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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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1790: Mrs Florian (wife of J. B. Florian-Jolly)...

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1790

Mrs Florian (wife of J. B. Florian-Jolly) founded a boarding school for girls at Leytonstone, on the edge of Epping Forest near London; notably, it included science in its curriculum.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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1790: The explorer James Bruce published his five-volume...

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1790

The explorer James Bruce published his five-volume classic, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, which in fact was written from hazy, unsupported memory twenty years after his travels in Ethiopia.
Pankhurst, Richard Keir Pethick. “Raider of the Lost Ark”. London Review of Books, 24 May 2001, pp. 36-7.
36

Primarily between 1790 and 1855: During the Highland Clearances a large proportion...

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Primarily between 1790 and 1855

During the Highland Clearances a large proportion of the tenantry were evicted from small, struggling farms by their Highland estate landlords to be replaced by more profitable sheep, cattle, and deer.
Richards, Eric. The Highland Clearances: People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil. Birlinn, 2000.
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Richards, Eric. Debating the Highland Clearances. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
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1790: The Royal Literary Fund was established in...

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1790

The Royal Literary Fund was established in London by David Williamsto relieve literary men of all nations; it made many small grants to women writers.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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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.
Batchelor, Jennie. “The Man of Genius and the Female Drudge: Labour, Gender, Authorship and the Royal Literary Fund”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 31 Mar. 2005.

Elizabeth Hervey, 1748 - 1820: : 2 January 1790

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2 January 1790

The London edition of Elizabeth Hervey 's second book, Louisa. A Novel, in three volumes, issued as by the author of Melissa and Marcia; or, the Sisters: A Novel, was advertised. A Dublin...

Maria De Fleury: 1790

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1790

MDF published with her name, in three parts, a long poem entitled British Liberty Established, and Gallic Liberty Restored.
De Fleury, Maria. British Liberty Established, and Gallic Liberty Restored. Peterborough-House Press, 1790.
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Hannah Brand: 10 January 1790

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10 January 1790

HB addressed to her fellow-lesbian Anne Damer a poem whose manuscript survives at the Lewis Walpole Library at Farmington, Connecticut, along with others of Damer's papers.
Feminist Companion Archive.
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January 1790: The Ladies Magazine printed a frontispiece...

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January 1790

The Ladies Magazine printed a frontispiece with verbal explanation, about the female reader's access to learning and public life.
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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26 January 1790: Mozart's opera Così Fan Tutte had its premiere...

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26 January 1790

Mozart 's opera Così Fan Tutte had its premiere in Vienna.
Solman, Joseph. Mozartiana. Walker, 1990.
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Ann Eliza Bleecker: February 1790-December 1791

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February 1790-December 1791

A series of AEB 's poems appeared posthumously in the New-York Magazine, through the agency of her daughter, Margaretta Faugeres .
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.

Susanna Blamire: February 1790

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February 1790

SB dated her poem The Nun's Return to the World, by the Decree of the National Assembly of France.
Blamire, Susanna. The Poetical Works. Woodstock Books, 1994.
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13 February 1790: The French National Assembly decreed that...

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13 February 1790

The FrenchNational Assembly decreed that French law would no longer recognise monastic vows.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.

Judith Sargent Murray: March 1790

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March 1790

JSM published the first part of her Essay on the Equality of the Sexes (written in 1779) in the Massachusetts Magazine. The second part followed in April, and On the Domestic Education of Children...

2 March 1790: Charles James Fox proposed in the House of...

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2 March 1790

Charles James Fox proposed in the House of Commons the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters ). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four...

Anna Seward: 4 March 1790

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4 March 1790

Thomas Seward , AS 's father, died after years of senility; she was left far freer than before to travel and to spend time in London.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Helen Maria Williams: March 1790

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March 1790

HMW published, with her name, Julia, a Novel; interspersed with some poetical Pieces.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Aphra Behn: 8 March 1790

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8 March 1790

There opened at Drury Lane Theatre a comedy entitled Love in Many Masks, by John Philip Kemble , which was adapted from AB 's The Rover.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1233
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
69 (1790): 593

14 March 1790: Captain Bligh, who had hoped to emulate Captain...

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14 March 1790

Captain Bligh , who had hoped to emulate Captain Cook as an explorer in his ship the Bounty, landed in England after surviving the mutiny (27 April 1789) against his harsh discipline, which was led...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Late March 1790

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Late March 1790

Writing as a Dissenter in An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, ALB rousingly argued from a principle of natural equality that Dissenters ought to enjoy full...

Melesina Trench: 22 March 1790

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22 March 1790

On her twenty-second birthday, the body of Melesina St George 's husband was shipped from Portugal on its voyage home to Athlone in Ireland.
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Second edition, revised, Parker and Bourn, 1862.
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30 March 1790: An advertisement appeared in The World inviting...

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30 March 1790

An advertisement appeared in The World inviting benevolent persons to subscribe for the benefit of a recent widow of a major in the British Army , left with Seven Children without any means of support.
Behrendt, Stephen C. “Women without Men: Barbara Hofland and the Economics of Widowhood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
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Eliza Parsons: 31 March 1790

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31 March 1790

EP , whose husband had died leaving her the support of her family, dated the dedication to her first, epistolary novel, The History of Miss Meredith, published by this August with a fashionable subscription...

Frances Brooke: By April 1790

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By April 1790

FB 's executor, her son Jack , published anonymously and posthumously The History of Charles Mandeville, a sequel to her first novel.
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
69 (1790): 476

Grace Elliott: Spring 1790

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Spring 1790

GE travelled from Paris to Brussels, where she clearly kept her ears open as if she were an intelligence agent.
Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press, 1955.
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Susannah Dobson: 5 April 1790

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5 April 1790

SD dated the dedication of her translation Petrarch 's View of Human Life to Andrew Stuart ; the book was published in 1791.
Petrarch. Petrarch’s View of Human Life. Translator Dobson, Susannah, J. Stockdale, 1791.
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