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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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Maria De Fleury: April 1787

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April 1787

During this month MDF began to exchange argumentative letters with an eccentric Antinomian preacher, the Rev. William Huntington .
De Fleury, Maria. A Serious Address to the Rev. Mr. Huntington. T. Wilkins, 1788.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: By April 1787

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Author event in Mary Wollstonecraft

By April 1787

MW 's Thoughts on the Education of Daughters reached print.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
63 (1787): 287

Elizabeth Helme: By April 1787

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By April 1787

EH 's first, anonymous novel, Louisa; or, The Cottage on the Moor, remained one of her most successful works.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
63 (1787): 308

April 1787: Probably at least three hundred and fifty...

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April 1787

Probably at least three hundred and fifty blacks sailed from London for Sierra Leone to found a free black colony; they arrived in the middle of the following month.
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.
108
Crooks, John Joseph. A History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, Western Africa. Metro Books, 1972.
foreword, 364

Charlotte Smith: 15 April 1787

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15 April 1787

CS separated from her husband; he, hounded by creditors, soon returned to France.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
87
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiii
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
123-6
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xix - xxix.
xxii

Mariana Starke: By May 1787

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By May 1787

A version of children's plays by Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis , The Theatre of Education. A New Translation from the French, appears to be the anonymous work of MS and the little-known Millecent Thomas (formerly Parkhurst).
Dow, Gillian. “The British Reception of Madame de Genlis’s Writings for Children: Plays and Tales of Instruction and Delight”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 3, 2006, pp. 367-81.
369
Pitcher, Edward W. “Mariana Starke and Millecent Thomas: Early Translators of Genliss Le théâtre à lusage des jeunes personnes (1779-1780)Notes and Queries, Vol.
45 (243)
, No. 1, Mar. 1988, pp. 81-2.
81-2

Clara Reeve: May 1787

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May 1787

CR lost the manuscript of a completed novel, Castle Connor, An Irish Story, by leaving it behind on a stage coach.
Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977.
xxi

1 May 1787: William Lane advertised in the Leeds Intelligencer...

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1 May 1787

William Lane advertised in the Leeds Intelligencer his ready-made package for launching a circulating library: he could provide a stock of books at any price from twenty to five hundred pounds to float such a...

13 May 1787: The first boatload of convicts sentenced...

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13 May 1787

The first boatload of convicts sentenced to transportation, numbering 778, set sail from England for a new penal colony in in Australia, which was founded at Botany Bay.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
251
Smith, Babette. A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal. New South Wales University Press, 1988.
32
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Arthur Phillip

14 May 1787: The first settlers (perhaps sixty people...

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14 May 1787

The first settlers (perhaps sixty people of European descent and between three and four hundred blacks) arrived from England in Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Crooks, John Joseph. A History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, Western Africa. Metro Books, 1972.
foreword, 364
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.
108

Henrietta Battier: 21 May 1787

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21 May 1787

Polly Pindar, who may be HB , signed the Mousiad's preface, To the Reviewers, at Ipswich, Suffolk.
Battier, Henrietta. The Mousiad. P. Byrne, 1787.
prelims

22 May 1787: The Society for the Abolition of the Slave...

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22 May 1787

The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded in London, by Granville Sharp , Thomas Clarkson , and ten more, of whom nine were Quakers .
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xii
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
83
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.
109
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Wilberforce

Eglinton Wallace: After June 1787

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After June 1787

EW made an early venture into print by contributing to the controversy swirling around Goethe 's Werter: A Letter to a Friend, with a Poem called, The Ghost of Werter.
Wallace, Eglinton. A Letter to a Friend, with a Poem called, The Ghost of Werter. T. Hookham, 1787.
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Eglinton Wallace: By June 1787

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By June 1787

EW 's comedy in two acts, Diamond Cut Diamond, was published; it was never staged.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
473

June 1787: Thomas Bellamy launched The General Magazine...

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June 1787

Thomas Bellamy launched The General Magazine and Impartial Review, which continued with variations in subtitle until December 1792.
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah, and Thomas Bellamy. “Biographical Particulars of the Author”. The Beggar Boy, Earle and Hemet, 1801, p. 1: i - xxxvi.
xxiii, xxvii, xxxvii

June 1787: The Botanical Magazine: or flower garden...

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June 1787

The Botanical Magazine: or flower garden displayed began publication, edited by William Curtis and addressing itself to ladies, gentlemen, and gardeners seeking scientific knowledge of the plants they grew.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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June 1787: A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers...

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June 1787

A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers in this and the previous month noted a growing attention in many not of our religious society to the subject of Negro slavery.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
57 (1787): 721-2

1 June 1787: A Royal Proclamation against vice laid the...

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1 June 1787

A Royal Proclamation against vice laid the first foundation for the Society for the Suppression of Vice , founded in 1802.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Beilby Porteus

By 2 June 1787: Elizabeth Steele published The Memoirs of...

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By 2 June 1787

Elizabeth Steele published The Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley, an actress famed for her beauty and her singing voice, who had been, intermittently, a long-term friend and associate of Steele and had died the...

7 June 1787: The Times (not yet using its final and best-known...

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7 June 1787

The Times (not yet using its final and best-known title) reported an attack by prostitutes on two respectable young women coming home from the theatre with their father.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
119-20

20 June 1787: Actor John Palmer briefly opened the first...

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20 June 1787

Actor John Palmer briefly opened the first new London theatre since 1732: the Royalty in Well Street.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 911-12, 986

Frances Brooke: July 1787

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July 1787

FB commemorated her actress friend and colleague with Authentic Memoirs of Mrs. Yates in the Gentleman's Magazine.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
57 (1787): 585-9

Sarah Harriet Burney: From July 1787

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From July 1787

SHB lived in apartments at the Royal Hospital , Chelsea, where her father had been appointed organist.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
xxxiv

Catharine Macaulay: June 1787

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June 1787

CM 's daughter, Catherine Sophia, married Captain George Gregory : she had three children by the date of her mother's death.
Hill, Bridget. “Daughter and Mother: Some new light on Catharine Macaulay and her family”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
22
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1999, pp. 35-49.
46
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
124

July 1787: Martha Shakespeare Lloyd sent the last of...

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July 1787

Martha Shakespeare Lloyd sent the last of her series of letters written to her husband and son from a private madhouse run by the Monroe family.
Percy, Carol. “’Why Did They Invent the Word ’I’ If We Are Never to Make Use of It?’: Writing from the Eighteenth-Century Private Asylum”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 17 Mar. 2001.