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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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Mary Ann Radcliffe: By July 1790

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By July 1790

William Lane issued another anonymous novel, The Fate of Velina de Guidova, which a much later Minerva Press catalogue (1814) ascribed to MAR —just as unconvincingly as the previous Minerva ascription.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
70 (1790): 96
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
207

By July 1790: The US passed an act for enumerating the...

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By July 1790

The US passed an act for enumerating the inhabitants of the Thirteen States: the first federal census.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
60 (1790): 658

3 July 1790: Condorcet developed the case for full equality...

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3 July 1790

Condorcet developed the case for full equality of rights, regardless of religion, race or gender, in an article entitled Sur l'admission des femmes au droit de cité.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
100, 277, 369

12 July 1790: The French National Assembly adopted the...

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12 July 1790

The French National Assembly adopted the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
Latreille, André. “Tragic Errors”. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations, edited by Frank A. Kafker and James M. Laux, 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989, pp. 120-29.
121
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
199-201
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
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Helen Maria Williams: 13 July 1790

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13 July 1790

HMW left England for a visit to Paris with her family.
Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints, 1977.
31-3
Williams, Helen Maria. “Introduction and Chronology”. Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, edited by Neil Fraistat and Susan Sniader Lanser, Broadview, 2001, pp. 9-52.
20
Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press, 2002.
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14 July 1790: Richard Price, speaking at a Bastille Day...

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14 July 1790

Richard Price , speaking at a Bastille Day tavern dinner, praised the French revolutionary authorities for intending to renounce war as an instrument of policy, and looked forward to a United States of the World.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
123
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
124

17 July 1790: The first patent for a sewing machine was...

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17 July 1790

The first patent for a sewing machine was taken out, by Thomas Saint in London.
“Anniversaries”. Times, 17 July 2000, p. 20.
20

Elizabeth Bentley: 23 July 1790

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23 July 1790

EB dated the account of her life which was published both in the prospectus for her Genuine Poetical Compositions, which appeared this year, and in the volume itself.
Bentley, Elizabeth. Genuine Poetical Compositions on Various Subjects. Crouse and Stevenson, 1791.
prelims

Lady Eleanor Butler: 24 July 1790

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24 July 1790

A report on Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby in the General Evening Post, headed Extraordinary Female Affection, called Butler tall and masculine and Ponsonby effeminate, fair and beautiful.
qtd. in
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
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Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
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Anna Seward: August 1790

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August 1790

AS composed a poem entitled Colebrook Dale, the fruit of a visit in autumn 1787 to the ironworks village of Coalbrookdale, a prototypical site of the impact of industrialization on traditional countryside and human lives.
Fairer, David, and Christine Gerrard, editors. Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Blackwell, 1999.
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Setzer, Sharon M. “"Pond’rous Engines" in "Outraged Groves": The Environmental Argument of Anna Seward’s ‘Colebrook Dale’”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 69-82.
69-70

Sarah Green: By August 1790

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By August 1790

An anonymous novel appeared entitled Charles Henley; or, The Fugitive Restored. Ascribed to SG in a Minerva Press catalogue of 1814, it is more likely to be by Mary O'Brien . No copy is...

Ann Jebb: 31 August 1790

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31 August 1790

AJ commented to Thomas Brand Hollis on the progress of the French Revolution, You see the fire is spreading every where. I tell you the world is a good world, as the Doctor [John Jebb

Ann Eliza Bleecker: September 1790-January 1791

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September 1790-January 1791

AEB 's The History of Maria Kittle, an epistolary novel which draws on actual life, appeared posthumously in serial form in the New-York Magazine.
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.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.

Dorothea Celesia: September 1790

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September 1790

DC died in Genoa.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Ann Radcliffe: By September 1790

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By September 1790

AR , as the authoress of the Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, published her second gothic novel, A Sicilian Romance, the first to be set in Roman Catholic Europe.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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Catharine Macaulay: By September 1790

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By September 1790

CM published Letters on Education. With Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects; its section on metaphysics incorporated much of her Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth (1783).
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Sarah Pearson : By early September 1790

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By early September 1790

SP (as S. Pearson) published by subscription the earlier of her two poetry collections: Poems. She dedicated it, by permission, to the Countess Fitzwilliam .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
70 (1790): 533

15 September 1790: Judith Sargent Murray, visiting Connecticut...

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15 September 1790

Judith Sargent Murray , visiting Connecticut from Massachusetts, reported the ease of divorce in the former: if a couple were unhappy together, the state legislature would provide a bill to divorce them.
Field, Vena Bernadette. Constantia: A Study of the Life and Works of Judith Sargent Murray, 1751-1820. University of Maine Press, 1931.
Field 72

Maria Riddell : 16 September 1790

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16 September 1790

Maria Woodley was married, at Nichola Town on the island of St Kitts, to Lieutenant Walter Riddell , who had acquired plantations on Antigua as a result of his brief first marriage.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Lindsay, Maurice. The Burns Encyclopedia. Third, revised and enlarged, St Martin’s Press, 1980.
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Catherine Crowe: 20 September 1790

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20 September 1790

Catherine Stevens (later CC ) was born at Borough Green in Kent.
This makes her ten years older than the date given in some sources, like Shattock and Sutherland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

23 September 1790: French painter Adélaide Labille-Guiard, in...

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23 September 1790

French painter Adélaide Labille-Guiard , in a very well reasoned speech,
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “Revolution, Representation, Equality: Gender, Genre, and Emulation in the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, 1785-93”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
31
, No. 2, Dec. 1997, pp. 153-74.
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demanded unrestricted admission of women artists to the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture in Paris.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “Revolution, Representation, Equality: Gender, Genre, and Emulation in the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, 1785-93”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
31
, No. 2, Dec. 1997, pp. 153-74.
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Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “Revolution, Representation, Equality: Gender, Genre, and Emulation in the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, 1785-93”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
31
, No. 2, Dec. 1997, pp. 153-74.
161, 155, 164

Agnes Wheeler: By October 1790

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By October 1790

AW published, under her initials, The Westmorland Dialect. The text was published at Kendal and dedicated to James Wearing , Esq., of Knowsley.
The English Short Title Catalogue lists this under the name...

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: 1 October 1790

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1 October 1790

Elizabeth Browne (later CET ) was born in Norwich.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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.

Ann Gomersall: By October 1790

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By October 1790

AG published her second epistolary novel, The Citizen, by subscription, this time using her name.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 505

October 1790: Thomas Walker founded the Manchester Constitutional...

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October 1790

Thomas Walker founded the ManchesterConstitutional Society .
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
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