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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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January 1792: A number of black people embarked at Halifax,...

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January 1792

A number of black people embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading for Sierra Leone, where they arrived (on a ship captained by John Clarkson , brother of the abolitionist) two months later.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
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1792: Charles Cooke began publishing Select British...

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1792

Charles Cooke began publishing Select British Novels, modelled on the earlier serial collection by James Harrison .
Shevlin, Elinor. “’It is the intention of the Editor’: Griffith’s, Harrison’s, and Cooke’s collections and the making of the English novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 21 Apr. 2001.

1792: Literary scholar Robert Anderson began publishing...

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1792

Literary scholar Robert Anderson began publishing his Works of the British Poets in Edinburgh.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
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1792: Mary Birket or Birkett, an Irish Quaker in...

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1792

Mary Birket or Birkett , an Irish Quaker in her late teens who was resident in England, published at Dublin in two parts A Poem on the African Slave Trade. Addressed to her Own Sex.
Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: 3 January 1792

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Author event in Mary Wollstonecraft

3 January 1792

MW handed the printer her manuscript of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which she had written in six weeks; it was quickly published.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
136, 142

Mary Hays: 10 January 1792

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10 January 1792

MH 's first publication, the controversial pamphlet Cursory Remarks on Public or Social Worship (bearing the name of Eusebia) was advertised for sale. A few copies bear the date 1791.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
313n11
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Hannah Brand: 18 January 1792

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18 January 1792

HB acted the female lead in her own tragedy Huniades at the King's Theatre in London: this was billed as her first stage appearance, ignoring the earlier one at Norwich.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
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Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins: About 21 January 1792

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Author event in Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins

About 21 January 1792

EST identified herself as the author of her previous books on the title-page of her next novel, Memoirs of a Baroness, which is a historical one.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 576
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Robinson: 31 January 1792

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31 January 1792

MR published, by subscription, her first novel, the gothic Vancenza; or, The Dangers of Credulity.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
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Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: February 1792

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February 1792

MW 's fame began: she was visited by Talleyrand (aristocratic revolutionary and the dedicatee of her Vindication of the Rights of Woman), who was on a secret mission to England from the French government.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
146-7

Susannah Gunning: February 1792

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February 1792

New sensation followed in the Gunning family: SG 's husband was sued for adultery by James Duberly (damages of £5,000 were awarded).
Gantz, Ida. The Pastel Portrait. Cresset Press, 1963.
157, 163

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: February 1792

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February 1792

Seventeen-year-old Charles Lamb (brother of Mary ), on a visit to his grandmother Mary Field at Blakesware Manor (who was now mortally ill with breast cancer), fell in love with a girl living nearby who...

Judith Sargent Murray: February 1792-August 1794

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February 1792-August 1794

JSM published a series of essays entitled The Gleaner in the Massachusetts Magazine.
Field, Vena Bernadette. Constantia: A Study of the Life and Works of Judith Sargent Murray, 1751-1820. University of Maine Press, 1931.
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February 1792: British forces defeated Tippoo Sahib at Seringapatam,...

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February 1792

British forces defeated Tippoo Sahib at Seringapatam, in the Third Mysore War.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
62
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
2: 207n3

Hannah Brand: 2 February 1792

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2 February 1792

HB took the female lead again in her hastily-revised tragedy Agmunda (its title changed from Huniades, the name of the male lead, to the name of the heroine), at the King's Theatre in London.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
381

7 February 1792: Thomas Holcroft, radical or Jacobin novelist...

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7 February 1792

Thomas Holcroft , radical or Jacobin novelist and dramatist of working-class origins (father of another future writer, Fanny Holcroft ) published his novel Anna St Ives.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. 12 Nov. 2010, http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.

Anna Maria Falconbridge: 16 February 1792

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16 February 1792

AMF arrived back in Sierra Leone on her second visit, after a voyage of two months; on the 28th her party acquired possession of the spot which is now Freetown.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria et al. “Two Voyages to Sierra Leone”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 45-168.
95

18 February 1792: Thomas Holcroft's play The Road to Ruin,...

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18 February 1792

Thomas Holcroft 's play The Road to Ruin, which Elizabeth Inchbald ranked among the most successful of modern plays,
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
xxvii-xxviii
had its premiere.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1428

Frances Reynolds : 23 February 1792

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23 February 1792

The painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (estranged brother of FR ) died of liver disease at his house in Leicester Square, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir Joshua Reynolds

Caroline Bowles: After March 1792

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After March 1792

The child CB moved with her family across the road from Buckland Manor to the smaller Buckland Cottage.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
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Elizabeth Hamilton: March 1792

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March 1792

EH 's brother died of tuberculosis, shortly before he was due to return to India after his extended home leave.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-50.
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March 1792: The Gentleman's Magazine printed an anonymous...

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March 1792

The Gentleman's Magazine printed an anonymous Protest against all the Petitions for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: more than 500 this year, from all over Great Britain.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
62 (1792): 239
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
354

March 1792: The French Legislative Assembly in Paris...

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March 1792

The French Legislative Assembly in Paris decreed deportation for priests refusing to swear allegiance to the new Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.

March 1792: The Danish parliament voted to end the slave...

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March 1792

The Danish parliament voted to end the slave trade to their West Indian colonies.
Gott, Richard. “Don’t glorify slavery ban”. Guardian Weekly, 9–15 Mar. 2007, p. 6.
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By early March 1792: According to Maria Edgeworth, 25,000 families...

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By early March 1792

According to Maria Edgeworth , 25,000 families in England had joined in the boycott against West Indian, that is slave-grown, sugar.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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