Events Timeline

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.

7801 - 7825 of 43197

Search by

-
Event origin
Event type

Ann Batten Cristall: By February 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Ann Batten Cristall

By February 1795

The publisher Joseph Johnson issued by subscription ABC 's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism.
Her title was the same as that of William Blake 's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha

21 February 1795: The French National Convention decreed the...

National or international item

21 February 1795

The French National Convention decreed the separation of Church and State.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiv

25 February 1795: Another national Fast Day designed to sanctify...

National or international item

25 February 1795

Another national Fast Day designed to sanctify the war against France was marked not only by patriotic but also by oppositional, anti-war sermons.
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

March 1795: According to Peter Cockburn, one eighth of...

Building item

March 1795

According to Peter Cockburn , one eighth of the population of Edinburgh were too poor to buy food, and were being supported by charity.
Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66.
158

March 1795-1796: Fédon's Rebellion, involving thousands of...

National or international item

March 1795-1796

Fédon's Rebellion, involving thousands of freed and enslaved blacks, took place in Grenada.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
65 (1795): 1106

Judith Sargent Murray: 2 March 1795

Writing climate item
Author event in Judith Sargent Murray

2 March 1795

JSM 's play The Medium; or, Virtue Triumphant was performed (as by a citizen of the United States)
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
102
in Boston at the Federal Street Theatre .
Harris, Sharon M., and Judith Sargent Murray. “Introduction”. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, edited by Sharon M. Harris and Sharon M. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. xv - xliv.
xxxvii

Hannah More: By 4 March 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Hannah More

By 4 March 1795

The first twenty titles of HM 's Cheap Repository Tracts were launched with a ceremony at Hazard 's shop in Bath: pedlars were invited and presented with free copies to sell.
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
109
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
141

Mary Harcourt: 16 March 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Harcourt

16 March 1795

MH arrived in Hanover from Osnabruck to join the suite of Princess Caroline of Brunswick, who was about to travel to England for her ill-fated marriage to the Prince of Wales (later George IV ).
Fraser, Flora. The Unruly Queen. The Life of Queen Caroline. Knopf, 1996.
52
Malmesbury, James Harris, first Earl of. Diaries and Correspondence. Editor Malmesbury, James Howard Harris, third Earl of, 2nd ed., R. Bentley, 1844, 4 vols.
3: 211

Frances Burney: 21 March 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Frances Burney

21 March 1795

FB 's tragedy Edwy and Elgiva, the only one of her plays to reach the stage in her lifetime, had its single performance at Drury Lane , starring Sarah Siddons .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

Mary Harcourt: 28 March 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Harcourt

28 March 1795

MH embarked with Princess Caroline and her suite in the Jupiter, a fifty-gun frigate, to sail for England.
Fraser, Flora. The Unruly Queen. The Life of Queen Caroline. Knopf, 1996.
52

Isabella Kelly: 30 March 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Isabella Kelly

30 March 1795

As the author of Madeline, of [sic] the Castle of Montgomery, IK published through Minerva her second novel, The Abbey of St. Asaph, in three volumes.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.

Mary Berry: Probably spring 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Berry

Probably spring 1795

MB became at first secretly engaged to be married to General Charles O'Hara (whom she had met on 31 March 1784 at Rome in Italy).
Lady Theresa Lewis dates the engagement from MB 's time...

Mrs E. M. Foster: : By April 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Mrs E. M. Foster:

By April 1795

The initials E.M.F. first appeared on a title-page with the earlier of two historical novels attributed to MEMF : The Duke of Clarence: An Historical Novel. It was advertised in October 1794, reviewed by...

Mary Wollstonecraft: April 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Wollstonecraft

April 1795

MW returned with her baby from revolutionary France to London: to furnished lodgings at 26 Charlotte Street.
This building is gone, and the houses (now mostly restaurants) are re-numbered.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
223-4

Helen Maria Williams: By April 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Helen Maria Williams

By April 1795

Andrew Kippis included a hymn by HMW —My God! All nature owns Thy sway—in his very popular Collection of Hymns and Psalms for Public and Private Worship.
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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
65 (1795) 321

Germaine de Staël: Spring 1795

Writing climate item
Author event in Germaine de Staël

Spring 1795

GS published her Essai sur les fictions (An Essay on Fictions), arguing that novels ought to be modern and truth-seeming,
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
47
investigating all passions and emotions, not only love.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
47, 120

By April 1795: A Letter to the Right Honourable William...

Building item

By April 1795

A Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt , on the Use of Hair-Powder argued that in times of scarcity flour ought to be reserved for food, not used for cosmetic purposes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 13 (1795): 453

April-May 1795: There was famine in Paris, where bread rations...

Building item

April-May 1795

There was famine in Paris, where bread rations had steadily declined; women demonstrated in the streets.
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
372

Between April and July 1795: Revolutionary France signed peace treaties:...

National or international item

Between April and July 1795

Revolutionary France signed peace treaties: with Prussia in April, with the Netherlands (then the Batavian Republic) in May, and with Spain in July.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiv

Mary Harcourt: 5 April 1795, Easter Day

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Harcourt

5 April 1795, Easter Day

MH , with Princess Caroline of Brunswick, disembarked at Greenwich after their journey from Hanover (having transferred off Gravesend from the frigate to the royal yacht).
Fraser, Flora. The Unruly Queen. The Life of Queen Caroline. Knopf, 1996.
53
Malmesbury, James Harris, first Earl of. Diaries and Correspondence. Editor Malmesbury, James Howard Harris, third Earl of, 2nd ed., R. Bentley, 1844, 4 vols.
3: 217
Harcourt, Edward William, editor. The Harcourt Papers. 1880–1905, 4 vols.
4: 641

Sarah Green: 7 April 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Green

7 April 1795

SG , as Mrs S. Green, dated a pamphlet about the sanity or otherwise of a destitute religious fanatic.
Green, Sarah. A Letter to the Publisher of Brothers’s Prophecies. G. Riebau, 1795.
8

Henrietta Battier: Around 8 April 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Henrietta Battier

Around 8 April 1795

The marriage of the Prince of Wales provoked HB to publish (as Pat. T. Pindar) a satire, Marriage Ode Royal.
Battier, Henrietta. Marriage Ode Royal. Sold at No. 17, Fade Street, 1795, 16 pp.
title-page

8 April 1795: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) married...

National or international item

8 April 1795

The Prince of Wales (later George IV) married Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
389
Carretta, Vincent. George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
358

Eliza Fenwick: Probably April 1795

Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Fenwick

Probably April 1795

EF published her epistolary novel Secresy; or, The Ruin on the Rock, through a conger or group of publishers headed by William Lane .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 638
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
8-9

13 April 1795: The Oracle and Public Advertiser coined for...

Building item

13 April 1795

The Oracle and Public Advertiser coined for the times the name The Advertising Age.
Benedict, Barbara M. “Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy”. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women’s Fiction" and Social Engagement, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 147-00.
154-6