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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 Matilda Betham: 1796

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1796

MMB lodged for a time at Cambridge in order to study Italian with Signor Agostino Isola , because she wanted to read Metastasio in the original.
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.
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905.
41
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Six Life Studies of Famous Women. Griffith and Farran, 1880.
235

Anna Eliza Bray: 1796

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Author event in Anna Eliza Bray

1796

When only five years old, Anna Eliza Kempe, later AEB , became almost blind when she developed a severe inflammation in both her eyes.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
80-1

Lady Anne Clifford: 1796

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1796

LAC 's 1603 chronicle was printed for the first time
Seward, William. Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons. T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies, 1795, 4 vols.
4: 302
in the fourth volume of William Seward 's Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons.
Seward, William. Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons. T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies, 1795, 4 vols.
4: 302-17

Eliza Dunlop: 1796

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Author event in Eliza Dunlop

1796

Eliza Hamilton, later ED , was born in Derry, Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm.

Anne Katharine Elwood : 1796

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Author event in Anne Katharine Elwood

1796

AKE was born Anne Katharine Curteis , presumably at Windmill Hill, near Battle in Sussex.
The International Genealogical Index gives her date of birth as being about 1801.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Wollstonecraft: January 1796

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January 1796

Johnson published MW 's Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan, 1992.
177

Sarah Trimmer: 1796

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Author event in Sarah Trimmer

1796

ST 's Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature was reprinted at Boston, with her name: revised, greatly augmented, and adapted to the USA.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 1796

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Author event in Elizabeth Singer Rowe

1796

Nearly sixty years after ESR 's death, four volumes of her Works were published.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
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Mary Robinson: 1796

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Author event in Mary Robinson

1796

MR published her unacted five-act gothic verse tragedy The Sicilian Lover.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
281

Mary Robinson: 1 January 1796

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1 January 1796

MR published with her name, through Hookham , the historical Angelina. A Novel. In a Series of Letters.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii

Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: January-February 1796

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Author event in Elizabeth Sarah Gooch

January-February 1796

ESG , as Mrs William Gooch, acted during the off-season at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
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.
6: 249

Anna Maria Mackenzie: 1796

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1796

AMM made her only use of a pseudonym, Ellen of Exeter, to publish another gothic Minerva Press novel, The Neapolitan, or The Test of Integrity, dedicated to the dramatist Richard Cumberland .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 684

1796: Joseph Priestley published at Philadelphia...

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1796

Joseph Priestley published at PhiladelphiaUnitarianism Explained and Defended, in a Discourse Delivered in the Church of the Universalists, at Philadelphia.
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.

1796-1815: Throughout these war years the Bibliothèque...

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1796-1815

Throughout these war years the Bibliothèque britannique, published in Geneva, kept open cultural relations between France and England.
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.

By January 1796: Anthony King proposed radically extending...

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By January 1796

Anthony King proposed radically extending and improving education in Ireland, in Thoughts on the Expediency of Adopting a System of National Education.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 16 (1796)

1796: Another Watch Act extended the London night-time...

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1796

Another Watch Act extended the London night-time peace-keeping force to sixty-four watchmen, plus beadles, inspectors, constables, and further reinforcements for the winter months only.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
69

1796: Patrick Colquhoun argued in his Treatise...

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1796

Patrick Colquhoun argued in his Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis that the number of prostitutes in London was numbered in thousands.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
117

January 1796: The Royal Edinburgh Volunteers held a high-society...

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January 1796

The Royal Edinburgh Volunteers held a high-society ball to raise money for the wives, widows, and children of soldiers
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.
155, 161

1796: Children's writer Lucy Peacock published...

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1796

Children's writer Lucy Peacock published Ambrose and Eleanor. Or, The Adventures of Two Children Deserted on an Uninhabited Island, translated and adapted from Ducray-Duménil 's Fanfan et Lolotte, 1788 (sometimes called Lolotte et Fanfan).
Rønning, Anne Birgitte. “Originality in Adaptation: Lucy Peacock’s Ambrose and Eleanor”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
16
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2012, p. 6.

Henry George Bohn: 4 January 1796

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4 January 1796

HGB , publisher and bibliographer, was born in London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

7 January 1796: Princess Charlotte was born to the Prince...

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7 January 1796

Princess Charlotte was born to the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
389

By 13 January 1796: John H. D. Anderson, Professor of Natural...

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By 13 January 1796

John H. D. Anderson , Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University, died, bequeathing money towards the funding this year of Anderson's College , also known as Anderson's Institution , in Glasgow.
Mackie, John Duncan. The University of Glasgow, 1451-1951: A Short History. Jackson, 1954.
211-12, 300
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1560
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
66 (1796): 85

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 20 January 1796

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20 January 1796

Ann and Jane Taylor left their childhood home at Lavenham in Suffolk, to move with their family to Colchester in Essex, where their father became a dissenting minister.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 86
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
34

Robert Southey: By February 1796

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By February 1796

RS published his epic poem Joan of Arc.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 16 (1796): 191

Anne Plumptre: By February 1796

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By February 1796

AP published an anonymous novel with the Minerva Press : Antoinette, with a writing heroine.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 16 (1796): 221