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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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Frances Wright: May 1798

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May 1798

FW 's father died the same year as her mother, also before Frances reached her third birthday.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Helen Maria Williams: By May 1798

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By May 1798

HMW published A Tour in Switzerland; or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of those Cantons, with Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Anne Lister: May 1798

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May 1798

AL was first sent to a dame school run by Mrs Hague and Mrs Chettle at Ripon (where she was whipped every day).
Lister, Anne. No Priest But Love. Editor Whitbread, Helena, New York University Press, 1992.
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Lister, Anne. Miss Lister of Shibden Hall. Editor Green, Muriel, Book Guild, 1992.
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Eliza Fenwick: 3 May 1798

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3 May 1798

EF bore her son, Orlando , whom she later called Lanno.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
366, 8

Amelia Opie: 8 May 1798

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8 May 1798

Amelia Alderson married John Opie , who came from Cornwall and had made a name for himself as a peasant painter: that is, one of lower-class origins, whose carefully cultivated rough appearance proved a valuable...

11 May 1798: The French Directory conducted a second purge...

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11 May 1798

The French Directory conducted a second purge of the Legislature and other public institutions.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Helena Wells: May 1798

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May 1798

HW , as a Lady, published her first book: The Step-Mother, A Domestic Tale from Real Life.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 764

Anna Brownell Jameson: May 1798

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May 1798

The child Anna Murphy (later ABJ ) and her parents moved from Dublin to Whitehaven in Cumberland, shortly before the Irish Rebellion gathered full force.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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Mary Leadbeater: 24-29 May 1798

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24-29 May 1798

As the Irish Rebellion spread, and following the withdrawal of soldiers billetted around the Leadbeater family home in Ballitore, fighting and individual murders broke out on each side.
Leadbeater, Mary, and Mary Cunningham. The Annals of Ballitore, 1766-1824. Editor McKenna, John, Stephen Scroop, 1986.
63-77

Late May 1798: A Catholic uprising began in Ireland; this...

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Late May 1798

A Catholic uprising began in Ireland; this became known as the Irish Rebellion.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
137-8
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
68 (1798): 614ff.

Maria Edgeworth: June 1798

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June 1798

ME and her father published their co-authored book of educational method in two quarto volumes, Practical Education.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Hannah Webster Foster: June 1798

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June 1798

HWF 's The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to her Pupils was published at Boston, Massachusetts.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Shurter, Robert L. “Mrs Hannah Webster Foster and the Early American Novel”. American Literature, Vol.
4
, No. 3, 1932, pp. 306-8.
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Harriet Lee: By June 1798

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By June 1798

The second volume of Canterbury Tales appeared; this time the author was not Harriet but Sophia Lee .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 23 (1798): 204

1 June-4 October 1798: David Thompson, a Welsh explorer map-making...

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1 June-4 October 1798

David Thompson , a Welsh explorer map-making for the North West Company , trekked from Sault Ste Marie on the Great Lakes to Lac La Biche.
Simons, Paula. “’Canada’s geographer’ deserves recognition”. Edmonton Journal, 4 Oct. 1998, pp. B1 - 2.
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June 1798: Edward Jenner published An Inquiry into the...

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June 1798

Edward Jenner published An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae . . . known by the name of the Cow-pox.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 24 (1798): 221

4 June 1798: Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of the United...

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4 June 1798

Lord Edward Fitzgerald , a leader of the United Irishmen and implicated in the ongoing Irish Rebellion, died in Newgate Prison, Dublin, of the effects of a wound sustained while resisting arrest.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Harriet Lee: 5 June 1798

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5 June 1798

HL turned down a marriage proposal from William Godwin , recent widower of Mary Wollstonecraft .
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
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Anna Maria Mackenzie: 5 June 1798

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5 June 1798

After a brief fling with a pseudonym, AMM reverted to her real name for another gothic Minerva novel, Dusseldorf; or, The Fratricide, advertised on this date.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 752

21 June 1798: The Society of United Irishmen, a progressive...

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21 June 1798

The Society of United Irishmen , a progressive nationalist group (nonsectarian but largely Dissenting) dedicated to overthrowing Anglican minority rule in Ireland, was virtually destroyed in an armed clash at Ballanahinch.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Adelman, Paul. Great Britain and the Irish Question 1800-1922. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
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25 June 1798: A new tax on the upper classes came into...

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25 June 1798

A new tax on the upper classes came into effect, levying two guineas for the privilege of running a coach or carriage with armorial bearings (that is, a coat of arms) painted on it.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins: 30 June 1798

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30 June 1798

EST for the first time set her name to her next and final novel, Rosalind de Tracey.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 763
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Henrietta Maria Bowdler: Summer 1798

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Summer 1798

HMB rented a cottage in the village of Llangollen in Denbighshire, to be near her friends Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby .
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
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Charlotte Smith: By July 1798

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By July 1798

CS published her last novel, The Young Philosopher, in four volumes.
The title had been used in 1782 for an anonymous novel apparently translated from French.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 310-11
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
285
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiv

Charlotte Smith: Summer 1798

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Summer 1798

CS 's third book for children, Minor Morals, interspersed with sketches of natural history, historical anecdotes, and original stories, appeared.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
289
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiv
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
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Eliza Parsons: By July 1798

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By July 1798

EP dedicated her gothic novel Anecdotes of Two Well-Known Families to the First Female Pen in England (possibly Frances Burney ), and claimed that the book was Written by a Descendant.
Karen Morton points...