Harriette Wilson: 13 December 1826-June 1827

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13 December 1826-June 1827

Stockdale the publisher, newly released from the Fleet and operating from a new address in St James's Square, issued a scandal series, Stockdale's Budget, which some attributed to HW .
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Mary Prince: About Christmas 1826

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About Christmas 1826

MP married (at a Moravian Chapel) Daniel James , an honest, hard-working, decent black man, and a widower: a carpenter and an ex-slave who had succeeded in buying his freedom
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
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Elizabeth Beverley: 1827

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1827

EB published Veluti in Speculum, whose title means as in a mirror. This recalls the titles both of The Mirror (an early work, apparently not extant), and of A Glass for Kings, 1821.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 1827

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1827

A work entitled Rambles in Waltham Forest, A stranger's contribution to the triennial sale for the benefit of Wanstead Lying-in Charity, has been doubtfully ascribed to Marguerite Countess of Blessington .
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Amelia Bristow: 1827

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1827

AB first applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund in the second year after her wedding, and received the relatively generous payment of ten pounds.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1827

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1827

Elizabeth Barrett began an epistolary friendship with Hugh Stuart Boyd , a blind scholar living in Malvern with his wife and daughter.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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Lady Charlotte Bury: 1827

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1827

LCB published the anonymous three-decker silver-fork novel Flirtation, her first book with Colburn .
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Flirtation. H. Colburn, 1827, 3 vols.
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Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Caroline Clive: 1827

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1827

Caroline Meysey-Wigley (later CC ), as Paul Ferrol, published Essays on the Human Intellect, as constructed by God, and on Our Saviour , considered in His Character of Man.
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.
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Catherine Fanshawe: January 1827

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January 1827

CF and her sisters suffered a financial loss, apparently through the fault or negligence of a Mr Newman; the matter reached the newspapers, which, however, exaggerated the loss to them.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
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Charlotte Yonge: 1827

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1827

CY 's education, at home by her parents, began; it continued for nine years.
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996.
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Frances Wright: 1827

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1827

FW returned to Europe to recover her health, spending time in France and England and leaving Camilla behind at her colony, Nashoba in Tennessee.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
141, 152

Ellen Wood: 1827

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1827

At the age of thirteen Ellen Price (later Wood) developed an acute curvature of the spine, that confined her to bed or a reclining couch for the next four years.
Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. Third, R. Bentley and Son, 1895.
33-4, 36
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1827

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1827

Among seven titles published this year, Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) issued a full-length abolitionist novel, The System, A Tale of the West Indies (which reached a second edition five years later).
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. The System. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1827.
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Annie Tinsley: 1827

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1827

The teenage Annette Turner (later AT ) published her first volume this year, under her own name: The Children of the Mist, The Conqueror, and Other Poems.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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Elizabeth Strutt: 1827

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1827

ES dedicated to Isaac D'Israeli (as an advocate for the poor and meritorious) her Triumphs of Genius and Perseverance; exemplified in the Histories of Persons risen from poverty to eminence in the Arts and Sciences.
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Agnes Strickland: 1827

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1827

AS published The Seven Ages of Woman, and Other Poems.
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Elizabeth Isabella Spence : 1827

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1827

EIS published, anonymously, her final novel, Dame Rebecca Berry, or, Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles The Second.
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Dame Rebecca Berry. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green , 1827, 3 vols.
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