Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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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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10 May 1786: The Times (not yet using its final and best-known...
10 May 1786
The Times (not yet using its final and best-known title) published the first of a three-year series of accounts complaining of the high numbers of prostitutes, especially child prostitutes.
Leah Sumbel: 11 May 1786
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11 May 1786
Mary Wells (later
) played for her own benefit in Small Talk; or The
Boy, a farce by her lover
; the theatre was closed by a riot.
Hannah Cowley: 30 May 1786
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30 May 1786
's The Scottish Village: or, Pitcairne Green. A Poem was published in two separate issues, one with the title-page dated 1787.
Charlotte Smith: Spring 1786
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Spring 1786
published a two-volume translation, Manon L'Eescaut, or, The Fatal Attachment, from the abbé
's novel of 1731 (revised 1753). She had made her version in Normandy; it may have first appeared...
Ann Taylor Gilbert: June 1786
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June 1786
Ann Taylor (later
) and her
Jane, still very young, left London with their parents for Lavenham in Suffolk.
Anna Maria Mackenzie: By June 1786
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By June 1786
A Mrs Johnson (author of Juliana and The Platonic Guardian, who was not
), published Francis, The Philanthropist: An Unfashionable Tale, in three volumes through...
June 1786: In France, Gracchus Babeuf (formerly known...
June 1786
In France,
(formerly known by his baptismal name of François-Noël Babeuf) drafted a letter expressing strong views on the slavery of wives, the need for marriage reforms, and women's education.
Susanna Blamire: 4 June 1786
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4 June 1786
In a poem composed at Thackwood entitled Written on a Gloomy day, in Sickness,
likened herself to a dying plant with drooping head.
7 June 1786: During the absence abroad of William Beckford,...
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7 June 1786
During the absence abroad of
, his tutor
anonymously published his own English translation of Vathek, an Oriental gothic tale which Beckford had originally written in French.
Phebe Gibbes: June 1786
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Author event in Phebe Gibbes
June 1786
published anonymously Elfrida; or, Paternal Ambition. A Novel.
Sarah Trimmer: 18 June 1786
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18 June 1786
The Sunday School set up by
at Brentford for poor children opened its doors.
Elizabeth Inchbald: 20 June 1786
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20 June 1786
The Widow's Vow, an afterpiece adapted by
, had its first performance, following
's Jane Shore at the
: it was published the same year.
Anna Letitia Barbauld: July 1786
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July 1786
and her
embarked on a series of lodgings in London before settling in Hampstead.
Helen Maria Williams: By July 1786
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Author event in Helen Maria Williams
By July 1786
published her Poems, with about 1570 subscribers, dedicated to
.
The British Library Catalogue on-line lists two volumes of separately-issued Sonnets, 11644.bb.10 and 011604.ee.65, no date or details given.
Caroline Frances Cornwallis : 12 July 1786
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Mary Robinson: 14 July 1786
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Frances Burney: 17 July 1786
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17 July 1786
betook herself, with a visit en route to
, to begin her work as Keeper of the Robes to
.
Maria Barrell: 22 July 1786
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22 July 1786
According to another plea by
to the Commissioners for American Loyalists , she arrived in the
debtors' prison in London on this day, having been arrested for debt. When she published her...
Eliza Fletcher: From 23 July 1786
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From 23 July 1786
Eliza Dawson (later
) kept a sentimental journal of the first of her many tours in the Highlands of Scotland.
31 July 1786: Robert Burns published his Poems, Chiefly...
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31 July 1786
published his Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect at Kilmarnock in Ayrshire in an edition of 612 copies.
2 August 1786: A working-class woman named Margaret Nicholson...
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2 August 1786
A working-class woman named
tried to stab
with a knife outside St James's Palace; she had no political motive.
Caroline Herschel : 3 August 1786, 1 a.m.
Author event in Caroline Herschel
3 August 1786, 1 a.m.
Under clearing skies
confirmed that a celestial object first spotted the night before was indeed a comet. She did not go to rest until she had shared her discovery with
and
20 August 1786: Calonne, French Finance Minister, informed...
National or international item
20 August 1786
, French Finance Minister, informed
that the state was in financial crisis and submitted proposals for economic reforms to him.
Mary Wollstonecraft: Autumn 1786
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Autumn 1786
Having been forced to close her own school,
finished writing her Thoughts on the Education of Daughters.
Jane West: By September 1786
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By September 1786
published, with her name listed as Mrs. West, Miscellaneous Poetry . . . Written at an early Period of Life.