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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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Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1798

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1798

SHR published at Boston her melting-pot national tale or historical novel, Reuben and Rachel; or, Tales of Old Times, on which she had been working working for years.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Anna Maria Porter: 1 January 1798

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Author event in Anna Maria Porter

1 January 1798

An engraving after Richard Cosway was published for the Whig Club depicting the Polish national hero Kościuszko with a quatrain in his praise contributed by AMP .
McLean, Thomas. The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
54, 57

Anne Plumptre: 1798-1800

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Author event in Anne Plumptre

1798-1800

AP translated from German seven plays by Kotzebue , a biography of him, and his Miscellaneous Writings.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
xxvi-xxvii

Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1798

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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert

1798

Ann Taylor (later ATG ) sent in to The Minor's Pocket Book a verse solution to a riddle, under the name of Juvenilia, and won first prize.
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 .
1: 128-9

Catherine Maria Grey: 1798

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Author event in Catherine Maria Grey

1798

Catherine Maria Grindall (later Grey) was born at Calcutta in India.
Bassett, Troy J. “Author Information At the Circulating Library”. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901, 18 Feb. 2016.
Spedding, Patrick. “The Many Mrs. Greys: Confusion and Lies about Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Catherine Maria Grey, Maria Georgina Grey, and Others”. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol.
104
, No. 3, Sept. 2010, pp. 299-40.
337

Martha Hale: By 1798

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Author event in Martha Hale

By 1798

Bernard Hale , husband of MH , died after nearly fifty years of marriage.
Most sources, like the Feminist Companion, give 1797 as his death date, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry...

Elizabeth Helme: 1798

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Author event in Elizabeth Helme

1798

EH published with her name Instructive Rambles in London, and the Adjacent Villages. Designed to Amuse the Mind, and Improve the Understanding of Youth.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Caroline Herschel : 1798

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Author event in Caroline Herschel

1798

The Royal Society issued, with her name, CH 's Catalogue of Stars, an updating and radical expansion of Flamsteed 's canonical but by now inadequate catalogue of fixed stars (published in 1725).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Margaret Holford, the elder: 1798

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1798

Margaret Holford the elder , as the Author of Fanny and Selima, published Gresford Vale, and Other Poems.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Meeke: 1798

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1798

This year EM published The Sicilian. A Novel (which was anonymous, though linked to Gabrielli by allusive mention of the novel already issued under that pseudonym).
It was also advertised at the end of volume...

Elizabeth Moody: 1798

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Author event in Elizabeth Moody

1798

A Lady, author of A Sketch of Modern France, 1798, which appeared this year, has been suspected to be EM since her husband edited it; but he as editor clearly indicates to the contrary.

Adelaide O'Keeffe: 1798

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Author event in Adelaide O'Keeffe

1798

John O'Keeffe 's Dramatic Works were published in four volumes by Longman , probably edited by AOK .
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.

1798: The Annual Register Chronicle announced the...

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1798

The Annual Register Chronicle announced the invention, by a Frenchman and a German, of the printing process known as stereotype or stereotyping.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.

1798: Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published...

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1798

Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published in LondonAn Essay on the Principle of Population, which later attached his name to the birth control movement.
Tannahill, Reay. Sex in History. Stein and Day, 1980.
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Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
70
Graham, Kenneth W. “Beckford, Godwin, Austen, and the Divisive 1790s”. Persuasions, Vol.
24
, 2002, pp. 33-46.
37
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
228-9
Shapin, Steven. “Libel on the Human Race”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 11, 5 June 2015, pp. 26-9.

1798-1800: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller published,...

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1798-1800

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller published, in three parts, his historical tragedy Wallenstein.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 24 (1798): 155-63
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.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
94

1798: Richard Polwhele published The Unsex'd Females,...

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1798

Richard Polwhele published The Unsex'd Females, his notorious attack on Wollstonecraft and other active radicals.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 27 (1799): 231-2
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1790s-1820s: Farmers in Great Britain cultivated opiu...

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1790s-1820s

Farmers in Great Britain cultivated opium.
Berridge, Virginia, and Griffith Edwards. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England. St Martin’s Press, 1981.
12-6

1798-1800: August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel...

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1798-1800

August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel published their periodical Das Athenäum, the manifesto of the German Romantic movement.
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.

1798: What is called the first Sunday school for...

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1798

What is called the first Sunday school for adults was established in Nottingham by William Singleton , a Methodist, helped by Samuel Fox , a Quaker tradesman.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
17
Laqueur, Thomas. Religion and Respectability. Yale University Press, 1976.
34-5
Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
468

Mary Robinson: 14 January 1798

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Author event in Mary Robinson

14 January 1798

MR began writing her Memoirs.
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
17n

Sophia King: 14 January 1798

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Author event in Sophia King

14 January 1798

SK and her sister Charlotte Dacre wrote the dedication to their father of their poetry volume Trifles of Helicon, published this year.
SK 's next work of poetry gave the title of this one...

Auguste Comte: 19 January 1798

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19 January 1798

AC , philosopher, was born at Montpellier, France.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

Dorothy Wordsworth: 20 January to perhaps 22 May 1798

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Author event in Dorothy Wordsworth

20 January to perhaps 22 May 1798

DW kept (with decreasing fullness) her earliest surviving journal, written at Alfoxden, the second home she had shared with her brother William .
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
1: 3, 16 and n2

Frances Wright: February 1798

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Author event in Frances Wright

February 1798

FW 's mother died before Frances was three.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
4

Ellis Cornelia Knight : Early 1798

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Author event in Ellis Cornelia Knight

Early 1798

ECK and her mother fled from Romewith some difficulty to Naples after the French invaded Rome in February and confiscated British property.
qtd. in
Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960.
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Luttrell, Barbara. The Prim Romantic. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
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