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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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22 August 1795: The new French constitution created a legislature...

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22 August 1795

The new French constitution created a legislature with two chambers; a five-man Directory held executive power.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xv
Popkin, Jeremy D. “Race, Slavery, and the French and Haitian Revolutions”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 113-22.
118

Susannah Dobson: Probably later 1795

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Author event in Susannah Dobson

Probably later 1795

Historical Anecdotes of Heraldry and Chivalry was published at Worcester: an original work of scholarship, it may have been authored by SD , and if so it very likely appeared posthumously.
Dobson, Susannah. Historical Anecdotes of Heraldry and Chivalry. Holl and Brandish, 1795.
title-page

Frances Wright: 6 September 1795

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6 September 1795

FW was born at Dundee in Scotland, the middle one of three children.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
4

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 17 September 1795

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17 September 1795

HLP and her second husband settled at Brynbella in Flintshire, Wales.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
383

Dorothy Wordsworth: 26 September 1795

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26 September 1795

DW and her brother William arrived at midnight at Racedown Lodge in northern Dorset, a house offered to them rent-free by West India merchant John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had become friendly with...

Susannah Dobson: 30 September 1795

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30 September 1795

SD died of consumption in Covent Garden, London, after a decade of widowhood, having scrupulously pre-paid her funeral expenses.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Ashfield, Andrew, and Isobel Grundy. Email: Notes on Susannah Dobson (1738-1795) and Jane Webb 1800-1858. 14 May 2019.

Elizabeth Gunning: By October 1795

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By October 1795

EG published Memoirs of Madame De Barneveldt, a translation from the French of Jean du Castre d'Auvigny , which had appeared in 1732.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 638
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 15 (1795): 480

5 October 1795: A Royalist insurrection in Paris was crushed...

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5 October 1795

A Royalist insurrection in Paris was crushed by troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte .
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiv

Anne Burke: 9 October 1795

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9 October 1795

AB appealed to the Royal Literary Fund for help in her real and severe Distress of a material kind. They responded (after an intermediate reminder) with a grant of five guineas on 15 November.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Batchelor, Jennie. “The Man of Genius and the Female Drudge: Labour, Gender, Authorship and the Royal Literary Fund”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 31 Mar. 2005.

Sarah Harriet Burney: By Autumn 1795

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By Autumn 1795

Twenty-three-year-old SHB was living a closely restricted life: looking after her invalid mother, whom she nursed until her death a year later.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
xxxv

Janet Hamilton: 14 October 1795

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14 October 1795

JH was born Janet Thomson in the parish of Shotts in Lanarkshire, not far from Motherwell.
Gilfillan, George, and Janet Hamilton. “Janet Hamilton: Her Life and Poetical Character”. Poems, Sketches, and Essays, James Maclehose, 1885, pp. 1-13.
7
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Wollstonecraft: Late October 1795

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Late October 1795

MW attempted suicide by jumping off Putney Bridge in London.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
234-5

26 October 1795: The French National Convention was closed...

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26 October 1795

The French National Convention was closed down.
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
474

26 October 1795: Just before the opening of parliament, the...

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26 October 1795

Just before the opening of parliament , the London Corresponding Society held a large open-air meeting at Copenhagen House in Islington.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
384-5

29 October 1795: A crowd surrounded George III's coach on...

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29 October 1795

A crowd surrounded George III 's coach on its way to the state opening of parliament ; someone threw a stone.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
241
Russell, Gillian. “Burke’s Dagger: Theatricality, Politics and Print Culture in the 1790s”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
20
, 1997, pp. 1-16.
14
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
386

John Keats: 31 October 1795

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31 October 1795

JK , poet and letter-writer, was born in Finsbury, London, the eldest of five children.
There is actually some doubt about the day he was born. This is the date given in the...

Priscilla Wakefield: By November 1795

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By November 1795

PW published with Darton and Harvey her Juvenile Anecdotes, Founded on Facts. Collected for the Amusement of Children.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 15 (1795): 345

Sarah Scott: 3 November 1795

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3 November 1795

SS died at Catton near Norwich.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xxx

Henrietta Sykes: 11 November 1795

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11 November 1795

Henrietta Masterman was married at Christ Church in York to Mark Sykes (later Sir Mark) of Sledmere near Driffield in Yorkshire, who was five years younger than herself: he added her name to his...

Jane Austen: December 1795-January 1796

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December 1795-January 1796

JA caused comment by her public flirting with Tom Lefroy , a young Irishman, nephew of her friend Anne (Brydges) Lefroy ; the relationship came to nothing.
Her biographer Park Honan was not alone in...

Frances Jacson: Probably late 1795

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Probably late 1795

An anonymous novel from the Minerva Press is now accepted as the first by FJ , though for a long time it was ascribed to Alethea Lewis . It was entitled Plain Sense.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 641
Jacson, Frances. Plain Sense. Minerva Press, 1795, 3 vols.
title-page

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 1795-6

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1795-6

Charles Lamb , brother of Mary , spent six weeks confined to a lunatic asylum at Hoxton on account of mental illness.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
67, 82

Thomas Carlyle: 4 December 1795

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4 December 1795

TC , essayist and historian, was born at Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: By December 1795

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By December 1795

ESG published in two small-format volumes her second novel, The Wanderings of the Imagination, with a title-page dated 1796, and her name given as Mrs. Gooch.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 674

18 December 1795: The Two Acts or Gagging Acts (the Treasonable...

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18 December 1795

The Two Acts or Gagging Acts (the Treasonable Practices Bill and Seditious Meetings Bill) were passed by parliament , to remain in force for extended periods.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
387-8