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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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26-27 December 1781: The Womens Quarterly Meeting for Yorkshire...

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26-27 December 1781

The Womens Quarterly Meeting for Yorkshire was held at Leeds, at which an Epistle of general exhortation was drawn up, to be printed at London.
Womens Quarterly Meeting for the County of York (Society of Friends). An Epistle from the Womens Quarterly Meeting for the County of York. James Phillips, 1782.
title-page

Maria De Fleury: 1782

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Author event in Maria De Fleury

1782

MDF dedicated to Lord George Gordon a masque-like or operatic work entitled Henry; or, The Triumph of Grace. A Sacred Poem.
De Fleury, Maria. Henry. R. Denham, 1782.
title-page
qtd. in
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Eliza Fay: 1782

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Author event in Eliza Fay

1782

EF , in need of money, was urged to publish her travel letters, but declined because of the pains and penalties . . . generally, inflicted on female authorships.
Fay, Eliza, and E. M. Forster. Original Letters from India. Hogarth Press, 1925.
28
Newly separated from her husband

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: 1782

Writing climate item

1782

SFG was appointed gouverneur to the sons of the duc and duchesse de Chartres (three years before her employer, who was also her lover, became duc d'Orléans).
Broglie, Gabriel de. Madame de Genlis. Librairie Académique Perrin, 1985.
112-14
Trousson, Raymond. Romans de femmes du XVIIIe siècle. Robert Laffont, 1996.
774

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: January 1782

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January 1782

SFG published in Paris her conduct book Adèle et Théodore; ou, Lettres sur l'éducation.
Broglie, Gabriel de. Madame de Genlis. Librairie Académique Perrin, 1985.
493
Laborde, Alice M. L’oeuvre de Madame de Genlis. Editions A.-G. Nizet, 1966.
30, 245

Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: 1782

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Author event in Elizabeth Sarah Gooch

1782

ESG , discarded by her husband and forbidden to see her children, twice visited them incognita at their school at Walthamstow near London.
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. An Appeal to the Public. G. Kearsley, 1788.
61-2

Anne Hunter: 1782

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Author event in Anne Hunter

1782

While her ballads were trickling into print, AHprinted for the author, anonymously, the score and text, words and music for, Nine Canzonetts for Two Voices. The ODNB calls this one of her...

Adelaide O'Keeffe: 1782

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Author event in Adelaide O'Keeffe

1782

AOK was sent, by her father and with her brothers, to Mrs Reubell's school, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
Link, Frederick M., and John O’Keeffe. “Introduction”. The Plays of John O’Keeffe, edited by Frederick M. Link and Frederick M. Link, Garland, 1981, p. 1: x - lix.
xiii

1782: A spinning school was set up for poor girls...

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1782

A spinning school was set up for poor girls in York, for middle-class women to communicate the skills and good influence that were beyond working-class parents.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
168-9

1782: The Society for Distributing Religious Tracts...

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1782

The Society for Distributing Religious Tracts among the Poor was founded.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
295

1782: George Romney painted a picture to illustrate...

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1782

George Romney painted a picture to illustrate (after the fact) William Hayley 'a Triumphs of Temper, 1781: Serena, reading Burney 's Evelina. The model was Honora Sneyd .
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
607, 609

1782: Gilbert's Act stated that only the disabled...

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1782

Gilbert's Act stated that only the disabled should receive poor relief in workhouses; the able-bodied were to find work outside, or be provided with outdoor relief if there was no work.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 140
Rose, Michael E. The English Poor Law 1780-1930. David and Charles, 1971.
13, 18

January 1782: The European Magazine and London Review began...

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January 1782

The European Magazine and London Review began monthly publication in London.
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.

1782: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos published his...

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1782

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos published his epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.

1782: There appeared in print the scurrilous, anonymous...

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1782

There appeared in print the scurrilous, anonymous Memoirs of Mrs Billington, a bitter attack on the allegedly loose morals of a young and popular singer.
Grover, Danielle. “Elizabeth Billington: Sinner or Saint?”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
10
, No. 3, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2006, p. 4.
4

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 2 January 1782

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Author event in Mary Bosanquet Fletcher

2 January 1782

MBF set out with her new husband for his vicarage in the industrial parish of Madeley in Staffordshire.
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837.
137
Burge, Janet. Women Preachers in Community: Sarah Ryan, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet. Foundery Press, 1996.
26

Jane Warton: 18 January 1782

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Author event in Jane Warton

18 January 1782

The publisher James Dodsley paid JW 's brother Joseph fifty pounds for two works by her: Letters Addressed to Two Young Married Ladies and Letters on Christian Life.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 30 January 1782

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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert

30 January 1782

Ann Taylor (later ATG ) was born in Islington, London, on her father's twenty-second birthday; she was the eldest of eleven children.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
xvi

Sarah Trimmer: By February 1782

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By February 1782

ST published the first volume of her Sacred History; three further volumes followed within a couple of years, and finally there were six volumes in all.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
53 (1782): 155; 55 (1783): 133; 56 (1783): 70; 57 (1784): 317

Hannah Cowley: 9 February 1782

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9 February 1782

HC 's comedy Which Is the Man? opened belatedly at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 496

15 February 1782: Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met...

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15 February 1782

Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met at Dungannon and adopted resolutions in favour of Ireland's independence from England and relaxation of the Penal Laws.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
154-5
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
23

Cassandra, Lady Hawke: 25 February 1782

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25 February 1782

Burney, Frances. Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay. Editors Barrett, Charlotte and Austin Dobson, Macmillan, 1904–1905, 6 vols.
2: 57
Burney, Frances. Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay. Editors Barrett, Charlotte and Austin Dobson, Macmillan, 1904–1905, 6 vols.
2: 60-6

27 February 1782: The House of Commons, on news of the British...

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27 February 1782

The House of Commons , on news of the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, urged George III to end the war with the United States.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
133

Helen Maria Williams: March 1782

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Author event in Helen Maria Williams

March 1782

HMW published anonymously, with Cadell , her first poem, Edwin and Eltruda, A Legendary Tale.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
53 (1782): 213

Anna Seward: By March 1782

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By March 1782

AS , by now known as a published poet, printed through Robinson a Poem to the Memory of Lady Millar [sic], who had died the previous June after offering her early encouragement.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
53 (1782): 230