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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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Sarah Josepha Hale: 24 October 1788

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24 October 1788

Sarah Josepha Buell (later SJH ), US writer, editor, and encyclopedist, was born at Newport, New Hampshire, the third of four children in her family.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Jane West: By November 1788

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By November 1788

JW published anonymously (as a Lady) with Hookham the first two volumes of her first novel, The Twin Sisters; or, the Effects of Education.
Bibliographers James Raven and Antonia Forster leave this work...

Lucy Hutton: Late 1788

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Late 1788

LH 's Six Sermonicles; or, Discourses on the Punishment of Eve were posthumously and anonymously published at Kendal in Westmorland.
The title-page lay-out makes it hard to decide whether the title should be given...

Harriet Lee: By November 1788

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By November 1788

Hester Lynch Piozzi became a particularly close friend of HL within a year of their first meeting.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xxxii-xxxiii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...

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5 November 1788-10 March 1789

George III 's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales .
Foreman, Amanda. “A politician’s politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the Whig party”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 179-04.
188-9
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Hands: 24 November 1788

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24 November 1788

Jopson's Coventry Mercury advertised the subscription for EH 's The Death of Amnon; it advertised the volume itself on 21 September 1789.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Inchbald: 28 November 1788

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28 November 1788

EI 's The Child of Nature, an adaptation of de Genlis written in ten days, opened.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1114
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
36

Hannah Cowley: By December 1788

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By December 1788

The Poetry of Anna Matilda (that is of HC ) was collected in volume form.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
66 (1788): 536

Mary Robinson: December 1788

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December 1788

MR began her poetical correspondence with Robert Merry , who signed himself Leonardo.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xii

Sarah Pearson : December 1788

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December 1788

SP contributed poems to the Literary Magazine and British Review over the signature Angelina.
Pitcher, Edward W. Email to Isobel Grundy about Susanna Pearson. 5 July 2004.
5 July 2004
Pitcher, Edward W. The Literary Magazine and British Review: (London 1788-1794): an annotated catalogue of the prose and verse. Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, 2 vols.

Hannah Cowley: Just before 5 December 1788

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Just before 5 December 1788

HC was hard hit by the death of her daughter Mary Elizabeth, her eldest child (baptised in London on 28 December 1772).
Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto, 2012.
3 and n13
Cowley, Hannah. The Works of Mrs. Cowley: Dramas and Poems. Wilkie and Robinson, 1813, 3 vols.
1: vii
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Richard Harris Barham: 6 December 1788

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6 December 1788

RHB , comic poet, was born at Canterbury.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Anna Gordon: 13 December 1788

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13 December 1788

AG was forty-one when she married the Rev. Dr Andrew Brown , who had recently served in the American War of Independence as chaplain with the Royal North British Fusiliers .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Clara Reeve: About 20 December 1788

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About 20 December 1788

CR published another novel, The Exiles; or, Memoirs of the Count de Cronstadt.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 446
Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977.
xxi

Janet Little: 24 December 1788

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24 December 1788

Frances Anna Dunlop wrote to Robert Burns her earliest surviving comment on JL 's poetry: Dunlop clearly takes her seriously as a poet but confesses to disliking her blank verse.
Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, 1843 - 1921, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, http://BARD.
126-7

27 December 1788: Louis XVI consented to public demands and...

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27 December 1788

Louis XVI consented to public demands and overuled the Parlement of Paris to double the size of the Third Estate.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
10: 852

Charlotte Brooke: 1789

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1789

CB published at Dublin, by subscription, the work on which her fame rests: Reliques of Irish Poetry . . . translated into English verse: with . . . the originals in the Irish Character.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Jane Cave: 1789

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1789

JC issued at Shrewsbury, a centre for Welsh publication, a second edition (actually the third) of her Poems on Various Subjects, giving her name as on the Bristol edition.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 1789

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1789

Barbarina Ogle (later Lady Dacre) married a guards officer named Valentine Henry Wilmot , whose family had an estate at Farnborough in Hampshire. He died in earlier 1819.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
10734 (24 July 1819): 4

Mary Somerville: 1789

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1789

Mary Fairfax (later MS ) left home to attend Miss Primrose's exclusive girls' boarding school at Musselburgh in Scotland for one year.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208-16.
208

Charlotte Smith: New Year's Day 1789

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New Year's Day 1789

CS published by subscription an illustrated fifth edition of her Elegiac Sonnets . . . with Additional Sonnets and other poems (planned for at least eighteen months).
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
106, 84
Smith, Charlotte. Elegiac Sonnets. 5th ed., T. Cadell, 1789.
title-page

Elizabeth Inchbald: 1789

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1789

EI retired from acting in order to focus on her writing.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
35

Elizabeth Inchbald: 1789

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Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald

1789

EI was attended by Dr Richard Warren , who became her friend as well as her regular physician.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
36, 151

Elizabeth Inchbald: During 1789

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During 1789

EI submitted the manuscript of A Simple Story to William Godwin , seeking further criticism.
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. 12 Nov. 2010, http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
43, 67, 94

1789: During the year following passage of the...

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1789

During the year following passage of the Slave-Trade Regulation Bill, the House of Commons postponed until next session a decision about abolition; meanwhile a push for regulation as opposed to abolition was gaining ground.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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