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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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Ann Yearsley: 2 January 1779

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2 January 1779

The death was recorded of Henry, AY 's eldest child and the first to die.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
18 and n36

Frances Brooke: 5 January 1779

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5 January 1779

FB apologised to Thomas Cadell about her delay (caused by ill-health) in completing a life of Samuel Richardson .Cadell, Jr
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix.
xlix
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
187, 234n1

David Garrick: 20 January 1779

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20 January 1779

Drury Lane Theatre was dark this night as a mark of respect for DG , actor-manager and playwright, who had died that morning at 5 Adelphi Terrace, London.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 192

Catharine Macaulay: By February 1779

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By February 1779

The publisher Bew of Bath issued Richard Paul Jodrell 's anonymous pamphlet smearing CM : The Female Patriot: An Epistle from C—t—e M—c—y to the Reverend Dr. W—l—n.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
47 (1779): 155

14 February 1779: Captain Cook was killed by natives at Karakakoa...

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14 February 1779

Captain Cook was killed by natives at Karakakoa Bay, Hawaii.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Frances Trollope: 10 March 1779

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10 March 1779

Frances Milton (later FT ) was born at Stapleton near Bristol.
FT 's daughter-in-law Frances Eleanor Trollope gave her date of birth as 1780 in her memoir, and was followed by the Dictionary of...

Olaudah Equiano: 11 March 1779

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11 March 1779

OE composed a memorial or petition to the Bishop of London (at this date the writer Robert Lowth ), asking to be sent to Africa to prevail upon his countrymen to become Christians, i.e...

Samuel Johnson: 15 March 1779

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15 March 1779

SJ published the first four volumes of his Lives of the English Poets: the last six came out in 1781.
Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. Editor Hill, George Birkbeck, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1905, 3 vols.
1: xxv

29 March 1779: The American Congress recommended that in...

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29 March 1779

The American Congress recommended that in view of a shortage of white soldiers, a force of 3,000 negroes be raised in South Carolina and Georgia.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
116

Anna Letitia Barbauld: April 1779

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April 1779

ALB published Lessons for Children, from Three to Four Years Old, again anonymously, though her authorship was generally known.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xliv

Eliza Fay: Spring 1779

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Spring 1779

EF (then Miss C.) was married to Anthony Fay , a lawyer from Ireland.
Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, 1925, pp. 7-24.
10

Eliza Fay: April 1779

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April 1779

EF and her new husband left England to travel overland via France and Egypt to India.
Fay, Eliza, and E. M. Forster. Original Letters from India. Hogarth Press, 1925.
31ff

Elizabeth Griffith: Early 1779-1781

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Early 1779-1781

EG and her husband both contributed translations to Voltaire 's works in English, issued by William Kenrick in these years.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
49 (1779): 198
Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii.
xxxii

Hannah Cowley: 10 April 1779

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10 April 1779

HC 's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane under Garrick 's successor, Sheridan .
It was normal practice for light-hearted sketches to follow more serious plays to complete the evening's entertainment.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 246

Henrietta Battier: Soon after 12 April 1779

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Soon after 12 April 1779

HB , either for love or money, took on the commission of writing a poem in defence of young men who had abducted and forcibly married two women.
Carpenter, Andrew, editor. Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Cork University Press, 1998.
466-7

Susannah Dobson: By May 1779

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By May 1779

SD , this time as the author of the Life of Petrarch, published The Literary History of the Troubadours, based on a work by Sainte-Palaye —the book offers a collection of lives that...

Hannah More: 6 May 1779

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6 May 1779

HM 's third and last tragedy, The Fatal Falsehood, opened; it ran for only four performances.
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
24-5
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 254

Frances Brooke: 15 May 1779

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15 May 1779

Susanna Duncombe offered FB permission to use (for her life of Richardson ) Duncombe's now well-known sketch of him reading aloud.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
188

Anne Grant: 25 May 1779

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25 May 1779

Anne MacVicar married the Rev. James Grant , then a military chaplain, and moved to Laggan in the Highlands; the place was to become almost as much a part of her name as Grant.
Black, Agnes D. Mrs Anne Grant of Laggan: A Highland Journey—1773. Agnes D. Black, 1971.
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Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 3 vols.
2: 56-7
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
254

Grace Elliott: By late May 1779

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By late May 1779

Leaving Lord Cholmondeley , GE moved from London to Paris; she returned to London, however, in June 1781.
Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books, 2016.
89 and n165, 93

Thomas Moore: 28 May 1779

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28 May 1779

Irish poet TM was born at 12 Aungier Street in Dublin.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Inchbald: 6 June 1779

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6 June 1779

EI 's husband Joseph died suddenly at Leeds, where they were acting with Tate Wilkinson 's company.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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21 June 1779: Spain declared war on Britain in the American...

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21 June 1779

Spain declared war on Britain in the American Revolutionary war.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
117

Selina Davenport : 27 June 1779

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27 June 1779

Selina Wheler (later SD ) was born in London, apparently out of wedlock.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
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.

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: Earlier 1779

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Earlier 1779

SFG published in Paris a larger, four-volume, didactic drama collection: Théâtre à l'usage des jeunes personnes.
Dow, Gillian. “The British Reception of Madame de Genlis’s Writings for Children: Plays and Tales of Instruction and Delight”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 3, 2006, pp. 367-81.
368
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.