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 .
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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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Ann Taylor Gilbert: Probably 1797
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert
Probably 1797
The teenage Ann Taylor (later
) made her first appearance in print—with an election song.
Jane Harvey: 1797
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Harvey
1797
published at Newcastle, again by subscription but this time with her name, a slender volume titled Poems on Various Subjects.
Fanny Holcroft: January, February 1797
Women writers item
Author event in Fanny Holcroft
January, February 1797
Monthly Magazine printed respectively Annabella and The Penitent Mother, two poems written by
at an early age.
Maria Elizabetha Jacson: 1797
Women writers item
Author event in Maria Elizabetha Jacson
1797
In the year that her sister
published her second novel,
issued her first, anonymous scientific text: Botanical Dialogues, Between Hortensia and Her Four Children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry.
Christian Isobel Johnstone: '1797
Women writers item
Author event in Christian Isobel Johnstone
'1797
Sixteen-year-old
married a printer named Thomas McLiesh.
Sarah Wentworth Morton: Late 1796 or early 1797
Writing climate item
Author event in Sarah Wentworth Morton
Late 1796 or early 1797
and her
moved from Boston to Dorchester (later Roxbury), Massachusetts, to a house which (according to American National Biography) they had built to Sarah's design.
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: 1797
Women writers item
Author event in Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
1797
One of the few datable songs by
was The Land o' the Leal, sent to a friend who had recently suffered the death of her eldest child, though its...
1797: Andrew Bell, a Scottish Anglican clergyman,...
Writing climate item
1797
, a Scottish
clergyman, published An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum of Madras. Suggesting a system by which a school or family may teach itself under the superintendence...
1797: James Gillespie, Edinburgh bachelor and self-made...
1797
, Edinburgh bachelor and self-made snuff merchant, left money at his death to found a day school for poor boys, later for boys and girls.
1797: Publisher Thomas Longman died worth over...
Writing climate item
1797
Publisher
died worth over £60,000: the figure shows to what extent publishers were doing well at this period.
1797: Charles James Fox hinted, as the merest possibility,...
1797
hinted, as the merest possibility, the idea that educated women might appropriately vote.
1797: Jeremy Bentham made the first known reference...
1797
made the first known reference in England to the use of the contraceptive sponge.
1797: Thomas Gisborne's Enquiry into the Duties...
1797
's Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (a reaction to the writings of radicals like
) was published.
1797: William Taylor wrote the first recorded instance...
National or international item
1797
wrote the first recorded instance of the word autobiography (in a Monthly Review notice of
's Miscellanies).
1797: R. Dutton published, anonymously, The Advertisement...
Writing climate item
1797
published, anonymously, The Advertisement for a Husband, A Novel; in a Series of Letters, between Belinda Blacket, Louisa Lenox, and others.
The Dutton firm was formerly
. Bibliographers
1797: Erasmus Darwin's A Plan for the Conduct of...
1797
's A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools was published.
1797: A book by T. Wilson entitled The Use of Circulating...
Writing climate item
1797
A book by
entitled The Use of Circulating Libraries Considered gave detailed advice on setting up such a library as a business.
1797: Bank notes in denominations of £1 and £2...
National or international item
1797
Bank notes in denominations of £1 and £2 were first introduced.
1797: The complete set of addresses delivered over...
Writing climate item
1797
The complete set of addresses delivered over the years to students at the
by
was published as Fifteen Discourses on Art.
26 January 1797: Elizabeth (Younge) Pope, who had been acting...
26 January 1797
, who had been acting since 1768 and was felt to be second only to
, gave her final performance at
; she died nearly six weeks later.
Jane Austen: February 1797
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Austen
February 1797
The Rev. Tom Fowle, fiancé of
's sister,
, died of fever at Santo Domingo in the Caribbean.
Ann Batten Cristall: About February 1797
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Batten Cristall
About February 1797
suggested that
and
should collaborate on a poetical novel.
Anna Jane Vardill: 9 February 1797
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Jane Vardill
9 February 1797
The pupils at the
performed a work of poetry composed by the fifteen-year-old
, to music by Dr
.
18 February 1797: British forces occupied the previously Spanish-owned...
National or international item
18 February 1797
British forces occupied the previously Spanish-owned island of Trinidad.
19 February 1797: Publisher James Dodsley (much younger brother...
Writing climate item
19 February 1797
Publisher
(much younger brother of
) died worth over £60,000;
, who died ten years later, left about the same.