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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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Hannah Cowley: 10 July 1787-26 May 1788

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10 July 1787-26 May 1788

HC 's poems to Della Crusca (Robert Merry ), written as Anna Matilda, appeared in Edward Topham 's The World, or Fashionable Advertiser, interspersed with Merry's replies.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XVI: Hannah Cowley 1743-1809”. The Book Collector, Vol.
7
, 1958, pp. 68-76.
75

Charlotte Smith: Mid 1787

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Mid 1787

CS published another translation, The Romance of Real Life, from Causes Célèbres, 1736, by François Gayot de Pitaval , about notorious criminal trials (many of marital causes).
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 413

Ann Yearsley: 21 July 1787

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21 July 1787

AY published, by subscription instead of with direct aid from patrons, Poems, on Various Subjects.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
133

By August 1787: The Rev. John Howlett published Enclosures,...

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By August 1787

The Rev. John Howlett published Enclosures, a Cause of Improved Agriculture, of Plenty and Cheapness of Provisions, of Population, and of both Private and National Wealth.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
64 (1787): 157

Elizabeth Hands: 8 August 1787

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8 August 1787

EH 's second daughter was baptised, and given her maternal grandmother's name of Ann.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Young, Mary Julia : 21 August 1787

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21 August 1787

MJY composed and dated a poem apparently unpublished until 1795, The Natal Day. To a Westminster Scholar, at Windsor, during the Autumn Recess.
Young, Mary Julia. Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches: with Other Poems on Various Subjects. M. D. Symonds, N. Lee, and J. Gray, 1795.
32

Anna Letitia Barbauld: September 1787

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September 1787

After moving to Hampstead with her husband , ALB began taking in private (female) pupils.
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.
101-2
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
266

Mary Wollstonecraft: Late 1787-August 1792

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Late 1787-August 1792

MW was unhappily in love with the brilliant and eccentric Swiss artist Fuseli .
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
112, 151

20 September 1787: The Duchess of Rutland successfully outbid...

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20 September 1787

The Duchess of Rutland successfully outbid Lord Tyrconnel , her local rival in the exercise of political patronage.
Chalus, Elaine. “’That epidemical Madness’: women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth century”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 151-78.
161-2

Elizabeth Cobbold: By October 1787

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By October 1787

EC (as Eliza Knipe) published Six Narrative Poems by subscription, at London, dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
64 (1787): 308

Maria Edgeworth: By October 1787

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By October 1787

ME wrote another early short story, The Bracelets.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
155
Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 75-93.
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Caroline Herschel : October 1787

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October 1787

CH received (and revelled in) a royal grant of fifty pounds a year for her astronomical labours (as William 's assistant): the first money I ever in all my lifetime thought myself to be at...

Anna Maria Mackenzie: By 10 October 1787

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By 10 October 1787

The widowed Anna Maria Cox (later Mackenzie) had married her second husband, whose name was Johnson; she received payment from the publisher G. G. J. and J. Robinson on this date as Anna Maria Johnson...

Elizabeth Meeke: 24 October 1787

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24 October 1787

Samuel and Elizabeth Meeke filed legal documents of separation, according to which Elizabeth was to be permitted to live in such sort as if she were sole and unmarried.
qtd. in
Macdonald, Simon. “Identifying Mrs Meeke: Another Burney Family Novelist”. Review of English Studies, Oxford University Press, 8 Feb. 2013.

William Wordsworth: October 1787-June 1790

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October 1787-June 1790

WW attended the College of the Evangelist St John at Cambridge.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 89, 124

Anne Francis: Late 1787

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Late 1787

AF changed publishers from Dodsley to Becket when she added to the voices raised in response to Goethe in Charlotte to Werther. A Poetical Epistle.
Francis, Anne. Charlotte to Werther. A Poetical Epistle. T. Becket, 1787.
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Harriet Lee: 10 November 1787

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10 November 1787

HL 's comedy The New Peerage; or, Our Eyes may Deceive Us opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1019

Anne Burke: November 1787

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November 1787

AB 's second novel, the single-volume Ela; or, The Delusions of the Heart, A Tale, Founded on Facts, was highly successful, judging from the number of editions which followed the first.
The term Founded...

Maria De Fleury: 27 November 1787

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27 November 1787

MDF dated A Letter to the Rev. Mr. [William] Huntington (her first attack on him), which reached, according to its title-pages, a second and third edition the same year.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Helme: By 27 November 1787

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By 27 November 1787

EH 's second novel (and her second this year), the epistolary Clara and Emmeline; or, The Maternal Benediction, appeared as by the author of Louisa, bearing the next year's date.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 440

Phebe Gibbes: By December 1787

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By December 1787

Francis Noble published for his circulating library PG 's three-volume The Niece; or, The History of Sukey Thornby. A Novel, with a date of 1788 on the title-page.
The Gentleman's Magazine gives the title...

Elizabeth Inchbald: By December 1787

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By December 1787

EI 's The Midnight Hour, translated from Guerre ouverte, by Antoine-Jean Bourlin (better known as Dumaniant), was published after a production at Covent Garden .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
64 (1787): 479
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
192

Anne Burke: About 11 December 1787

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About 11 December 1787

AB 's third book, Emilia de St. Aubigne, A Novel, appeared as by the Author of Ela; or, The Delusions of the Heart, with 1788 on its title-page.
The character-name in the title...

Charles Cowden Clarke: 15 December 1787

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15 December 1787

CCC , scholar and critic, was born at Enfield in Middlesex.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Olaudah Equiano: 15 December 1787

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15 December 1787

As a founding member of the Sons of Africa , OE (as Gustavus Vassa) participated with nine others in the composition of an address of thanks to Granville Sharp for his work on behalf...