Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Events Timeline
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 Wollstonecraft: 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Wollstonecraft
1774
's family, pressed for money, moved back from Yorkshire to Hoxton, a London district not far from their origins.
Helena Wells: 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Helena Wells
1774
At under fifteen
crossed the Atlantic from South Carolina to London—without her family, though they came later.
Literary historian
thinks she was never a resident of Charleston; however, this does...
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore: 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
1774
, privately and anonymously printed a few copies, for private distribution, of her verse tragedy The Siege of Jerusalem.
Frances Arabella Rowden: 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Arabella Rowden
1774
was born in London, the eldest in a family of four girls, according to the ODNB.
Catherine Phillips: January 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Phillips
January 1774
suffered convulsions in the head—which, however, did not apparently slow her down at all.
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: Early 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Early 1774
(later Gooch) first fell in love, with a young doctor,
, whom she met in romantic circumstances at the ruins of Fountains Abbey.
Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
1774
, was born in Ireland, probably in Dublin and probably round about this year.
1774: John Wilkes called on parliament to introduce...
1774
called on
to introduce universal manhood suffrage.
1774: The Bristol Journal was renamed by its new...
Writing climate item
1774
The Bristol Journal was renamed by its new owners after its late proprietor and manager:
's Bristol Journal.
1774: The Madhouses Act, passed this year, did...
1774
The Madhouses Act, passed this year, did little to improve neglect and ill-treatment: madhouses were to be licensed, but applications could not be refused.
1774: The Venetian Republic closed down the public...
1774
The Venetian Republic closed down the public Ridotto or state-run gambling establishment, which occupied the Palazzo Dandolo in Venice, only six years after it had been completely and luxuriously refurbished.
1774: The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice...
Writing climate item
1774
The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice in Miniature was published in twelve volumes of abridged texts by
and
,
,
, and
.
1774: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Die...
Writing climate item
1774
published Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (translated into English by June 1779 as The Sorrows of Werter. A German Story, Founded on Fact).
1774: Arthur Young published his Political Arithmetic,...
1774
published his Political Arithmetic, in support of mercantilist economics and maximizing the wealth of the state.
1774: Louise d'Epinay, former friend and patron...
Writing climate item
1774
, former friend and patron of
, published Conversations d'Emilie, a book on education for girls designed to counter the message of his Emile.
1774: John Wesley published his Thoughts upon Slavery....
1774
published his Thoughts upon Slavery. In condemning the institution, he made ending the slave trade and emancipating existent slaves official policies of the
movement.
1774: The Royal Humane Society was founded, with...
1774
The
was founded, with the intention of promoting the resuscitation of drowning or apparently drowned persons.
1774: William Enfield first published his often-reprinted...
Writing climate item
1774
first published his often-reprinted pedagogic anthology The Speaker.
Although this is the earliest edition recorded in the English Short Title Catalogue, it calls itself a new edition.
Sophia Hume: 26 January 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Sophia Hume
26 January 1774
died in London, in her early seventies, from a stroke of apoplexy.
Mary Deverell: 28 January 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Deverell
28 January 1774
dated the Apology to her Sermons on the Following Subjects, published at Bristol, by subscription and without a date.
Dorothea Du Bois: By February 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Dorothea Du Bois
By February 1774
died in Grafton Street, Dublin, of an apoplectic fit.
Grace Elliott: 1 April 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Grace Elliott
1 April 1774
's
tracked her and her lover,
, to their rendezvous at a bagnio. He then found compromising letters between them, and threw her out early the next month, sending...
February 1774: In the preface (dated February 1774) to the...
February 1774
In the preface (dated February 1774) to the first volume of his Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air,
wrote that the rapid progress of scientific knowledge would I doubt not...
2 February 1774: General Gage, Commander-in-Chief of the British...
National or international item
2 February 1774
General
, Commander-in-Chief of the British army in North America, noted that the crisis is come, when the provinces must be either British colonies, or independent and separate states.
This was in a...
Charlotte Lennox: 17 February 1774
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Lennox
17 February 1774
paid
£25 to complete her remuneration for translating Meditations and Penitential Prayers by the duchesse de la Vallière , who had become a royal mistress at a very early age.