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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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Elizabeth Inchbald: 15 December 1787

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15 December 1787

EI 's five-act comedy All on a Summer's Day had its first production, at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1027

Mary Russell Mitford: 16 December 1787

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16 December 1787

MRM , an only child, was born at Alresford in Hampshire.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 193

Charlotte Forman: 23 December 1787

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23 December 1787

CF died in the parish of St Bride's, on Fleet Street in London, of unrecorded causes, at the age of seventy-two.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
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Maria Barrell: 1788

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1788

MB published with her name an indignant pamphlet, British Liberty Vindicated; or, A Delineation of the King's Bench.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Lady Eleanor Butler: 1788

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1788

Sarah Ponsonby made a plan of the house which she shared with Eleanor Butler (Plas Newydd, Llangollen), which shows the improvements they had made so far.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
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Hannah Cowley: 1788-9

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1788-9

HC spent most of the year before the Revolution living in France, in connection with the education of her daughters.
Cowley, Hannah. The Works of Mrs. Cowley: Dramas and Poems. Wilkie and Robinson, 1813, 3 vols.
1: xviii

Mary Wollstonecraft: 1788

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1788

MW published Of the Importance of Religious Opinions, a translation of Jacques Necker 's L'Importance des opinions religieuses.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: 1788

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1788

The publisher John Marshall issued Midsummer Holydays; or, A Long Story, an anonymous short novel for the improvement and entertainment of young folk, which later allusive title-pages link with the name of SSW .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mercy Otis Warren: 1788

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1788

MOW , as a Columbian patriot, published in Boston her pamphlet Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions.
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
254
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Sarah Trimmer: January 1788-June 1789

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January 1788-June 1789

ST published The Family Magazine; or, A Repository of Religious Instruction, and Rational Amusement . . ., which was collected in three volumes during the same years.
Avery, Gillian et al. “Selected Bibliography: Sarah Trimmer”. Fabulous Histories; and, The Dairyman’s Daughter, edited by Justin G. Schiller et al., Garland Publishing, 1977, p. xiv - xvi.
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Mary Tighe: 1788

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1788

Mary Blachford (later MT ) became involved in what her mother called a foolish and violent passion
Tighe, Mary. The Works of Mary Tighe, Published and Unpublished. Editor Henchy, Patrick, No. 6, Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 1957.
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for her cousin Henry Tighe .
Tighe, Mary. The Works of Mary Tighe, Published and Unpublished. Editor Henchy, Patrick, No. 6, Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 1957.
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Anne Steele: 1788

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1788

Ten years after her death the first edition appeared of Verses for Children by AS . This is now known from two surviving copies, one in the Bodleian Library and one in the Steele Collection...

Germaine de Staël: 1788

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1788

GS released a limited edition of Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau (Letters on the Works and Character of Jean-Jacques Rousseau).
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
118

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1788

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1788

Mary Martha Butt (later MMS ) and her family moved from Stanford to Kidderminster, also in Worcestershire.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
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Anna Seward: 1788

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1788

AS penned a poem she called Eyam, reminiscent of Goldsmith 's The Deserted Village, about a visit back to her birthplace.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
99-100

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1788

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1788

SHR 's anonymous A Trip to Parnassus; or, The Judgment of Apollo on dramatic authors and performers. A Poem has only recently been attributed to her with definiteness.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Vail, Robert William Glenroie. Susanna Haswell Rowson, the Author of Charlotte Temple: a bibliographical study. American Antiquarian Society, 1933.
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Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1788

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1788

SHR published Poems on Various Subjects, with her name, a preface, and title-page mention of her most recent prose work.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols.
7: 88

Mary Prince: About 1788

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About 1788

MP was born at Brackish Pond in Bermuda; she had five younger brothers and sisters.
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
47-8

Hester Lynch Piozzi: January 1788

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January 1788

HLP , at about forty-three, had another miscarriage.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
312

Hester Lynch Piozzi: January 1788

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January 1788

While visiting Bath, HLP met Sophia and Harriet Lee .
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
312

Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: 1 January 1788

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1 January 1788

ESG , in the Fleet Prison , dated the preface to An Appeal to the Public, to which she signed her full name: Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real Gooch.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Elizabeth Moody: From 1788

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From 1788

EM and her husband (probably residents before this at Kingston upon Thames in Surrey) lived for some years at Surbiton Farm, Surbiton, in the same county.
Moody, Elizabeth. Poetic Trifles. Cadell and Davies, 1798.
prelims

Hannah More: By 1788

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By 1788

HM joined the boycott against slave-grown sugar, and promoted it with her usual energy.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
84

Hannah More: January 1788

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January 1788

HM was working on her Slavery: A Poem, her contribution to the slave trade debate, published this year.
Roberts, William, 1767 - 1849. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More. 4th ed., L. and G. Seeley, 1836, 2 vols., http://Rutherford HSS.
1: 396

Adelaide O'Keeffe: 1788

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1788

On her return from schooling in France, AOK began working as amanuensis to her father , then at the height of his fame.
Link, Frederick M., and John O’Keeffe. “Introduction”. The Plays of John O’Keeffe, edited by Frederick M. Link and Frederick M. Link, Garland, 1981, p. 1: x - lix.
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