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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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Sarah Trimmer: 1791
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Author event in Sarah Trimmer
1791
published A Companion to the Book of Common Prayer of the , which she followed with little books explaining, respectively, the sacraments of public baptism and of confirmation.
The Critical of...
Germaine de Staël: January 1791
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Author event in Germaine de Staël
January 1791
began holding salons which gathered together moderates in the days after the French Revolution; much of the new constitution was written in her house before the end of May this year.
Ann Radcliffe: 1791
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Radcliffe
1791
published her third gothic novel, The Romance of the Forest, as by the author of A Sicilian Romance.
Hester Lynch Piozzi: 1791
Women writers item
Author event in Hester Lynch Piozzi
1791
was working on some literary, political, and philosophical dialogues to be called Una and Duessa, which were designed to counter the writings of
.
Catherine Phillips: 1791-3
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Phillips
1791-3
published letters or pamphlets on various topics, political as well as religious.
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: 1791
Writing climate item
Author event in Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
1791
visited England for a third time, but she came in exile because of the French Revolution.
Catharine Macaulay: 1791-2
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Author event in Catharine Macaulay
1791-2
's History of England was translated into French, as an educational revolutionary text;
was originally responsible for this undertaking.
1791: Women were active in the sugar boycott this...
National or international item
1791
Women were active in the sugar boycott this year in support of abolition of the slave trade.
1791: Anglo-Indians (that is males of mixed race)...
1791
Anglo-Indians (that is males of mixed race) were precluded from employment as officers in the Civil, Military or Marine services of the
.
1791: Charles Knight, publisher, was born at Windsor,...
Writing climate item
1791
, publisher, was born at Windsor, Berkshire.
1791: Women industrial workers in Birmingham were...
1791
Women industrial workers in Birmingham were said to earn on average six shillings a week.
1791: Jeremy Bentham completed plans for the Panopticon,...
1791
completed plans for the Panopticon, a model utilitarian prison.
1791: Flogging was abolished for female prisoners...
1791
Flogging was abolished for female prisoners in
in London.
1791: William Gilpin founded a parochial school...
1791
founded a parochial school in Hampshire in which boys were taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, but girls learned only reading, knitting, and sewing.
1791: Gilbert Wakefield published An Enquiry into...
1791
published An Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship, whose arguments were challenged in different ways by
and
.
1791: William Gifford, in his satire The Baviad,...
Writing climate item
1791
, in his satire The Baviad, became the first to attack the body of poetry which notably included work by
and
.
1791: Isaac D'Israeli published the first volume...
Writing climate item
1791
published the first volume of his Curiosities of Literature, a collection of information and anecdote; volume two followed in 1793, then four more.
Amelia Opie: 4 January 1791
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Author event in Amelia Opie
4 January 1791
Adelaide, a tragedy by
(later
), was staged in a private theatre owned by
, Prebend of Norwich, with herself in the title role.
Anna Maria Falconbridge: Just after 5 January 1791
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Author event in Anna Maria Falconbridge
Just after 5 January 1791
sailed with her
for Sierra Leone, to re-launch the settlement of freed black people there.
Mary Leadbeater: 6 January 1791
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6 January 1791
married
, who had become a farmer when his joining the
closed to him the career he had intended to pursue.
Anne Marsh: 9 January 1791
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Author event in Anne Marsh
9 January 1791
Anne Caldwell was born at her father's estate of Linley Wood at Talke in Staffordshire. She was later known as
, and later again as Anne Marsh-Caldwell; the house on the estate was...
January 1791: The musician Joseph Haydn arrived in Eng...
January 1791
The musician
arrived in England.
Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : 19 January 1791
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Author event in Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny
19 January 1791
(who had already on 12 January attended
's play The Widow of Malabar) took immense trouble to boost attendance for its third night, on which the author would...
Susanna Haswell Rowson: January 1791
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Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson
January 1791
published with the
the runaway best-seller Charlotte, A Tale of Truth, which is better known by its later title of Charlotte Temple; this time she published without her name.
Ann Radcliffe: 23 January 1791-31 December 1792
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Author event in Ann Radcliffe
23 January 1791-31 December 1792
's husband,
, was editor of the Gazetteer, a radical, Foxite, pro-French-Revolution paper.