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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 Yearsley: September 1784

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Author event in Ann Yearsley

September 1784

According to AY 's own recollection, this was when she first met Hannah More in person. (More's own memory seems to have been either confused or inconsistent on this point.)
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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Hester Lynch Piozzi: September 1784

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Author event in Hester Lynch Piozzi

September 1784

HLP and her new husband left England for Italy, after she had seen her daughters to say goodbye.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
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Elizabeth Montagu: From about September 1784

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From about September 1784

EM supported her friend Hannah More in organizing subscriptions for Ann Yearsley 's Poems, on Several Occasions.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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By September 1784: An anonymous work entitled Thoughts on the...

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By September 1784

An anonymous work entitled Thoughts on the Slavery of the Negroes caused the Critical Review to prophesy that the growing movement for abolition of slavery would soon provoke the attention of parliament.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
58 (1784): 239

Elizabeth Hands: 6 September 1784

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6 September 1784

Elizabeth Herbert , aged thirty-eight, was married at Allesley near Coventry to William Hands , her close contemporary, a blacksmith by trade.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Maria Barrell: 23 September 1784

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23 September 1784

The American Loyalists Claims Commission rejected MB 's application for aid. She went on, however, to try again more than once.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Maria Barrell. 13 Apr. 2017.
“American Loyalists Claims, Series I, AP 12, 101”. The National Archives, 1784.

Charlotte Smith: October 1784-early 1785

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October 1784-early 1785

CS lived with her husband and children, for cheapness, in a dilapidated chateau in Normandy, not far from Dieppe.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xix - xxix.
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Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
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Elizabeth Gilding: October 1784

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October 1784

The Westminster Magazine again printed a poem by Elizabeth Turner (formerly EG ) praising a woman poet: To Mrs [Charlotte] Smith of Bignor Park, on Reading Her Poems lately Published (her Elegiac Sonnets of early June).
Pitcher, Edward W. Signatures and Pseudonyms of the Eighteenth-Century British Magazines: An Annotated Index in Three Volumes. 2004.

4 October 1784: James Sadler, a technician in the chemistry...

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4 October 1784

James Sadler , a technician in the chemistry laboratory of Oxford University , made a successful hot-air balloon flight, taking off from Christchurch Meadows, Oxford, and landing near Woodeaton, several miles away.
Tirrell, Charles William. Fragments of Trivia about Woodeaton. http://oxford-consultants.tripod.com/Woodeaton_trivia.htm.
“James Sadler: The British Air Apparent; or, The Flying Pastry Chef”. Prints George: The Age of Ballooning 3: Flights of Fancy.
“Oxford’s high flier”. Oxford Today, Vol.
20
, No. 1, 2007, pp. 32-3.
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Leigh Hunt: 19 October 1784

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19 October 1784

LH , poet and essayist, was born at Southgate, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Hannah More: 20 October 1784

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20 October 1784

HM composed a Prefatory Letter to Montagu , telling her about Yearsley , designed for printing at the head of Yearsley's poems to be published by subscription.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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Isabella Lickbarrow: 5 November 1784

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5 November 1784

Isabella or Elizabeth Lickbarrow was born at Kendal in Westmorland, the eldest of four daughters in her family.
“Elizabeth Lickbarrow (1784-1847) Poet”. University of Rochester,: Department of English: The Apocalypse in English Romantic Literature: Apocalypse and Gender.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Susanna Wright: 1 December 1784

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1 December 1784

SW died at Wright's Ferry, Pennsylvania, aged eighty-seven.
James, Edward T. et al., editors. Notable American Women, 1607-1950. Harvard University Press, 1971, 3 vols.

Hannah Griffitts: Soon after 1 December 1784

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Soon after 1 December 1784

HG commemorated a friend and fellow-poet in an elegy entitled To the Memory of my Late Valuable Friend Susanna Wright.
Moore, Milcah Martha. Milcah Martha Moore’s Book. Editors Blecki, Catherine La Courreye and Karin A. Wulf, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
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Phillis Wheatley: 5 December 1784

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5 December 1784

Phillis Peters (formerly PW ) died in poverty, largely forgotten.
qtd. in
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.
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Samuel Johnson: 13 December 1784

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13 December 1784

SJ , man of letters, died in London.
Greene, Donald. “Introduction”. Samuel Johnson, The Oxford Authors, Oxford University Press, 1984, p. xi - xxx.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 20 December 1784

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20 December 1784

Robert Owenson re-opened the refurbished Old Fishamble Street Music Hall in Dublin with what his daughter Sydney called an altogether national
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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entertainment, patronised by the Irish Volunteers .
The Volunteers had held a famous...

Anna Seward: 27 December 1784

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27 December 1784

AS published an anonymous and in the main uncomplimentary Character of the recently-dead Samuel Johnson (a kind of obituary) in the General Evening Post.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Elizabeth Bentley: 1785

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1785

The teenage, working-class EB , whose father had died two years previously, discovered in myself an inclination for writing verses; from this year come the earliest on which she placed a date.
Bentley, Elizabeth. Genuine Poetical Compositions on Various Subjects. Crouse and Stevenson, 1791.
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Lady Eleanor Butler: January-December 1785

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January-December 1785

LEB kept the first of her journals to survive, prefaced with lines adapted from Thomas Gray 's Elegy in a Country Churchyard about the short and simple annals of the poor.
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton. Editor Bell, Eva Mary, Macmillan, 1930.
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qtd. in
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
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Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages.
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Olivia Clarke: Probably 1785

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Probably 1785

Olivia Owenson (later OC ) was born, the younger sister of two.
Records in the International Genealogical Index date her birth to 1787.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Ann, Lady Fanshawe: 1785

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1785

Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the ladies of Llangollen, meticulously transcribed the whole of ALF 's Memoirs (dating from May 1676) as a present for a friend.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
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Eliza Fletcher: 1785

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1785

Eliza Dawson (later EF ) returned from boarding at the Manor School, York (run by Mrs Forster ), and was given twenty pounds to buy books.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
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Ann Yearsley: January 1785

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January 1785

AY wrote one of her now best-known poems, Clifton Hill.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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Anna Wheeler: 1785

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1785

Anna Doyle (later AW ) was born in Limerick, Ireland.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
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