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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.
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February 1796: The Monthly Magazine: or British Register,...
Writing climate item
February 1796
The Monthly Magazine: or British Register, edited by
's brother
, began publication.
Eliza Kirkham Mathews: 8 February 1796
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Kirkham Mathews
8 February 1796
Eliza Kirkham Strong (later
) dated the Advertisement to her Poems, published this year, by subscription, at Exeter.
12 February 1796: William Pitt made a speech in parliament...
12 February 1796
made a speech in parliament which reached print as Relative to the Relief and Maintenance of the Poor, the Encouragement of Industry, and the Diminution of the Poor-rates.
Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw: 20 February 1796
Author event in Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
20 February 1796
The
began hearing a case brought by the
for £20,000 damages from
for his adultery with Lady Westmeath (later
).
Anne Burke: 20 February 1796
Women writers item
Anna Letitia Barbauld: 1 March 1796-June 1806
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld
1 March 1796-June 1806
While
's brother
was editor of the Monthly Magazine; she contributed to it at least fifteen poems and essays, perhaps many more.
Elizabeth Gunning: By March 1796
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Gunning
By March 1796
published at London and DublinThe Foresters, A Novel, claiming that it was Altered from the French: it is in fact original.
Elizabeth Inchbald: By March 1796
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald
By March 1796
, now at the top of her field as a playwright, published her second novel, Nature and Art.
Hannah More: By March 1796
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah More
By March 1796
had sold more than two million copies of her Cheap Repository Tracts.
March 1796: William Taylor published in the Monthly Magazine...
Writing climate item
March 1796
published in the Monthly Magazine his translation or adaptation of
's German ghost-story ballad Lenore.
March 1796: The Scots Chronicle began publication in...
Writing climate item
March 1796
The Scots Chronicle began publication in Edinburgh, voicing Opposition views similar to those of the Morning Chronicle in London.
March 1796: An Abolition Bill, calling for the gradual...
National or international item
March 1796
An Abolition Bill, calling for the gradual abolition of the slave trade, put before the
by
, reached a third reading. It was narrowly defeated when some of its supporters...
Judith Sargent Murray: 9-10 March 1796
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Author event in Judith Sargent Murray
9-10 March 1796
's play The Traveller Returned was produced in Boston at the Federal Street Theatre, for charity and this time for two performances.
Elizabeth Moody: After mid-March 1796
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Author event in Elizabeth Moody
After mid-March 1796
's Anna's Complaint; or, The Miseries of War appeared with her name in
's forceful pamphlet War a System of Madness and Irreligion.
11 March 1796: London Corresponding Society members, travelling...
National or international item
11 March 1796
London
members, travelling the country to drum up support, were arrested and imprisoned in Birmingham.
12 March 1796: Matthew Gregory Lewis anonymously published...
Writing climate item
12 March 1796
anonymously published The Monk, his gothic novel of horror.
27 March 1796: Napoleon took command of one of the French...
National or international item
27 March 1796
took command of one of the French armies, the Army of Italy, at Nice.
30 March 1796: An Insurrectionary Committee was set up in...
National or international item
30 March 1796
An Insurrectionary Committee was set up in Paris by
and others to organize the Conspiracy of Equals, a plot inspired by what would later be called communist ideals.
31 March 1796: Edward Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, with...
Writing climate item
31 March 1796
's Miscellaneous Works, with Memoirs of his Life and Writings were posthumously published by his literary executor,
.
After 31 March 1796: William Beckford burlesqued women writers...
Women writers item
After 31 March 1796
burlesqued women writers and attacked reactionary government in his novel Modern Novel Writing, or the Elegant Enthusiast; and Interesting Emotions of Arabella Bloomville. A Rhapsodical Romance; Interspersed with Poetry, published as Lady...
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: April 1796
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Author event in Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
April 1796
Six months before her marriage, Elizabeth Jervis (later
) published anonymously, for the Author, a novel only recently identified as hers, Agatha; or, a Narrative of Recent Events, in three volumes.
Anna Seward: By April 1796
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Seward
By April 1796
published Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems, to commemorate a visit she had made to the Ladies of Llangollen the year before.
Eliza Parsons: By April 1796
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Author event in Eliza Parsons
By April 1796
's second gothic novel, The Mysterious Warning, A German Tale (another favourite of
's Isabella Thorpe), appeared, with a frontispiece and dedication to the new Princess of Wales .
Elizabeth Meeke: By April 1796
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Author event in Elizabeth Meeke
By April 1796
put out her second book (possibly her first original fiction), under her own name with mention of the first: The Abbey of Clugny. A Novel.
By April 1796: Robert Bage published Hermsprong, or, Man...
Writing climate item
By April 1796
published Hermsprong, or, Man as He Is Not, best-known of his radical or Jacobin novels.