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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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Charlotte Smith: By July 1793

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Author event in Charlotte Smith

By July 1793

CS published The Emigrants, A Poem, in Two Books.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
203
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.

July 1793: The Evangelical Magazine, an important Dissenting...

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July 1793

The Evangelical Magazine, an important Dissenting journal, 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.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
531n25

10 July 1793: In the Irish House of Lords Lord Chancellor...

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10 July 1793

In the Irish House of Lords Lord Chancellor Fitzgibbon accused Wolfe Tone (on the basis of a letter written two years previously) of favouring Irish separatism.
Tone, Theobald Wolfe. The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763-1798. Editors Moody, Theodore William et al., Clarendon, 1998, 2 vols.
1: 447-51

John Clare: 13 July 1793

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Author event in John Clare

13 July 1793

JC , labouring-class poet, was born at Helpston near Stamford in Northamptonshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

13 July 1793: Charlotte Corday, a Royalist from Normandy,...

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13 July 1793

Charlotte Corday , a Royalist from Normandy, assassinated Marat as he lay in his bath.
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.
192-4
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
64
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.
206

13 July 1793: Hoarding was made a capital crime in Fra...

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13 July 1793

Hoarding was made a capital crime in France.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiii
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
324

Frances Burney: 28 July 1793

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28 July 1793

FB and Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste de Piochard d'Arblay were married at St Michael's, Mickleham, Surrey, after weathering strong opposition.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
202

Germaine de Staël: August 1793

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August 1793

Shocked by the Reign of Terror in France, GS from her exile in Switzerland published Réflexions sur le procès de la reine: a brave anonymous pamphlet pleading for the queen 's life.
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, 2001, pp. 12-35.
25
Lonchamp, Frédéric-Charles. L’Œuvre Imprimé de Madame Germaine de Staël. Suisse, 1949.
14

10 August 1793: The Louvre in Paris opened its doors as no...

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10 August 1793

The Louvre in Paris opened its doors as no longer a royal palace but a museum, a cultural institution designed to serve the people.

23 August 1793: The French National Convention ordered a...

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23 August 1793

The French National Convention ordered a general mobilization, a levée en masse, of the male population.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiii

26 August 1793: The Revolutionary Republican Women read a...

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26 August 1793

The Revolutionary Republican Women read a petition to the French National Convention .
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
371

Anna Maria Porter: By September 1793

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Author event in Anna Maria Porter

By September 1793

AMP published the first volume of Artless Tales, begun at the age of thirteen. The second volume, although intended to accompany the first, was published by different booksellers in 1795.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 595
Porter, Anna Maria, and Sir Robert Ker Porter. Artless Tales. Printed and sold for the author by L. Wayland, 1793.
1: title-page
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
257

Eliza Parsons: By September 1793

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By September 1793

EP published another epistolary novel, Woman As She Should Be; or, Memoirs of Mrs. Menville (first of her three novels this year), with her name and mention of her three previous titles.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 9 (1793): 118

September 1793: Effigies of anti-slavery leader William Wilberforce...

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September 1793

Effigies of anti-slavery leader William Wilberforce and radical Thomas Paine were burned together at Kingston, Jamaica: Anna Maria Falconbridge witnessed this on her roundabout voyage from Africa to England.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
xvii

2 September 1793: Henrietta O'Neill, Irish writer and patron,...

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2 September 1793

Henrietta O'Neill , Irish writer and patron, died. She had opened a private theatre at her seat, Shane's Castle in County Antrim, and also supported the theatre in Belfast.
Crossley-Seymour, Aaron, and Charlotte Brooke. “A Memoir of Miss Brooke”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, J. Christie, 1816, p. 1: iii - cxxviii.
lxix note

5 September 1793: The Reign of Terror began in earnest in Paris...

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5 September 1793

The Reign of Terror began in earnest in Paris with Billaud-Varenne declaring in the National Convention that terror would be the order of the day.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
145-6
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
333-5
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
185-6
Connelly, Owen, editor. Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815. Greenwood Press, 1985.
3-4

Grace Elliott: 6 September 1793

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Author event in Grace Elliott

6 September 1793

A warrant for the arrest of GE (who had been twice examined by the Committee of Public Safety ) came to her house in Paris, not for a particular crime, but as a British...

Elizabeth Inchbald: 16 September 1793

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Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald

16 September 1793

Another radical, William Godwin , proposed marriage to EI —unsuccessfully.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
94

17 September 1793: In France the Law of Suspects authorized...

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17 September 1793

In France the Law of Suspects authorized the arrest of anyone suspected to be an enemy of the French Republic, by association or conduct.
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
120
Levy, Darline Gay et al., translators. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1975: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. University of Illinois Press, 1979.
230

Felicia Hemans: 25 September 1793

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Author event in Felicia Hemans

25 September 1793

Felicia Dorothea Browne, later FH , was born at 118 Duke Street, Liverpool.
There is some disagreement over the day on which Hemans was born. Some early sources said 1794, and some give September...

30 September 1793: Troops opened fire on citizens of Bristol...

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30 September 1793

Troops opened fire on citizens of Bristol who were demonstrating against the imposition of tolls on a bridge.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
261-2

Ann Eliza Bleecker: October 1793

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Author event in Ann Eliza Bleecker

October 1793

The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker in Prose and Verse were published, edited by her daughter Margaretta Faugeres , who was herself a writer.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.

Jane Cave: October 1793

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October 1793

JC 's poem Thoughts Occasioned by the Proceedings on Bristol-Bridge, on a violent incident when troops fired on protesters against a new toll charge, was printed at Bristol as a pamphlet in three successive versions.
Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
36
, No. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 415-31.
421

Eliza Parsons: About October 1793

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About October 1793

EP made some pretence to be translating from an exotic original in her first gothic novel, The Castle of Wolfenbach; A German Story.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 592
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : Around October 1793

Women writers item

Around October 1793

LMH took issue with Helen Maria Williams , anonymously, in the polemical Letters on the Female Mind, Its Powers and Pursuits.
Fergus, Jan. “Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins’s Anonymous Novels Identified”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
54
, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 152-6.
155
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.