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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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Anna Letitia Barbauld: November 1797

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November 1797

ALB published her edition of the Works of the poet William Collins , with a critical introduction.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
369
Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. British Library and ESTC North America, 1992.

Charlotte Smith: November 1797

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November 1797

Coleridge (though he was later respectful of CS 's sonnets) was surely aiming at her in his Nehemiah Higginbottom sonnet parodies in the Monthly Magazine.
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.
363, 381

Mary Matilda Betham: Late 1797

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Late 1797

Matilda Betham published at Ipswich her first book, Elegies, and other Small Poems (including many in ballad metre), dedicated to Lady Jerningham .
The British Library has a copy of this work published in London...

20 November 1797-9 July 1798: The short-lived Anti-Jacobin monthly (first...

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20 November 1797-9 July 1798

The short-lived Anti-Jacobin monthly (first under this title) appeared, edited by William Gifford .
Sherburn, George, and Donald F. Bond. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century. 2nd ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
1056
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Frances Burney: By December 1797

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By December 1797

FB wrote that the new window tax had forced on her and her husband the resolution of parting with 4 of our new windows.
The tax on windows was conceived of as a luxury tax...

Mary Robinson: December 1797

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December 1797

MR published another novel, Walsingham; or, The Pupil of Nature, whose copyright brought her a hundred and fifty pounds from her new publisher, Longman .
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii

Anna Maria Porter: By December 1797

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By December 1797

AMP published, anonymously, Walsh Colville, a brief courtship novel.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 21 (1797): 474

Harriet Lee: Late 1797

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Late 1797

HL published Canterbury Tales for the Year 1797, the first volume of the work which was to make her famous Geoffrey Chaucer.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 22 (1798): 170

Sophia Lee: Late 1797 to mid 1799

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Late 1797 to mid 1799

SL contributed items to the three earlier volumes of Canterbury Tales, of which her sister Harriet wrote the rest.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xlvii

Sarah Wentworth Morton: Late 1797

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Late 1797

What was designed as the opening book (but was in the end the only part issued) of SWM 's Beacon Hill: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive, was anonymously published in Boston.
Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931.
63, 113
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Ellen Weeton: Biography: 5 December 1797

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5 December 1797

EW 's mother died, aged fifty-one, leaving her to struggle alone with poverty and drudgery.
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
1: 25; 2: synopsis

14 December 1797: The French Directory announced its repudiation...

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14 December 1797

The French Directory announced its repudiation of yet more of the public debt.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xv

Christmas Day 1797: The owner of The Press, a radical Dublin...

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Christmas Day 1797

The owner of The Press, a radical Dublin paper, was sentenced for reporting an execution as murder.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
68 (1798): 69

Priscilla Wakefield: 31 December 1797-23 December 1799

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31 December 1797-23 December 1799

PW worked at The Juvenile Travellers, with many comments on its slowness.
Hill, Bridget. “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children’s Educational Books”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 3-14.
10

Anne Bannerman: 1798

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1798

Robert Anderson 's Edinburgh Magazine published work by AB under the pseudonym Augusta: two sonnets and a verse translation from Rousseau .
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
131

Mary Berry: 1798

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1798

MB published her first editing venture, The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford in five volumes, using the literary manuscripts that he had bequeathed to her family. Her name did not appear; the title-page...

Mary Charlton: 1798

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1798

MC published through the Minerva Press , with her name, Phedora; or, The Forest of Minski, A Novel.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
273

Charlotte Dacre: 1798

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1798

John King , father of CD and Sophia King , issued two self-justifying political manifestos: Mr. King's Apology and Oppression Deemed No Injustice Towards Some Individuals.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Wollstonecraft: January 1798

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January 1798

Godwin 's hastily-written Memoirs of MW , following his own principle of total frankness about all he knew, irreparably (for the time being) damaged her reputation.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
289-90

Mary Wollstonecraft: January 1798

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January 1798

MW 's second, unfinished novel, The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, was published in Godwin 's edition of her Posthumous Works.
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan, 1992.
224
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
253

Priscilla Wakefield: 1798

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1798

PW published her only book addressed exclusively to an adult audience: Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex, with Suggestions for its Improvement.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex. J. Johnson, and Darton and Harvey, 1798.
title-page

Elizabeth, Smith: 1 January 1798

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1 January 1798

Elizabeth Smith dated the collection of longer and shorter serious thoughts which she had preserved from her first twenty-one years, with a conventional though probably heartfelt lament for time mis-spent.
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
85

Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe: 1798

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1798

Two years after closing, perforce, her Canadian journals, EPS kept a diary (which survives) of a tour of west-country England made with her husband , who was carrying out inspection as military commander of the...

Mrs Showes: 1798

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1798

MS published with the Minerva Press , as the author of Interesting Tales, Statira; or, The Mother. A Novel.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1798

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1798

The first visit which Mary Anne Galton (later MAS ) made away from home was a month at Hampstead with Anna Letitia Barbauld .
Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858, 2 vols.
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