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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 September 1792: Lord Macartney's embassy to China departed...

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21 September 1792

Lord Macartney 's embassy to China departed from England, to arrive at its first Chinese destination on 24 May 1793.
Singer, Aubrey. The Lion and the Dragon. Barrie and Jenkins, 1992.
6, 7

21-22 September 1792: The French National Convention proclaimed...

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21-22 September 1792

The French National Convention proclaimed that the monarchy was abolished and that France was now a Republic.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xii
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
271
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
196

22 September 1792: Year 1 of the first French Republic was proclaimed...

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22 September 1792

Year 1 of the first French Republic was proclaimed and the revolutionary calendar came into use: it lasted till 1 January 1806.
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
217

Leah Sumbel: By 28 September 1792

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By 28 September 1792

Mary Wells (later LS ) was back in England after a period in Calais, where she had fled to escape her debts.
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.
Sumbel, Leah. Memoirs. C. Chapple, 1811, 3 vols.
1: 126-7

Maria Edgeworth: October 1792

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October 1792

ME visited her old schoolfriend Fanny Hoare and her husband Charles in Roehampton near London.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
107

Mariana Starke: October 1792

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October 1792

MS , travelling with one or more consumptive relations, reached Nice just in time to see it fall to the French revolutionary armies; they then backtracked, crossing the Alps to Geneva.
Starke, Mariana. Letters from Italy. R. Philips, 1800, 2 vols.
1: 25
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
29 (1800): 195

October-November 1792: News of the prison massacres in France turned...

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October-November 1792

News of the prison massacres in France turned moderate English opinion against the Revolution.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
153-4

Maria De Fleury: Just before 2 October 1792

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Just before 2 October 1792

MDF died in London aged only forty. She was buried on this date in the Dissenters' burial grounds at Bunhill Fields, near where she lived.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Maria de Fleury. 10 Mar. 2016.

8 October 1792: Mary Haydock, aged fifteen and newly transported...

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8 October 1792

Mary Haydock , aged fifteen and newly transported to Sydney Cove, Australia, for trying to sell a stolen horse, wrote home to her aunt about her present unhappy situation.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
154-5

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 15 October 1792

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15 October 1792

SHR made her only recorded London stage performance. She and her husband probably travelled England with a touring company.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Beverley: By late 1792

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By late 1792

EB must have been born, since her age was given as forty at the time of her death in November 1832.
“Reverse of Fortune”. The Guardian and Public Ledger, 22 Nov. 1832.

Charlotte Smith: November-December 1792

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November-December 1792

CS , despite her difficult financial circumstances, began offering a temporary home to refugees from France.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
191

Charlotte Smith: November 1792

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November 1792

While at Brighton, CS wrote three poems about people living in poverty: The dead beggar, an elegy, The female exile, and Written for the benefit of a distressed player.
Smith, Charlotte. The Poems of Charlotte Smith. Editor Curran, Stuart, Oxford University Press, 1993.
96-102

Charlotte Smith: 2 November 1792

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2 November 1792

CS wrote a personal letter to Joel Barlow , American poet and honorary French citizen, in an appeal for political reconciliation.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
192

Later November 1792: John Reeves set up the Association for Preserving...

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Later November 1792

John Reeves set up the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (which was called for short simply the Association).
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
179
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
330n66

Helen Maria Williams: 18 November 1792

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18 November 1792

HMW 's associate John Hurford Stone celebrated the new Republic at a British Club dinner party in Paris: Lord Edward Fitzgerald toasted radical writers (including Williams, Anna Letitia Barbauld , and Charlotte Smith ).
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
284
Keen, Paul. “Review”. Eighteenth Century Fiction, Vol.
14
, No. 2, Jan. 2002, pp. 229-35.
234
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
47

Ann Thicknesse: Biography: 19 November 1792

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19 November 1792

AT 's husband Philip Thicknesse suffered a seizure and died in a travelling carriage on the road near Boulogne in France.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Philip Thicknesse

Mary Wollstonecraft: December 1792-January 1793

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December 1792-January 1793

MW worked at a paper for the Education Committee of the French Convention .
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
174

Clara Reeve: By December 1792

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By December 1792

CR published Plans of Education; with Remarks on the Systems of other Writers. Despite the title, this book subsumes its social message in the form of a novel, a sequel to The School for Widows.
Kelly, Gary. “Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 105-25.
118
Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977.
xxi
Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research, 1985.
372

Harriet Lee: December 1792-January 1793

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December 1792-January 1793

Charlotte, eldest sister of Sophia and HL , created a local scandal by marrying a man whom they considered her social inferior.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xxxiii, xlvii

Hannah More: 5 December 1792

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5 December 1792

William Waller Pepys wrote, backed by Elizabeth Montagu , to press HM to exert her talents for the good of your Country (Which is in great Peril) by writing a Dialogue between two persons of...

11 December 1792: Louis XVI went on trial before the National...

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11 December 1792

Louis XVI went on trial before the National Convention in Paris.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
158
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
283

Charlotte Dacre: 12 December 1792

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12 December 1792

John King , father of CD and Sophia King , dated a letter to Tom Paine on political developments in France.
King, John, 1753 - 1824, and Thomas, 1737 - 1809 Paine. Mr King’s Speech at Egham. Printed by C. Boult for J. Debrett , 1793.
10-16

Mary Wollstonecraft: December 1792-June 1793

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December 1792-June 1793

MW lived in or near revolutionary Paris.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
157-8, 188

Catherine Phillips: 12 December 1792

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12 December 1792

CP wrote from RedruthTo the Lower Class of People in the Western Part of the County of Cornwall, published at London next year.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.