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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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Sarah Gardner: 20 April 1795

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20 April 1795

SG acted in an anonymous one-act prelude or curtain-raiser called Mrs. Doggrell in her Altitudes; or, Strange Effects of a West India Ramble, which unmistakably lampoons her in her own person as a would-be...

27 April 1795: Elizabeth Edmead, an actress at the Theatre...

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27 April 1795

Elizabeth Edmead , an actress at the Theatre Royal , Norwich, had her Serious DramaThe Events of a Day performed there with great success, judging from the reviews.
Chandler, David. “’The Athens of England’: Norwich as a Literary Center in the Late Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Dec. 2010–28 Feb. 2011, pp. 171-92.
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May 1795: The United Irish Society was reorganised...

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May 1795

The United Irish Society was reorganised with the aim of rebellion against England.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Wolfe Tone

Mary Wollstonecraft: 19 May 1795

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19 May 1795

Gilbert Imlay , her former lover, signed an official document commissioning MW to travel to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark to trace an illicit cargo on which he was owed money.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Editors Mee, Jon and Tone Brekke, Oxford University Press, 2009.
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24 May 1795: Four days after banning women from its public...

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24 May 1795

Four days after banning women from its public galleries, the French National Convention prohibited them from attending any political meeting or gathering in groups in the street.
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
372

Germaine de Staël: 25 May 1795

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25 May 1795

GS , back in revolutionary Paris, resumed her salons despite being surrounded by working-class riots.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
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Eglinton Wallace: 28 May 1795

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28 May 1795

EW published at Margate a broadside, Lady Wallace's Address to the Margate Volunteers.
Wallace, Eglinton. Lady Wallace’s Address to the Margate Volunteers. W. Epps, 1795.

Helen Maria Williams: June 1795

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June 1795

HMW dated the preface to Paul and Virginia, her translation of Paul et Virginie, the famous sentimental novel by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre .
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Charlotte Smith: June 1795

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June 1795

CS published Montalbert: A Novel, which in the early stages of composition had been called Rosalie.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
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Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
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Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
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Ann Radcliffe: June 1795

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June 1795

AR published her account of her European travels the previous year: A Journey made in the Summer of 1794.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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Mary Ann Parker: Later 1795

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Later 1795

MAP published A Voyage Round the World, by subscription and with a dedication (dated 25 June) to Caroline, Princess of Wales, to support herself and her numerous family in her widowhood.
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.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: 21 June-September 1795

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21 June-September 1795

MW travelled in Scandinavia, seeking to trace the fate of an illegal cargo of precious metals which Imlay (a keen trader in illicit products) had lost sight of, and to reclaim money owed on it.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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22 June 1795: The Removal Act prevented destitute persons...

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22 June 1795

The Removal Act prevented destitute persons being sent back to their parish of origin until they had applied for poor relief from the parish where they now were.
Rose, Michael E. The English Poor Law 1780-1930. David and Charles, 1971.
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Anna Maria Mackenzie: 30 June 1795

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30 June 1795

AMM 's Minerva novel Mysteries Elucidated, dedicated to the newly married Caroline, Princess of Wales, was advertised by the Minerva Press . The title-page merely listed some of the author's previous works, but...

Eliza Parsons: By July 1795

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By July 1795

EP published The Voluntary Exile, which at five volumes remains her longest novel.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 14 (1795): 352-3

July 1795-March 1796: The Second Maroon War took place in Jama...

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July 1795-March 1796

The Second Maroon War took place in Jamaica.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 22 (1798): 285-9
“The Jamaican Maroons”. History of the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia.
“The Second Maroon War”. Windsor Research Centre: Cockpit Country.

Eleanor Anne Porden: 14 July 1795

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14 July 1795

EAP was born in a Georgian mansion in Devonshire Place, London.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. John Franklin’s Bride. Editor Gell, Edith M., First, John Murray, 1930.
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L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 146

Elizabeth Meeke: Probably late July 1795

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Probably late July 1795

EM began her publishing career with Count St. Blancard; or, The Prejudiced Judge, A Novel, in three volumes, which its own last page calls a translation; her name appears as Mrs. Meek.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 643

William Wordsworth: August 1795

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August 1795

WW first met Samuel Taylor Coleridge this month, somewhere in London, though witnesses differ as to exactly where and how.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 270-1

Helen Maria Williams: 1795-6

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1795-6

HMW published in four volumes, at London, Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, from the thirty-first of May 1793 till the twenty-eighth of July 1794.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Mary Tighe: August 1795

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August 1795

MT visited Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the Ladies of Llangollen, and met Anna Seward at their house.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
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Anna Seward: August 1795

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August 1795

AS first visited Llangollen, home of Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby . She stayed some weeks, though by the end of September she was writing to tell them about her journey home.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
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Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: 5 August 1795

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5 August 1795

Mary Anne Roscoe (later Jevons) was born in Liverpool, the eldest daughter in her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Hannah More: 18 August 1795

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18 August 1795

After the death of Mrs Baber , the best schoolteacher HM ever employed, hundreds of weeping villagers followed her body to its burial place in Cheddar churchyard.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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20 August 1795: Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed The Aeolian...

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20 August 1795

Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed The Aeolian [or Eolian] Harp (published the following year).
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.
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