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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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19 February 1789: Parliament was informed that George III was...

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19 February 1789

Parliament was informed that George III was in a state of convalescence; the Regency Bill which had passed the Commons on the 13th never completed its passage.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
345

Phebe Gibbes: 24 February 1789

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24 February 1789

PG was paid £20 by publisher James Dodsley for her anonymous, epistolary novel Hartly House, Calcutta, published by June.
Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988.
561
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols.
7: 111

Eliza Nugent Bromley: By March 1789

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By March 1789

ENB issued her second epistolary novel, The History of Sir Charles Bentinck, Bart. and Louisa Cavendish, as by the Author of Laura and Augustus.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
87 (March 1789): 237

Hannah Cowley: By 1 March 1789

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By 1 March 1789

HC again sat for her portrait for reproduction in the press: this time John Sewell engraved the plate for the European Magazine.
Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto, 2012.
3 and n13, 4
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XVI: Hannah Cowley 1743-1809”. The Book Collector, Vol.
7
, 1958, pp. 68-76.
69

Mariana Starke: By March 1789

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By March 1789

The Poor Soldier. An American Tale, founded on recent fact was published: an anonymous poem that has been attributed to MS about an American loyalist.
National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield, 1956.

Lady Caroline Lamb: March 1789

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March 1789

Caroline Ponsonby (later LCL ) was only three when the scandal erupted over her mother 's affair with the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; a couple of months later Caroline's father launched divorce proceedings.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
7-8

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore: 2 March 1789

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2 March 1789

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , was granted her divorce from her second husband ; he was forced to return what was left of her fortune, though he never did pay the alimony the...

Elizabeth Heyrick: 10 March 1789

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10 March 1789

Elizabeth Coltman married John Heyrick , an attorney, who later entered the army and became a cornet in the Fifteenth Light Dragoons .
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
91, 191

Charlotte Elliott: 18 March 1789

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18 March 1789

Charlotte Elliott was born at Grove House, Clapham, in South London, the third daughter among eight children born to a leading family of the Clapham Sect .
Babington, Eleanor et al. “Biographical Sketch”. Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, Religious Tract Society, 1873, pp. 13-58.
13
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Ann Masterman Skinn: 23 March 1789

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23 March 1789

AMS died at Margate in Kent, in her early forties, in great poverty.
qtd. in
Staves, Susan. “Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: The Case of Ann Masterman”. Fetter’d or Free?: British Women Novelists 1670-1815, edited by Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield, Ohio University Press, 1986, pp. 169-85.
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Olaudah Equiano: 24 March 1789

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24 March 1789

OE registered with the Stationers' Company his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, published by subscription for the Author (that is at his own risk)...

Mary Wollstonecraft: April 1789

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April 1789

MW 's educational anthology, The Female Reader, appeared through Joseph Johnson , under the name of Mr Cresswick, Teacher of Elocution.
An actual Mr Creswick or Cresswick published The Lady's Preceptor in the year he died, 1792.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan, 1992.
67

Charlotte Smith: April 1789

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April 1789

Anna Seward included CS in her list of living celebrated Female Poets
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1789): 292
but spoiled the effect by mistakenly calling her Catherine.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1789): 292

April 1789: The Gentleman's Magazine published Anna Seward's...

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April 1789

The Gentleman's Magazine published Anna Seward 's selection of living celebrated Female Poets.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
59 (1789): 292

1 April 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about...

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1 April 1789

Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about Marie Antoinette ) indignantly recorded what she presents as if it was her first encounter with lesbianism.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
78

Mary Ann Radcliffe: 7 April 1789

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7 April 1789

MAR arrived in London on the stage-coach from Edinburgh, transferring her family's theatre of operations once again.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe. Printed for the author, 1810.
241

23 April 1789: A solemn service of thanksgiving for the...

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23 April 1789

A solemn service of thanksgiving for the recovery of George III was held in St Paul's Cathedral.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
158
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
14: 124n1

Elizabeth Bonhote: May 1789

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May 1789

EB dated her dedication of the epistolary Darnley Vale; or, Emelia Fitzroy. A Novel, printed with her name that year; the dedicatees were her husband and her fellow-novelist Maria Susanna Cooper .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 468
Feminist Companion Archive.

Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : May 1789

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May 1789

Mary Champion de Crespigny set up an urn near the aviary at Champion Lodge in remembrance of Augustus Viscount Keppel and her friendship with him.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
74: 2 (July 1804): 622

Sarah Trimmer: By May 1789

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By May 1789

ST published, with her name, two related works: A Series of Prints of Roman History and A Description of a Set of Prints of Roman History, contained in a set of easy lessons.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
59 (1789): 445
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : By May 1789

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By May 1789

Thomas Hookham published an epistolary novel, Argus; the House-Dog at Eadlip. Memoirs in a Family Correspondence, as by the Author of Constance and The Pharos—who till recently has been wrongly identified as the...

By 1 May 1789: John Boydell opened his Shakespeare Gallery,...

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By 1 May 1789

John Boydell opened his Shakespeare Gallery , an exhibition of British artists' renderings of scenes from Shakespeare .
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
246-7
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
59 (1789): 442-4, 632-3; 60 (1790): 1088-90

5 May 1789: The Estates-General met at Versailles for...

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5 May 1789

The Estates-General met at Versailles for the first time since 1614.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
x
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
155

Sarah Trimmer: By June 1789

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By June 1789

ST published with Buckland a sixpenny pamphlet, A Comment on Dr Watts 's Divine Songs for Children.
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.
xv

Regina Maria Roche: By June 1789

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By June 1789

The future RMR published through Joseph Johnson (with her birth name given as Maria Regina Dalton) her first novel, The Vicar of Lansdowne; or, Country Quarters. A Tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 483