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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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1783-89: Thomas Day anonymously published The History...

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1783-89

Thomas Day anonymously published The History of Sandford and Merton, a didactic book for children in three volumes (the second published in 1786).
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.
82-3
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
68 (1789): 327
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1783: William Dease published Observations in Midwifery,...

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1783

William Dease published Observations in Midwifery, calling for men to take over.
O’Malley, Andrew. The Creation of the Modern Child Subject: Children’s Literature, Pedagogy, Pediatrics, and the Politics of Class in Late Eighteenth-Century England. University of Alberta, 1999.
136n121
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.

1783: The fifteen stage-coaches plying each week...

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1783

The fifteen stage-coaches plying each week between London and Edinburgh contrasted strongly with the single service per month of twenty years earlier.
Buchan, James. “That sh—te Creech”. London Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2007, pp. 13-14.
13

1783: John Flaxman and the Rev. A. S. Mathew paid...

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1783

John Flaxman and the Rev. A. S. Mathew paid for the printing (not publication) of William Blake 's first book, Poetical Sketches.
Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000.
42

January 1783: The publishing house of John Murray launched...

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January 1783

The publishing house of John Murray launched The English Review of Literature, Science, Discoveries, Inventions, and Practical Controversies and Contests; with varying subtitles it ran until 1796.
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.
Abbott, John L. “Review of William Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1998”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
12
, 2001, pp. 495-03.
501-2

1783: Hugh Blair published Lectures on Rhetoric...

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1783

Hugh Blair published Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
Hawkes, Terence. “Dr Blair, the Leavis of the North”. London Review of Books, 18 Feb. 1999, pp. 23-4.
24

1783: The Godolphin School, for girls of the higher...

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1783

The Godolphin School , for girls of the higher classes, was opened.
Miller, Peter J. The Education of the English Lady, 1770-1820. University of Alberta, 1969.
89

1783: James Graham announced in the Public Advertiser...

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1783

James Graham announced in the Public Advertiser his intention of prosecuting the Rambler's Magazine (which was known for pornography) for printing his Lecture on Generation (i.e. procreation).
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Probably 1783: Vicesimus Knox published his prose anthology...

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Probably 1783

Vicesimus Knox published his prose anthology Elegant Extracts in its earliest form: it achieved both fame for popularising and educating, and notoriety for providing a mere veneer of culture.
Difficulty in dating this work is...

1783: Charles Horne in Serious Thoughts on the...

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1783

Charles Horne in Serious Thoughts on the Miseries of Seduction and Prostitution claimed that women participating in the vanity trades (for example, dress-making) were more likely to be seduced into prostitution.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
14-15, 20-1

1783: Lady Eleanor Fenn, a well-known writer for...

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1783

Lady Eleanor Fenn , a well-known writer for children, published three works this year: Fables and Fables in Monosyllables, both as Mrs Teachwell, and Rational Sports in Dialogues Passing Among the Children of...

2 January 1783: The Daily Advertiser printed a spoof account...

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2 January 1783

The Daily Advertiser printed a spoof account that George Washington was really a cross-dressed woman, on the supposed model of the chevalier d'Éon.
Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-48.
47n144

Anna Maria Mackenzie: 18 January 1783

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18 January 1783

The publisher Dodsley advertised as published the first, two-volume novel by the recently widowed Anna Maria Cox (later Mackenzie), whose identity was in any case concealed as a Lady: Burton-Wood. In a Series of...

23 January 1783: Marie Henri Beyle (later the novelist Stendhal)...

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23 January 1783

Marie Henri Beyle (later the novelist Stendhal) was born in Grenoble, France.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
119

Margaret Minifie: Perhaps late January 1783

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Perhaps late January 1783

MM , as the author of Barford Abbey and The Cottage, published Coombe Wood, A Novel, in a Series of Letters.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 325
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
55 (1783): 333

Mary Ann Parker: 29 January 1783

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29 January 1783

Mary Ann Burrows married John Parker , whose promotion from lieutenant to commander in the navy came in 1790.

Eliza Fay: February 1783

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February 1783

EF arrived back in England from India without her husband . There she tried various plans in pursuit of independence,
Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, 1925, pp. 7-24.
11
but found none of them very successful, and stayed only a year.
Fay, Eliza, and E. M. Forster. Original Letters from India. Hogarth Press, 1925.
223

Sophia Lee: February 1783

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Author event in Sophia Lee

February 1783

SL published with Cadell , as the author of The Chapter of Accidents, the first volume of her historical novel The Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xlvi

Hannah Cowley: 25 February 1783

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25 February 1783

HC scored another comedy hit with A Bold Stroke for a Husband when it opened at Covent Garden .
Her title had been used as a subtitle by Sarah Gardner for her unpublished play The...

Clara Reeve: Probably February 1783

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Probably February 1783

CR published her second novel, The Two Mentors (which is epistolary in form and didactic in aim).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
55 (1783): 333
Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977.
xxi

Catharine Macaulay: By March 1783

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By March 1783

CM ended her History of England (this long narration of national evils and national follies)
Macaulay, Catharine. The History of England. J. Nourse and others, 1763–1783, 8 vols.
8: 338
with an eighth volume.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
55 (1783): 212

Later 1783: The first Anti-Slavery Committee was founded...

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Later 1783

The first Anti-Slavery Committee was founded (a precursor to the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade , composed chiefly of Quakers ) and The Case of our Fellow Creatures, the Oppressed Africans was published.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
90

March 1783: In the Zong case, a jury in London ruled...

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March 1783

In the Zong case, a jury in London ruled that shipowners trading in slaves were owed compensation for human cargo thrown overboard.
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
118
Carretta, Vincent. Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self–made Man. University of Georgia Press, 2005.
237

Jane Austen: Probably mid-March 1783

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Probably mid-March 1783

JA , her sister , and her cousin Jane Cooper began on what became about six months away from home for the sake of schooling.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
91
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.
2
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
30-1

Sarah Gardner: 18 March 1783

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Author event in Sarah Gardner

18 March 1783

The Freeman's Journal published a letter from SG complaining of her unfair treatment by the managers of the Capel Street Theatre in Dublin.
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.
5: 466