Crowe, Julian. “The Offspring of Fancy, The Author Identified”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
10
, No. 3, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2006, pp. 5-6. 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.
6176 - 6200 of 43197
By October 1778: An anonymous two-volume epistolary novel,...
Women writers item
By October 1778
An anonymous two-volume epistolary novel, The Offspring of Fancy, was written and published by
, a widow and former actress engaged in a liaison with actor
.
Mary Brunton: 1 November 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Brunton
1 November 1778
Mary Balfour (later
) was born on Burra, one of the Orkney Islands.
Her birthplace is often wrongly given as Barra, which is in the Outer Hebrides; there are also a Burra...
Marianne Chambers: 5 November 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Marianne Chambers
5 November 1778
(who later called herself Marianne) was baptised at the church of Saint Augustine the Less in Bristol. She was presumably born shortly before this; her parents had been married a little...
Anne Steele: 11 November 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Steele
11 November 1778
died at her lifelong home in Broughton in Hampshire; the prefatory material to her Works states that she was glad to die.
Anna Letitia Barbauld: 14 November 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld
14 November 1778
addressed to her
a love-poem of tender intimacy, an exhortation to be cheerful and to disregard the world's criticism.
Catharine Macaulay: Around 20 November 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Macaulay
Around 20 November 1778
made a second marriage, at Leicester, to
, which brought her much hostile publicity.
Leah Sumbel: 22 November 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Leah Sumbel
22 November 1778
The young actress Mary Stephens Davies (later
) was married at Shrewsbury to a fellow-performer named
.
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 25 November 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
25 November 1778
Mary Anne Galton (later
) was born in Birmingham.
Catharine Macaulay: December 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Macaulay
December 1778
The Westminster Magazine printed a satirical account of
as Queen Catharine, now deposed from her throne in
's Alfred House in Bath.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: By 4 December 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
By 4 December 1778
, as a Young Lady, perhaps published an anonymous second novel, The Sylph; the title-page said 1779.
29 December 1778-3 March 1779: The British campaign in Georgia ended when...
National or international item
29 December 1778-3 March 1779
The British campaign in Georgia ended when Americans failed to recapture Briar Creek.
Joanna Baillie: About 1779
Women writers item
Author event in Joanna Baillie
About 1779
While living at Long Calderwood in Lanarkshire,
began writing clever Scotch ballads and adaptations of old songs, which her neighbours sang around the hearth.
Maria Edgeworth: 1779
Women writers item
Author event in Maria Edgeworth
1779
's
began an Arabian fable and asked the eleven-year-old Maria to finish it for him.
Mercy Otis Warren: 1779
Writing climate item
Author event in Mercy Otis Warren
1779
anonymously Published For the Entertainment of the Curious, at Boston, The Motley Assembly: A Farce.
Anne Steele: 1779
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Steele
1779
Danebury: or The Power of Friendship, A Tale, a verse narrative of female friendship, heroism, and self-sacrifice by
's niece and pupil
(later Dunscombe), was published as by a...
Radagunda Roberts: 1779
Women writers item
Author event in Radagunda Roberts
1779
's play about English-Scottish history, Malcolm. A Tragedy (which nevertheless has a happy ending) was printed for the author without having ever reached the stage.
Judith Sargent Murray: 1779
Writing climate item
Author event in Judith Sargent Murray
1779
Judith Stevens (later
) composed, as an essay entitled The Sexes, what became in print her remarkable, feminist Essay on the Equality of the Sexes (published in March 1790).
1779: Numbers of Irish Volunteers (unofficial paramilitaries...
National or international item
1779
Numbers of
(unofficial paramilitaries replacing British troops withdrawn from Ireland to fight in America) rose steeply, from fifteen thousand to fifty thousand.
1779: Elizabeth Johnson, a London printer and wife...
Writing climate item
1779
, a London printer and wife of a printer (
), launched the first Sunday newspaper, the E. Johnson's British Gazette and Sunday Monitor.
1779: William Cowper and John Newton published...
Writing climate item
1779
and
published Olney Hymns.
1779: Samuel Crompton brought together ideas from...
1779
brought together ideas from
and
to invent the spinning mule.
1779: An instance was recorded this year the ancient...
1779
An instance was recorded this year the ancient practice of babies' cauls (leftover birth sacs) being bought by sailors as protective amulets against drowning.
1779: The Penitentiary Act outlined regulations...
National or international item
1779
The Penitentiary Act outlined regulations appertaining to the building of two prisons, designed for the reform of criminals; the law was never implemented, and the prisons were never constructed.
1779: For the first time cast iron was used to...
1779
For the first time cast iron was used to build a bridge: over the Severn a kilometre from the iron-smelting village of Coalbrookdale at what became known as Ironbridge.
1779: Journeymen bookbinders formed a union which...
1779
Journeymen bookbinders formed a union which excluded female stitchers and folders.