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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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Mary Shelley: 25 September 1827

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25 September 1827

MS volunteered to Alaric Watts , editor of the Literary Souvenir, to write for his journal.
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24.
416, 423n16

Elizabeth Grant: 28 September 1827

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28 September 1827

EG and her family sailed from Portsmouth at twilight, on the four-month voyage for India.
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Tod, Andrew, Canongate, 1988, 2 vols.
2: 212, 214

Sarah Austin: October 1827-May 1828

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October 1827-May 1828

SA and her family lived at Bonn in Germany; they settled there after travelling to Heidelberg.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
35-7

Lucie Duff Gordon: October 1827-May 1828

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October 1827-May 1828

The child Lucie Austin (later LDG ) spent these months with her parents at Bonn in Germany, after first travelling to Heidelberg.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
35-7

Jane West: By October 1827

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By October 1827

JW broke a long silence to publish her final novel, Ringrove; or, Old-fashioned Notions, as by the author of Letters to a Young Man . . . .
The Quarterly listed it as published...

Eliza Mary Hamilton: October 1827

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October 1827

EMH and her sisters Grace and Sydney took up a quiet life in their brother 's home, the eighteenth-century Dunsink Observatory, near Dublin.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
33
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1995, pp. 31-51.
31, 40

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 1 October 1827

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1 October 1827

Sydney Morgan dated her preface to her final national tale, The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys, published by the end of the year.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys. Henry Colburn, 1827, 4 vols.
xi

October 1827: The Printer's Pension Society of London was...

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October 1827

The Printer's Pension Society of London was established.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
140

20 October 1827: The naval forces of England, France and Russia...

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20 October 1827

The naval forces of England, France and Russia combined to destroy the Turkish-Egyptian fleet at Navarino.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
45
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

William Beckford: By autumn 1827

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By autumn 1827

The exterior of WB 's Lansdown Tower in Bath (the second, somewhat less grandiose of his tower projects, in classical instead of gothic style) was complete.
Lees-Milne, James. William Beckford. Compton Russell, 1976.
79

Maria Edgeworth: Late 1827

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Late 1827

ME published Little Plays for Children, containing The Grinding Organ, Dumb Andy, and The Dame School Holiday.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
491n3, 506

Barbara Hofland: 1 November 1827

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1 November 1827

BH dated the dedication of The Young Cadet; or, Henry Delamere's Voyage to India. His Travels in Hindostan, his Account of the Burmese War . . . .
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
79

Frances Wright: 3 November 1827

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3 November 1827

FW and Frances Trollope sailed from England for America, heading for Wright's colony of Nashoba.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
155

Alethea Lewis: Just before 12 November 1827

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Just before 12 November 1827

AL died at Penkridge in Staffordshire, after eight years of widowhood.
Shippen, Eliza Pearl. Eugenia de Acton (1749-1827). University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945.
16

18 November 1827: William Hazlitt, in The Examiner, attacked...

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18 November 1827

William Hazlitt , in The Examiner, attacked what he called the Dandy School of novelists like Theodore Hook ; he used the phrase which originated the term silver fork novel.
Vargo, Lisa. “Lodore and the Novel of Society”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 425-40.
426

Lady Caroline Lamb: 22 November 1827

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22 November 1827

Georgina Hawtre wrote from Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire to tell Sydney Morgan of LCL 's alarming state of health since undergoing an operation.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 245

Emily Jane Pfeiffer: 26 November 1827

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26 November 1827

Emily Jane Davis (later EJP ) was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, the eldest of three daughters.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Isabel Hill: December 1827

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December 1827

IH moved to London, where for at least half a dozen years she and her brother Benson lived together at Cecil Street off the Strand.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Barbara Hofland: December 1827

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December 1827

Longman published BH 's textbook Africa Described, in its Ancient and Present State . . . Intended for the Use of Young Persons and Schools.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
80

Hannah Kilham: 9 December 1827-20 February 1828

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9 December 1827-20 February 1828

HK was again in Sierra Leone, this time as a private person unsponsored by any organisation; she returned when her health began to suffer, with a missionary couple whose health was even worse.
Kilham, Hannah. “From Report on a Recent Visit to the Colony of Sierra Leone (1828)”. Womens Writing 1778-1838, An Anthology, edited by Fiona Robertson, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 488-93.
488, 493

Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: 12 December 1827

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12 December 1827

EPW signed the preface to The Fable of Phaeton, translated from Ovid, published by Nichols with 1828 on the title-page.
Ovid. The Fable of Phaeton. Translator Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe, Nichol, 1828.
title-page

Helen Maria Williams: 15 December 1827

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15 December 1827

HMW died at her house, 47 rue Neuve-Ste-Eustache, Paris.
Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press, 2002.
21n1
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
232
Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints, 1977.
196

Frances Trollope: Christmas Day 1827

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Christmas Day 1827

FT and her fellow travellers arrived at the mouth of the Mississippi,
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 99
after a seven-week journey from England to America.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 99

Caroline Bowles: 1828

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1828

CB 's children's story The Little Brook and the Star was included in Alaric Watts 's Literary Souvenir.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 337

Fredrika Bremer: 1828

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1828

FB's earliest work written for publication was the beginning of Teckningar utur hvardagslifvet (translated as Sketches from Everyday Life), composed and collected when she needed to buy medicines in furtherance of her voluntary social...