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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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Sarah Trimmer: By September 1786

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By September 1786

ST published The Servant's Friend, a tale of virtue rewarded, designed for very young servants.
This title had already been used around 1780 for a set of maxims
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
in a book designed to be...

Phebe Gibbes: Late 1786

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Late 1786

The anonymous Zoraida; or, Village Annals. A Novel appeared; though the English Short Title Catalogue and other sources ascribe it to Anne Hughes , PG later told the Royal Literary Fund she had written it.
Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 14-117.
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Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 380

28 September 1786: A hostile and sexually suggestive cartoon...

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28 September 1786

A hostile and sexually suggestive cartoon was published, depicting Mrs Fitzherbert dispensing venereal remedies to the Prince of Wales .
Merians, Linda E. “Introduction”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 1-12.
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Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: October 1786

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October 1786

ESG was sentenced to prison in Lille; she remained there for two months.
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. An Appeal to the Public. G. Kearsley, 1788.
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Martha Hale: 13 October 1786

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13 October 1786

MH composed what is from a feminist point of view one of her most interesting poems, To Mrs. Moore , on the birth of the first child ever born in Lambeth Palace.
Hale, Martha. Poetical Attempts. T. Davison, 1800.
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Mary Scott: 20 October 1786

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20 October 1786

MS penned Verses Occasioned by the Death of Jonas Hanway , Esq. (who had died on 5 September), and sent them to the Gentleman's Magazine.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1786): 1143-4

22 October 1786: The Royal Society heard a paper on the practice...

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22 October 1786

The Royal Society heard a paper on the practice of measuring babies' birthweights: for the first time in Britain, at a Dublin Lying-in Hospital.
Williams, Carolyn. “The Absurdity of the Ideas of Obstetric Writers: Birth Weight in A Modest ProposalThe Scriblerian, Vol.
xxvii
, No. 2, Department of English, Temple University, 1 Mar.–31 May 1995, pp. 121-3.
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Melesina Trench: 31 October 1786

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31 October 1786

Melesina Chenevix , still in her teens, married Colonel Richard St George , who had family estates in County Leitrim. Their early months together were for her a kind of pleasing dream.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Second edition, revised, Parker and Bourn, 1862.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: November 1786

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November 1786

MW was employed as governess by Lord and Lady Kingsborough : at Mitchelstown near Cork in Ireland, and in Dublin.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
60, 64, 82-3

Mary Wollstonecraft: Late autumn 1786-August 1787

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Late autumn 1786-August 1787

While employed as governess to Lord and Lady Kingsborough , MW worked on and completed a draft of her first novel, Mary.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Sarah Trimmer: By November 1786

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By November 1786

ST published The Two Farmers, an Exemplary Tale, as a sequel to The Servant's Friend. It bore the date of 1787.
Heath, Pauline. The works of Mrs. Trimmer (1742-1810). Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
63 (1787): 79

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : 7 November 1786-April 1787

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7 November 1786-April 1787

The publisher Thomas Hookham thus dated The Pharos. A Collection of Periodical Essays, issued by LMH as by the Author of Constance (often misascribed to the future Eliza Kirkham Mathews ).
Fergus, Jan. “Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins’s Anonymous Novels Identified”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
54
, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 152-6.
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Caroline Herschel : 9 November 1786

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9 November 1786

CH 's An Account of a New Comet (her recent discovery) was read for her at a meeting of the Royal Society . The account was printed by John Nichols as a pamphlet the following year.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore: 10 November 1786

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10 November 1786

The second husband of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , brutally abducted her in the heart of London, to imprison her at Streatlam Castle in Stainton, County Durham (seat of the Bowes family).
Arnold, Ralph. The Unhappy Countess and her Grandson John Bowes. Constable, 1957.
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Sarah Trimmer: 19 November 1786

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19 November 1786

ST went to advise Queen Charlotte , who wished to establish Sunday Schools in Windsor.
Trimmer, Sarah. Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer. F.C and J. Rivington and J. Johnson, and J. Hatchard, 1814, 2 vols.
1: 120

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore: 20 November 1786

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20 November 1786

The Universal Register (later The Times) printed a letter from Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , to Lord Mansfield , the Chief Justice, of 10 November, before her recent abduction by her estranged husband .
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006.
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Hannah Cowley: 25 November 1786

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25 November 1786

HC 's comedy A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride opened at Covent Garden . Its subtitle, confusingly, is the same as the title of William Congreve 's only tragedy, The Mourning Bride, 1697.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 934

Ann Yearsley: 25 November 1786

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25 November 1786

Felix Farley's Bristol Journal carried an advertisement for AY 's forthcoming Poems, on Various Subjects, backed by illustrious Personages
qtd. in
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.
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to replace her earlier, unjust patrons.
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.
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Robert Burns: Late November 1786

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Late November 1786

RB arrived in Edinburgh on his first visit; he stayed for six months.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Bonhote: By December 1786

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By December 1786

EB turned to William Lane (who in 1790 was to rename his press Minerva ) to issue, without her name but with mention of her previous works, a novel in three volumes entitled Olivia; or...

Henrietta Maria Bowdler: Probably late 1786

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Probably late 1786

HMB 's first work for publication was probably the editing of her late sister Jane 's Poems and Essays, by a Lady lately Deceased.
An obituary of HMB in the Gentleman's Magazine seems...

Grace Elliott: By the end of 1786

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By the end of 1786

GE moved back again from London to Paris, apparently this time intending to make it her permanent base.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Caroline Bowles: 6 December 1786

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6 December 1786

The future poet CB was born, an only child, at Buckland Manor near Lymington in Hampshire.
Scholar Virginia Blain discusses the confusion surrounding CB 's date and place of birth. The various dates given...

8 December 1786: The Times (not yet using its final and best-known...

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8 December 1786

The Times (not yet using its final and best-known title) attributed the alleged rise in the number of prostitutes to the male takeover of traditionally female jobs (for example, milliner, dress-maker, stay-maker, and so on)....

Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins: About 19 December 1786

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About 19 December 1786

EST 's second novel, The Victim of Fancy, published as by a Lady, appeared, post-dated 1787. It was epistolary and highly sentimental, composed in response to the cult of Goethe 's (translated) The Sorrows of Werter.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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