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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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Charlotte Lennox: 11 May 1797

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11 May 1797

An Alexander Lennox who died at Geilston, near Cardross in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on this day was very likely CL 's husband. If so he would have been travelling to seek advice on his chance...

15 May 1797: Henry Grattan and other Opposition members...

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15 May 1797

Henry Grattan and other Opposition members seceded from the Irish parliament (i.e. ceased to attend); they saw it as a tool of despotism.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Eliza Parsons: By mid-May 1797

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By mid-May 1797

EP issued another work through the Minerva Press : The Girl of the Mountains. A Novel, dedicated to Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester , a niece of the king and the daughter of a...

Susanna Haswell Rowson: 17 May 1797

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17 May 1797

SHR gave her final performance on stage, at the Federal Street Theatre in Boston.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Christian Milne: By May 1797

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By May 1797

At the age of twenty-four, Christian Ross married Patrick Milne, a journeyman ship's-carpenter. She calls him Damon in her poetry and Patrick in her printed text (though Elizabeth Isabella Spence calls him Peter).
Some sources...

Margaret Catchpole: By 24 May 1797

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By 24 May 1797

MC helped John Cook to steal a horse from John Cobbold ; she was arrested, and sent to trial.
This is the date on which the stolen horse was advertised for.
Barber, Richard, and Richard Cobbold. “The Real Margaret Catchpole”. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl, Boydell Press, 1979, p. x - xviii.
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Cobbold, Richard et al. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. Facsimile of 1847 edition, Boydell Press, 1979.
231
“Margaret Catchpole Papers, 1797-1917; 1801-1870”. State Library of New South Wales: PICMAN Database.

Margaret Catchpole: 27 May 1797

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27 May 1797

MC signed her confession to the crime of horse-stealing (which she seems to have dictated, because of her near-illiteracy).
“Margaret Catchpole Papers, 1797-1917; 1801-1870”. State Library of New South Wales: PICMAN Database.

Eliza Parsons: June 1797

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June 1797

EP tried a new publisher, Longman , for her historical An Old Friend with a New Face: A Novel, dedicated to Lady Howard .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 724
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

By June 1797: The unidentified Mrs Carver published one...

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By June 1797

The unidentified Mrs Carver published one of her two novels this year with the Minerva Press : Elizabeth. The other is the distinctly gruesome The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 709-10, 741; 2: 111

Elizabeth Meeke: After 5 June 1797

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After 5 June 1797

EM first used her pseudonym, Gabrielli, for The Mysterious Wife. A Novel, which she dedicated on this date to her maternal aunt Martha Young (wife of Arthur Young , the agricultural writer).
Martha...

Dorothy Wordsworth: 6 June 1797

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6 June 1797

DW first met Coleridge when he arrived on foot at Racedown to stay with her and William .
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 317

Isabella Kelly: 6 June 1797

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6 June 1797

IK 's next novel, Joscelina; or, The Rewards of Benevolence, was advertised as just printed for the author.
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Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.

Elizabeth Hervey, 1748 - 1820: : Probably June 1797

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Probably June 1797

Elizabeth Hervey anonymously published her fourth novel, The Church of St. Siffrid, again in four volumes, with a quotation from Giovanni Battista Guarini on its title-page, in Italian.
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: 714

Elizabeth Heyrick: 18 June 1797

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18 June 1797

EH 's husband died unexpectedly (while she was out at church and he was proof-reading a sheet of his book, then in the press)
Hutton, Catherine. “A Sketch of A Family of Originals”. Ainsworth’s Magazine, edited by William Harrison Ainsworth, Vol.
5
, Jan. 1844, pp. 56-63.
62
from a sudden attack of angina.
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
103

Elizabeth Gunning: By 20 June 1797

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By 20 June 1797

EG published The Orphans of Snowdon, A Novel.
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): 473

Elizabeth Inchbald: After 22 June 1797

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After 22 June 1797

EI wrote a poem in memory of her friend Dr Richard Warren , who died on this day.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
151-2

Eliza Parsons: 28 June 1797

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28 June 1797

The New-York Weekly Magazine reprinted an excerpt from EP 's The Errors of Education: Henry and Louisa. An Affecting Tale.
Pitcher, Edward W. Fiction in American Magazines Before 1800. Union College Press, 1993, http://U of A, Ruth N.
302

Henrietta Battier: July 1797

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July 1797

HB published another highly politicised, even satirical, epithalamium: an Irregular Ode to Edward Byrne , Esq. of Mullinahack, on his marriage with Miss Roe, step-daughter to one noble lord , and niece to another !!!
Fitzpatrick, William John. "The Sham Squire and the Informers of ’98", 1866. http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/books/shamsquire/shamindex.htm.
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Helen Maria Williams: By July 1797

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By July 1797

There was published at London an omnibus volume, allegedly of HMW 's letters from France: A Residence in France during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795.
It was published by T. N. Longman

Jane Taylor: July 1797

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July 1797

The Taylor family took the formal decision that Ann and Jane should enter their father 's profession, and be trained as engravers.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
39

Sophia Lee: By July 1797

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By July 1797

SL had her picture drawn by Sir Thomas Lawrence and engraved by Ridley for reproduction, with an account of her life, in the Monthly Mirror.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
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July 1797: Reviewing Margaret Stephen's Domestic Midwife;...

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July 1797

Reviewing Margaret Stephen 's Domestic Midwife; or, the best Means of preventing Danger in Child-Birth, 1795, the Critical indulged in one of its periodic pronouncements about the limitations of midwives.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
20 (1797): 351-2

Margaret Catchpole: 6 July 1797

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6 July 1797

According to Richard Cobbold's semi-historical novel (apparently accurate in this instance), MC wrote her first letter to her former employer, Elizabeth Cobbold , from jail.
Cobbold, Richard et al. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. Facsimile of 1847 edition, Boydell Press, 1979.
239-40
Heney, Helen, editor. Dear Fanny, Women’s Letters to and from New South Wales, 1788-1857. Australian National University Press, 1985.
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Anna Maria Bennett: 8 July 1797

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8 July 1797

On this date, advertisements said, AMB published her most popular novel, The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors, with the Minerva Press .
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
260

Jane West: After 9 July 1797

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After 9 July 1797

JW published An Elegy on the Death of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke.
West, Jane. An Elegy on the Death of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. T. N. Longman, 1797.
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