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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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9 December 1789: The French National Assembly began to abolish...

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9 December 1789

The French National Assembly began to abolish old provinces and create new départements or regions.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
214,

16 December 1789: The Society for Constitutional Information...

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16 December 1789

The Society for Constitutional Information (a potentially radical political organization) held its semi-annual meeting at the London Tavern, to commemorate the centenary of the Bill of Rights.
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
59 (1789): 1183

Mary Whateley Darwall: 18 December 1789

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Author event in Mary Whateley Darwall

18 December 1789

MWD 's husband died; the next day his church salary was sequestered.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
155, 159

Catharine Maria Sedgwick: 28 December 1789

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Author event in Catharine Maria Sedgwick

28 December 1789

In Stockbridge, Massachusetts, CMS was born the second-to-last of ten children (seven of whom survived).
Damon-Bach, Lucinda L., and Victoria Clements, editors. “Editorial Materials”. Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, Northeastern University Press, 2003, p. various pages.
xxii, xxxiii
Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne, 1974.
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Lucy Aikin: 1790

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Author event in Lucy Aikin

1790

LA , aged eight, met the prison reformer John Howard , who was a friend of her father .
Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
xi-xii

Joanna Baillie: 1790

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Author event in Joanna Baillie

1790

After reaching LondonJB published, anonymously through Joseph Johnson , Poems: Wherein it is attempted to describe Certain Views of Nature and of Rustic Manners . . ..
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
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Anne Bannerman: About 1790

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Author event in Anne Bannerman

About 1790

AB composed the earliest datable poems in her first published volume.
Kushigian, Nancy, and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.

Maria Barrell: 1790

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Author event in Maria Barrell

1790

Still in the King's Bench Prison , MB published with her name a tragedy, The Captive, which fictionalises her own situation there.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mary Wollstonecraft: 1790

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Author event in Mary Wollstonecraft

1790

Joseph Johnson published Elements of Morality, for the use of children, translated from the German of Christian Gotthilf Salzmann ; MW was the translator, as her signature on the prefixed advertisement attests.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Sarah Trimmer: 1790

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Author event in Sarah Trimmer

1790

ST published her Plan for Promoting the Religious Observance of the Sabbath-Day, and a Friendly Remonstrance, Designed for the Adult Poor, sold either by itself for 3d. or 20s. per hundred.
qtd. in
O’Malley, Andrew. “The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature”. The Lion and The Unicorn, Vol.
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, 2000, pp. 18-44.
42n25

Mary Martha Sherwood: 1790-3

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Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood

1790-3

Mary Martha Butt (later MMS ) attended the Abbey School, run by Monsieur St Quintin or St Quentin at Reading.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Mary Ann Radcliffe: By January 1790

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Author event in Mary Ann Radcliffe

By January 1790

William Lane (who this year renamed his publishing firm the Minerva Press ) issued an anonymous novel, Radzivil, A Romance, which was unconvincingly assigned to MAR in a Minerva catalogue of 1802.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
69 (1790): 118
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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Amelia Opie: 1790

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Author event in Amelia Opie

1790

Amelia Alderson (later AO ) published anonymously, with William Lane (who this year launched the Minerva Press ), her first novel, Dangers of Coquetry, in two volumes.
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.

Mary Leadbeater: 1790

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Author event in Mary Leadbeater

1790

Mary Shackleton (later ML ) first reached print in the second volume of a Dublin anthology edited by Joshua Edkins : A Collection of Poems, Mostly Original, By Several Hands.
Feminist Companion Archive.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Edkins, Joshua, editor. A Collection of Poems. Printed for the editor by M. Graisberry, 1789–1790, 2 vols.

Hannah More: By 1 January 1790

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Author event in Hannah More

By 1 January 1790

HM 's sisters retired from running their Bristol school, and built themselves a house in Pulteney Street, Bath.
Stott, Anne. Hannah More: The First Victorian. Oxford University Press, 2003.
129n10
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
126-7

Judith Sargent Murray: January 1790

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Author event in Judith Sargent Murray

January 1790

JSM began publishing poems in the Massachusetts Magazine; the first of these was Lines Occasioned by the Death of an Infant, sent in to the magazine by a friend.
Field, Vena Bernadette. Constantia: A Study of the Life and Works of Judith Sargent Murray, 1751-1820. University of Maine Press, 1931.
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Harris, Sharon M., and Judith Sargent Murray. “Introduction”. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, edited by Sharon M. Harris and Sharon M. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. xv - xliv.
xxiii-xxiv

1790: Newspaper sales in England totalled more...

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1790

Newspaper sales in England totalled more than 16 million.
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
139

1790: US President George Washington's dentist,...

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1790

US President George Washington 's dentist, John Greenwood , invented the first dental drill.
Popular Science. Popular Science Publishing.
(February 1999): 11

1790: In this year only, high or petty treason...

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1790

In this year only, high or petty treason when committed by women became no longer punishable by burning at the stake.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
249

January 1790: The Cercle Social, a political social club...

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January 1790

The Cercle Social , a political social club which included women, was founded in Paris.
Levy, Darline Gay et al., translators. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1975: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. University of Illinois Press, 1979.
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Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
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Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
105, 369

1790: Dr Jourdain Lecointe published at Paris a...

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1790

Dr Jourdain Lecointe published at Paris a pamphlet on venereal disease entitled La santé de Mars.
Norberg, Kathryn. “From Courtesan to Prostitute: Mercenary Sex and Venereal Disease 1730-1802”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 34-50.
41, 48n33

About 1790: A ballad entitled The Female Captain was...

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About 1790

A ballad entitled The Female Captain was performed on stage by a Mrs Wrighten in military uniform, with patter urging men in the audience to fight for their country.
Dugaw, Dianne. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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1790: The first successful artificial insemination...

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1790

The first successful artificial insemination was performed, by a lay person, as recommended by Scottish surgeon John Hunter .
Chen, Serena H., and Edward E. Wallach. “Five Decades of Progress in Management of the Infertile Couple”. Fertility and Sterility, Vol.
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, No. 4, Oct. 1994, pp. 665-85.
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Wood, Clive. Vasectomy and Sterilization. Temple Smith, 1974.
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1790: William Lane's publishing firm first took...

Writing climate item

1790

William Lane 's publishing firm first took the name Minerva Press , in the same year that his Minerva Circulating Library (linked with his publishing activities) issued its first catalogue. This listed more than 10,000 titles.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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During the 1790s: Sarah Bache ran a school for girls in Is...

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During the 1790s

Sarah Bache ran a school for girls in Islington.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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