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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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Cassandra Cooke: September 1782

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September 1782

Fourteen years into her married life, CC wrote a religious meditation on the sorrows it had brought her: money losses, constant illness, but more especially the deaths of four of the seven children she had...

Mary Whateley Darwall: September 1782

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September 1782

MWD published the only new poem she is known to have issued in print during her marriage: Female Friendship (later retitled An Epistle to a Friend) in the British Magazine.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
142ff

By September 1782: The Letters of the black Londoner Ignatius...

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By September 1782

The Letters of the black Londoner Ignatius Sancho were published two years after the author's death.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
52 (1782): 437
Carey, Brycchan. “’The extraordinary Negro’: Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-14.
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Carey, Brycchan. “’The extraordinary Negro’: Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-14.
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Susan Ferrier: 7 September 1782

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7 September 1782

SF was born in a flat in Lady Stair's Close in Edinburgh, the youngest daughter (second youngest child) in a family of ten.
The birthdate given in some sources, 17 September, was probably that...

Ellen Weeton: Biography: 11 September 1782

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11 September 1782

EW 's father was killed in a battle with an American ship; she later graphically described her grief.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
1: 8; 2: 401

11-13 September 1782: In the last battle of the American Revolution,...

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11-13 September 1782

In the last battle of the American Revolution, Fort Henry, Virginia, withstood a three-day attack by 250 Indians and forty loyalists.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
133

23 September 1782: Covent Garden Theatre re-opened after a three-month...

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23 September 1782

Covent Garden Theatre re-opened after a three-month reconstruction, enlargement, and renovation.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 541-3, 555

Ann Hatton: 10 October 1782

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10 October 1782

Actress Sarah Siddons had her first triumph at Drury Lane , four months after the birth of her fifth and last child.
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.
14: 8

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 12 November 1782

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12 November 1782

On her first wedding anniversay MBF wrote: What a helpmate is he to me, and how much better do we love one another this day, than we did this day twelve months!
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837.
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Frances Burney: December 1782-January 1784

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December 1782-January 1784

FB saw a great deal of George Owen Cambridge , with pleasure and merriment on both sides; but no proposal of marriage followed.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Eliza Parsons: Late 1782

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Late 1782

EP 's husband suffered a further business disaster when fire totally destroyed the site of his turpentine warehouses at Bow, and a large shipment destined for America.
Varma, Devendra P., and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. The Mysterious Warning, Folio Press, 1968, p. vii - xvi.
vii
Hoeveler, Diane Long, and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. The Castle of Wolfenbach, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Diane Long Hoeveler, Valancourt Books, 2007, p. vii - xvii.
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Morton, Karen. A Life Marketed as Fiction. An Analysis of the Works of Eliza Parsons. Valancourt Books, 2011.
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Mary Hays: December 1782

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December 1782

MH 's poem entitled Invocation to the Nightingale (opening Wand'ring o'er the dewy meadow) appeared as by Miss Heys in the final volume of James Harrison 's collected Lady's Poetical Magazine.
Harrison, James, 1765 - 1847, editor. The Lady’s Poetical Magazine; or, Beauties of British Poetry. James Harrison.

Elizabeth Strutt: Christmas Eve 1782

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Christmas Eve 1782

Elizabeth Frost (later the writer ES ) was born at Hull (now in Humberside), according to her gravestone in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.
Former versions of Orlando expressed some doubt about this identification...

Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: Christmas Day 1782

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Christmas Day 1782

Lady Elizabeth Foster (later Duchess of Devonshire) went abroad for her health, taking with her as pupil the Duke of Devonshire 's illegitimate daughter Charlotte Williams.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe: 30 December 1782

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30 December 1782

Elizabeth Postuma Gwillim married Lieutenant-Colonel John Graves Simcoe , who nine years later became the first Lieutenant-Governor of the newly distinct British colony of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
Fryer, Mary Beacock. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, A Biography. Dundurn Press, 1989.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

30 December 1782: A print entitled Beauty in search of Knowledge...

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30 December 1782

A print entitled Beauty in search of Knowledge showed a fashionably-clad young woman in front of a circulating-library window featuring modishly scandalous material.
Benedict, Barbara M. “Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy”. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women’s Fiction" and Social Engagement, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 147-00.
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Frances Brooke: 31 December 1782

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31 December 1782

FB 's first musical, Rosina, set to music by William Shields , opened at Covent Garden .
Mary Robinson performed in the mainpiece at Covent Garden that night; but if she was in Rosina...

Mary Robinson: New Year's Eve 1782

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New Year's Eve 1782

MR , under a heavy cloak of anonymity, opened her last theatre season, at Covent Garden Theatre (playing in the mainpiece but apparently not in Frances Brooke 's Rosina, which followed it).
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
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 582

Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: 1783

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1783

Lady Elizabeth Craven 's marriage with Lord Craven was ended by separation. William settled down to live with his mistress; Elizabeth left her daughters with him in order to prevent the mistress from taking her...

Jane Austen: 1783

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1783

JA 's third brother, Edward , was adopted—despite their father 's slight reluctance—by wealthy cousins, the Knights, as their heir.
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
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Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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Henrietta Battier: At least 1783-1784

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At least 1783-1784

HB and her husband visited London.
Battier, Henrietta. The Protected Fugitives. James Porter, 1791, http://Bodleian: 280 i 105.
xii

Elizabeth Cobbold: 1783

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1783

Elizabeth Knipe (later EC ) published at Ipswich as Eliza Knipe her Poems on Various Subjects.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Hannah Cowley: 1783

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1783

HC 's husband left England for India, having been appointed a military captain with the East India Company .
Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol.
1
, Garland, 1979, p. v - xlxx.
v

Jane Warton: 1783

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1783

Dodsley somewhat unwillingly published JW 's anonymous epistolary novel, Peggy and Patty; or, The Sisters of Ashdale.
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
, No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92.
89

Anna Gordon: Shortly before 1783

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Shortly before 1783

AG 's father 's friend William Tytler of Woodhouselee, author of A Dissertation on the Scottish Musick, 1779, asked Anna provide him with written copies of her old songs.
Perry, Ruth. “Ballads”. The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1789, edited by Catherine Ingrassia, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 210-25.
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