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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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21 May 1792: A Royal Proclamation was issued against Seditious...

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21 May 1792

A Royal Proclamation was issued against Seditious Writings and Publications which were said to be inciting tumult and disorder against the British laws and constitution—which, it implied, were not susceptible of improvement.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Poems. J. Johnson, 1773.
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McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
319

Susanna Blamire: 22 May 1792

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22 May 1792

SB penned A Call to Hope, a poem whose hope for recovery of health is tentative, as the longer title suggests by continuing: Written after a long Illness, and not Expecting to Recover.
Blamire, Susanna. The Poetical Works. Woodstock Books, 1994.
161

31 May 1792: William Carey preached to fellow Baptist...

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31 May 1792

William Carey preached to fellow Baptist ministers from his first treatise on missionary work, entitled An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
222-3

Helen Maria Williams: Mid-1792

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Mid-1792

HMW published her second instalment of Letters from France, titled Letters from France, Containing Many New Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution and the Present State of French Manners.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Elizabeth, Smith: June 1792

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June 1792

Elizabeth Smith , aged fifteen, wrote and dated a poetic fragment which her posthumous editor, Henrietta Maria (or Harriet) Bowdler , printed in her introductory account of Smith's works.
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
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Mary Ann Parker: June 1792

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June 1792

MAP arrived in England after a voyage home from Australia which had begun in December 1791.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
xvii, 33

Mary Hays: June 1792

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June 1792

MH first met Mary Wollstonecraft at the home of Joseph Johnson .
Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, 2004, pp. xv - xx; 1.
xvi

June 1792: The Scottish Society of the Friends of the...

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June 1792

The Scottish Society of the Friends of the People , a radical group, was established in Edinburgh, a month or so after the English equivalent.
Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66.
156, 160
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
319

mid 1792-1815: These were the active years of the informal...

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mid 1792-1815

These were the active years of the informal evangelical Anglican group later called the Clapham Sect (then known as the Saints ).
Hennell, Michael. John Venn and the Clapham Sect. Lutterworth Press, 1958.
107
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
ODNB

1 June 1792: Charles James Fox's Libel Act passed the...

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1 June 1792

Charles James Fox 's Libel Act passed the House of Lords . It altered the handling of libel cases (including seditious libel) in England and Wales: juries were given the right to decide, instead...

Lady Eleanor Butler: By 4 June 1792

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By 4 June 1792

An anonymous donation of two hundred pounds saved LEB and Sarah Ponsonby from a renewed accumulation of debt.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
114

By early June 1792: Samuel Rogers anonymously published a successful...

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By early June 1792

Samuel Rogers anonymously published a successful poem in heroic couplets called The Pleasures of Memory (a title looking back to Akenside 's The Pleasures of Imagination, 1744).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

9 June 1792: Gillray published a remarkable political...

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9 June 1792

Gillray published a remarkable political cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil: personified versions of Queen Charlotte , William Pitt , and Lord Thurlow .
Hill, Draper. Mr. Gillray, the Caricaturist. Phaidon Press, 1965.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: By 14 June 1792

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By 14 June 1792

ALB anonymously published Civic Sermons to the People: Number I. She did not claim this title until 1811; doing so would have laid herself open to hostile comment on women preachers as well as...

14 June 1792: The title of radical novelist Robert Bage's...

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14 June 1792

The title of radical novelist Robert Bage 's anonymous Man As He Is, published this day, suggests the unpalatable truths revealed by reformers or satirists; it influenced later titles chosen by William Godwin and...

14 June 1792: Robert Bage anonymously published his radical...

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14 June 1792

Robert Bage anonymously published his radical novel Man As He Is, in which a young baronet learns to rise above the vices of his class.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 562

Grace Elliott: 20 June 1792

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20 June 1792

GE (who by her own account seldom missed a historic occasion) was present when Marie-Antoinette went to the theatre, the Comédie Italienne, with her two eldest children: her last public appearance before her execution.
Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press, 1955.
39-41

Charlotte Smith: 20 June 1792

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20 June 1792

CS dated the preface (an innovation for her) to Desmond: A Novel, published through G. G. J. and J. Robinson , the first of her works to be titled with a man's name.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 574
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
140, 142
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiii

Elizabeth Inchbald: 30 June 1792

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30 June 1792

EI 's farce Young Men and Old Women, an unpublished adaptation from French, was performed on stage as afterpiece to George Colman the elder 's The Suicide.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1465

Anna Maria Bennett: Summer 1792-July 1793

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Summer 1792-July 1793

AMB and her daughter were joint managers of the Theatre Royal at Edinburgh.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
108

Mary Robinson: By July 1792

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By July 1792

MR published a Monody to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 5 (1792): 349

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: Summer 1792

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Summer 1792

After Madame Terson retired, Sydney Owenson and her sister attended a finishing school, run by Mrs Anderson, in Earl Street, Dublin.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan the Novelist. Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses, 1990.
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Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1: 110

Summer 1792: In Easter Ross in Scotland, for the first...

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Summer 1792

In Easter Ross in Scotland, for the first and virtually the last time . . . an effort was made to raise the entire Highlands against the invasion of sheep and the disruption of...

10 July 1792: Captain Frederick Marryat, novelist and father...

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10 July 1792

Captain Frederick Marryat , novelist and father of Florence Marryat , was born in Great George Street, Westminster.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : By 19 July 1792

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By 19 July 1792

The Count de Hoensdern; a German Tale was in print—last of the novels now re-ascribed from Eliza Kirkham Strong (later Mathews) to LMH , and issued as by the Author of Constance etc.
Fergus, Jan. “Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins’s Anonymous Novels Identified”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
54
, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 152-6.
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Fergus, Jan. “Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins’s Anonymous Novels Identified”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
54
, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 152-6.
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