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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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6 March 1792: Pauline Léon read to the French Legislative...

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6 March 1792

Pauline Léon read to the French Legislative Assembly a petition signed by 319 women of Paris seeking to arm themselves as a national guard.
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
370, 382

Mary Bailey: Shortly before 16 March 1792

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Shortly before 16 March 1792

Mary Walker (later MB ) was born at Gestingthorpe in Essex; she was christened on this day.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Susannah Gunning: 20 March 1792

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20 March 1792

SG 's Anecdotes of the Delborough Family, A Novel, was in course of being printed at the Minerva Press .
William Lane took out newspaper advertisements to assert that the novel, now in press...

Lucy Aikin: Spring 1792

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Spring 1792

LA and her family fled
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
310
from Yarmouth, where they had been persecuted as Dissenters, to London, where they settled in Broad Street Buildings.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
310
Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
xviii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Aikin (1747-1822)

Olaudah Equiano: April 1792

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Author event in Olaudah Equiano

April 1792

OE , aged nearly fifty, married a white Englishwoman of about thirty named Susanna Cullen , at Soham in Cambridgeshire, where she lived.
Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, 2001, pp. 7-37.
35-6
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Trimmer: About April 1792

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About April 1792

Just before her husband died, ST finished writing Reflections upon the Education of Children in Charity Schools: with the Outlines of a Plan of Appropriate Instruction for the Children of the Poor . . ....

Catherine Phillips: By April 1792

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By April 1792

CP published a pamphlet entitled Considerations on the Causes of the High Price of Grain.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 4 (1792): 477

April 1792: The Marseillaise was composed in France as...

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April 1792

The Marseillaise was composed in France as a revolutionary song.
Sandock, Mollie. “’I Burn with Contempt for my Foes’: Jane Austen’s Music Collections and Women’s Lives in Regency England”. Persuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 105-17.
115

April 1792: Mobs attacked houses and mills owned by Unitarians...

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April 1792

Mobs attacked houses and mills owned by Unitarians in Nottingham; two months later, meeting-houses in Manchester were sacked, and, in November, mills in Belper.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
110

2 April 1792: William Wilberforce moved once again in the...

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2 April 1792

William Wilberforce moved once again in the House of Commons for complete abolition of the slave trade. The ensuing all-night debate ended in a victory, 230 votes to 85.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: By 5 April 1792

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By 5 April 1792

ESG issued in three volumes, printed for the Authoress
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Life of Mrs Gooch. Printed for the authoress and sold by C. and G. Kearsley, 1792, 3 vols.
prelims
and Dedicated to the Public,The Life of Mrs. Gooch.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 4 (1792): 477

Anna Margaretta Larpent: 9 April 1792

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9 April 1792

In a typical day, AML read Tom Paine to herself, and Sarah Trimmer and some Latin with her sons. She went to see the kangaroo, the Polygraphic Exhibition, and Thomas Holcroft 's Road to Ruin.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
56

Eliza Parsons: 18 April 1792

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18 April 1792

EP 's two-act comedy The Intrigues of a Morning (adapted from Molière 's Monsieur de Pourclaugnac) was produced at Covent Garden . It was printed the same year, dedicated to Mary Champion de Crespigny .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1447
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

20 April 1792: Revolutionary France declared war against...

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20 April 1792

Revolutionary France declared war against imperial Austria (later joined by Prussia) in the War of the First Coalition.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
62
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xii
Barrell, John. “To Stir up the People”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 17-19.
17

Ellis Cornelia Knight : 21 April 1792

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21 April 1792

ECK published an epistolary historical novel in two volumes called Marcus Flaminius, with a dedication to Horace Walpole , who had recently become Earl of Orford.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 568
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Eglinton Wallace: 25 April 1792

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25 April 1792

EW dated the postscript to her Letter from Lady W-ll-ce, to Captain —, of which a second edition appeared later the same year as Letter from Lady Wallace, to Capt. William Wallace aid de...

Susanna Blamire: About 28 April 1792

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About 28 April 1792

SB composed a brief poem for the wedding on this day of Johanna Gale to the Rev. Fergus Gale .
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
88

Charlotte Smith: May 1792

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May 1792

CS issued a sixth edition of her Elegiac Sonnets, with a preface containing her first printed attack on the handling of her father-in-law 's trust.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
142-3

Regina Maria Roche: May 1792

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May 1792

Regina Maria Dalton married Ambrose Roche at Rathkyran in Kilkenny, as reported in Walker's Hibernian Magazine. The bridegroom's residence was listed as Waterford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Maria Riddell : Probably early May 1792

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Probably early May 1792

MR published at Edinburgh her first book, Voyages to the Madeira and Leeward Caribbean Isles: with sketches of the natural history of these islands.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
33-5
Burns, Robert. Letters. Editors Ferguson, J. De Lancey and G. Ross Roy, Second edition, Clarendon Press, 1985, 2 vols.
2: 159

Charlotte Lennox: May 1792

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May 1792

CF turned for help in her dire financial predicament to the recently founded Royal Literary Fund . They paid her ten guineas then, twelve guineas to send her son to Virginia, and further payments.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
328
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Anna Letitia Barbauld: May 1792

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May 1792

In Remarks on . . . the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social WorshipALB answered a pamphlet by Gilbert Wakefield , published in 1791. The title-page did not at first bear her name...

11 May 1792: Fox again proposed in the House of Commons...

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11 May 1792

Fox again proposed in the House of Commons that civil rights should be extended to Dissenters ; Burke, who had defended Dissenters in the past, furiously disagreed.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
150-1

11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...

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11 May 1792

Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics , Presbyterian s, Quakers , and others.
De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 577-00.
595

Charlotte Brooke: Mid-May 1792

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Mid-May 1792

CB published at Dublin a corrected third edition in two volumes of the writings of her father, Henry Brooke (the sentimental novelist, dramatist, and poet), under the title The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke, Esq...