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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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Anne Hunter: October 1793

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October 1793

John Hunter , surgeon and scientist, husband of AH , collapsed and died after an attack of the angina from which he had suffered for twenty years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

October 1793: A British Convention on manhood suffrage...

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October 1793

A British Convention on manhood suffrage was held in Edinburgh, bringing together delegates from the LondonCorresponding Society and Scottish delegates of the Society for Constitutional Information .
Emsley, Clive. British Society and the French Wars, 1793-1815. Macmillan, 1979.
24
Epstein, James. “Great Palladium”. London Review of Books, 7 Sept. 2000, pp. 25-6.
25

Hannah Cowley: 4 October 1793

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4 October 1793

HC composed, at Southampton, her poem On Reading the Verses of Lady Manners to Solitude.
Women Writers of the (long) English Regency. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts, 2009.

Mary Tighe: 5 October 1793

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5 October 1793

Mary Blachford married her cousin Henry Tighe .
Weller, Earle Vonard, and Mary Tighe. “Introduction / Memoir of Mary Tighe”. Keats and Mary Tighe, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966, p. vii - xxi.
xviii

Anna Maria Falconbridge: 9 October 1793

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9 October 1793

AMF and her second husband reached Dover, England, having returned from Sierra Leone via Kingston, Jamaica.
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.
132

10 October 1793: William Blake dated and issued his Prospectus...

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10 October 1793

William Blake dated and issued his Prospectus (now lost) of works for sale, including a joint Songs of Innocence and Experience.
Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000.
27, 122
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Helen Maria Williams: 12 October 1793

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12 October 1793

HMW , because of her English citizenship and her pro-Girondin, anti-Jacobin stance in the French Revolution, was arrested and sent to the Luxembourg in Paris (at this time a prison), along with her mother and sister .
Williams, Helen Maria. “Introduction and Chronology”. Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, edited by Neil Fraistat and Susan Sniader Lanser, Broadview, 2001, pp. 9-52.
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Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
55
Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints, 1977.
91-2

Hannah More: 12 October 1793

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12 October 1793

Two of HM 's Sacred Dramas, Daniel and Moses in the Bulrushes, were produced at Doncaster.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
394

16 October 1793: Marie-Antoinette was guillotined....

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16 October 1793

Marie-Antoinette was guillotined.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
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Hunt, Lynn. “The Many Bodies of Marie-Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution”. The French Revolution in Social and Political Perspective, edited by Peter, 1949 - Jones, Arnold, 1996, pp. 268-84.
268-78

Anne Burke: 24 October 1793

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24 October 1793

A play was put on at Covent Garden entitled The Ward of the Castle and ascribed to Miss Burke. Several sources ascribe this to AB , but she was a married woman, and would...

30 October 1793: The French National Convention prohibited...

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30 October 1793

The French National Convention prohibited women's clubs and societies.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
160
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
198

Lady Anne Barnard: 31 October 1793

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31 October 1793

Lady Anne Lindsay , aged forty-two, stood the world's smile by marrying a man about twelve years younger than herself, Andrew Barnard , son of the Bishop of Limerick.
Crawford, Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, twenty-fifth Earl of. Lives of the Lindsays. 2nd ed., John Murray, 1858, 3 vols.
2: 383
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Susannah Gunning: 1 November 1793

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1 November 1793

SG published Memoirs of Mary, A Novel, which more clearly fictionalises her recent family dispute, both in the novel itself and in a lengthy concluding verse: An Allegory.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 586

Ann Hatton: By November 1793

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By November 1793

AH and William Hatton , her second husband, landed in New York. The suggestion of emigrating had been his.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
7: 173
Henderson, Jim. “Ann of Swansea: a life on the edge”. National Library of Wales Journal, Vol.
34
, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-47.
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3 November 1793: Olympe de Gouges, revolutionary and feminist...

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3 November 1793

Olympe de Gouges , revolutionary and feminist writer, was guillotined in Paris.
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
371

Margaret Holford, the elder: 5 November 1793

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5 November 1793

A second book by Margaret Holford the elder , the 6-volume, epistolary Selima, or the Village Tale, A Novel, was advertised as just out, printed and sold for the authoress by Hookham in London...

8 November 1793: Manon Roland, formerly regarded as a leader...

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8 November 1793

Manon Roland , formerly regarded as a leader of the Girondins or moderate revolutionaries (often known as Madame Roland), was guillotined in Paris.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
208
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
154

10 November 1793: The Festival of Reason was celebrated in...

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10 November 1793

The Festival of Reason was celebrated in ceremonials all over France; twelve days later Catholic churches in Paris were closed down.
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.
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Eliza Parsons: Late 1793

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Late 1793

EP 's Ellen and Julia. A Novel followed not more than a month or two behind The Castle of Wolfenbach, which it mentions with the author's name on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 592-3
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Frances Burney: By December 1793

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By December 1793

FB published a pamphlet to raise money: Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant French Clergy: Earnestly Submitted to the Humane Consideration of the Ladies of Britain.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Jane West: By December 1793

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By December 1793

JW published with the Minerva Press , under the name of the fictional Prudentia Homespun, The Advantages of Education, or, The History of Maria Williams. A Tale for Misses and their Mammas.
Prudentia...

Eliza Kirkham Mathews: By December 1793

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By December 1793

An unknown Mrs Mathews printed for the Author, through S. Low , a novel called Simple Facts; or, The History of an Orphan; this cannot be the future EKM , who was not...

Mary Robinson: 13 December 1793

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13 December 1793

MR published her Monody to the Memory of the Late Queen of France.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii

Ann Hatton: 26 December 1793

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26 December 1793

Needs Must; or, The Ballad Singers was staged in New York with contributions by AH to Mary Ann Pownall 's libretto.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
7: 173
Henderson, Jim. “Ann of Swansea: a life on the edge”. National Library of Wales Journal, Vol.
34
, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-47.
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30 December 1793: The botanist and collector Anna Blackburne...

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30 December 1793

The botanist and collector Anna Blackburne died: the Gentleman's Magazine obituary praised her scientific work as well as her virtues.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
64 (1794): 180