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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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22 February 1797: Irish-American colonel William Tate landed...

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22 February 1797

Irish-American colonel William Tate landed a small French invasion force at Fishguard Bay, Wales. This followed a larger-scale attempt through Ireland begun on 15 December 1796 which was abandoned the next month.
“On This Day: 22 February 1797”. BBC History.
“The French Invasion of Fishguard”. Historic UK: The History of Wales.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
68 (1798): 162-3

Maria Abdy: 25 February 1797

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25 February 1797

Maria Smith (later MA ) was born in London; she was an only child.
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.
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press, 1997–1998, 2 vols.
2: 178

26 February 1797: The Bank of England, alarmed by a run on...

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26 February 1797

The Bank of England , alarmed by a run on gold prompted by fears of invasion from Napoleonic France, prohibited payments in cash: in May this prohibition was enforced by legislation establishing a period of Restriction.
Palk, Deirdre. “’Fit Objects for Mercy’: Gender, the Bank of England and Currency Criminals, 1804-1833”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
11
, No. 2, 2004, pp. 237-58.
237-40

Maria Riddell : 1 March 1797

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Author event in Maria Riddell

1 March 1797

MR 's second daughter, Sophia, died of whooping cough in London, aged four years and three months. Her mother had been in real fear for her life for at least ten days already.
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
90-1

Horace Walpole: 2 March 1797

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2 March 1797

HW , letter-writer, novelist, gothicist, printer, and since December 1791 fourth Earl of Orford in succession to his nephew, died at 11 Berkeley Square, London.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
547
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.
245

Emily Eden: 3 March 1797

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Author event in Emily Eden

3 March 1797

EE was born in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, the seventh of eight daughters and the twelfth of fourteen children.
Claridge, Elizabeth et al. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Virago, 1983, p. v - xx.
vi
Thompson, Edward John, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Curzon Press, 1978, p. ix - xiv.
ix

Elizabeth Inchbald: 4 March 1797

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4 March 1797

Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .
The title sounds like an allusion to such radical texts as Robert Bage 's Man...

Susannah Gunning: By 9 March 1797

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By 9 March 1797

SG published the five-volume Love at First Sight, A Novel from the French, with alterations and additions.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 714
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 21 (1797): 42

Mary Wollstonecraft: 29 March 1797

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29 March 1797

MW and William Godwin , against their principles but for the sake of the coming baby, were married at St Pancras Church, London.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
266

Olaudah Equiano: 31 March 1797

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31 March 1797

OE , African-American writer in English, died at his London home, in Paddington Street, Marylebone.
Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, 2001, pp. 7-37.
36
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Fanny Holcroft: April 1797

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April 1797

FH 's Monthly Magazine poem Conscience the Worst of Tortures presented a murderer haunted by the ghost of his victim.
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press, 1997–1998, 2 vols.
2:90-1, 271

Frances Jacson: By April 1797

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By April 1797

FJ published another novel with the Minerva Press , this time in four volumes: Disobedience, by the author of Plain Sense. It too was for a long time attributed to Alethea Lewis .
Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
3 (1797): 306, 389
Jacson, Frances. Disobedience. Minerva Press, 1797, 4 vols.
title-page

April-27 September 1797: The Gazetteer passed briefly to the proprietorship...

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April-27 September 1797

The Gazetteer passed briefly to the proprietorship of Mary Vint ; it was then bought up by the Morning Post.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
125

April 1797: The Critical gave a bad review to a book...

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April 1797

The Critical gave a bad review to a book on midwifery by a woman: The Pupil of Nature, by Martha Mears , Practitioner in Midwifery.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 22 (1797): 462-3

Mary Sewell: 6 April 1797

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6 April 1797

Mary Wright, later MS , was born at Sutton in Suffolk, the third among seven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

8 April 1797: Elizabeth Farren, renowned for her portrayals...

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8 April 1797

Elizabeth Farren , renowned for her portrayals of high-society women, gave her final performance at Drury Lane before retiring to marry the Earl of Derby.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1886

13 April 1797: The gathering mutiny at Spithead off Portsmouth...

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13 April 1797

The gathering mutiny at Spithead off Portsmouth was reported by telegraph (communication by flashing lights from a national system of observation posts).
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
112

April-May 1797: Sailors mutinied at Spithead (off Portsmouth)...

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April-May 1797

Sailors mutinied at Spithead (off Portsmouth) and the Nore in the mouth of the Thames, threatening to paralyse Britain's naval defences.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
407-8

26 April 1797: The Gentleman's Magazine listed the anticipated...

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26 April 1797

The Gentleman's Magazine listed the anticipated revenue from a modification in Advertising Duty as twenty thousand pounds: the duty was set this year at three shillings.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
67 (1797): 1030

Elizabeth Bonhote: About May 1797

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About May 1797

EB published with Minerva her last novel, Bungay Castle, in two volumes; it had been delayed in the printing, and the title-page says 1796.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 707-8

Charlotte Smith: May 1797

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May 1797

CS added a second volume to her famous collection, now titled Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
263
Raycroft, Brent. “From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, 1 June 1998–2026, pp. 363-92.
382
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
107, 581

Charlotte Lennox: By May 1797

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By May 1797

The History of Sir George Warrington; or, The Political Quixote, by Elizabeth and Jane Purbeck , was falsely ascribed to CL on the title-page of the first issue.
Scholar Duncan Isles added a third...

By May 1797: William Wilberforce published A Practical...

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By May 1797

William Wilberforce published A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country contrasted with real Christianity.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
19-20
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
67 (1797): 410

Elizabeth Grant: 7 May 1797

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7 May 1797

EG was born at 5 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.
Grant, Elizabeth. Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Editor Tod, Andrew, Canongate, 1988, 2 vols.
1: 3

Henrietta Maria Bowdler: 10 May 1797

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10 May 1797

Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler , mother of HMB and the other writing Bowdlers, died at Bath.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
67 (1797):1: 447
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler