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.

6801 - 6825 of 43197

Search by

-
Event origin
Event type

Susanna Haswell Rowson: December 1786

Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson

December 1786

SHR issued by subscription her first novel, Victoria, dedicated to her possible employer (or ex-employer) Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , published for the author.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 388-9

Maria Edgeworth: Christmas 1786

Women writers item
Author event in Maria Edgeworth

Christmas 1786

The Edgeworth family acted, for visitors, ME 's comedy The Double Disguise, which remained unprinted until 2014. Edgeworth herself performed as a servant named (after a character in Johnson 's Idler) Betty Broom.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
152
Russo, Stephanie. “The Double Disguise”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
22
, No. 4, Nov. 2015, pp. 531-3.
531

Sarah Murray : Christmas Day 1786

Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Murray

Christmas Day 1786

SM 's first husband, William Murray , died after only three years of apparently childless marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Austen: 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Jane Austen

1787

The eleven-year-old JAbegan to devote her spare time to writing.
Austen-Leigh, William, and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh. Jane Austen: A Family Record. Editor Le Faye, Deirdre, British Library, 1989.
63

John Burke: 12 November 1786

Writing climate item
Author event in John Burke

12 November 1786

JB , genealogist and heraldic writer, was born at Parsonstown in Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Trimmer: 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Trimmer

1787

ST set up a trade school where girls learned to spin flax.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

Sarah Trimmer: 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Trimmer

1787

ST published, with her name, The Œconomy of Charity, a practical guide to setting up and running Sunday schools, specifically addressed to women.
Trimmer, Sarah. The Œconomy of Charity. T. Longman, 1787.
title-page

Leah Sumbel: By 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Leah Sumbel

By 1787

Mary Wells (later LS ) was making a stage speciality of sketches of other actresses.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.

Leah Sumbel: 1 January 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Leah Sumbel

1 January 1787

Edward Topham , lover of Mary Wells (later LS ), launched a newspaper, The World, and Fashionable Advertiser, which she helped manage, edit, and write.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Edward Topham

Charlotte Smith: By about 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Smith

By about 1787

CS was suffering from the rheumatism which plagued her for the rest of her life with pain and increasing immobility.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, edited by Judith Phillips Stanton, Indiana University Press, 2003, p. i - xlv.
8

Hannah More: 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Hannah More

1787

By the time of its ninth edition, HM 's A Search after Happiness had sold 10,000 copies.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
15

1787: Manchester fustian manufacturers confirmed...

National or international item

1787

Manchester fustian manufacturers confirmed that cottons from Surat in India would fetch almost twice the price of West Indian cotton on the English market.
Mackay, David. In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science and Empire, 1780-1801. Croom Helm, 1985.
146-9

1787: John Wesley, debating how far to take the...

Building item

1787

John Wesley , debating how far to take the Methodists in the direction of Evangelicism , talked over the issue by letter with John Newton , ex-slave-captain and leading Evangelical.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
89 and n37

January 1787: Newspapers advertised the publication of...

Writing climate item

January 1787

Newspapers advertised the publication of Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI ,Edward IV and Richard III by Various Persons of Rank or Consequence, generally titled The Paston Letters.
Stoker, David. ’Innumerable letters of good consequence in history’: The Discovery and First Publication of the Paston Letters. http://users.aber.ac.uk/das/texts/pastart.htm.

1787: The world's leading iron works opened at...

Building item

1787

The world's leading iron works opened at the coal-mining centre of Blaenavon in South Wales; it had the longest extant tunnel and connected to the most extensive canal system.
Bruxelles, Simon de. “Church bells ring for a proud Welsh town”. Edmonton Journal, 1 Dec. 2000, p. A3.
A3

1787: Ottobah Cugoano published Thoughts and Sentiments...

Writing climate item

1787

Ottobah Cugoano published Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1787: John Cary published by subscription his New...

Building item

1787

John Cary published by subscription his New and Correct English Atlas, the first effectively designed and clearly legible mapping of the country.
Winchester, Simon. The Map that Changed the World. HarperCollins, 2001.
140
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.

1787: In France, Condorcet published Lettres d'un...

Building item

1787

In France, Condorcet published Lettres d'un bourgeois de Newhaven, which makes a serious and straightforward case for full civil rights for women, including suffrage.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
132

Ann Radcliffe: 15 January 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Ann Radcliffe

15 January 1787

Ann Ward married journalist William Radcliffe at St Michael's Church, Bath; he was later editor of The English Chronicle.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
54, 56

Elizabeth Inchbald: 10 February 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald

10 February 1787

Such Things Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 952

Mary Wollstonecraft: March 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Wollstonecraft

March 1787

MW was ill with a nervous complaint.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
79-80

Helen Maria Williams: March 1787

Writing climate item
Author event in Helen Maria Williams

March 1787

The European Magazine printed a poem On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress: the first publication of the schoolboy William Wordsworth .
Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints, 1977.
191-2

Sophia Lee: By March 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Sophia Lee

By March 1787

SL published a ballad, A Hermit's Tale, dedicated to Richard Brinsley Sheridan .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
63 (1787): 220

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 10 March 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Hester Lynch Piozzi

10 March 1787

HLP arrived back in England after her Grand Tour with her new husband.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
293

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Late March 1787

Women writers item
Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld

Late March 1787

ALB and her husband moved to Hampstead when Rochemont was invited to minister to the Dissenting congregation of the chapel at Red Lion Hill.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xliv
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
98
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
260