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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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Eglinton Wallace: 7 April 1794

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7 April 1794

EW dated her sequel to her previous publication: A Supplement to The Conduct of the King of Prussia, further developing her views on international politics. She used a different publisher, J. Bell .
Wallace, Eglinton. A Supplement to The Conduct of the King of Prussia. J. Bell, 1794.
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8 April 1794: Joseph Priestley emigrated to the USA to...

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8 April 1794

Joseph Priestley emigrated to the USA to escape persecution for his political and religious opinions.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
64 (1794): 320, 495, 850
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 219-20

Elizabeth Helme: By May 1794

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By May 1794

EH published with her name Duncan and Peggy: A Scottish Tale.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 14 (1795): 113

Thomas Holcroft: Later May 1794

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Later May 1794

TH was indicted for high treason under government legislation against sedition. He refused to flee abroad, but gave himself up and was confined in Newgate Prison .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
332-3

Anne Hunter: 2 May 1794

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2 May 1794

Haydn 's Six Original Canzonettas were advertised for sale with a dedication to AH , who was the anonymous author of its lyrics.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009.
50-1

Mary Martha Sherwood: By 6 May 1794

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By 6 May 1794

Eighteen-year-old Mary Martha Butt (later MMS ) published with the Minerva Press her first novel, ycleptThe Traditions: A Legendary Tale, intended to help fund Monsieur St Quintin 's new Hans Place School ...

Ann Radcliffe: 8 May 1794

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8 May 1794

AR published through Robinson her best-known gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, which netted her £500.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
93
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 11 (1794): 361

8 May 1794: Godwin finished revising his postscript to...

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8 May 1794

Godwin finished revising his postscript to Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (published later that year), altering the emphasis given when he first finished the novel on 30 April 1794.
Godwin, William. Caleb Williams. Editor Hindle, Maurice, Penguin, 1988.
xxxvii-xxxix

12 May 1794: Thomas Hardy, founder and secretary of the...

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12 May 1794

Thomas Hardy , founder and secretary of the LondonCorresponding Society , and Daniel Adams , secretary of the Society for Constitutional Information , were arrested at their homes.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
332-3

Mary Wollstonecraft: 14 May 1794

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14 May 1794

MW bore her daughter Fanny at Havre-Marat on the French coast (revolutionary name for the former Havre-de-Grace, now Le Havre), on a date then known as 25 Floréal, year ii.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
211, 213, 218-19

By mid May 1794: The First Report from the Committee of Secrecy...

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By mid May 1794

The First Report from the Committee of Secrecy was published in London. The Committee was set up to monitor and investigate potentially seditious activities by the Society for Constitutional Information (founded in April 1780)...

Anna Brownell Jameson: 19 May 1794

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19 May 1794

Anna Brownell Murphy (later ABJ ) was born in Dublin; she was the eldest of five daughters.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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23 May 1794-1 July 1795: The Habeas Corpus Act (against imprisonment...

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23 May 1794-1 July 1795

The Habeas Corpus Act (against imprisonment without trial) was suspended in a crackdown on treasonable or radical activity. John Aikin wrote that its suspension during the war years became so frequent as to be habitual...

Mary Palmer : 27 May 1794

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27 May 1794

MP died at her home at Great Torrington in Devon.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

28 May-16 June 1794: Edmund Burke made his nine-day speech, spread...

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28 May-16 June 1794

Edmund Burke made his nine-day speech, spread over the course of this period, in reply to the defence offered at the trial of Warren Hastings .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Burke

Ann Radcliffe: From late May 1794

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From late May 1794

AR , with her husband , made her one trip outside England, returning in September; later the same year she made her most extensive English journey.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
110-15

Eliza Parsons: First week in June 1794

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First week in June 1794

EP 's Lucy: A Novel, written in urgent need of money, appeared with lines about virtue on its title-page.
Parsons, Eliza, and William Windham. Letter to William Windham, 14 May [1794]. http://BL Add M3 37914.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 11 (1794): 234-5

Elizabeth Gunning: By June 1794

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By June 1794

EG published at London and Dublin her first work, The Packet, A Novel, in four volumes, as Miss Gunning (the form she continued to use).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 11 (1794): 179
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 613

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 30 June 1794

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30 June 1794

SHR 's musical Slaves in Algiers (the most popular of her seven stage pieces) had its first production at the Chesnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, for Rowson's benefit.
Montgomery, Benilde. “Slaves in Algiers: Susanna Rowsons First American Play”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Apr. 1991.

Anne Damer: Summer 1794

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Summer 1794

Mary Berry (whose social and financial position was precarious) wrote to AD in a panic to enjoin caution in face of an apparent public charge that they were lovers.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
104, 105

Susanna Watts: By July 1789

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By July 1789

SW 's perhaps most interesting translation as well as the most obscure, The Wonderful Travels of Prince Fan-Feredin, in the Country of Arcadia, was published at Dublin.
Bibliographers James Raven and Antonia Forster

Ann Thicknesse: Biography: July 1794

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July 1794

The widowed AT was released from the French convent where she had involuntarily spent nearly two years, and was enabled to travel home to England.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By July 1794: Thomas Paine published another bombshell...

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By July 1794

Thomas Paine published another bombshell for the British establishment: The Age of Reason, which set out to demolish the grounds of traditional orthodox religion.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
137

By July 1794: William Godwin published his best-known novel,...

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By July 1794

William Godwin published his best-known novel, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 11 (1794): 290-6
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
6 (1758): 170-1
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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Helen Maria Williams: 3 July 1794

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3 July 1794

After all foreigners were ordered by Robespierre to leave Paris, HMW , her family, and John Hurford Stone fled to Switzerland, where they remained for six months.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints, 1977.
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