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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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Jane West: 20 October 1796

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20 October 1796

JW 's A Gossip's Story, and A Legendary Tale, published through Longman as by the author of Advantages of Education, was advertised: a novel teamed with a narrative poem.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 695

Priscilla Wakefield: 21 October 1796

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Author event in Priscilla Wakefield

21 October 1796

PW wrote: Pecuniary difficulties press hard upon my mind; soon afterwards she resolved to write for profit.
qtd. in
Hill, Bridget. “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children’s Educational Books”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 3-14.
11

Mary Robinson: 22 October 1796

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22 October 1796

MR issued one of her best-known works, a sequence of forty-four erotic sonnets entitled Sappho and Phaon.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii

Charlotte Smith: Late October 1796

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Late October 1796

CS published Marchmont: A Novel; its hero is a writer who is advised to give up poetry for novels.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 692
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
250
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiv

Helen Craik: November 1796

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November 1796

HC dated the dedication of her first, anonymous published work, Julia de St Pierre: A Novel (set during the French Revolution), to an unnamed female friend.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 669
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Charlotte Smith: November 1796

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November 1796

CS published by subscription A Narrative of the Loss of the Catharine, Venus and Piedmont Transports.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1796 no. 2): 940
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiv

Mary Robinson: November 1796

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November 1796

MR published with her name Hubert de Sevrac. A Romance of the Eighteenth Century.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii

Eliza Parsons: In or after November 1796

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In or after November 1796

EP published another domestic, epistolary novel, Women As They Are, dedicated in this month to Mrs Anson of Shuckborough Manor in Staffordshire (who must be the recently-married Anne Margaret Anson, née Coke).
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Hays: November 1796

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November 1796

MH published, with her name, her first, autobiographical, novel, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, which presents its heroine unacceptably focussed on the pursuit of education, self-development, and love.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
95

Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw: 15 November 1796

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15 November 1796

Lady Westmeath , just divorced by her husband , became MACB when she married the Honourable Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw .
His father, Sir Henry Cavendish , baronet (1732-1804), sat in both the Irish and English...

Ann Gomersall: About November 1796

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About November 1796

AG published her third novel, The Disappointed Heir; or, Memoirs of the Ormond Family, with her name (which this time appeared as A. Gomersall and in an advertisement as of Exeter).
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 674

Annabella Plumptre: About 26 November 1796

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About 26 November 1796

AP published an anonymous novel with the Minerva Press : Montgomery; or, Scenes in Wales; it was advertised for sale on this day.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 688
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
255

Ann Radcliffe: December 1796

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December 1796

Publication was announced of the last gothic novel of AR 's lifetime, The Italian, with 1797 on its title-page.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
79

15 December 1796: The French mounted a major, but abortive,...

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15 December 1796

The French mounted a major, but abortive, invasion attempt on Britain through Ireland: a large fleet left Brest heading for Bantry Bay on the Irish coast.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
286
Leadbeater, Mary, and Mary Cunningham. The Annals of Ballitore, 1766-1824. Editor McKenna, John, Stephen Scroop, 1986.
58
“The History of Bantry and Bantry Bay”. Beautiful Bantry & Bay: Co. Cork, Ireland: Bantry History.

Lucy Aikin: 1797

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1797

LA moved with her family to Stoke Newington, just outside London
Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
xviii-xix

Lady Anne Barnard: 1797-1801

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1797-1801

LAB lived at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa with her husband , who was Colonial Secretary there.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Henrietta Battier: 1797-8

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1797-8

HB (as Pat. Pindar) published another political verse satire in periodical form, The Lemon, an answer to John Giffard 's highly loyalist The Orange (issued in three successive cantos over the same years).
Carpenter, Andrew, editor. Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Cork University Press, 1998.
464

Lady Charlotte Bury: 1797

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1797

The year after her first marriage Lady Charlotte Campbell (later LCB ) published at Edinburgh, as a Lady, her first book, Poems on Several Occasions.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Sojourner Truth: In or after 1797

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In or after 1797

ST was born a slave, as near as she can . . . calculate between 1797 and 1800,
Truth, Sojourner et al. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Oxford University Press, 1991.
13
in Hurley, New York, the youngest but one in a family of ten or twelve...

Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins: 1797

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1797

EST and her elder brother, Thomas Edlyne Tomson , published Tributes of Affection: with The Slave; and other poems. They concealed their identities, publishing as a Lady, and her Brother.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mrs Showes: 1797

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1797

According to the statement on a later title page, MS published anonymously this year a work entitled Interesting Tales, translated from German.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mary Robinson: 1797

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1797

As Miss Randall of Exeter, MR published in several periodicals a bold essay entitled On the Injustice of Mental Subordination: this later became her well-known feminist treatise.
Pitcher, Edward W. The "Lady’s Monthly Museum". First Series: 1798-1806. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

Catherine Phillips: 1797

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1797

CP 's Memoirs were posthumously published: a rich autobiography including many of her letters.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mrs F. C. Patrick: 1797

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1797

MFCP anonymously published the first of her three books, The Irish Heiress, A Novel, with William Lane of the Minerva Press .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 724

Phebe Gibbes: 1797

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1797

Heaven's Best Gift. A Novel was published, apparently by PG but as if by Mrs Lucius Phillips ; it was reviewed in September 1798 by the Critical Review.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.