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.
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 Deverell: After July 1781
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Author event in Mary Deverell
After July 1781
published at London, with a distinguished subscription list, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. Her dedication is dated 10 July.
Maria Edgeworth: Summer 1781
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Author event in Maria Edgeworth
Summer 1781
At Mrs Devis's school
suffered a painful affliction of the eyes which also made her face swell: one doctor told her she would go blind.
2 July 1781: At the Haymarket Theatre the final performance...
2 July 1781
At the
the final performance was given of The Genius of Nonsense, a play which mocked
, health-and-sex pundit, as the Emperor of Quacks.
Frances Reynolds : By 21 July 1781
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Author event in Frances Reynolds
By 21 July 1781
showed a draft of An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, &c to
: he pressed her to publish it, but to revise...
Ann Gomersall: 21 July 1781
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Author event in Ann Gomersall
21 July 1781
entered on her marriage in London to a linen-draper of that city,
.
Anne Francis: After July 1781
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After July 1781
In her early forties
published her first book, through
, by subscription, with her name (spelled Ann): A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon, from the Original Hebrew, with a Preliminary...
Jemima Kindersley: 28 July 1781
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Author event in Jemima Kindersley
28 July 1781
received £25 from
for her recently published translation of An Essay on Women, from the French of
(dating from 1772).
Eliza Fay: August 1781
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Author event in Eliza Fay
August 1781
, in India, acquired a deed of legal separation from her husband: the final straw was her discovery that he had an illegitimate child.
8 August 1781: At the Haymarket Theatre, a transvestite...
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8 August 1781
At the
, a transvestite Beggar's Opera (in which most of the male parts were played by women and the female parts by men) garnered such favourable audience response that its performance was...
Susanna Blamire: 20-28 August 1781
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Author event in Susanna Blamire
20-28 August 1781
stayed with her future sister-in-law (then
) at the sociable resort of Gilsland Spa.
Anna Letitia Barbauld: 22 August 1781
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Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld
22 August 1781
followed up the success of Lessons for Children with Hymns in Prose for Children, which
entered in the Stationers' Register on this date.
September 1781: The slave ship Zong left Africa for Jamaica...
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September 1781
The slave ship Zong left Africa for Jamaica loaded with people captured to be sold into slavery, even more of whom than usual were doomed to die on the voyage.
Deborah Norris Logan: 6 September 1781
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Author event in Deborah Norris Logan
6 September 1781
, an heiress of not quite twenty-one, married
, who was then a practising physician.
William Beckford: 28 September 1781
Author event in William Beckford
28 September 1781
Guests began arriving at Fonthill Abbey for
's coming-of-age on the next day; the orgiastic party lasted three days.
Mary Wollstonecraft: Autumn 1781-April 1782
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Autumn 1781-April 1782
nursed her mother through her last illness.
Cassandra, Lady Hawke: 17 October 1781
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Author event in Cassandra, Lady Hawke
17 October 1781
became Lady Hawke when her
died and her
acceded to his title as second Baron Hawke.
19 October 1781: A British force of about 10,000 under Cornwallis...
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19 October 1781
A British force of about 10,000 under
surrendered to American and French forces at Yorktown, Virginia.
Ann Thicknesse: Biography: By November 1781
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Author event in Ann Thicknesse: Biography
By November 1781
completed the publication, this time by subscription, of another version or a continuation of her biographical dictionary Sketches of the Lives and Writings of the Ladies of France, now in three volumes of...
Elizabeth Gilding: November 1781
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Author event in Elizabeth Gilding
November 1781
Elizabeth Turner (formerly
) published in the Westminster Magazine a poem entitled Written on the Coffin of an Infant, aged one Month and Two days, by her Mother.
Lucy Aikin: 6 November 1781
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Author event in Lucy Aikin
6 November 1781
was born in Warrington, Lancashire.
William McCarthy, biographer of her famous aunt, suggests that she and her brother Edward may perhaps have been christened (with names not traditional in their family) after Ed...
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 12 November 1781
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Author event in Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
12 November 1781
, already past forty, married the Rev.
(vicar of Madeley in Staffordshire) at Batley church in Yorkshire.
Mary Delany: 13 November 1781
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Author event in Mary Delany
13 November 1781
, a personal friend of
, recorded Delany's gift to her of one of her most remarkable artefacts, an album of cut-paper portrait silhouettes, which Delany had done from life.
Anna Jane Vardill: 19 November 1781
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Author event in Anna Jane Vardill
19 November 1781
, an only child, was born in London. She was baptised in Marylebone just over a month later.
Judith Cowper Madan : 7 December 1781
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Author event in Judith Cowper Madan
7 December 1781
died after twenty-five years as a widow, at her London home in Stafford Row (which is now part of Buckingham Gate).
Hannah More: Late 1781
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Author event in Hannah More
Late 1781
's sisters got up a subscription to help the mother and sister of the poet
, after his untimely death.