Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, edited by Judith Phillips Stanton, Indiana University Press, 2003, p. i - xlv.
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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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Charlotte Smith: About January 1785
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Frances Reynolds : 1785
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Author event in Frances Reynolds
1785
privately printed her work of aesthetic theory, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, &c, in a limited edition of 250 copies, dedicated to...
Elizabeth Gilding: January 1785
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Gilding
January 1785
The Westminster Magazine printed both The Desire and Monody, the last of its poems by Elizabeth Turner (formerly
). (It ceased publication in this year.)
Elizabeth Hamilton: About 1785
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Hamilton
About 1785
In a poem entitled Anticipation,
pictured the changes which time would inevitably make in her friends and lastly in herself.
1785: Dialogues Concerning the Ladies, a celebration...
Women writers item
1785
Dialogues Concerning the Ladies, a celebration of famous women, was anonymously published; it borrows from
's Memoirs of Eminent Ladies.
1785: As early as this year, major London book...
1785
As early as this year, major London book printers agreed to the London Scale of Prices, assuring compositors standard piece-rate wages.
1785: Botanist Thomas Martyn translated into English...
1785
Botanist
translated into English a work of
's of 1771-3 as Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to a Lady: it had eight editions in the next thirty years.
1785-1814: Esther Tuke, a Quaker, ran a school for girls...
1785-1814
, a Quaker, ran a school for girls in Trinity Lane, York.
1785: A traveller to Paris reported as a novelty...
1785
A traveller to Paris reported as a novelty that a shop had just opened, called Prix Fixe, where prices were listed on cards and there was therefore no haggling.
1785: John Pendred published the first guide to...
1785
published the first guide to English publishing, The London and Country Printers, Booksellers and Stationers Vade Mecum.
1785: Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de Sade,...
Writing climate item
1785
, composed in manuscript Les Cent vingt journées de Sodome, ou l'école du libertinage.
1785: William Hayley published his Philosophical,...
Writing climate item
1785
published his Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids; most women readers agreed with
that the book displayed witty, but ungenerous sport of fancy.
1785: Dr George Gregory (friend of Elizabeth Hamilton)...
1785
Dr
(friend of
) published with Essays Historical and Moral, which expresses feminist and reforming sentiments.
1785: Benjamin Stillingfleet, writer and male member...
1785
, writer and male member of the Bluestocking circle, edited and introduced a volume of scientific Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick.
1 January 1785: The Daily Universal Register began publication...
Writing climate item
1 January 1785
The Daily Universal Register began publication in London; it became The Times, or Daily Universal Register, and then on 18 March 1788 simply the Times.
7 January 1785: The first airborne crossing of the English...
7 January 1785
The first airborne crossing of the English Channel was made, by balloon from Dover to the Forêt de Felmores in France.
Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins: Mid January 1785
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
Mid January 1785
titled her first novel The Conquests of the Heart and published it as by a Young Lady. Both the London edition and a Dublin one from the same year are now extremely rare.
After 1 February 1785: M. Peddle (a gifted, little-known, Evangelical...
Women writers item
After 1 February 1785
(a gifted, little-known, Evangelical woman of Yeovil in Somerset, who later issued a conduct book under the name of Cornelia) published a biblical paraphrase in novelistic style: The Life of Jacob.
2 February 1785: Sarah Siddons first played Lady Macbeth (a...
2 February 1785
first played Lady Macbeth (a part with which she was to become popularly identified) at
.
2 February 1785: The recently imposed window-tax (not the...
2 February 1785
The recently imposed window-tax (not the first, but the most notorious tax of this kind) provoked the publication of an ironic mock sermon about it.
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore: 3 February 1785
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
3 February 1785
, fled from the house in Grosvenor Square which she shared with her second husband,
.
Radagunda Roberts: 8 February 1785
Women writers item
Author event in Radagunda Roberts
8 February 1785
made her will. Her personal estate included South Sea stock, half-ownership of a house in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, her inkstand, her bookcase, and various named and identified pictures, pieces of jewellery, and books....
Hannah Webster Foster: 15 February 1785
Writing climate item
Jane Austen: March 1785-December 1786
Women writers item
Ann Candler: 5 March 1785
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Candler
5 March 1785
The Ipswich Journal printed a poem by
which may be the first of hers to appear there. She later published there regularly: sometimes by name, but not always identifiably.