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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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15 February 1793: The feminist Condorcet submitted his plan...

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15 February 1793

The feminist Condorcet submitted his plan for a new Constitution for France; it was rejected.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Charlotte Lennox: By 17 February 1793

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By 17 February 1793

James Boswell drafted for CLProposals for Publishing a New and Improved Edition of Shakspeare Illustrated; this edition was never completed.
Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
338
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 4, Oct. 1971, pp. 416-35.
421

18 February 1793: Roman Catholic freeholders in Ireland were...

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18 February 1793

Roman Catholic freeholders in Ireland were enfranchised by the Catholic Relief Act, introduced into the British Parliament on this day.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
119
Keenan, Desmond. The Grail of Catholic Emancipation 1793 to 1829. XLibris, 2002.
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18 February 1793: A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts...

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18 February 1793

A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts of the infamous Penal Laws operative in Ireland. Either J. S. Anna Liddiard or her husband wrote in 1819 that this was the source of the improvement...

Catherine Cuthbertson: 25 February 1793

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25 February 1793

A play entitled Anna opened at Drury Lane , ascribed to Miss Cuthbertson.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
385

Charlotte Smith: 28 February 1793

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28 February 1793

CS published her currently best-known novel, The Old Manor House.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 597
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
140
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiii

Anna Seward: March 1793

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March 1793

AS contributed to debate on Boswell 's Life of Johnson with extracts in the Gentleman's Magazine from her correspondence about Johnson with William Hayley , dating from 1782.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
143, 201-3

Mary Robinson: By March 1793

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By March 1793

MR published her Ode to the Harp of the Late Accomplished and Amiable Louisa Hanway.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 7 (1793): 353

Sarah Green: By March 1793

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SG anonymously published her second work, an epistolary conduct-book entitled Mental Improvement for a Young Lady, on her Entrance into the World, Addressed to a Favourite Niece.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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Janet Little: By March 1793

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By March 1793

JL married John Richmond , a widowed labourer twenty years older than herself.
Lindsay, Maurice. The Burns Encyclopaedia. Hutchinson, 1959.
Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, 1843 - 1921, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, http://BARD.
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March 1793: Thomas Holcroft, in his Monthly review of...

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March 1793

Thomas Holcroft , in his Monthly review of Robert Bage 's recent Man As He Is, made disparaging remarks about young ladies who write novels, as well as those who read them; he may...

Elizabeth, Smith: 2 March 1793

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2 March 1793

The family of Elizabeth Smith received the news that the father, banker George Smith , had an execution for bankruptcy against him at his house in Bath.
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
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4 March 1793: Edwin Griffith wrote in a copy of Tommy Trip's...

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4 March 1793

Edwin Griffith wrote in a copy of Tommy Trip's Valentine Gift, 1785: Edwin Griffith the gift of his wife . . . . I shall keep this book as Long as it is in being.
Jackson, Heather. Marginalia: Readers’ Notes in Books, 1700-2000. Yale University Press, 2001.

7 March 1793: Revolutionary France declared war on Spa...

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7 March 1793

Revolutionary France declared war on Spain.
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
218

10 March 1793: The Vendée revolt began as counter-revolutionary...

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10 March 1793

The Vendée revolt began as counter-revolutionary peasants rose against the French government's demand for army volunteers: the day after this saw a massacre of five hundred people.
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
301-2, 321
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiv
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32.
196 and n7, 199, 225n11

Mary Wollstonecraft: 12 March 1793

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12 March 1793

Some critics think that The Emigrants, a novel published on this day with the name of MW 's lover Gilbert Imlay , may in fact be her work.
Cole, John R. “Imlays Ghost: Wollstonecrafts Authorship of The EmigrantsEighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 263-98.
265
Green, Katherine Sobba. The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820: A Feminized Genre. University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
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Janet Little: 16 March 1793

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16 March 1793

Frances Anna Dunlop made her final mention of JL in her correspondence with Burns : a fierce reproof for his contemptuous response to Little's Poetical Works.
Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, 1843 - 1921, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, http://BARD.
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Charlotte Brooke: 29 March 1793

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29 March 1793

CB died of a malignant fever.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Crossley-Seymour, Aaron, and Charlotte Brooke. “A Memoir of Miss Brooke”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, J. Christie, 1816, p. 1: iii - cxxviii.
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Sarah Austin: 1 April 1793

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1 April 1793

Sarah Taylor (later SA ) was born in Norwich.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985.
203
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Susanna Blamire: April 1793

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April 1793

SB seems to have been writing her last datable poems about now, a year before she died. Several concern the fragility of her own health.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
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Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
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Mary Whateley Darwall: Spring 1793

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Spring 1793

MWD with her daughters moved to Newtown in Wales: a place both cheap and beautiful.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
178

April 1793: The Committee of Public Safety was set up...

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April 1793

The Committee of Public Safety was set up in Paris to guide the National Convention .
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
185
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
197
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
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Maria Callcott: 3 April 1793

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3 April 1793

Maria Dundas, aged seven (later MC ), began attending a school which occupied the Manor House at Draycot in Berkshire, run by the Miss Brights, who prided themselves on having been friends of Samuel Johnson .
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Grace Elliott: 4 April 1793

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4 April 1793

GE was arrested at her house in Paris, for possessing a letter addressed to Charles James Fox , which had been sent to her by Sir Godfrey Webster from Naples, in hopes that she...

9 April 1793: The Traitorous Correspondence Act made it...

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9 April 1793

The Traitorous Correspondence Act made it a treasonable offence for Britons to supply the French government with arms, etc., or to purchase (or lend money to purchase) land or funds in France.
Emsley, Clive. British Society and the French Wars, 1793-1815. Macmillan, 1979.
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