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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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2 April 1796: Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered...

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2 April 1796

Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered tragedy by Shakespeare but actually written by William Henry Ireland , opened under Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's management at Drury Lane .
“William Henry Ireland and the Shakespeare Fabrications”. University of Delaware Library: Special Collections Department: Exhibitions and Publications: Special Collections Exhibitions 1995 - 2001: Forging a Collection: the Frank W. Tober Collection on Literary Forgery.

Elizabeth Helme: About April 1796

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Author event in Elizabeth Helme

About April 1796

EH had resounding public if not critical success with The Farmer of Inglewood Forest. A Novel, dated 1797. For the first time she published with William Lane of the Minerva Press and gave her...

Mary Wollstonecraft: 14 April 1796

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14 April 1796

MW made a move in her re-entry to London intellectual life by calling on her old friend William Godwin .
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
244-5

Sophia Lee: 20 April 1796

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20 April 1796

SL 's tragedy Almeyda, Queen of Granada began its four-night run at Drury Lane , after repeated delays amounting to two and a half years.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xxxiii, xlvii

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 1 May 1796

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1 May 1796

Barbarina Wilmot (later Dacre) bore a daughter, Arabella , in Manchester Street, London, who remained her only surviving child; according to family memory, she also had a son who died as a baby.
Grey, Barbarina Charlotte, Lady. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray, 1908.
3, 17

Ann Yearsley: By 14 May 1796

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Author event in Ann Yearsley

By 14 May 1796

AY published her last collection of poems, The Rural Lyre.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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14 May 1796: After some years of investigating the protection...

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14 May 1796

After some years of investigating the protection given by cowpox against smallpox, Edward Jenner carried out his first, experimental cowpox injection of a healthy young boy. His subject showed no reaction when later inoculated with...

15 May 1796: Napoleon's army entered Milan, on its revolutionary...

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15 May 1796

Napoleon 's army entered Milan, on its revolutionary mission to liberate Italy from Austrian and other royal rulers.
Bayley, John. “Gide’s Cuttlefish”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, p. 29.
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Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 27 May 1796

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Author event in Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847

27 May 1796

In a quarrel involving a girl living in their household as her apprentice, Mary Lamb fatally stabbed her mother (who had apparently come between her and the apprentice), with a sharp knife.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
88-90

Anna Maria Bennett: 28 May 1796

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28 May 1796

The Impartial Gazetteer of New York reprinted the opening of AMB 's Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel.
Pitcher, Edward W. Fiction in American Magazines Before 1800. Union College Press, 1993, http://U of A, Ruth N.
A1012

Sarah Murray : 28 May 1796

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28 May 1796

After ten years as a widow SM set out on a tour of Scotland, with a maid and a manservant, a carriage and a good pair of horses. She covered nearly 2,000 miles.
Murray, Sarah. A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties in the Western Highlands of Scotland, and in the Hebrides. Printed for the Author, 1803.
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Anne Burke: By June 1796

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By June 1796

In the same year as Adela Northington, AB published with her name, in two volumes, The Sorrows of Edith; or, The Hermitage of the Cliffs, A Descriptive Tale, Founded on Facts.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 666

Elizabeth Hamilton: June 1796

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June 1796

EH dated her dedication to Warren Hastings (as her brother 's friend and patron) of Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
132

Mary Hays: June 1796-September 1797

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June 1796-September 1797

MH contributed often to Richard Phillips 's new Monthly Magazine. During 1796 also, she began reviewing books for the Analytical, edited by Mary Wollstonecraft , signing herself V.V.
Luria, Gina M. Mary Hays (1759-1843): The Growth of a Woman’s Mind. Ashgate, 2006.
255
Ferguson, Moira, editor. First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578-1799. Indiana University Press, 1985.
412-13
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
109, 111
Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, 2004, pp. xv - xx; 1.
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Waters, Mary A. “’The First of a New Genus’: Mary Wollstonecraft as Literary Critic and Mentor to Mary Hays”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 2004, pp. 415-34.
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Barbara Hofland: June 1796

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June 1796

Barbara Wreaks (later BH ) married Sheffield businessman Thomas Bradshawe Hoole .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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By June 1796: Samuel Taylor Coleridge compiled a booklet...

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By June 1796

Samuel Taylor Coleridge compiled a booklet titled Sonnets from Various Authors: four each by himself, Southey , Charles Lamb , and Charles Lloyd , two by Charlotte Smith , and one each by seven...

Regina Maria Roche: 4 June 1796

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4 June 1796

Advertisements appeared for RMR 's recently-published novel The Children of the Abbey, A Tale, her first Minerva Press work and her greatest success.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 690-1

Susannah Gunning: About 7 June 1796

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About 7 June 1796

SG published, with her name, Delves, A Welch Tale: no copy of the first edition is now known to be extant.
The unusual name of Delves had also appeared in Margaret Minifie 's Barford...

Lady Charlotte Bury: 14 June 1796

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14 June 1796

Lady Charlotte Campbell (later LCB ) married her cousin Colonel Jack Campbell of Shawfield, eldest of a family of fourteen.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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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.

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: July-September 1796

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July-September 1796

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , suffered severely with her right eye, which swelled to the size of a fist and ulcerated: perhaps with exophthalmos or with orbital cellulitis.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
299-300 and n2

Mary Hays: July 1796

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July 1796

MH wrote in the Monthly Magazine about the need for a collection of inspiring biographies of women, which may be seen as the germ of her own collection of 1802.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
234

July 1796: The explorer Mungo Park, abandoned and anxious...

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July 1796

The explorer Mungo Park , abandoned and anxious on the banks of the Niger River in what is now Mali, was taken in, housed and fed by African village women, who composed and sang...

Hannah Kilham: 2 July 1796

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2 July 1796

Hannah Spurr, later HK (who had kept a diary from the age of ten), began a religious journal in shorthand on loose leaves of paper: it opened: This morning I have given myself to God.
qtd. in
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.

Sarah Harriet Burney: 7 July 1796

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7 July 1796

SHB published, anonymously, her first book: Clarentine. A Novel.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
29n2
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
23 (1798): 471

Frances Burney: 12 July 1796

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12 July 1796

FB published her third novel, Camilla; or, A Picture of Youth: fourteen years to the day after Cecilia.
Burney, Frances. Camilla. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, Oxford University Press, 1972.
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