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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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Margaret Minifie: By September 1780

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By September 1780

MM published another epistolary novel, The Count de Poland, with her name and the explanation, one of the authors of Lady Frances and Lady Caroline S——.
The English Novel 1770-1829 notes that this...

Anna Maria Porter: 21 September 1780

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21 September 1780

The youngest of five children, AMP was born, apparently at Salisbury in Wiltshire, following the death of her father.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 25 September 1780

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25 September 1780

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , appeared on the hustings with Charles James Fox , parliamentary candidate for Westminster, and publicly kissed him.
Parliament had been dissolved on 1 September; after the elections, the new...

Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: October 1780

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October 1780

The Gentleman's Magazine printed a poem entitled Lady Craven, on dreaming she saw her Heart at her Feet, which, it said, was variously ascribed to Craven herself (later Margravine of Anspach) or to Madame Vaucluse

Elizabeth Inchbald: 3 October 1780

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3 October 1780

EI made her London stage debut, at Covent Garden ; she played the breeches role of Bellario in Fletcher 's Philaster.
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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The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 376

Sophia Woodfall: 30 October 1780

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30 October 1780

SW was born in London into a well-established family of publishers and journalists.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Sophia Woodfall. 23 Nov. 2016.

By November 1780: Martin Madan published Thelyphthora: Or,...

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By November 1780

Martin Madan published Thelyphthora: Or, a Treatise on Female Ruin, on the topic of prostitution.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
11n11, 40, 99, 208
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
50 (1780): 401ff

Sarah Trimmer: Late 1780

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Late 1780

ST published her first book: An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature . . . Adapted to the Capacities of Children.
Heath, Pauline. The works of Mrs. Trimmer (1742-1810). Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
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Avery, Gillian et al. “Selected Bibliography: Sarah Trimmer”. Fabulous Histories; and, The Dairyman’s Daughter, edited by Justin G. Schiller et al., Garland Publishing, 1977, p. xiv - xvi.
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Harriet Lee: December 1780-Spring 1803

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December 1780-Spring 1803

HL joined her sisters in running their school in Bath: Mesdames Lees, Ladies' Boarding School .
Skedd, Susan. “Women Teachers and the Expansion of Girls’ Schooling in England, c. 1760-1820”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 101-25.
112-14
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xxix, xxxiv

Sophia Lee: December 1780

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December 1780

Their father being seriously ill, money needed, and SL 's first literary earnings to hand, she and her sisters opened Mesdames Lees, Ladies' Boarding School , in Bath.
Skedd, Susan. “Women Teachers and the Expansion of Girls’ Schooling in England, c. 1760-1820”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 101-25.
106
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xxix

Hannah Cowley: 11 December 1780

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11 December 1780

Late in the year of HC 's first major stage success, her father Philip Parkhouse wrote to their patron Lord Harrowby to argue that her literary achievements merited a pension, or else a better position...

John Wilson Croker: 20 December 1780

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20 December 1780

JWC , reviewer, was born in Galway, Ireland.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

20 December 1780: Britain declared war on the Netherlands....

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20 December 1780

Britain declared war on the Netherlands.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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Mary Somerville: 26 December 1780

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26 December 1780

Mary Fairfax, later MS , was born at the manse in Jedburgh, Scotland.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
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Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
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Sarah Harriet Burney: 1781-1783

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1781-1783

SHB spent these years, for her education, with Marie-Anne-Louise de Cuénod at Vevey in Switzerland.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
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Ann Candler: 1781

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1781

AC wrote poems on the birth (which she nearly did not survive) and the deaths of her twin sons. Though not her earliest poems, these are the earliest-dated in her volume.
Candler, Ann. Poetical Attempts by Ann Candler. Editor Cobbold, Elizabeth, J. Raw, 1803.
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Ann Martin Taylor: 1781

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1781

Ann Martin married Isaac Taylor , an engraver by trade, who later became a dissenting minister.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
521

Mary Robinson: Probably 1781

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Probably 1781

MR visited France; in Paris she was feted by society, and received a valuable present from Marie Antoinette .
The Highfill dictionary dates this a couple of years later.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
30, 63
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
13: 35-6

Mary Ann Radcliffe: Probably around 1781-1783

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Probably around 1781-1783

MAR found some respite from failing businesses in a residential post as housekeeper (and tutor to a six-year-old daughter) for an old schoolfriend, Lady Traquair, at Traquair House near Peebles in Scotland.
This...

Phebe Gibbes: Early 1781

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Early 1781

Charles Gibbes , husband of the novelist PG , died at the age of about forty-five.
Hopkinson, David. Emails to Jennie Batchelor and Isobel Grundy about Phebe Gibbes. 24 Mar. 2015.

Elizabeth Moody: 1781

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1781

EM wrote and published, she said, an anonymous poem entitled The Temptation; or, Satan in the Country.
The English Short Title Catalogue lists this work without ascription.
Moody, Elizabeth. Poetic Trifles. Cadell and Davies, 1798.
145-55
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Adelaide O'Keeffe: 1781

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1781

AOK 's mother, Mary Heaphy O'Keeffe , a stage performer in Dublin like her husband, left her family when Adelaide was about five, to live with another man as his wife.
O’Keeffe, Adelaide, and John O’Keeffe. “Memoirs”. O’Keeffe’s Legacy to his Daughter, edited by Adelaide O’Keeffe and Adelaide O’Keeffe, G. Whittaker, 1834, p. x - xxxv.
xvi

1781: Richard Price's attack on enclosure was countered...

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1781

Richard Price 's attack on enclosure was countered by John Howlett .
Neeson, J. M. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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1781: The young Johann Christoph Friedrich von...

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1781

The young Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller published his first play, Die Räuber (The Robbers).
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.

January 1781-December 1782: The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties...

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January 1781-December 1782

The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry appeared, published by James Harrison in four half-yearly numbers; it is arguable whether or not it kept the first number's promise of generous selections of work...