Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Events Timeline
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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Jane Austen: Early September 1783
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Austen
Early September 1783
At school in Southampton,
and her
and cousin fell seriously ill with typhus and were brought home.
Charlotte Dacre: Probably after September 1783
Author event in Charlotte Dacre
Probably after September 1783
, father of
and
, published a hard-hitting sociopolitical analysis, Thoughts on the Difficulties and Distresses . . . .
Ann Hatton: Probably late 1783
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Hatton
Probably late 1783
Ann Kemble (later
) married an actor named Curtis, who later proved to be a bigamist.
3 September 1783: The signing, at Versailles, of the Treaty...
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3 September 1783
The signing, at Versailles, of the Treaty of Paris brought to an end the American War of Independence.
Anna Williams : 6 September 1783
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Author event in Anna Williams
6 September 1783
died at 8 Bolt Court near Fleet Street in London of mere inanition, in the lodgings of
. She had been suffering inappetence, eating very little, for some time.
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 12 September 1783
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
12 September 1783
and her husband,
, were staying in William Street, Dublin, when they kept their birthday jointly for the second time.
writes that they shared a birthday and the Rev.
Jane West: 21 September 1783
Women writers item
Author event in Jane West
21 September 1783
bore the first of her three sons; the others were born in 1787 and 1794.
Jane Taylor: 23 September 1783
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30 September 1783: John Philip Kemble made his first appearance...
30 September 1783
made his first appearance (as Hamlet) at
.
Radagunda Roberts: By October 1783
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Author event in Radagunda Roberts
By October 1783
issued a volume of verse tales set in the middle ages: Albert, Edward and Laura, and The Hermit of Priestland: Three Legendary Tales, whose leading topics are love and jealousy.
Ann Hatton: October 1783
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Author event in Ann Hatton
October 1783
Ann Curtis (later
) solicited financial help from the general public in a newspaper advertisement, saying her famous siblings had refused her.
Ann Jebb: Autumn 1783
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Jebb
Autumn 1783
and her
moved from Craven Street, London, to Parliament Street, where they lived until John Jebb's death.
Charlotte Lennox: 9 October 1783
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Lennox
9 October 1783
Late in
's publishing career, an anonymous article in the Edinburgh Weekly Magazine (in which at this date her son was publishing poems) provided a tribute to and biographical sketch of her.
Charlotte Brooke: 10 October 1783
Writing climate item
Author event in Charlotte Brooke
10 October 1783
's father, the writer
, to whom she had devoted herself absolutely for the ten years since the death of her
, died in her care.
Sarah Gardner: 30 October 1783
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Gardner
30 October 1783
lectured at Liverpool: this may have been part of the Course of humorous, entertaining, political and satyrical Lectures which she had already given at Dublin.
Frances Brooke: Just before 31 October 1783
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Author event in Frances Brooke
Just before 31 October 1783
invited
to collaborate with her on a new periodical; Burney declined.
The date is from Brooke's letter expressing regret.
Ann Yearsley: Winter 1783-4
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Author event in Ann Yearsley
Winter 1783-4
's family suffered badly in an extremely hard season, and were reduced to near starvation;
wrote a few months later of their being found sheltering in a stable.
Mary Wollstonecraft: November 1783
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Wollstonecraft
November 1783
was summoned to Bermondsey to care for her sister Elizabeth, who had had a nervous breakdown after bearing her first child.
Catharine Macaulay: By November 1783
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Author event in Catharine Macaulay
By November 1783
published with
a progessive theological work entitled A Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth.
Catharine Macaulay: November 1783
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Author event in Catharine Macaulay
November 1783
The European Magazine expressed regret about the rapid decline in the reputation of
's writings, which it judged to be attributable to her personal conduct.
Anna Maria Mackenzie: By November 1783
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Author event in Anna Maria Mackenzie
By November 1783
The same year as her first publication,
issued, through the same publisher and bearing her first married name of A. M. Cox, a biblical paraphrase in five books entitled Joseph. She published this...
7 November 1783: The last public hanging took place at Tyburn...
7 November 1783
The last public hanging took place at Tyburn in London (near where Marble Arch now stands), putting an end to the practice of parading the condemned through town en route to the scene of execution...
Ann Hatton: From 19 November 1783
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Hatton
From 19 November 1783
Ann Curtis (later
) began lecturing on the present State and Influence of Women, on Society at
's Temple of Hymen (and sexual therapy), which succeeded to his Temple of Health.
Ann Eliza Bleecker: 23 November 1783
Writing climate item
Author event in Ann Eliza Bleecker
23 November 1783
died at her estate of Tomhanick, New York: at least partly, it was said, of grief.
Elizabeth Ham: 30 November 1783
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