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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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Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: Mid-July 1796

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Mid-July 1796

A course of newspaper advertisements began for The Knights of the Swan; or, The Court of Charlemagne , an Historical and Moral Tale, a translation by James Beresford of a work by SFG .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Robert Burns: 21 July 1796

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Author event in Robert Burns

21 July 1796

RB , Scottish farmer and poet, died (most probably of rheumatic heart disease)
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
at Dumfries.
Burns, Robert. “Introduction and Chronology”. Complete Works, edited by James A. Mackay, Official Bicentenary Edition, Alloway Publishing, 1986, pp. 9-34.
34

Isabella Kelly: 23 July 1796

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Author event in Isabella Kelly

23 July 1796

IK 's third novel, The Ruins of Avondale Priory, was advertised as newly published with the Minerva Press in three volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.

23 July 1796: Horrid Mysteries. A Story, translated by...

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23 July 1796

Horrid Mysteries. A Story, translated by P. Will from Karl Friedrich August Grosse (one of the gothic horrid novels of Austen 's Northanger Abbey), was advertised as just out.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
Garside 1: 675

30 July 1796: The earliest known Australian imprint is...

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30 July 1796

The earliest known Australian imprint is a playbill printed for a performance on this day in Sydney of Nicholas Rowe 's she-tragedyJane Shore.
Gamache, Pierre. “Library and Archives Canada: Popular Content and Access”. PopPrint. Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures—Past and Present, Local and Global, University of Alberta, 28 Aug. 2008.

Eliza Fay: Late Summer 1796

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Author event in Eliza Fay

Late Summer 1796

EF sailed from Calcutta a third time, not to England but to New York.
Fay, Eliza, and E. M. Forster. Original Letters from India. Hogarth Press, 1925.
263-71

Mary Wollstonecraft: August 1796

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Author event in Mary Wollstonecraft

August 1796

MW and William Godwin became lovers.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
257-61

Priscilla Wakefield: By August 1796

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By August 1796

PW published what became her most famous work, An Introduction to Botany, in a series of Familiar Letters with illustrative engravings: the first comprehensive survey of botany to be written by a woman.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 17 (1796): 478

Catherine Talbot: August 1796

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Author event in Catherine Talbot

August 1796

Eliza Berkeley published in the Gentleman's Magazine her account of the love between her husband and CT , with the text of two poems by Talbot from nearly forty years back.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
66 (1796): 631-2
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
217

Maria Riddell : August 1796

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August 1796

MR 's perceptive and generous analysis and appreciation of Burns 's character and writings appeared anonymously in the Dumfries Weekly Journal only a fortnight after his death.
Brown, Hilton. There Was a Lad. An Essay on Robert Burns. Hamish Hamilton, 1949.
42
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
82

August-September 1796: Political lectures given by the radical John...

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August-September 1796

Political lectures given by the radical John Thelwall at Norwich and King's Lynn were disrupted by gangs of sailors.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
404

Priscilla Wakefield: By 6 August 1796

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Author event in Priscilla Wakefield

By 6 August 1796

PW was already worried about money.
Hill, Bridget. “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children’s Educational Books”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 3-14.
11

Sophia Lee: August 1796

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Author event in Sophia Lee

August 1796

SL and her sisters suffered a financial disappointment at the death of an uncle: they inherited his estate, but it turned out to be nearly all vanished.
qtd. in
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
2: 369 n6

Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : By mid August 1796

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By mid August 1796

Mary Champion de Crespigny published her only novel, The Pavilion, in four volumes, with the Minerva Press
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 670

Agnes Strickland: 19 August 1796

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19 August 1796

AS was born on the Kentish outskirts of London, the second surviving (though she called herself the third) in a family which grew to comprise six sisters and two brothers.
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.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
19
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Adelaide O'Keeffe: September 1796

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Author event in Adelaide O'Keeffe

September 1796

AOK wrote the dedication, in a poetical address, of her novel Llewellin: A Tale to the eight-month-old Princess Charlotte (after which the novel took another three years to get published).
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 754

Jane Austen: October 1796-August 1797

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Author event in Jane Austen

October 1796-August 1797

JA drafted her third epistolary novel, First Impressions (which, from its title, was presumably an early version of what later became Pride and Prejudice).
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
4-5
Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
52
, 31 Mar. 2012.
1

Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw: October 1796

Women writers item

October 1796

The Earl of Westmeath divorced his wife (later MACB ).
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
119 (1849): 1: 438
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Maria Edgeworth: By October 1796

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By October 1796

ME published with her intials, through Joseph Johnson , her first sizeable book of fiction for the young, The Parent's Assistant.
This seems to have been its publication date, though it was advertised as...

Germaine de Staël: Autumn 1796

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Author event in Germaine de Staël

Autumn 1796

GS 's partly-finished work De l'influence des passions sur le bonheur des individus et des nations (A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions upon the Happiness of Individuals and Nations) was published.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
82, 121
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Hervey, 1748 - 1820: : By October 1796

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By October 1796

Elizabeth Hervey 's next novel, The History of Ned Evans, appeared anonymously at London in four volumes. A Dublin edition of this year had two volumes only.
Garside, Peter. “The English Novel in the Romantic Era: Consolidation and Dispersal”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 2: 15 - 103.
1: 678
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

October 1796: The law of Habeas Corpus (which limited the...

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October 1796

The law of Habeas Corpus (which limited the state's power to arrest and detain its citizens) was suspended in Ireland.
Fianna Guide to Irish Genealogy. http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/.

Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: 4 October 1796

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4 October 1796

On her thirty-third birthday Elizabeth Jervis married the forty-six-year-old Samuel Pipe Wolferstan , land-owner, of Statfold in Staffordshire; he had been a widower for ten years.
The Gentleman's Magazine report of the marriage says...

Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe: 13 October 1796

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Author event in Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe

13 October 1796

EPS and her husband landed in England after their years in Canada.
Fryer, Mary Beacock. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, A Biography. Dundurn Press, 1989.
166

16 October 1796: The ship London, coming from St Kitts, was...

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16 October 1796

The ship London, coming from St Kitts, was wrecked near the harbour entrance at Ilfracombe in Devon: about fifty black people were drowned and buried in a mass grave.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
66 (1796): 960
Times. Times Publishing Company.
2 August 1997