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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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Young, Mary Julia : 1795

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1795

MJY again used her full name in publishing Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches: with Other Poems on Various Subjects: a long piece from several years back, with others added.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Ann Yearsley: By January 1795

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Author event in Ann Yearsley

By January 1795

AY published the first two volumes of her single novel, The Royal Captives; two more volumes soon followed.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
220n29
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 14 (1795): 391

Ellen Weeton: Biography: 1795

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1795

Thomas Weeton , EW 's brother, left the household of his mother and sister.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
2: synopsis

Eglinton Wallace: 1795

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Author event in Eglinton Wallace

1795

EW 's The Whim, A Comedy, having been, most unusually, denied a licence by John Larpent , the official censor (husband of the diarist Anna Margaretta Larpent ), was printed at Margate in Kent...

Charlotte Smith: January 1795

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January 1795

CS published in London a work written for her youngest daughter: Rural Walks: in Dialogues Intended for the Use of Young Persons.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxx
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
174-5, 583

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1795

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Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson

1795

SHR 's Trials of the Human Heart, published at Philadelphia this year, is an epistolary novel whose preface sets out to explain her feeling for her adopted country, the United States.
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 Robinson: January 1795

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Author event in Mary Robinson

January 1795

MR composed two remarkable political poems: The Birth-Day (about public celebrations for Queen Charlotte ) and January 1795, about the month's headline news.
Curran, Stuart. “Mary Robinson and the New Lyric”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
9
, No. 1, 2002, pp. 9-22.
12-13

Annabella Plumptre: 1795

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Author event in Annabella Plumptre

1795

AP published an Ode to Moderation in a periodical entitled The Cabinet, published at Norwich.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
x

Mary Peisley: 1795

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1795

The collection of MP 's letters which her widower, Samuel Neale , had strung together with narrative, was published at Dublin nearly forty years after her death and three years after his.
This work is...

Barbara Hofland: 1795

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1795

Barbara Wreaks (later BH ) published a sonnet celebrating the lawyer who defended James Montgomery , editor of the Iris, on a charge of printing a seditious ballad.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
2

Hannah More: Probably 1795

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Probably 1795

HM published, anonymously, a catechism entitled Questions and Answers for the Mendip Sunday Schools.
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
161

1795-7: Margaret Leeson, alias Peg Plunkett, who...

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1795-7

Margaret Leeson , alias Peg Plunkett, who was well-known for her thirty years as a courtesan and brothel-keeper, mostly in Dublin, set out to raise cash by publishing Memoirs of Mrs. Margaret Leeson.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1795: Uvedale Price published his influential contribution...

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1795

Uvedale Price published his influential contribution to the romantic concept of landscape: Essays on the Picturesque.
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.

1795: In France the Bibliothèque du Roi became...

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1795

In France the Bibliothèque du Roi became the Bibliothèque Nationale .
Fabian, Bernhard. “Humanistic Scholarship and the European Printed Archive”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xvii
, No. 6, Oct. 2002, pp. 431-48.
431

1795: The London Missionary Society was founde...

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1795

The London Missionary Society was founded.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
214
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
75

1795: Scottish surgeon Alexander Gordon first argued...

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1795

Scottish surgeon Alexander Gordon first argued that puerperal fever was contagious, not a miasma in the air.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 18 (1796): 145-9
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.

1795: Dr John Anderson, Director of the General...

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1795

Dr John Anderson , Director of the General Sea-Bathing Infirmary at Margate, published two pamphlets designed to boost the practice, which the Critical Review said had much increased during recent years.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 18 (1796): 74-8, 353-5
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.

1795: Rules and Regulations for the Cavalry advised...

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1795

Rules and Regulations for the Cavalry advised that Marriage must by discouraged as much as possible; officers were, so far as they could, to prevent their men from marrying.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
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1795: Justices sitting at Speenhamland in Berkshire...

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1795

Justices sitting at Speenhamland in Berkshire decided that when agricultural wages were insufficient to buy bread, they could be supplemented from the poor rates.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 140
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
65 (1795)

1795: In this year of near-famine in England, Arthur...

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1795

In this year of near-famine in England, Arthur Young published in his Annals of Agriculture a Sermon on the Scarcity of Corn.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
391

1795: Walter Savage Landor's first publication,...

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1795

Walter Savage Landor 's first publication, Poems, appeared; he later suppressed this publication.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
547
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1795: The (male) offspring of racially mixed marriages...

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1795

The (male) offspring of racially mixed marriages were disqualified from all military service in the British Army except in non-combatant positions.
Neff, David Sprague. “Hostages to Empire: The Anglo-Indian Problem in Frankenstein, The Curse of Kehama, and The Missionary”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
8
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1997, pp. 386-08.
389

Amelia Opie: 27 January 1795

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Author event in Amelia Opie

27 January 1795

AO composed a political poem, Ode on the Present Times, about the fate of Poland, where Kościuszko 's independence struggle had recently been crushed.
McLean, Thomas. The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
41

Maria Theresa Kemble: January 1795

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Author event in Maria Theresa Kemble

January 1795

Maria De Camp (later MTK ) was the object of a drunken sexual assault by the leading actor John Philip Kemble (whose brother she later married).
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.
326

Anna Letitia Barbauld: February 1795

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Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld

February 1795

ALB began her career as a writer for hire
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
366
and as a scholarly editor with her critical introduction to Mark Akenside 's best-known poem, The Pleasures of Imagination, for a new edition by...