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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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Charlotte Smith: December 1783-2 July 1784

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December 1783-2 July 1784

Benjamin Smith was confined in the King's Bench Prison ; CS , his wife, accompanied him in prison for some of that time.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiii
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xix - xxix.
xxi-xxii
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
85-6

Hannah Cowley: 6 December 1783

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6 December 1783

HC had another opening night at Covent Garden : the comedy More Ways Than One.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 663-4

19 December 1783: George III invited William Pitt the younger,...

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19 December 1783

George III invited William Pitt the younger, Tory leader, to form the government; Pitt 's previous ministry had been defeated on a vote in the House of Lords .
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
Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
22

Ann Jebb: 21 December 1783-24 March 1784

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21 December 1783-24 March 1784

AJ 's personal correspondence with John Cartwright (author of the Wilkesite Give us our Rights!, 1782) expresses her views on the party struggles and constitutional crisis of this period.
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
601-3

Caroline Herschel : 31 December 1783

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31 December 1783

CH showed her remarkable toughness when, summoned in a hurry round the telescope frame, in deep snow in the dark, she slipped and impaled her leg on a butchers' hook which was part of the...

Joanna Baillie: 1783 or 1784

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1783 or 1784

JB and her mother and sister moved to London to join her brother Matthew .
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
3
Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, pp. ix - xiv, 1.
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Mary Deverell: 1 January 1784

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1 January 1784

MD dated the preface to Theodora and Didymus, a narrative or epic poem published by May that year.
Deverell, Mary. Theodora and Didymus. 2nd ed., Printed for the author, 1786.
xxii
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
57 (1784): 397

Maria Edgeworth: 1784

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1784

ME produced a tale, The Mental Thermometer, which is her earliest piece of work to survive.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
146-7

Mary Wollstonecraft: January 1784

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January 1784

MW , in a bid to rescue her sister Elizabeth from her abusive husband, fled with her (but without her baby) to lodgings in Hackney.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Susanna Watts: 1784

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1784

Still in her teens, SW published at Leicester, with her name, her earliest identified work in print: Chinese Maxims. Translated from The Oeconomy of Human Life Into Heroic Verse.
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.

Anna Seward: 1784

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1784

AS began transcribing copies selected from among her voluminous letters into large bound volumes, with eventual publication in mind.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
110

Sarah Scott: 1784-1785

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1784-1785

SS made a visit to a Mr and Mrs Freeman at Norwich, and found relief from her recurrent headaches.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xxx

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: 1784

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1784

SFG published in ParisLes veillées du château; ou, Cours de morale à l'usage des enfants, an educational sequel to Adèle et Théodore.
Broglie, Gabriel de. Madame de Genlis. Librairie Académique Perrin, 1985.
493
Laborde, Alice M. L’oeuvre de Madame de Genlis. Editions A.-G. Nizet, 1966.
245

Mary Leadbeater: 1784

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1784

Mary Shackleton (later ML ) visited London with her father , who was going to attend the annual Quaker meeting there.
Brady, Anne M., and Brian Cleeve, editors. A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers. Lilliput, 1985.

1784: Henry Fearon, surgeon, published A Treatise...

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1784

Henry Fearon , surgeon, published A Treatise on Cancers, with a New and Successful Method of Operating, Particularly in Cancers of the Breast and Testis.
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.
Porter, Roy, editor. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
218

1784: John Wesley broke finally with the Church...

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1784

John Wesley broke finally with the Church of England , though still vacillating as to whether to espouse full Evangelicism ; in 1787 his Methodist chapels were registered as Dissenting chapels.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
86, 89 and n37

About 1784: John Marshall published Nurse Dandlem's Little...

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About 1784

John Marshall published Nurse Dandlem's Little Repository of Great Instruction for all who Would be Good and Noble: half old-fashioned, irresponsible fairy tale, half modern, moralised instruction.
O’Malley, Andrew. “The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature”. The Lion and The Unicorn, Vol.
24
, 2000, pp. 18-44.
26-8

By 1784: William Lane, who had been active in the...

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By 1784

William Lane , who had been active in the London book trade since 1763, was soliciting novels to publish.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
3

1784: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...

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1784

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 's tragedy Kabale und Liebe (later known in England as Intrigue and Love) was produced and published.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
94

1784: Parliament increased by threepence the tax...

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1784

Parliament increased by threepence the tax (dating from the 1690s) which was levied on marriage.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
191

1784: A daytime patrol of watchmen was established...

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1784

A daytime patrol of watchmen was established in the City of London—the earliest example of policing on the beat other than at night.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
105

1784: The Asiatic Society was founded by William...

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1784

The Asiatic Society was founded by William Jones in Calcutta: it was a group of Europeans seriously interested in learning more about the culture and learning of India.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
78

1784: The world's first school for the blind, the...

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1784

The world's first school for the blind, the Institution Royale pour les Jeunes Aveugles , was opened in Paris by Valentin Haüy .
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
“Reading by Touch”. Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB): Publications Archive.

Phillis Wheatley: By 2 January 1784

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By 2 January 1784

At the funeral of the Rev. Samuel Cooper , an elegy by Phillis Peters (formerly PW ) was performed to music by William Billings as a funeral anthem: An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of...

Ann Jebb: 14 January 1784

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14 January 1784

AJ formulated for John Cartwright her concept of political reform: I see every day more and more the necessity of forming an association of the friends of the people, independent of any party whatever.
qtd. in
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
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