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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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Hannah More: By March 1782

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By March 1782

HM published with Cadell her Sacred Dramas, a collection written for performance by schoolgirls, and already used this way at her sisters' school.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
53 (1782): 199
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Elizabeth Griffith: 2 March 1782

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2 March 1782

EG published through Cadell her last work, a conduct book entitled Essays Addressed to Young Married Women. It first appeared anonymously, but a second issue, the same year, gave her name on a cancel...

19 March 1782: Lord North, the Tory leader, resigned as...

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19 March 1782

Lord North , the Tory leader, resigned as Prime Minister: Lord Rockingham , a Whig, agreed to form a government on condition of instituting reform in the crown's finances.
Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
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Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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About 27 March 1782: Eliza Hancock, aged nineteen, married Jean-François...

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About 27 March 1782

Eliza Hancock , aged nineteen, married Jean-François Capot de Feuillide , a Frenchman who claimed to be a count and who inaccurately supposed her to be a wealthy heiress.
Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking, 1997.
49, 51

Grace Elliott: 30 March 1782

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30 March 1782

GE bore a daughter, Georgina or Georgiana , whose paternity was variously ascribed to several of her lovers (including the Prince of Wales , with whom she had broken up some months before the birth)...

Anna Seward: April 1782

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April 1782

The European Magazine carried the accolade of a two-and-a-half-page account of AS , who was approaching her fortieth birthday.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
102

April 1782: Hester Thrale recorded in her journal a poem...

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April 1782

Hester Thrale recorded in her journal a poem by Anne Hunter which seems to be the first English rendering of a Native American death song.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: April 1782

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April 1782

At the next elections (following on the national defeat in America) the Whigs involved Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , in their strategy: her appearance on the hustings can be read as an official duty...

Anna Margaretta Larpent: 25 April 1782

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25 April 1782

Anna Margaretta Porter married as his second wife John Larpent , Examiner of Plays as deputy to the Lord Chamberlain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Wollstonecraft: Spring 1782-November 1783

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Spring 1782-November 1783

MW supported herself while living with Fanny Blood 's family in Fulham and worrying over Fanny's tuberculosis.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Grace Elliott: By 2 May 1782

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By 2 May 1782

Thomas Gainsborough exhibited at the Royal Academy another portrait of GE , painted some months earlier while she was pregnant, staring defiantly at the viewer.
This painting is now in the Frick Museum , New York.
Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press, 2001.
fig. 3
Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press, 2001.
40, 227n84
Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books, 2016.
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30 May 1782: The Duke of Portland, Lord Lieutenant of...

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30 May 1782

The Duke of Portland , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, announced in the House of Lords a new Bill of Rights for Ireland: the Dublin Parliament was freed from the rule of the British Privy Council

Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: By June 1782

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By June 1782

Lady Elizabeth Foster became the friend of the current Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana , and of the Duke ; very soon the three were inseparable.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
97, 103

Maria Edgeworth: June 1782

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June 1782

ME , having left school, set out with her father to live at Edgeworthstown in County Longford, where the Edgeworth family had been established since 1583.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
77
Moynahan, Julian. Anglo-Irish. Princeton University Press, 1995.
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Lady Mary Walker: By June 1782

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By June 1782

An anonymous novel by LMW , The Life of Mrs. Justman, is referred to in connection with the next work with which she followed it.
Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 14-117.
107
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 313
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Judith Sargent Murray: After June 1782

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After June 1782

Judith Stevens (later JSM ) published anonymously at Norwich, Massachusetts, a Universalist children's catechism, Some Deductions from the System Promulgated in the Page of Divine Revelation.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
29 and n29, 192
Harris, Sharon M., and Judith Sargent Murray. “Introduction”. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, edited by Sharon M. Harris and Sharon M. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. xv - xliv.
xix
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Maria Edgeworth: July 1782-August 1783

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July 1782-August 1783

ME worked on a translation of Adèle et Théodore: ou lettres sur l'education by Madame de Genlis .
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
91, 147-9
Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 75-93.
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Elizabeth Montagu: 11 July 1782

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11 July 1782

EM expressed to Elizabeth Carter the Bluestockings' determination to think for ourselves, & act for ourselves, rather than being so perfectly of ye [sic] Rib of Man as Woman ought to be.
qtd. in
Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, 2003, pp. 60-6.
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Frances Burney: 12 July 1782

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12 July 1782

FB published her second novel, Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Anna Seward: August-September 1782

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August-September 1782

AS spent six weeks visiting William and Eliza Hayley at Eartham in Sussex.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
103, 107, 168

Caroline Herschel : By August 1782

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By August 1782

CH moved from Bath to Datchet when her brother William was appointed to a position (as astronomer, not musician) in the personal service of George III .
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
125
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Inchbald: August 1782

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August 1782

A comedy by EI was licensed, but nothing more was heard of it after this, although Harris had advanced her twenty pounds on it.
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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Sarah Gardner: 16 August 1782

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16 August 1782

SG appeared at the Haymarket Theatre in a play called The Female Dramatist, by her old adversary George Colman .
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Gardner: "Such Trumpery" or ‘A Lustre to Her Sex’?”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
7
, 1988, pp. 7-25.
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The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 537

William Blake: 18 August 1782

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18 August 1782

WB married Catherine Boucher , who from this point shared his life and work. The marriage remained childless.
Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000.
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Caroline Herschel : 22 August 1782

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22 August 1782

CH , at William Herschel 's request, began to spend clear nights not in bed but on a grass-plot covered by dew or hoar frost, nobody within her call, watching or sweeping the skies for...