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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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Ann Yearsley: By March 1788

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By March 1788

AY , apparently in response to and in competition with Hannah More 's poem on the same subject, published A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade.
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.
295-6
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
65 (1788): 314

Maria De Fleury: After February 1788

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After February 1788

MDF issued with her name A Serious Address to the Rev. Mr. Huntington ; Containing Some Remarks on his Sermon, Entitled The Servant of the Lord, described and vindicated. It also gathers polemical letters...

Charlotte Smith: April 1788

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April 1788

CS 's first novel was published: Emmeline, The Orphan of the Castle, begun in 1787.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiii

4 April 1788: At about the time that he lost his religious...

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4 April 1788

At about the time that he lost his religious faith, William Godwin began keeping a diary, which he continued almost daily until 26 March 1836, only two weeks before he died.
Clemit, Patricia. “William Godwin’s Papers in the Abinger Deposit: An Unmapped Country”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xviii
, No. 3, Apr. 2004, pp. 253-63.
254-6, 258-9

Eglinton Wallace: 8 April 1788

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8 April 1788

EW 's second comedy, The Ton; or, Follies of Fashion, opened at Covent Garden the season after her first. It was printed, without revision, by May the same year.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
404
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wallace, Eglinton. The Ton, or Follies of Fashion. A Comedy. T, Hookham, 1788.
iv

Mary Delany: 15 April 1788

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15 April 1788

MD died of pneumonia at Windsor.
Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum, 1986.
169-70

Susanna Haswell Rowson: April 1788

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April 1788

Calling herself Mrs. Rowson, author of Victoria, SHR published a novel which is actually a work of interestingly mixed genre (satirical essay material on a slender narrative thread): The Inquisitor; or, Invisible Rambler.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 447

Elizabeth Hervey, 1748 - 1820: : 22 April 1788

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22 April 1788

Elizabeth Hervey 's anonymous first book, Melissa and Marcia; or, the Sisters: A Novel, issued by William Lane with a quotation from Akenside on its title-page, was advertised as published.
Garside, Peter. “The English Novel in the Romantic Era: Consolidation and Dispersal”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 2: 15 - 103.
1: 441
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
65 (1788): 466

Elizabeth Inchbald: 29 April 1788

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29 April 1788

EI 's farce or comedy Animal Magnetism (advertised on 23 April, but postponed) came on at Covent Garden, accompanying Frances Brooke 's Rosina.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1059, 1060

Anna Maria Falconbridge: By May 1788

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By May 1788

Before she married him, Alexander Falconbridge , AMF 's future husband, published a pro-slave-trade Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa, before developing a violent dislike for the trade.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
1st ser. 65 (1788): 399
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
xv

Elizabeth Gunning: By May 1788

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By May 1788

EG was already rumoured to be engaged to her cousin the Marquess of Lorne , heir to her uncle the Duke of Argyll ; Lorne, like her, was not yet twenty.
He later became a...

May 1788: The Analytical Review: or history of literature...

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May 1788

The Analytical Review: or history of literature domestic and foreign began publication, edited by Thomas Christie and published by Joseph Johnson .
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.

Caroline Herschel : 8 May 1788

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8 May 1788

CH 's brother William , with whom she had lived as housekeeper and assistant since 1772, married a widow named Mary Pitt , effectively rendering his sister homeless and in part unemployed.
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
160-1

Mary Scott: 9 May 1788

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9 May 1788

MS finally married John Taylor ; they had waited something like fourteen years to marry, until after the death of Scott's mother, either because of her illness or because of her disapproval.
Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol.
6 vols.
, A. Constable, 1811, 6 vols.
2: 88-9, 118

Susanna Blamire: 13 May 1788

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13 May 1788

SB composed On the Dangerous Illness of my Friend Mrs. L. (who was probably Jane Law ) at a date when she herself was ill too.
Blamire, Susanna. The Poetical Works. Woodstock Books, 1994.
113-16

Sarah Pearson : 21 May 1788

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21 May 1788

SP dated the poem which seems to have been her first to appear in print: Sonnet to Painting, which was published under the pseudonym of Angelina in the Sheffield Register on 7 June 1788.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. 16 May 2016.

Frances Brooke: 22 May 1788

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22 May 1788

Marian, FB 's second musical, also set by Shields , began an excellent run (though less phenomenal than Rosina's) at Covent Garden .
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
381

Mary Wollstonecraft: By June 1788

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By June 1788

Joseph Johnson published MW 's anonymous Original Stories from Real Life, designed for children.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Editor Poston, Carol H., 2nd edition, Norton, 1988.
358
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
65 (1788): 569

Jane West: By June 1788

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By June 1788

JW anonymously published a poem entitled The Humours of Brighthelmstone.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
65 (1788): 483

Mary Scott: By June 1788

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By June 1788

MS published at Bath, with her name, Messiah, A Poem in Two Parts, for the benefit of the BathGeneral Hospital .
The posthumous Poems and Essays of Jane Bowdler had appeared in print...

Elizabeth Hamilton: Early 1788

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Early 1788

EH came south to London on a visit to her brother (who had extended leave from India to enable him to translate into English the Islamic code of laws).
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols.
1: 110
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Maria Riddell : 11 April 1788

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11 April 1788

Maria Woodley (later MR ) sailed from Portsmouth with her family bound for a visit to the Caribbean (the source of the family income).
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
6

11 June 1788: George III, at the resort town of Cheltenham,...

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11 June 1788

George III , at the resort town of Cheltenham, publicly suffered preliminary symptoms leading up to his second attack of porphyria, which began on 17 October.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
3
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
329, 342

Ann Yearsley: 12 June 1788

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12 June 1788

AY added thirty-eight extra lines in ink to her poem Addressed to Friendship in a copy of her Poems, on Various Subjects (published in 1787), directing the new lines to her patron Wilmer Gossip .
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.
291

: A series of articles in The Times alleged...

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Summer 1788

A series of articles in The Times alleged that female boarding schools on the outskirts of London were being managed by bawds for the training of prostitutes.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
28, 29, 116