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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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Sophia Lee: Late 1785

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Late 1785

SL published the final volumes of The Recess.
April Alliston notes that the second edition was sensitively corrected and revised—if not by SL then by someone who understood her artistic aims. In the third...

Elizabeth Hamilton: 17 December 1785

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17 December 1785

EH appeared intentionally in print for the first time: with an anonymous essay in the Lounger, Henry Mackenzie 's sentimental periodical, published at Edinburgh.
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols.
1: 277-91
Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi, 2010.
67

21 December 1785: The Prince of Wales married Mrs Fitzherbert,...

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21 December 1785

The Prince of Wales married Mrs Fitzherbert , secretly but in the presence of reliable witnesses.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Anna Maria Mackenzie: By 24 December 1785

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By 24 December 1785

The future AMM issued her second epistolary novel, The Gamesters, through a different publisher, Steel and Baldwin , and in three volumes. She did not give her name but flagged this text as by...

Lucy Aikin: December 1785

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December 1785

LA 's family moved to Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, on the east coast of England.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1864) 1: 396

Charlotte Brooke: 1786

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1786

CB contributed anonymous translations of Irish poems to Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards, edited by Joseph C. Walker .
Ashley, Leonard R. N. et al. “Introduction”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970, p. v - xv.
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Frances Brooke: January-February 1786

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January-February 1786

FB 's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Samuel Richardson was published in the Universal Magazine.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
188-9
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
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Jane Cave: 1786

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1786

JC published, at Bristol, a new edition of her Poems on Various Subjects, giving her name as Miss Cave. Now Mrs. W—, and including a few select poems, from other authors.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Cave, Jane. Poems on Various Subjects. printed for the author, 1786.
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Maria De Fleury: 1786

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1786

MDF published with her name a little duodecimo pamphlet entitled Hymns for Believer's Baptism, to be sold this time not at her own house but at the Rev. Mr Kirkham's meeting house near Cripplegate.
qtd. in
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Ann Yearsley: 1786

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1786

AY bore the last of her children, Frederick, who died at a few weeks old.
Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, AMS Press, 2002, pp. 283-35.
320 and n58

Germaine de Staël: 1786

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1786

GS wrote a drama in verse, Sophie; ou, Les sentimens secrets; she followed this the next year with another verse play, Jane Gray, about the young English scholar and nine-days queen.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
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Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1786

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1786

Susanna Haswell married William Rowson . He was a musician (playing the trumpet for the Royal Horse Guards ) and sometimes an actor with Covent Garden Theatre , as well as dealing in hardware. He...

Anna Margaretta Larpent: 1786

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1786

AML gathered together and transcribed as A Methodized Journal the diary she had been keeping since 1773, in a single volume dedicated to her husband and her sister Clara, later Trail .
Feminist Companion Archive.
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998.
379

Sophia Lee: By 1786

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By 1786

SL and her sisters moved their school to bigger premises at Belvedere House, Lansdown Hill, Bath, placed high up with a fine view.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xxix

By January 1786: A book appeared entitled Dairying Exemplified;...

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By January 1786

A book appeared entitled Dairying Exemplified; or the Business of Cheese-making laid down from approved Rules, collected from the most experienced Dairy Women of several Counties.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
61 (1786): 78

1786: The first recorded advertising agent, William...

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1786

The first recorded advertising agent, William Taylor , announced his business in the opening issue of the Maidstone Journal.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
61-2, 64

1786: Maximilien Robespierre in Discours sur les...

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1786

Maximilien Robespierre in Discours sur les droits et les devoirs des bâtards sought to improve some of the civil rights of those born outside marriage, but denounced contraception as a secret crime against Nature.
Hecht, Jacqueline. “From ‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’ to Family Planning: The Enlightenment Transition”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1 June 1999–2026, pp. 536-51.
539 and n14

1786: William Gilpin published his highly influential...

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1786

William Gilpin published his highly influential Observations Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty . . . on Several Parts of England.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1786: An anonymous Country Farmer published an...

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1786

An anonymous Country Farmer published an analysis of the lives of farmers and farmers' wives before and after enclosure.
Neeson, J. M. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
23 and n26

By January 1786: Charles Wilkins' translation from Sanskrit...

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By January 1786

Charles Wilkins ' translation from Sanskrit of the Bhagvat Gita was published at the particular desire of Warren Hastings and by the authority of the court of directors of the East India Company .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
61 (1786): 1

1786: A committee was formed to provide relief...

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1786

A committee was formed to provide relief for London's black poor: 400 were helped in the first few months.
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
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1786: Valentin Haüy published at Paris his Essai...

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1786

Valentin Haüy published at Paris his Essai sur l'éducation des aveugles, the first book published for the blind.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
“Reading by Touch”. Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB): Publications Archive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1786: In France the internal use of a sponge for...

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1786

In France the internal use of a sponge for contraception received possibly its first mention in print: in a pornographic text, Le Rideau levé, ou l'éducation de Laure.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
138n

1786: Richard Payne Knight caused an outcry with...

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1786

Richard Payne Knight caused an outcry with his deliberately provocative Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, privately printed but strategically circulated.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
270
Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49.
249n54

1786: The Lady's Magazine or Entertaining Companion...

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1786

The Lady's Magazine or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex began to supply a monthly article on fashion.
Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Revised, Faber and Faber, 1981.
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