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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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Mary Robinson: 5 October 1794

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5 October 1794

MR wrote to John Taylor : adieu to the muse for ever—I will never publish another line while I exist, and even those manuscripts now finished I WILL DESTROY.
Robinson, Mary. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems. Editor Pascoe, Judith, Broadview, 2000.
365

6 October 1794: A London grand jury found twelve accused...

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6 October 1794

A London grand jury found twelve accused radicals guilty of high treason. Lord Chief Justice Eyre had delivered them the charge.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
335
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe: 23 October 1794

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23 October 1794

EPS , in Quebec, attended a play entitled The Carthusian Friar, written by a Lady, an Emigrant.
A play of this title had been published at London in 1793 as written by a female refugee.
qtd. in
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.
Simcoe, Elizabeth Postuma. Mrs Simcoe’s Diary. Editor Innis, Mary Quayle, Macmillan, 1965.
142

Mary Charlton: By October 1794

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By October 1794

MC published, anonymously, her first, two-volume novel with the Minerva Press , a work à clef entitled The Parisian; or, Genuine Anecdotes of Distinguished and Noble Characters.
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.

Mary Matilda Betham: 1 November 1794

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1 November 1794

MMB penned an answer, at the request of her friend Charlotte Jerningham, to some anonymous courtship verses signed Benedict: the answer was delivered with the same anonymity.
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905.
34-5

Mary Whateley Darwall: 1 November 1794

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1 November 1794

MWD dated the dedication to her second collection, Poems on Several Occasions, published before the end of the year.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
180, 193

Elizabeth Inchbald: 1 November 1794

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1 November 1794

The Wedding Day, a comedy by EI , opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1700

Alison Cockburn: 3 November 1794

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3 November 1794

AC , who had been writing of herself as old for something like twenty years, composed the last of her printed letters, to the Rev. Robert Douglas .
Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas, 1900.
235

5 November 1794: Thomas Hardy was acquitted at the Old Bailey...

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5 November 1794

Thomas Hardy was acquitted at the Old Bailey of high treason, after a trial which had opened on 28 October 1794.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
353
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 12 (1794): 338-9

12 November 1794: The Jacobin Club of Paris closed down....

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12 November 1794

The Jacobin Club of Paris closed down.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiv

Elizabeth Strickland: 17 November 1794

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17 November 1794

ES was born, the eldest among two brothers and six sisters (of whom all the sisters but one became published writers).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Agnes Strickland

17 November 1794: George Grote, historian, was born at Clay...

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17 November 1794

George Grote , historian, was born at Clay Hill near Beckenham, in Kent.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Alison Cockburn: 22 November 1794

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22 November 1794

AC died in Edinburgh.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Robinson: 29 November 1794

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29 November 1794

MR 's afterpiece or satiric comedy Nobody opened at Drury Lane , with prologue and epilogue by herself.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1707

Henrietta Battier: December 1794

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December 1794

HB 's husband died, leaving her with two surviving children to support.
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.
Carpenter, Andrew, editor. Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Cork University Press, 1998.
464

Elizabeth Gunning: By December 1794

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By December 1794

EG published a second book in her first year as an author: Lord Fitzhenry, A Novel; a Dublin edition bore the same year date.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 12 (1794): 473
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 612

Hannah Cowley: 6 December 1794

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6 December 1794

HC 's last play, the comedy The Town Before You, opened at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1709

Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: By 11 December 1794

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By 11 December 1794

The first of ESG 's novels, The Contrast, in two volumes, appeared, giving her name as E. S. Villa-Real; it bore the next year's date, but was advertised as published on this day.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 639-40

Frances Burney: 18 December 1794

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18 December 1794

FB 's son Alexander, her only child, was born.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
203

29 December 1794: The Morning Chronicle (a paper with Opposition...

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29 December 1794

The Morning Chronicle (a paper with Opposition views) printed a sonnet, Mrs Siddons, which was attributed to Coleridge , but was actually written by Charles Lamb .
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.
85 and n

Jane Austen: 1795

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1795

This year, probably, JA drafted her second epistolary novel, the unpublished Elinor and Marianne.
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

Henrietta Battier: 1795-1796

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1795-1796

The sixteen- or seventeen-year-old Tom Moore , in his student days, frequented HB 's poverty-stricken one-room lodgings; he described her as odd, acute, warm-hearted, and intrepid.
Moore, Thomas. Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Editor Russell, John, first Earl, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853, 8 vols.
1: 40
Moore, Thomas. Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Editor Russell, John, first Earl, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853, 8 vols.
1: 40-2

Charlotte Brooke: 1795

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1795

Between the first and second editions of CB 's Reliques of Irish Poetry, a Belfast journal called Bolg an Tsoháir; or, The Gaelic Magazine carried her translations of a collection of choice Irish songs.
qtd. in
Ashley, Leonard R. N. et al. “Introduction”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970, p. v - xv.
ix

Margaret Bryan: On the 22nd of some month, some year, perhaps 1795

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On the 22nd of some month, some year, perhaps 1795

MBpurposed to open or re-open a boarding school at Hadlow, a few miles from Tonbridge in Kent, apparently to go with a new day-school in Tonbridge itself.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Maria Edgeworth: 1795

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1795

ME published, anonymously, her first book, Letters for Literary Ladies, in which ideological argument is carried mostly by imaginary correspondents.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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