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Events Timeline
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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Mariana Starke: 7 April 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Mariana Starke
7 April 1790
A lost tragedy by
entitled The British Orphans was performed at
's private theatre in Camberwell near London.
, diarist and wife of the official Examiner...
10 April 1790: Students at the Académie Royale de Peinture...
10 April 1790
Students at the
in Paris demanded to be allowed (for the first time) female models.
Elizabeth Helme: After mid-April 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Helme
After mid-April 1790
published her translation from French of
's Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope, into the Interior Parts of Africa.
13 April 1790: The French National Assembly, in Paris, rejected...
National or international item
13 April 1790
The
, in Paris, rejected Catholicism as the national religion.
1790: The St George's Day Association was formed...
National or international item
1790
The
was formed with the dual intention of suppressing the slave trade and introducing Christianity and civilization to West Africa. The following year it changed its name to the
Janet Little: 24 April 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Janet Little
24 April 1790
had some sort of accident that threatened the loss, if not of life, at least of a limb.
Elizabeth Bonhote: By May 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Bonhote
By May 1790
published her next novel, Ellen Woodley, again with
and in the first year of the
. It bore her name and previous titles, but had no preface.
Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : By May 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
By May 1790
issued
's Arnold Zulig, a Swiss Story, as by the Author of Constance and of other works. Again this has been misinterpreted to mean that the author was
By May 1790: Sir John Sinclair circulated to Church of...
By May 1790
circulated to
clergymen his questionnaire about their parishes: their history, geography, antiquities, natural history, demography, commerce, industry, and manners.
Mariana Starke: 5 May 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Mariana Starke
5 May 1790
's three-act verse tragedy The Widow of Malabar opened at
; it was printed with her name that year.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 21 May 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
21 May 1790
, bore the
and heir she had so long desired—in melodramatic circumstances, at Passy just outside revolutionary Paris.
Leah Sumbel: Summer 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Leah Sumbel
Summer 1790
Mary Wells (later
) announced that the
would present, for her benefit, a one-act piece by herself: Mrs Nonsuch's Nonsense.
Elizabeth Gunning: Summer-Autumn 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Gunning
Summer-Autumn 1790
A rumour arose in London society that
was to marry the
, heir to the
.
Susannah Gunning: 1790-1791
Women writers item
Author event in Susannah Gunning
1790-1791
In the notorious family quarrel over the courtship of
,
sided with her daughter against her
.
Ellis Cornelia Knight : By June 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Ellis Cornelia Knight
By June 1790
published her first work, Dinarbas, a novel which acts as a continuation of
's Rasselas.
Charlotte Lennox: 1 June 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Lennox
1 June 1790
's epistolary novel Euphemia was published. It is now considered to be her final work.
June 1790: Twenty-five women were called to testify...
National or international item
June 1790
Twenty-five women were called to testify before the Chatelet Commission set up to investigate the October Days.
Anna Maria Mackenzie: 8 June 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Maria Mackenzie
8 June 1790
had a novel entitled
: A Tale, Founded on Historical Facts advertised under this name as soon to be published by
of the
—even though she had...
9 June 1790: A few days after the first US Copyright Act...
Writing climate item
9 June 1790
A few days after the first US Copyright Act became law,
issued the first American book registered to bear copyright: The Philadelphia Spelling Book, Arranged Upon a Plan Entirely New.
11 June 1790: Parliament was dissolved, and election campaigning...
National or international item
11 June 1790
Parliament was dissolved, and election campaigning for a new parliament began.
Anne Damer: June 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Damer
June 1790
The somewhat hostile witness
alleged that
(whom she called much suspected for liking her own Sex in a criminal way) was engaged in an affair with the leading actress
.
17 June 1790: Titles of nobility were abolished in Fra...
17 June 1790
Titles of nobility were abolished in France.
Anne Francis: By July 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Francis
By July 1790
collected her Miscellaneous Poems for publication with two separate title-pages, one bearing her name and the other as by a Lady.
Mercy Otis Warren: Mid-1790
Writing climate item
Author event in Mercy Otis Warren
Mid-1790
published in Boston her Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous; she set her name to this, a less controversial publication than her plays.
Mary Robinson: Summer 1790
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Robinson
Summer 1790
, as Laura Maria, published Ainsi va le Monde. A Poem, an item of her poetical correspondence with
, which appropriates the effusive Della Cruscan style.