Cave, Jane. Poems on Various Subjects. 4th ed., N. Biggs, 1794.
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Regina Maria Roche: Late 1793
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Late 1793
The future
published her second novel, The Maid of the Hamlet, under her birth name (though she was in fact already married) and dedicated to the remarkable
.
Roche's dedicatee...
Jane Cave: 1794
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1794
published, through
of Bristol, a fourth edition of her Poems on Various Subjects.
Hannah Cowley: 1794
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1794
's romance Edwina. A Poem was published in
's The History of the County of Cumberland, volume two.
Eliza Fay: 1794
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1794
, back in England after her second sojourn in Calcutta, engaged in trade with Boston.
Ann Yearsley: January 1794
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Mary Wollstonecraft: 1784
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1784
set up a school at Newington Green, then a village outside London, with both her sisters and
.
Eglinton Wallace: About 1794
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About 1794
set her name to A Sermon addressed to the People, pointing out the only sure Method to obtain a speedy Peace and Reform.
Priscilla Wakefield: 1794-1796
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1794-1796
, in her early forties, published her first work to reach completion, the historical Leisure Hours; or, Entertaining Dialogues between Persons Eminent for Virtue and Magnanimity, through
, in two...
Priscilla Wakefield: 1794-1797
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1794-1797
published with her name, through
, Mental Improvement; or, The Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art, conveyed in a series of Instructive Conversations.
Eleanor Tatlock: 1794
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1794
wrote the first poem which bears a date in her published collection: a polemic against novels.
Germaine de Staël: 1794
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1794
published her short story Zulma, about a woman betrayed; she said this work belongs to my very soul.
Germaine de Staël: 1794
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1794
The first edition of
's Réflexions sur la paix: adressées à
et aux françois was published anonymously; a later edition appeared in Geneva, Switzerland.
Charlotte Smith: By January 1794
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By January 1794
published a sequel to The Old Manor House, a novel in the unusually short form (for her) of a single volume: The Wanderings of Warwick.
Anna Seward: 1794
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1794
refused an invitation from radical publisher
to write a poem deploring the political condition of the country.
Anna Maria Porter: By 1794
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By 1794
and her family moved to London, near Leicester Square, because of their mother's ambition for their painter-brother,
.
Jane Harvey: 1794
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1794
published by subscription at Newcastle, as a young Lady, A Sentimental Tour through Newcastle: an early guidebook.
Mary Hays: 1794
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1794
, delighted with her own independence, moved out of her mother's house to lodgings at Paragon Place, Blackheath. This ushered in a string of frequent moves from one London-area address to another.
Isabella Kelly: 1794
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1794
published, with her name, her well-subscribed A Collection of Poems and Fables.
Mary Leadbeater: 1794
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1794
published, anonymously at Dublin, her first book, the pedagogical Extracts and Original Anecdotes for the Improvement of Youth.
Alethea Lewis: 1794
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1794
Some years after her abortive attempt to settle with her
in the USA,
anonymously published her first novel: an epistolary work in four volumes, by subscription: Vicissitudes in Genteel Life.
1794: The revenues of Bengal were effectively vested...
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1794
The revenues of Bengal were effectively vested in Britain by the Permanent Settlement.
1794: The patent obtained by American Eli Whitney...
1794
The patent obtained by American
for the recently-developed mechanical cotton gin (or ginny) made no mention of
. She had initiated, funded, and collaborated on the invention; it helped fuel...
1794: In his General View of the County of Westmorland,...
1794
In his General View of the County of Westmorland,
reported that although generally horse work was men's work, in Westmorland women often drove teams of three or four harnessed to ploughs or...
1794: Sophia, Lady Burrell (with a play and a poetry...
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1794
(with a play and a poetry volume behind her, and further plays and a novel ahead), published her most unusual work, The Thymbriad, an epyllion based on
's Cyropaedia.
1794: The Cymreigyddion Society (a branch of the...
1794
The
(a branch of the Gwyneddigion Society), was founded in London by twelve male Welsh residents for the purposes of holding political debates, in Welsh, on radical topics which were at this time...