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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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Mary Robinson: 20 July-2 September 1792

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20 July-2 September 1792

MR made one more trip abroad: a difficult journey (because of war) to revolutionary France: intending to visit Spa (now in Belgium), she only got as far as Calais.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
139-42

Mary Robinson: 20 July 1792

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20 July 1792

In Stanzas Written between Dover and Calais, MR bade farewell to her lover Tarleton .
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
140-1

25 July 1792: Claire Lacombe made her first speech to the...

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25 July 1792

Claire Lacombe made her first speech to the French Legislative Assembly .
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
370, 389

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 27 July 1792

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27 July 1792

Financial disaster struck Mary and Charles Lamb and their family when their father's employer, Samuel Salt of the Inner Temple, the family benefactor, died.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
74

Mary Robinson: By 30 July 1792

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By 30 July 1792

There were rumours of the imminent staging of MR 's opera Kate of Aberdeen; but it seems never to have appeared.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
59 and n86

Ann Hatton: 30 July 1792

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30 July 1792

Ann Curtis (freed from her first marriage by her husband's bigamy) married William Hatton , a widowed maker of violins, at St Marylebone in London.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives this date...

Leah Sumbel: August 1792

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August 1792

Mary Wells (later LS ), at Brighton, publicly announced her intention of publishing her Memoirs, by subscription, in four volumes.
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.

Charlotte Smith: August 1792

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August 1792

On a month-long visit to William Hayley , CS met the poet Cowper , his friend Mary Unwin , and the painter George Romney .
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
155-7

Susannah Gunning: August 1792

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August 1792

The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository printed an extract from SG 's Anecdotes of the Delborough Family.
Pitcher, Edward W. Fiction in American Magazines Before 1800. Union College Press, 1993, http://U of A, Ruth N.
A809

Susannah Gunning: By August 1792

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By August 1792

SG also published this year, with the Minerva Press , Virginius and Virginia: A Poem, In Six Parts. From the Roman History: it was also listed as for sale by Hookham .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 5 (1792): 570

Ann Hatton: By August 1792

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By August 1792

The celebrity actress Sarah Siddons learned that her long-standing illness was in fact a sexually transmitted disease which she had caught from her husband .
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.
14: 21

Percy Bysshe Shelley: 4 August 1792

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4 August 1792

PBS , the future poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, near Horsham in West Sussex, the eldest of a family of six of whom the others, all but the youngest, were girls.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

10 August 1792: The Palace of the Tuileries in Paris was...

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10 August 1792

The Palace of the Tuileries in Paris was invaded (for the second time), and Louis XVI was removed from his throne.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xii
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
63

11 August 1792: The French Legislative Assembly voted to...

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11 August 1792

The French Legislative Assembly voted to establish a National Convention elected by universal manhood suffrage.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xii

Maria Theresa Kemble: 15 August 1792

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15 August 1792

Maria De Camp (later MTK ) caught the public eye in the male role of Macheath in the Haymarket 's production of The Beggar's Opera.
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.
323

Marianne Chambers: 22 August 1792

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22 August 1792

The Eastindiaman Winterton, whose first mate was MC 's father, Charles Chambers , struck a rock at 2 a.m., seven miles off the coast of Madagascar. The ship broke up and sank the next...

Mary Harcourt: 23 August 1792-4 April 1795

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23 August 1792-4 April 1795

MH wrote letters to her sister-in-law Elizabeth, Countess Harcourt , mostly about her time with the armies (latterly the British army commanded by her husband ), fighting against the French in the Low Countries.
Neely, Matthew. “Catalogue of Papers of the Harcourt Family, 1638-1910”. Bodleian Library Online Catalogues of Archives and Manuscripts, 2010.
Harcourt, Edward William, editor. The Harcourt Papers. 1880–1905, 4 vols.
4: 322, 641

Helen Maria Williams: September 1792

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September 1792

The Critical Review published a notice on HMW 's second book about revolutionary France, Letters from France Containing Many New Anecdotes, which it found less admirable than the first.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 6 (1792) 65-72

Judith Sargent Murray: September 1792-July 1794

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September 1792-July 1794

JSM 's second series in the Massachusetts Magazine, entitled The Repository and written as Constantia, began soon after her better-known series The Gleaner, and ran for eighteen months.
Harris, Sharon M., and Judith Sargent Murray. “Introduction”. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, edited by Sharon M. Harris and Sharon M. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. xv - xliv.
xxv
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
97

September 1792: The English Baptist Missionary Society was...

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September 1792

The English Baptist Missionary Society was founded at Kettering in Northamptonshire; it led an international explosion of voluntary missionary societies.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
214
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
75
Said, Edward. “Always on Top”. London Review of Books, 20 Mar. 2003, pp. 3-6.
5

2-6 September 1792: Approximately 1,100 inmates, 223 of them...

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2-6 September 1792

Approximately 1,100 inmates, 223 of them priests and other political prisoners, were murdered in Paris prisons.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
153,158
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
262-5
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
241-4

3 September 1792: Marie-Antoinette's friend the princesse de...

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3 September 1792

Marie-Antoinette 's friend the princesse de Lamballe was guillotined, and her death manipulated to torture the queen as well as herself.
Roulston, Christine. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 2, 1998–1989, pp. 215-31.
226 and n49

Eliza Fletcher: Between 6 September 1792 and May 1802

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Between 6 September 1792 and May 1802

EF bore six children; the youngest, Mary , was born on a visit to London.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
60, 73

Eleanor Sleath: 14 September 1792

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14 September 1792

Eleanor Carter , aged probably twenty-one, married Joseph Barnabas Sleath at Calverton in Buckinghamshire (where his family lived). She was the only one of her siblings whose wedding was held away from homd.
Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. 8 May 2011, http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.

17 September 1792: When the legislature of Upper Canada first...

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17 September 1792

When the legislature of Upper Canada first met, at Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake), the Lieutenant-Governor,John Graves Simcoe proposed a method for ending slavery in the colony.
Cook, Ramsay, editor. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. http://www.biographi.ca/index2.html.