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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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Judith Sargent Murray: February 1798

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February 1798

JSM 's The Gleaner was collected in three volumes, by subscription (759 subscribers for 824 sets at a dollar a volume), as a money-raising venture.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
104

Early 1798 to May 1805: William Wordsworth composed the early version...

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Early 1798 to May 1805

William Wordsworth composed the early version of what became The Prelude, as a distraction from the effort of working at his unrealised great poem.
Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
8, 10
Barrell, John. “To Stir up the People”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 17-19.
19

February 1798: In County Cork in Ireland, a landowner, Colonel...

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February 1798

In County Cork in Ireland, a landowner, Colonel St George, and his estate agent were murdered at the agent's house.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
68 (1798): 161

February 1798: Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his conversation-poem...

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February 1798

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his conversation-poem Frost at Midnight, published the same year.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poetical Works [of] Coleridge, including poems and versions of poems herein published for the first time. Editor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, Oxford University Press, 1969.
240, 242

February 1798: John Cary followed his successful New and...

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February 1798

John Cary followed his successful New and Correct English Atlas with Cary's New Itinerary, which listed surveyed distances on all major British roads.
Winchester, Simon. The Map that Changed the World. HarperCollins, 2001.
140
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

J. S. Anna Liddiard: 12 February 1798

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12 February 1798

J. S. Anna Wilkinson married the Rev. William Liddiard (1773-1841), an English clergyman and former army officer who was also a poet, artist, and musician.
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Liddiard

Catherine Gore : 17 February 1798

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17 February 1798

Catherine Moody (later CG ), the youngest of four children, was born, probably in London. She was christened three days later at St James's, Piccadilly.
Many sources printed after her death say her birthplace...

Regina Maria Roche: 18-21 February 1798

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18-21 February 1798

An extract from RMR 's The Children of the Abbey appeared in The Time Piece, New York, to publicize the forthcoming American edition.
Pitcher, Edward W. Fiction in American Magazines Before 1800. Union College Press, 1993, http://U of A, Ruth N.

Mary Charlton: By March 1798

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By March 1798

MC published an anonymous novel, Ammorvin and Zallida, again with the Minerva Press .
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
267

Mary Stockdale: By March 1798

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By March 1798

MS published her poetry volume The Effusions of the Heart through the firm of her fatherJohn Stockdale ; this was apparently her earliest publication.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 22 (1798): 352

Mary Hays: Spring 1798

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Spring 1798

Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women by MH was anonymously published.
Scholars disagree: Gina Luria (following William Thompson and Anna Wheeler ) assigns this to MH ; Gary Kelly doubts...

March 1798: Martial law was declared in Ireland....

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March 1798

Martial law was declared in Ireland.
Fianna Guide to Irish Genealogy. http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/.

Anne Plumptre: Mid-March 1798

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Mid-March 1798

AP published her second novel, The Rector's Son, which was advertised for sale at this time.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 757
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 23 (1798): 114

Regina Maria Roche: 27 March 1798

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27 March 1798

RMR 's Minerva Press novel Clermont, A Tale, a four-volume gothic with a title-page quotation from Edmund Waller , was advertised as newly published.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 759
Mandal, Anthony. “Revising the Radcliffean Model: Regina Maria Roches Clermont and Jane Austens Northanger AbbeyCardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
3
, Sept. 1999.

Margaret Bryan: April 1798

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April 1798

MB defended herself in the Critical Review against what she felt to be damaging criticism in that journal of her A Compendious System of Astronomy.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 22 (1798): 480

Hester Lynch Piozzi: April 1798

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April 1798

HLP published, as an Old Acquaintance of the Public, a pro-government pamphlet, Three Warnings to John Bull Before He Dies.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
396

Ann Taylor Gilbert: April 1798

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April 1798

The young Ann and Jane Taylor , with several of their friends, formed the Umbelliferous Society (a name meaning many flowers on a stem), which met monthly to read out their own and others' writing.
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: 117

Harriet Lee: By April 1798

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By April 1798

HL published her verse-and-prose drama The Mysterious Marriage; or, The Heirship of Roselva.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 22 (1798): 475

April 1798: The Defence of the Realm Act set parish officials...

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April 1798

The Defence of the Realm Act set parish officials to compile lists of able-bodied men, of what they owned and whether they were prepared to fight against France.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
289ff

April 1798: With debating clubs under threat from British...

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April 1798

With debating clubs under threat from British government repression, and the brief era of women's debating clubs over, one club debated the topic of women's writing versus women's domesticity.
Escott, Angela. “The School of Eloquence and ’Roasted Square Caps’: oratory and pedantry as fair theatrical game?”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
8
, No. 1, 2001, pp. 59-79.
65

Hannah Kilham: 12 April 1798

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12 April 1798

Hannah Spurr married (as his second wife) Alexander Kilham , founder of the Methodist New Connection , whom she had met the previous summer and with whom she had been corresponding.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
42

Priscilla Wakefield: 16 April 1798

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16 April 1798

Though PW 's family finances had slightly improved, she did not feel they warranted her discontinuing her writing.
Hill, Bridget. “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children’s Educational Books”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 3-14.
11

Mary Robinson: 20 April 1798

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20 April 1798

MR published a romantic sonnet, Twilight, in the Morning Post, where it appeared alongside accounts of a notorious divorce case and government action against the London Corresponding Society .
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
21

26 April 1798: Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell, A German...

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26 April 1798

Francis Lathom 's The Midnight Bell, A German Story, one of the gothic horrid novels mentioned in Jane Austen 's Northanger Abbey, was advertised as newly published.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
Garside 1: 749-50

Mrs E. M. Foster: : By May 1798

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By May 1798

MEMF apparently published her second and only other historical novel, Jaquelina of Hainault: an Historical Novel. Its authorship was indicated only as by the author of The Duke of Clarence.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 743-4