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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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Ann Radcliffe: 28 January 1791

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28 January 1791

William Radcliffe , newly appointed editor of the Gazetteer, published there his wife 's Song of a Spirit, anonymous but signed Adeline.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
82

Susanna Blamire: Probably early 1791

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Author event in Susanna Blamire

Probably early 1791

SB composed a song, Wey, Ned, Man! (to the tune of Ranting, roaring Willie), which features two countrymen debating the pros and cons of Tom Paine 's Rights of Man.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
93

Frances Burney: February-March 1791

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Author event in Frances Burney

February-March 1791

FB , still working at Court, was ill and depressed; even in May she was not properly recovered.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
220-1

Elizabeth Inchbald: By February 1791

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Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald

By February 1791

EI 's first novel, A Simple Story, was finally published.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 1 (1791): 207

Hannah More: February 1791

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Author event in Hannah More

February 1791

HM published another work of social criticism, An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World, without her name but as one of the laity.
Stott, Anne. Hannah More: The First Victorian. Oxford University Press, 2003.
131
More, Hannah. An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World. T. Cadell, 1791.
title-page
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
112

1 February 1791: Thomas Paine published Rights of Man, written...

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1 February 1791

Thomas Paine published Rights of Man, written in answer to Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
107
Scheuermann, Mona. “Ferocious Countenance: The Upper Classes Look at the Poor”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 53-79.
53-4
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
132

15 February 1791: The actress Harriet Pye Esten (daughter of...

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15 February 1791

The actress Harriet Pye Esten (daughter of novelist Anna Maria Bennett ) gave a highly successful recitation at Covent Garden Theatre of William Collins 's Ode on the Passions.
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
91-2

Susannah Gunning: By 18 February 1791

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By 18 February 1791

Turned out by her husband , SG was taken in by the widowed, eminent, and highly respectable Duchess of Bedford .
Gantz, Ida. The Pastel Portrait. Cresset Press, 1963.
132-3
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
70 (1800): 1000

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 20 February 1791

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20 February 1791

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , gave birth to her illegitimate daughter by Charles Grey .
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: 28 February 1791

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Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld

28 February 1791

ALB told her brother that she had been asked by people in Paris to answer Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France (a fuller development of ideas she had already challenged).
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Maria De Fleury: Perhaps after March 1791

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Perhaps after March 1791

MDF published with her name Falsehood Examined at the Bar of Truth.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Susannah Gunning: March 1791

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March 1791

SG printed for the author her defence of her daughter and attack on her husband : A Letter . . . Address'd to His Grace the Duke of Argyll.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 1 (1791): 341

March 1791: France broke off relations with the Papa...

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March 1791

France broke off relations with the Papacy.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
202

March 1791-March 1796: The Bon Ton Magazine, or, Microscope of Fashion...

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March 1791-March 1796

The Bon Ton Magazine, or, Microscope of Fashion and Folly set out to chart the sex scandals of the day, with close attention to court cases, gossip, and the implications for social class.
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.

After 2 March 1791: Following the death of John Wesley, the Methodists...

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After 2 March 1791

Following the death of John Wesley , the Methodists extended the circuit system throughout Britain as an alternative to the parish system used by the Established Church
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
86
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

11 March 1791: Pope Pius VI condemned the French Revolution,...

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11 March 1791

Pope Pius VI condemned the French Revolution, in particular the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xi
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
170
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
211

Mary Ann Parker: 15 March 1791

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15 March 1791

MAP set sail from Spithead in the ship of her husband, John Parker , for New Holland (Australia), where two fleet-loads of British convicts had already arrived and another was then on the way.
Parker, Mary Ann et al. “A Voyage Round the World”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 169-25.
186
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
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Mary Harcourt: 21 March 1791

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21 March 1791

MH composed the latest entry to be included in Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III.
Harcourt, Mary. “Diary of the Court of King George III”. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 1871–1872.
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23 March 1791: Etta Palm d'Aelders founded the Paris women's...

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23 March 1791

Etta Palm d'Aelders founded the Paris women's political club called the Société Patriotique et Bienfaisance des Amies de la Vérité.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
58
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
103, 369

Emma Roberts: 27 March 1791

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27 March 1791

ER was born in London, the younger of two sisters. She also had an elder brother.
Until recently most sources reported her to have been born three years or so later, at Methley near...

Ann Eliza Bleecker: April-May 1791

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Author event in Ann Eliza Bleecker

April-May 1791

AEB 's The Story of Henry and Anne appeared posthumously in serial form in the New-York Magazine.
Bleecker, Ann Eliza. “The Story of Henry and Anne”. New-York Magazine, Vol.
2
, No. 4; 5, Apr. 1791, pp. 183 - 6; 263.

Ann Yearsley: After April 1791

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Author event in Ann Yearsley

After April 1791

AY published her pamphlet The Dispute: Letter to the Public from the Milkwoman.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
174 and n1

April 1791: The month before the appearance of his Life...

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April 1791

The month before the appearance of his Life of Samuel Johnson , and as parliament debated the bill to abolish slavery, James Boswell published a long poem entitled No Abolition of Slavery; or, The Universal...

Anne Lister: 3 April 1791

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3 April 1791

AL was born at South Cave, near Hull in Yorkshire, one of six children.
Lister, Anne. “Introduction”. I Know My Own Heart, edited by Helena Whitbread, New York University Press, 1992, p. xxiii - xxix.
xxiii

Hannah Brand: 7 April 1791

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7 April 1791

HB appeared on stage at Norwich, even while apparently still running a respected school there in partnership with her sister Mary .
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
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