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Events Timeline
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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Ann Jebb: 13 December 1792
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Author event in Ann Jebb
13 December 1792
published Two Penny-worth of Truth for a Penny; or, A True State of Facts, With an apology for Tom Bull in a letter to brother John, a pamphlet in answer to one by...
Ann Taylor Gilbert: From December 1792
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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert
From December 1792
The young
and
had a bad few months: their
was desperately ill with rheumatic fever, and at the height of his illness their
suffered a nervous collapse.
15 December 1792: The French National Convention approved instituting...
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15 December 1792
The French
approved instituting revolutionary policies in all occupied territories.
Eliza Parsons: 18 December 1792
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Author event in Eliza Parsons
18 December 1792
applied for help to the recently founded
(later the Royal Literary Fund), detailing the various financial accidents and reverses that had so far befallen her.
Thomas Paine, 1737 - 1809: 18 December 1792
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Author event in Thomas Paine, 1737 - 1809
18 December 1792
, put on trial in London for sedition (in his absence, since he was sitting as an elected member of the
in Paris at the time), was found guilty.
Anna Maria Falconbridge: 19 December 1792
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Author event in Anna Maria Falconbridge
19 December 1792
Six months after being dismissed and replaced as chief agent of the Sierra Leone colony on what he saw as deliberately, deceitfully trumped-up charges,
's
drank himself to death.
19 December 1792: In a month of national political panic, the...
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19 December 1792
In a month of national political panic, the British
introduced an Alien Bill to limit the entry of emigrants from France.
Leah Sumbel: 28 December 1792
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Author event in Leah Sumbel
28 December 1792
Mary Wells (later
) made her last stage appearance as a regular member of an established company.
Archibald Alison: 29 December 1792
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Hannah More: Late 1792
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Author event in Hannah More
Late 1792
's Village Politics was anonymously published by
's recently-founded
; it thus preceded her other Cheap Repository Tracts.
Anna Letitia Barbauld: 1793
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Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld
1793
published The Religion of Nature, with A Short Address to the Jurymen of Great Britain.
Sarah Harriet Burney: 1793
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Author event in Sarah Harriet Burney
1793
wrote a Sonnet to Imagination, in answer to that to Indifference, which sounds like a contribution to the poetic debate begun by
.
Caroline Frances Cornwallis : 1793
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Author event in Caroline Frances Cornwallis
1793
began writing very early. She produced, between the ages of seven and thirteen, work which her mother kept and printed in 1864, after the writer's death, in a volume of her letters and unpublished...
Young, Mary Julia : 1793
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Author event in Young, Mary Julia
1793
published with her name Adelaide and Antonine: or The Emigrants: A Tale (in verse), whose protagonists flee from the French Revolution to England.
Ann Yearsley: January 1793
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Author event in Ann Yearsley
January 1793
set up a circulating library in The Crescent, also called The Colonnade, at Bristol (near Bristol Hot Wells).
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore: 1793
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Author event in Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
1793
After the divorce of
, from her second
, her Confessions were finally published.
Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1793
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Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson
1793
and her
migrated from England to Philadelphia to join
's
there.
Mary Robinson: 1793
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Author event in Mary Robinson
1793
published a second volume to complement and complete her Poems of 1791.
Her editor
dates this January 1794.
Mary Hays: By 1793
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Author event in Mary Hays
By 1793
published Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous.
The title-page date of 1793 is generally accepted by scholars. Reviews indeed clustered in that year, but opinions of friends began to be offered in August-September...
Barbara Hofland: 1793-6
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Author event in Barbara Hofland
1793-6
(later
) published in the Sheffield Courant a series of sketches later reprinted as Characteristics of Some Leading Inhabitants of Sheffield.
Sophia Lee: Probably 1793
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Author event in Sophia Lee
Probably 1793
adopted a twelve-year girl who had in effect been orphaned several times over: by the deaths of her mother, an aunt who had taken her in, and her father.
1793: William Wilberforce led an unsuccessful attempt...
1793
led an unsuccessful attempt to get the
's statutes charter amended, to commit it to furthering the work of missionaries.
1793: The liberal Dissenter Benjamin Flowers launched...
Writing climate item
1793
The liberal Dissenter
launched a periodical, the Cambridge Intelligencer; it ran until December 1800.
1793: Publishers Hookham and Carpenter opened a...
Writing climate item
1793
Publishers
and Carpenter opened a refitted version of the thirty-year-old
in Old Bond Street, promising the best people, the best books.
1793: Alexander Mackenzie made the first recorded...
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1793
made the first recorded crossing of the North American continent (first overland reaching of the Pacific), travelling in what is now Canada.