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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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Amelia Opie: Just before 15 July 1794

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Just before 15 July 1794

Amelia Alderson (later AO ) wrote and delivered a Jacobin-leaning speech at Norwich.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
ix-x, xxvi

27 July 1794: The guillotining of Robespierre signalled...

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27 July 1794

The guillotining of Robespierre signalled an end to the Terror in France.
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
136
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
220

Isabella Kelly: 31 July 1794

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31 July 1794

IK 's first, anonymous novel, Madeline; or, The Castle of Montgomery, was advertised as just published, in the same year as her first book of poetry.
Amelia Opie re-used the first part of this...

Mary Wollstonecraft: Late summer 1794

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Late summer 1794

Johnson published MW 's Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, written during her affair with Imlay .
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan, 1992.
152-3
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
210, 214
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Editor Poston, Carol H., 2nd edition, Norton, 1988.
359

Catherine Phillips: 1794

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1794

In the year of CP 's death there appeared, privately printed, her sacred poemThe Happy King, addressed to George III .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mary Ann Parker: August 1794

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August 1794

MAP 's husband died of yellow fever.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
xviii
Parker, Mary Ann et al. “A Voyage Round the World”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 169-25.
193

By August 1794: Rousseau's autobiographical Confessions appeared...

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By August 1794

Rousseau 's autobiographical Confessions appeared in English, translated by Robert Jephson .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 11 (1794): 390

August 1794-December 1796: The firm of James Harrison published the...

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August 1794-December 1796

The firm of James Harrison published the Pocket Magazine; from February 1795 it was complemented by the Lady's Pocket Magazine.
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.

By August 1794: The Necromancer, or The Tale of the Black...

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By August 1794

The Necromancer, or The Tale of the Black Forest, translated by Peter Teuthold from the German of Karl Friedrich Kahlert , appeared: it was one of the gothic horrid novels of Austen 's Northanger Abbey.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
Garside 1: 616-17

Anna Maria Falconbridge: August 1794

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August 1794

AMF (now DuBois), back home in England from Sierra Leone and Jamaica, published Two Voyages to Sierra Leone.
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.
155, 156n1
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
xviii, 43
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Catherine Phillips: 16 August 1794

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16 August 1794

CP died in her late sixties, after nine years and four days as a widow.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Charlotte Smith: August 1794

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August 1794

In The Banished Man: A Novel, CS reflected the agonised reappraisal which English radicals had to make after the Terror in France.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
216-9
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiii

Jane Austen: Autumn 1794

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Autumn 1794

Though the date of JA 's novella Lady Susan continues to be debated, most critics think she wrote it about this time.
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: September-October 1794

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September-October 1794

ALB toured Scotland, visiting a number of towns and playing her part in Edinburgh literary society.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlv

Mary Martha Sherwood: Autumn 1794

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Autumn 1794

Mary Martha Butts (later MMS ) first began work on a second novel, Margarita; she finished it years later, while in mourning for her father.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
133, 153

Amelia Opie: Late 1794

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Late 1794

Amelia Alderson (later AO ) attended the treason trials at the Old Bailey of Horne Tooke and Thomas Holcroft (friends of her family) and other would-be reformers; it was here that she got to know...

Ann Hatton: September 1794

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September 1794

At Tammany Hall in New YorkAH gave lectures, with readings from the English poets.
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

Autumn 1794: The harvest failed in Britain this year,...

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Autumn 1794

The harvest failed in Britain this year, producing food shortages. A particularly hard winter followed, causing serious distress among the poor.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
McCarthy, Voice 382-3

September 1794: Indictments against Thomas Hardy, John Horne...

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September 1794

Indictments against Thomas Hardy , John Horne Tooke , and John Thelwall argued that proposals radically to limit the power of the king should rank as treason.
Epstein, James. “Great Palladium”. London Review of Books, 7 Sept. 2000, pp. 25-6.
25-6

By 18 September 1794: By this date Coleridge claimed to have written...

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By 18 September 1794

By this date Coleridge claimed to have written one of the two sonnets attributed to him this year about the scheme for establishing Pantisocracy (a utopian community) in America.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poetical Works [of] Coleridge, including poems and versions of poems herein published for the first time. Editor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, Oxford University Press, 1969.
68-9

Clara Reeve: October 1794

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October 1794

CR published in the Pocket Magazine, with her name, an essay entitled Causes of Female Celibacy. With a Vindication of Old Maids.
Pitcher, Edward W., and Isobel Grundy. Note of information about Clara Reeve to Isobel Grundy. 27 Nov. 1998.

Anna Maria Porter: From October 1794

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From October 1794

While still in her teens, AMP published verse in several journals: her Civil Liberty appeared this month in James Harrison 's Pocket Magazine, as by A. P—r.
This information came from bibliographer Edward Pitcher .
Feminist Companion Archive.

By October 1794: Charles Pigott anonymously published his...

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By October 1794

Charles Pigott anonymously published his scurrilous personal lampoon on upper-class women: The Female Jockey Club, or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 12 (1794): 238
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.

October 1794: The The Free-Masons's Magazine carried a...

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October 1794

The The Free-Masons's Magazine carried a fiercely anti-slavery poem by someone calling herself Clorinda: An Elegy to the Island of Jamaica.
Snell, Susan. Poetry by Women in the Freemasons’ Magazine, vols 1 - 11, 1793 - 1798. 16 Sept. 2016.

Eleanor Sleath: October 1794

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October 1794

Only four weeks after their little son's death, Joseph Barnabas Sleath , husband of ES , died too, aged only twenty-eight.
Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. 8 May 2011, http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.