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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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January 1794: The Dublin United Irishmen made public their...

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January 1794

The DublinUnited Irishmen made public their plan to introduce universal manhood suffrage.
Curtin, Nancy J. The United Irishmen: Popular Politics in Ulster and Dublin 1791-1798. Clarendon, 1994.
25-6

1794: Margaret Coghlan, Daughter of the Late Major...

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1794

Margaret Coghlan , Daughter of the Late Major Moncrieffe, published her memoirs in two volumes.
Adam Matthew Publications. http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/womens_autobiographies_parts_1_and_2/Detailed-Listing-Part-1.aspx.

January 1794: The Protestant Dissenter's Magazine began...

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January 1794

The Protestant Dissenter's Magazine began publication: although it was moderate rather than radical, it took a strong line against the war with France.
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
25
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

1794-1802: With engravings by N. Heideloff, the Gallery...

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1794-1802

With engravings by N. Heideloff , the Gallery of Fashion appeared monthly, featuring hand-coloured aquatints of current fashions.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
2
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.

Anne Grant: 2 January 1794

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Author event in Anne Grant

2 January 1794

AG responded to what she acknowledged as Mary Wollstonecraft 's considerable powers, feeling and rectitude of intention
qtd. in
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.
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 3 vols.
2: 268
with fierce resistance to her opinions.
qtd. in
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.

Maria Riddell : 12 January 1794

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12 January 1794

Burns returned the loan of MR 's commonplace-book, which he had read, he said, with much pleasure,
qtd. in
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
52
just after the mysterious event which gave serious offence on both sides, and was to keep them...

Anne Grant: February 1794

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February 1794

AG , just back at home after a visit, composed a jaunty verse epistle describing her return, A Journal from Glasgow to Laggan, addressed to Mrs F—.
Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir, 1803.
159-218

4 February 1794: Slavery was abolished throughout France and...

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4 February 1794

Slavery was abolished throughout France and its colonies. From this year until 1804 (two years after Napoleon re-instituted slavery under French jurisdiction), the struggle for abolition virtually lapsed in England.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
x
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
86
Popkin, Jeremy D. “Race, Slavery, and the French and Haitian Revolutions”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 113-22.
115, 117
Edwards, Brent Hayes. “Inside the Barrel”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 17, 10 Sept. 2009, pp. 23-4.
23

Mary Robinson: 14 February 1794

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14 February 1794

MR published another novel, The Widow; or, A Picture of Modern Times. She thanked that Public, and those Liberal Critics, who have so highly distinguished my Former Productions
qtd. in
Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 14-117.
113
in a dedication.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii

Jane Austen: 22 February 1794

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22 February 1794

Jean-François Capotte, comte de Feuillide, husband of JA 's loved and admired older cousin Eliza de Feuillide , was guillotined in Paris.
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
4

Anna Letitia Barbauld: On or after 28 February 1794

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On or after 28 February 1794

An anonymous pamphlet entitled Reasons for National Penitence (reacting against a national Fast Day called to foster religious fervour about the war with France) is sometimes ascribed to ALB .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Eliza Nugent Bromley: After March 1794

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After March 1794

ENB for the first time set her name to her third epistolary fiction, Ivey Castle, a novel containing interesting memoirs of two ladies, late nuns in a French abolished convent,
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“1784”. Handel Reference Database, Stanford University, http://web.stanford.edu/~ichriss/HRD/1784.htm.
5 March 1784

Maria Riddell : By spring 1794

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By spring 1794

MR and her husband found themselves in much reduced financial circumstances. Their estate, Woodley Park, was said to be put up for sale (or rather have reverted to the original owner because never fully...

1 March 1794: The Biographical Magazine began publication;...

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1 March 1794

The Biographical Magazine began publication; it ran till 2 May 1796.
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.

Ann Hatton: 3 March 1794

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3 March 1794

Tammany; or, The Indian Chief, with a libretto entirely by AH , opened in New York: it was the first American (serious) opera on a native Indian subject.
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.
17

Anna Maria Bennett: 12 March 1794

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12 March 1794

AMB dated the Apology to her novel Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel, published with the Minerva Press , which appeared within a couple of months.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
233
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 608

Hannah Brand: 20 March-21 May 1794

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20 March-21 May 1794

HB acted in Tate Wilkinson 's company in York. The audience, women especially, ridiculed her provincial accent and old-fashioned clothes.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Sarah Pearson : Later March 1794

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Later March 1794

S. Pearson's only novel, an it-narrative entitled The Medallion, was advertised as in print, dedicated to the Prince of Wales . The author must be the Sheffield poet; the publisher's receipt gives her...

Dorothy Wordsworth: April 1794

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April 1794

DW took the first of many walking tours with her brother William : from Kendal to Grasmere (eighteen miles) and from Grasmere to Keswick (fifteen miles).
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 243

Anne Grant: Spring 1795

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Spring 1795

AG composed a long poem entitled The Highlanders, or Sketches of Highland Scenery and Manners, with some Reflections on Emigration, Written during the author's recovery from a long illness.
Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir, 1803.
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Elizabeth Helme: By April 1794

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By April 1794

EH adapted a classic text (the actual translation was not her own): Plutarch 's Lives Abridged, in a form Calculated for the Instruction of Youth
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 13 (1794): 391

April 1794: Thomas Walker, leading Manchester cotton...

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April 1794

Thomas Walker , leading Manchester cotton merchant and founder of the Constitutional Society there, was acquitted on a trumped-up charge of conspiring to subvert the constitution.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
139

Hester Lynch Piozzi: Probably 3 April 1794

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Probably 3 April 1794

HLP published British Synonymy, a work on the meanings of words, something between a thesaurus and a dictionary.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
369-70

Susanna Blamire: 5 April 1794

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5 April 1794

SB died at 14 Finkle Street, Carlisle, almost certainly of rheumatic heart disease, at the age of forty-seven.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
110, 135

5 April 1794: In France, Robespierre had his two erstwhile...

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5 April 1794

In France, Robespierre had his two erstwhile friends and associates Desmoulins and Danton guillotined.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.