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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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Elizabeth Gilding: April 1783

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April 1783

The European Magazine printed the first of its half-dozen poems by Eliza, that is Elizabeth Turner, formerly EG (apparently sent in by her husband ). Next month came Soliloquy and Un Jeu D'Esprit. On...

2 April 1783: The Duke of Portland formed a coalition ...

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2 April 1783

The Duke of Portland formed a coalition government.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114

3 April 1783: Washington Irving, essayist and short story...

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3 April 1783

Washington Irving , essayist and short story writer, was born in New York, New York, .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Martha Hale: Good Friday, 18 April 1783

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Good Friday, 18 April 1783

MH composed a political poem To His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury: John Moore , who appears to have been a personal friend.
This may have had something to do with the infamous Zong...

Maria De Fleury: After 20 April 1783

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After 20 April 1783

The death in childbirth of a member of her Baptist congregation moved MDF to publish An Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Dowland
De Fleury, Maria. An Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Dowland. 1783.
title-page, 6

Jane Cave: Presumably before May 1783

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Presumably before May 1783

JC 's Poems on Various Subjects: Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious, was published for the author, by subscription, at Winchester, with her full birth name.
All four (or five, counting the 1795 Bristol reprint)...

Maria Theresa Kemble: 1 May 1783

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1 May 1783

Maria De Camp (later MTK ) began her long stage career playing the role of Cupid in Les Ruses de l'Amour at the King's Theatre .
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.
322
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 6th ed., Macmillan, 1980, 20 vols.
443

Mary Robinson: 15 May 1783

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15 May 1783

MR made her last known London stage appearance, as Victoria in Hannah Cowley 's Bold Stroke for a Husband at Covent Garden .
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.
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Jane Cave: 18 May 1783

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18 May 1783

JC married exciseman Thomas Winscom, at St Maurice's Church, Winchester.
Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 415-31.
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“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mary Berry: 26 May 1783

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26 May 1783

MB , aged twenty, began to keep a journal when she left England with her father and sister for two years travelling in continental Europe. She kept this diary, with some breaks, for the rest...

Mary Scott: June 1783

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June 1783

The Gentleman's Magazine printed MS 's Verses Addressed to Miss Seward , on the Publication of her Monody on Major André.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

8 June 1783-February 1784: Successive eruptions of poisonous gases and...

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8 June 1783-February 1784

Successive eruptions of poisonous gases and particles of dust and lava from the Laki volcanic fissure in Iceland created severe damage and hardship across and beyond northern Europe.
Neale, Greg. “How an Icelandic volcano helped spark the French Revolution”. The Guardian, 16 Apr. 2010, p. 4.
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17 June 1783: Sir Cecil Wray, a maverick independent politician...

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17 June 1783

Sir Cecil Wray , a maverick independent politician and reformer, presented in the House of Commons a Quaker petition for the abolition of slavery.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Cecil Wray

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: June 1783

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June 1783

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was instrumental in saving Fox 's ministry during a crisis over the finances of the Prince of Wales .
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Ann Hatton: Summer 1783

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Summer 1783

Ann Kemble (later AH ) may have been acting at the Smock Alley TheatreDublin, the season after her sister 's first great success.
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.
7: 172

Caroline Herschel : 8 July 1783

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8 July 1783

CH first used in her sweeping of the night sky for nebulae and comets a more powerful, Newtonian telescope.
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
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Hannah More: 10 July 1783

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10 July 1783

HM , having just heard of her election to the Academie Française, wrote a note of thanks: she was more honoured and flattered than by any other event in her life.
qtd. in
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 12 July 1783

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12 July 1783

Nine years after her marriage Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , gave birth to her first baby, a girl, Georgiana Dorothy or Little G. (later Countess of Carlisle ).
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Amelia Bristow: 19 July 1783

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19 July 1783

Amelia Solomon (later AB ) was born in London.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Amelia Bristow. 8 Jan. 2016.

Sarah, Lady Pennington: August 1783

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August 1783

SLP died at Fulmer in Buckinghamshire after being separated from her husband for more than twenty years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Gilding: August 1783

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August 1783

In the pages of the Westminster Magazine Elizabeth Turner (formerly EG ) addressed a poem in reply to Thomas Cumbre , who had contributed a verse compliment to her in the same magazine in July.
Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
312

Helen Maria Williams: Autumn 1783

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Autumn 1783

HMW presented the manuscript of her Ode on the Peace to Elizabeth Montagu ; it was published the same year, without her name but with mention of her previous publication.

Sarah Murray : 11 August 1783

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11 August 1783

Sarah Maese or Mease (probably the woman of this name who had had twenty years as a schoolmistress) was married by special licence to a Scottish naval captain, William Murray , younger brother of the...

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 12 August 1783

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12 August 1783

MBF and her husband, John Fletcher , set out from Madeley for Dublin, where John was to preach and minister and Mary to conduct classes.
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837.
143, 145

Anna Williams : 20 August 1783

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20 August 1783

When AW felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England 's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up.
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
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