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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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12 April 1793: Foreigners in Paris, who had already become...

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12 April 1793

Foreigners in Paris, who had already become the object of surveillance, were officially prohibited from leaving the country.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
184

Anna Letitia Barbauld: About 19 April 1793

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Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld

About 19 April 1793

As a Volunteer, ALB opposed Britain's entry into war with the new Republic of France in Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation, written for an official Fast Day held on this date.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation. J. Johnson, 1793.
title-page
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlv

30 April 1793: Women were officially excluded from the revolutionary...

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30 April 1793

Women were officially excluded from the revolutionary French army.
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
370

Henrietta Battier: 1 May 1793-12 September 1794

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1 May 1793-12 September 1794

HB issued three numbers of her satirical periodical The Gibbonade. The third number promised more, which are not known.
Battier, Henrietta. The Gibbonade. 3 pt.

Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: 1 May 1793

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Author event in Elizabeth Sarah Gooch

1 May 1793

ESG wrote another dedication (this time a sonnet) to the public: of her Poems on Various Subjects, published that year with her married name.
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. Poems on Various Subjects. J. Bell, 1793.
prelims

Hannah More: By May 1793

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By May 1793

HM published, with her name, an attack on the atheism of the French Revolution: Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont . . . on the Subjects of Religion and Public Education.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 8 (1793): 54

May 1793: The British Critic: a new review, a leading...

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May 1793

The British Critic: a new review, a leading conservative periodical, began publication.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

Dorothea Primrose Campbell: 4 May 1793

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4 May 1793

DPC was born in Shetland (which she calls Zetland): perhaps at Laxford or Laxfirth. She was baptised on the 11th.
She seems to have told the Royal Literary Fund that she was one year older.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Miller, Bruce et al. Email about Dorothea Primrose Campbell to Isobel Grundy. 26 June 2003.
Walker, Constance. “Dorothea Primrose Campbell: A Newly Discovered Pseudonym, Poems and Tales”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
21
, No. 4, Nov. 2014, pp. 592-08.
598

Jane Harvey: 7 May 1793

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7 May 1793

JH dated her Epistle to a Young Lady, in which she despairs of politics and resolves to write about the spring season instead.
Harvey, Jane. Poems on Various Subjects. Akenhead and Sons, 1797.
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10 May 1793: The women's club Société des Citoyennes Républicaines...

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10 May 1793

The women's club Société des Citoyennes Républicaines Révolutionnaires was set up in Paris.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
57, 107, 113-14, 125, 151-2
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
125, 370-1

Eliza Parsons: 14 May 1793

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14 May 1793

As part of her campaign to raise subscribers for Lucy: A Novel, which she expected to publish in three weeks, EP addressed a detailed and revealing letter about her circumstances to the politician William Windham

Jane Cave: 25 May 1793

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25 May 1793

JC published in a Bristol newspaper a fifty-line poem entitled The Head-Ach; or, An Ode to Health.
McKim, Elizabeth. “Making Poetry of Pain: The Headache Poems of Jane Cave Winscom”. Literature and Medicine, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 93-108.
94

31 May-2 June 1793: Power was seized in France in a coup d'état...

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31 May-2 June 1793

Power was seized in France in a coup d'état by the faction called La Montagne or the Montagnards (mountaineers, from their seats high up in the assembly).
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.
18

Mary Wollstonecraft: June-August 1793

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June-August 1793

MW enjoyed her first real love-affair; in a small house at Neuilly near Paris, she received regular visits from her lover, Gilbert Imlay , an American citizen.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
185-90

Sarah Wentworth Morton: After June 1793

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After June 1793

Elihu Hubbard Smith edited and published American Poems, Selected and Original, the first US poetry anthology: Philenia, or SWM , with nine poems, was the only woman whose work was included.
Smith, Elihu Hubbard, editor. American Poems, Selected and Original. Collier and Buel, 1793.
v, vii
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931.
49

June 1793: An enterprising printer and freemason, John...

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June 1793

An enterprising printer and freemason, John Wharlton Bunney , put out the first number of The Free-Mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library.
Snell, Susan. “Enlightenment Females and Freemasonry”. Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, Vol.
4
, No. 1-2, 2013.

June 1793: Baptist pastor William Carey and his family...

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June 1793

Baptist pastor William Carey and his family set sail for India; Carey was the first English-speaking missionary in the sub-continent.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
223

Jane Austen: 3 June 1793

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3 June 1793

With this date JA closed Volume One of her juvenilia; it is the latest date in any of the three manuscript volumes.
Austen, Jane. Minor Works. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Revised, Oxford University Press, 1965.
75

Germaine de Staël: By early June 1793

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By early June 1793

GS left Surrey for her parents' home, Coppet in Switzerland, without her lover Narbonne , from whom she now separated.
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: 139
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, 2001, pp. 12-35.
25

Clara Reeve: 4 June 1793

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4 June 1793

This date was advertised by The Star and Daily Evening Advertiser (of 31 May 1793) as the publication day of CR 's forthcoming historical novel Memoirs of Sir Roger de Clarendon.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 595-6

Mary Scott: 5 June 1793

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5 June 1793

MS died in Bristolunder circumstances of a painfully interesting kind:
“Memoir of Mr. John Edward Taylor”. The Christian Reformer; or, Unitarian Magazine and Review, Vol.
xi
, Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1844, pp. 158-9.
158
which is to say, only three weeks before she was due to bear her third child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

24 June 1793: A new Constitution, revised from that drafted...

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24 June 1793

A new Constitution, revised from that drafted by Condorcet and Paine , was proclaimed in France.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
192
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
370

Eglinton Wallace: 28 June 1793

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28 June 1793

EW dated the conclusion of an extended political pamphlet The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez, in which she related her own war experience.
Wallace, Eglinton. The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez. 2nd Edition, J. Debrett, 1793.
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28 June 1793: The French National Assembly decreed various...

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28 June 1793

The French National Assembly decreed various kinds of state support for poor working people, including an allowance for each child under twelve.
Dunlap, Barbara J. “The Problem of Syphilitic Children in Eighteenth-Century France and England”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 114-27.
124

Helen Maria Williams: Summer 1793

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Summer 1793

HMW published Letters from France, Containing a Great Variety of Interesting and Original Information, in two volumes: without her name, since she was now living under the Terror. (Reviewers identified her anyway.)
Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press, 2002.
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Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.