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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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Helen Maria Williams: By May 1827

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Author event in Helen Maria Williams

By May 1827

HMW 's nephew Charles Coquerel published his French translation of another work by her: Souvenirs de la révolution française.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick: 6 May 1827

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Author event in Catharine Maria Sedgwick

6 May 1827

CMS 's Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts, her best-known novel, was licensed for publication: it appeared this year as by the Author of Redwood.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Hope Leslie. White, Gallaher, and White, 1827, 2 vols.
title-page
Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne, 1974.
prelims

18 May 1827: Maria Marten was murdered by William Corder,...

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18 May 1827

Maria Marten was murdered by William Corder , near Ipswich, an event later dubbed the Red Barn Murder.
Slater, Montagu. “Introduction”. Maria Marten; or, The Murder in the Red Barn: A Victorian Melodrama, Heinemann, 1971, p. vii - xiii.
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Burton, Brian J. The Murder of Maria Marten; or, The Red Barn. C. Cambridge, 1964.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Melesina Trench: 27 May 1827

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Author event in Melesina Trench

27 May 1827

MT died at Malvern in Worcestershire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

30 May 1827: John Keble anonymously published The Christian...

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30 May 1827

John Keble anonymously published The Christian Year, a volume of sacred verse.
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.
Keble, John. The Christian Year. Reprint, Gale Research, 1975, http://University of Guelph Library.
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Elizabeth Gaskell: Summer 1827

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Summer 1827

Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson (later EG ) spent the summer with her uncle's large family at their home, Plas Penrhyn, near Minffordd in Caernarfonshire, Wales.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Catherine Gore : June 1827

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June 1827

CG published anonymously a single volume containing two novellas designated as tales: The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 643
Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews, 1827.
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Barbara Hofland: June 1827

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June 1827

BH published Self-Denial: A Tale; this time Longman reduced her print-run to 750 copies.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
39 (1829): 253
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
78-9

About June 1827: Writing as a Bostonian, Edgar Allan Poe published...

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About June 1827

Writing as a Bostonian, Edgar Allan Poe published his first volume of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems, at his own expense.
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.
Wolff, Robert Lee. The Golden Key. Yale University Press, 1961.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.

By June 1827: Edward Stanley, late of the Royal Artillery,...

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By June 1827

Edward Stanley , late of the Royal Artillery , published The Young Horsewoman's Compendium of the Modern Art of Riding.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
36 (1827): 301, 603

Felicia Hemans: 6 June 1827

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Author event in Felicia Hemans

6 June 1827

FH introduced herself to Mary Russell Mitford through a letter praising Our Village for the sense of communion
qtd. in
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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with its author that she felt in reading it.
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: 8 June 1827

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8 June 1827

HRM 's novel Woman's Wit and Man's Wisdom; or, Intrigue, advertised this day, opened with an officer dying after the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and bequeathing his delicate, sensitive, seven-year-old daughter to the care...

Charlotte Brontë: By summer 1827

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By summer 1827

CB had begun creating plays with her siblings: both secret Bed plays produced under the covers with Emily in their shared bed, and daytime plays involving Branwell and Anne as well.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Caroline Norton: 30 June 1827

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30 June 1827

Caroline Sheridan married George Norton at St George's, Hanover Square, London, out of a desire to relieve her mother of the financial burden of continuing to support her.
Several sources, including the Dictionary of...

Jane Porter: July 1827

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July 1827

JP published in The Literary MagnetSome Particulars Respecting the Life and Character of the Late Miss Benger, a writer with whom she had enjoyed a long and close friendship.
McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 1825–1846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
20
, No. 2, 1 June 2009–2026, pp. 45-62.
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6 July 1827: England, France, and Russia signed the Treaty...

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6 July 1827

England, France, and Russia signed the Treaty of London, which supported Greek independence under Turkish overlordship.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
33, 129
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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28 July 1827: The first issue of the Foreign Quarterly...

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28 July 1827

The first issue of the Foreign Quarterly Review appeared.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 129-30, 132-3

Mary Ann Browne: By August 1827

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By August 1827

MAB issued, with her name, her first-published juvenile volume of work, written, as the title page states, at fourteen: Mont Blanc, and Other Poems.
Blain, Virginia. “’Thou with Earth’s Music Answerest to the Sky’: Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
2
, No. 3, 1995, pp. 251-69.
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Frances Trollope: By 4 November 1827

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By 4 November 1827

FT sailed from London for New Orleans to begin her life in America.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 99

William Blake: 12 August 1827

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12 August 1827

WB , poet, engraver, and visionary, died.
Blake, William. “Introduction”. Jerusalem, Selected Poems, and Prose, edited by Hazard Adams, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, p. v - xix.
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Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton: 29 August 1827

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29 August 1827

Rosina Wheeler married novelist Edward Bulwer (later Edward Bulwer Lytton); his mother strongly opposed the marriage.
He changed his name to Bulwer Lytton on inheriting his mother's estates.
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
xvi

31 August 1827: Frederick Robinson, a Tory, formed a coalition...

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31 August 1827

Frederick Robinson , a Tory, formed a coalition government after the death of George Canning .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
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Parry, Jonathan. The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain. Yale University Press, 1993.
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Frances Trollope: Fall 1827

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Fall 1827

On this visit to Paris, Frances Wright persuaded FT to travel with her to her commune, Nashoba , in Tennessee.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Emma Roberts: By September 1827

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By September 1827

ER published her first book, Memoirs of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster, Historical and Biographical.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.

Mary Bryan: 5 September 1827

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5 September 1827

MB (now Bedingfield) accompanied her last surviving letter to Scott with a poem entitled Return my Muse, which laments her final decline into blindness.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.