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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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Ann Jebb: 22 January 1784

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22 January 1784

AJ wrote to John Cartwright of her fears that parliament would plunder the East, and enslave this nation at their leisure.
qtd. in
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
602

Susannah Gunning: 1784-1788

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1784-1788

SG and her husband spent these years at Langford Court, Wrington, Somerset.
Gantz, Ida. The Pastel Portrait. Cresset Press, 1963.
98

Charlotte Nooth: Perhaps shortly before 9 February 1784

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Perhaps shortly before 9 February 1784

CN the writer may have been born, if she was the baby christened under this name on this day at Dorchester in Dorset.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Caroline Scott: 16 February 1784

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16 February 1784

Caroline Lucy Douglas (later CS ) was born in Stratford Place, London, into a titled family which had been immensely controversial twenty years before her birth. She was her parents' eldest child.
Stuart, Lady Louisa, and J. Steven Watson. Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas. Editor Rubenstein, Jill, Scottish Academic Press, 1985.
99-100
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mercy Otis Warren: 20 February 1784

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20 February 1784

MOW dated her address To the Public to this date, though she printed it in her Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, 1790, which included her two tragedies that read American politics through a historical lens.
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
254
Feminist Companion Archive.

Eliza Nugent Bromley: By March 1784

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By March 1784

ENB published her first novel, Laura and Augustus, an Authentic Story; in a series of letters, as by a Young Lady.
Bromley, Eliza Nugent. Laura and Augustus, an authentic story; in a series of letters, by a young lady. In three volumes. W. Cass, 1784, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CW0114018683/ECCO?u=guel77241&sid=bookmark-ECCO&xid=07f4b09d&pg=1.
prelims

Susannah Dobson: By March 1784

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By March 1784

SD , as the Translator of the Life of Petrarch, published Memoirs of Ancient Chivalry, again basing her work on Sainte-Palaye .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
57 (1784): 161

Ann Yearsley: March 1784

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March 1784

AY 's mother, Ann Cromartie , died after the Yearsley family's ordeal by near-starvation; she had been an important influence on her daughter's development.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
21

18 March 1784: The Transportation Act reasserted (at least...

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18 March 1784

The Transportation Act reasserted (at least in theory) the British policy of sending convicts overseas as the best method for their punishment and reform.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
250-1, 265
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
54 (1984): 289, 292, 303

Henrietta Maria Bowdler: Spring 1784

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Spring 1784

Jane Bowdler died young at the family home at Ashley near Bath, leaving her poems to be edited and published by her sister HMB .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Jane Bowdler

Ann Hatton: By April 1784

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By April 1784

The future AH published with her name (Ann Curtis, sister of Mrs. Siddons) Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, with a strong subscription list, dedicated to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
57 (1784): 314

Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw: 27 April 1784

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27 April 1784

Mary Ann Jeffreys (later MACB ) married George Frederick Nugent, Earl of Westmeath (member of the second Protestant generation in his family).
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
Curran, John Philpot. Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq. I. Riley, 1811, 2 vols.
1: 166

Anne Damer: Spring 1784

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Spring 1784

AD began exhibiting her sculpture at the annual Royal Academy show in London; she was a regular contributor to this event until 1818.
Bakewell, Susan. “A Muse on the Move: The Hon. Anne Seymour Damer, from England to Italy (via France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal), 1762-1799”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Providence, RI, 1993.

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: May 1784

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May 1784

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , again supporting Charles James Fox in his election campaign, was credited as author of his victory.
Foreman, Amanda. “A politician’s politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the Whig party”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 179-04.
184-7
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
242ff

Helen Maria Williams: By May 1784

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By May 1784

HMW published with her name her six-canto poem Peru, on the topic of colonialism, specificallyEuropean-New World and Christian-pagan relationships, dedicated to Elizabeth Montagu .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
57 (1784): 376

Anna Seward: By May 1784

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By May 1784

AS published at LichfieldLouisa. A Poetical Novel, in Four Epistles.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
54 (1784): 357
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.

Elizabeth Gilding: May 1784

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May 1784

The Westminster Magazine carried a poem by Elizabeth Turner (formerly EG ): Eliza to Fidelio [who often signs F. for Fidelio, as he had apparently done since his youth] Written in the early Days of...

Catharine Macaulay: May 1784

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May 1784

CM embarked (with her husband ) for the United States of America, where she was admired and feted.
Hill, Bridget. “Daughter and Mother: Some new light on Catharine Macaulay and her family”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
22
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1999, pp. 35-49.
35

Judith Sargent Murray: May 1784

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May 1784

JSM began printing poetry in the Boston Gentleman and Lady's Town and Country Magazine, followed by an essay in this magazine in October this year.
Harris, Sharon M., and Judith Sargent Murray. “Introduction”. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, edited by Sharon M. Harris and Sharon M. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. xv - xliv.
xviii
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Alison Cockburn: 10 May 1784

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10 May 1784

AC wrote down A Short Account of a Long Life in a letter to the Rev. Robert Douglas (1747 - 1820) of Galashiels.
Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
78
Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas, 1900.
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Charlotte Smith: 10 May 1784

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10 May 1784

CS , in the King's Bench Prison, arranged the publication of her Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Essays.
The word essays signifies attempts, not essays in prose.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xix - xxix.
xxii
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
103-4

12 May 1784: James Sheridan Knowles, playwright, was born...

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12 May 1784

James Sheridan Knowles , playwright, was born at Cork, Ireland.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Ann Yearsley: 15 May 1784

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15 May 1784

AY 's sixth child, Jane Jones Yearsley , was born, a few months after the family plumbed the depths of poverty and want.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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Charlotte Lennox: 15 May 1784

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15 May 1784

Samuel Johnson pronounced in conversation that CL was worthy to rank with the exceptional women Carter , More , and Burney : more yet, she was superiour to them all.
Boswell, James, 1740 - 1795. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon, 1934, 6 vols.
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18 May 1784: A new parliament was called for this date,...

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18 May 1784

A new parliament was called for this date, following elections; the previous one had been dissolved on 25 March.
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John, 1920 - Brooke, editors. The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964.
1: 536