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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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Judith Sargent Murray: 8 December 1791

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8 December 1791

JSM composed Lines Written While Rocking the Cradle of My Julia Maria, a poem in octosyllabic couplets, one of many which she did not publish.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
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13 December 1791: Heinrich Heine, lyric poet, was born in Düsseldorf,...

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13 December 1791

Heinrich Heine , lyric poet, was born in Düsseldorf, Germany; his family was Jewish.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Sarah Wentworth Morton: 24 December 1791

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24 December 1791

The Columbian Centinel printed a prose essay by SWM on the European custom of decorating houses for Christmas with branches of evergreen.
Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931.
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31 December 1791: The Aliens Act was passed by Parliament....

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31 December 1791

The Aliens Act was passed by Parliament. It was a reaction to the increase in refugees after the French Revolution. The British government was given powers of deportation.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
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Irvine, Sherry. “Immigrants to England, 1550 to 1850”. Ancestry.com.

Helen Craik: 1792

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1792

On account of the scandal recently connected with her name, HC left the large and prosperous estate
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32.
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of her almost ninety-year-old father at Arbigland in Dumfriesshire, to live at Flimby Hall near Maryport...

Helen Craik: By January 1792

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Author event in Helen Craik

By January 1792

HC had written a long poem titled with her own name, Helen.
Burns, Robert. The Letters of Robert Burns. Editor Ferguson, J. De Lancey, Clarendon Press, 1931, 2 vols. .
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Mary Deverell: 1792

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1792

Parts of MD 's Miscellanies were reprinted at Burlington, New Jersey (with essays by Hannah More ), as The Ladies' Literary Companion, for an American female audience.
Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Routledge, 1992.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mary Deverell: 1792

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1792

MD published through Stockdale her last known work, Mary Queen of Scots , An Historical Tragedy, or, Dramatic Poem.
Deverell, Mary. Mary, Queen of Scots. Printed for the author, 1792.
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Young, Mary Julia : 1792

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1792

MJY allowed her poem Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches to appear in print attributed only to a Lady.
OCLC WorldCat dates all its listings of this work, including the British Library copy, 1791...

Joanna Southcott: 1792

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1792

JS (who had seen ghosts while she was growing up) began to hear voices and see visions of aerial battle, which she took to mean a French invasion.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
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Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1792

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Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson

1792

As the author of The Inquisitor, SHR published at London Rebecca, a bildungsroman whose model not-quite-lower-class heroine educates herself at a circulating library; of this edition no copies are known.

Mary Ann Radcliffe: Probably after January 1792

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Probably after January 1792

MAR says she began work this year on the feminist manifesto which became The Female Advocate.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe. Printed for the author, 1810.
393, 396
Feminist Companion Archive.

Janet Little: 1792

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1792

With encouragement from her friends, JL published her collected Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid by subscription at Ayr in Scotland; she dedicated it to the eleven-year-old Flora, Countess of Loudoun .
Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, 1976, pp. 78-91.
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Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, 1843 - 1921, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, http://BARD.
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Anna Maria Mackenzie: 1792

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1792

AMM returned to the epistolary form for her next novel, Slavery: or, The Times, published by Robinson as by the author of Monmouth and The Danish Massacre, and neither advertised nor reviewed until...

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: By about 1792

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By about 1792

Carolina Oliphant (later Lady Nairne) first began writing songs.
Drummond, Peter Robert. Perthshire in Bygone Days: One Hundred Biographical Essays. W. B. Whittingham, 1879.
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Nairne, Carolina Oliphant, Lady, and Caroline Oliphant. Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne. Editor Rogers, Charles, J. Grant, 1896.
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1792: Yale University denied admission to a would-be...

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1792

Yale University denied admission to a would-be student, Lucinda Foote , noting that she was qualified in every respect except for her sex.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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January 1792: A shoemaker named Thomas Hardy founded the...

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January 1792

A shoemaker named Thomas Hardy founded the London Corresponding Society , an association for working men interested in political reform.
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
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1792: Thomas Beddoes published Alexander's Expedition;...

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1792

Thomas Beddoes published Alexander's Expedition; it was set up by a woman compositor, whose work he praised in an advertisement.
Goldman, Harold. Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man’s World. Lawrence and Wishart, 1974.
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1792: Bennelong, an Australian aboriginal who had...

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1792

Bennelong , an Australian aboriginal who had been kidnapped by Arthur Phillip , Governor of Australia, visited England, where he was presented to the king .
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
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1792: The New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1792...

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1792

The New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1792 listed 53 women as lodging-house keepers.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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1792: The Evangelical Henry Thornton bought a house...

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1792

The EvangelicalHenry Thornton bought a house on Battersea Rise, Clapham, South London: from this came the name of the Clapham Sect .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1792: A Vagrancy Act provided (as recommended by...

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1792

A Vagrancy Act provided (as recommended by the Society for Enforcing His Majesty's Proclamation against Vice and Immorality) that soldiers and sailors who begged should be liable to punishment.
Innes, Joanna. “The Domestic Face of the Military-Fiscal State: Government and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain”. An Imperial State at War, edited by Lawrence Stone, Routledge, 1994, pp. 96-127.
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1792: Richard Phillips, still a bookseller in Leicester,...

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1792

Richard Phillips , still a bookseller in Leicester, was imprisoned for publishing Tom Paine 's Rights of Man.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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After 1792: New legislation made acquiring wine licences...

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After 1792

New legislation made acquiring wine licences more difficult: owners of drinking establishments had now to apply to a Justice of the Peace, not merely to the Stamp Office .
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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1792: H. W. Smith and Anna Smith opened a newsagents'...

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1792

H. W. Smith and Anna Smith opened a newsagents' shop in Little Grosvenor Street, London; out of this initial enterprise grew the publishing firm of W. H. Smith .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
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Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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