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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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January 1793-December 1794: An Irish literary journal, Anthologia Hibernica...

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January 1793-December 1794

An Irish literary journal, Anthologia Hibernica or, Monthly Collections of Science, Belles Lettres and History, was published at Dublin.
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.

1793: Nicolas Dubois de Chemant, French chemist,...

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1793

Nicolas Dubois de Chemant , French chemist, began manufacturing porcelain dentures in England.
Burton, Elizabeth, and Felix Kelly. The Georgians at Home. Arrow Books, 1973.
334

January 1793: Hester Piozzi reported the indignant melancholy...

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January 1793

Hester Piozzi reported the indignant melancholy of the actress Sarah Siddons , who had been infected with syphilis by her husband.
Stewart, Mary Margaret. “’And Blights with Plagues the Marriage Hearse’: Syphilis and Wives”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 103-13.
105, 110

1793: William Freind argued in Peace and Union...

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1793

William Freind argued in Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans against the union of Church and state.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1793: The Jardin des Plantes, the world's first...

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1793

The Jardin des Plantes , the world's first public zoo, opened in Paris, France.
Rothfels, Nigel. Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
18-19

Eliza Parsons: 2 January 1793

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Author event in Eliza Parsons

2 January 1793

EP suffered a compound fracture of her left leg. She spent five months in bed. Seventeen months after the accident she was still in constant pain, unable to go out except in a carriage.
Parsons, Eliza, and William Windham. Letter to William Windham, 14 May [1794]. http://BL Add M3 37914.
Morton, Karen. A Life Marketed as Fiction. An Analysis of the Works of Eliza Parsons. Valancourt Books, 2011.
8

Elizabeth Griffith: 5 January 1793

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5 January 1793

EG died at her son's estate at Millicent, County Kildare, Ireland.
Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii.
xxxii

5 January 1793: The Norwich Mercury printed a rousing poetical...

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5 January 1793

The Norwich Mercury printed a rousing poetical Address to Britons by Ann Francis, who was its most frequent and significant verse contributor.
Chandler, David. “’The Athens of England’: Norwich as a Literary Center in the Late Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
43
, No. 2, 1 Dec. 2010–28 Feb. 2011, pp. 171-92.
185

Anna Maria Falconbridge: 7 January 1793

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7 January 1793

Within three weeks of the death of her abusive first husband , AMF got married again, to Isaac DuBois , a financially ruined white loyalist from North Carolina who worked for the Sierra Leone Company .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
xvii
Falconbridge, Anna Maria et al. “Two Voyages to Sierra Leone”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 45-168.
125

Germaine de Staël: 20 January 1793

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20 January 1793

GS , exiled from revolutionary France with other constitutional monarchists, arrived at the refuge she had organised: Juniper Hall near Mickleham in Surrey.
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, 2001, pp. 12-35.
23
Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
2: ix

21 January 1793: Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in Paris...

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21 January 1793

Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in Paris after trial by the French National Convention .
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiii
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
170
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
285
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
272

Frances Burney: 22 January 1793

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22 January 1793

FB first met Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste de Piochard d'Arblay , a refugee from revolutionary France.
Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
2: 7

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Late January 1793

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Late January 1793

ALB collaborated with her brother again in volumes 1 and 2 of his Evenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened, which reached six volumes in 1796. Her fourteen items (among nearly a hundred)...

Ann Jebb: 26 January 1793

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26 January 1793

AJ published her second John Bull tract, Two Penny-worth More of Truth for a Penny. Being a second letter from — Bull to Brother John.
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
664n
qtd. in
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Elizabeth Inchbald: 29 January 1793

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29 January 1793

Every One Has His Fault, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden , after being postponed for a week for fear of coinciding with the guillotining of Louis XVI of France .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1516-17
OQuinn, Daniel. “Bread: The Eruption and Interruption of Politics in Elizabeth Inchbalds Every One Has His FaultEuropean Romantic Review, Vol.
18
, No. 2, Apr. 2007, pp. 149-57.
O'Quinn 149

29 January 1793: William Wordsworth published two early poems,...

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29 January 1793

William Wordsworth published two early poems, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.
Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
8

Eliza Fenwick: February 1793

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February 1793

EF 's husband, John Fenwick , visited Paris with secret overtures from English radicals to the National Convention .
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
8

Anna Seward: February 1793

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February 1793

The month after Louis XVI was guillotined, AS expressed her outrage at the developing Terror in France with an impassioned letter printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, urging her friend Helen Maria Williams to come home.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
200-1

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: February 1793

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February 1793

Mary and Charles Lamb moved with their parents and their aunt from their beloved Inner Temple to a shared house nearby at 7 Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
75
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

After 1 February 1793: An organisation calling itself the Friends...

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After 1 February 1793

An organisation calling itself the Friends of Peace began campaigning in tracts and pamphlets against the war with France (declared on this day).
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
23-4, 37

1 February 1793: Britain and revolutionary France declared...

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1 February 1793

Britain and revolutionary France declared war on each other; France also declared war on Holland. For Britain this opened a period of more than twenty years' almost unremitting warfare.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
180
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
290
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
207

February 1793: William Godwin published his Enquiry Concerning...

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February 1793

William Godwin published his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, a radical text which was highly influential, not least for Godwin's future son-in-law Percy Bysshe Shelley .
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.
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
149

By February 1793: John Burton's Lectures on Female Education...

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By February 1793

John Burton 's Lectures on Female Education and Manners was published.
Burton, John. “Lectures on Female Education and Manners”. Classics in the Education of Girls and Women, edited by Shirley Nelson Kersey, Scarecrow Press, 1981.
185
Kersey, Shirley Nelson, editor. Classics in the Education of Girls and Women. Scarecrow Press, 1981.
184-91

Ann Yearsley: 9 February 1793

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9 February 1793

AY published Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
213

10 February 1793: The president of the Dijon women's club published...

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10 February 1793

The president of the Dijon women's club published a reasoned argument for the freedom and equality of women.
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
289, 370