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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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Eliza Kirkham Mathews: Summer 1798

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Author event in Eliza Kirkham Mathews

Summer 1798

The fairly recently married EKM and her husband visited his parents in London.
Mathews, Anne Jackson. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian. R. Bentley, 1838–1839, 4 vols.
1: 209

July 1798: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine: or...

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July 1798

The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine: or monthly political and literary censor, a leading reactionary periodical, began publication.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
Sherburn, George, and Donald F. Bond. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century. 2nd ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.

2 July 1798: The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum: or...

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2 July 1798

The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum: or polite repository of amusement and instruction published its first number. Sometimes called The Ladies' Monthly Museum . . . it ran until the 1830s.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
216
Pitcher, Edward W. The "Lady’s Monthly Museum". First Series: 1798-1806. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
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.

Hannah Mary Rathbone: 5 July 1798

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Author event in Hannah Mary Rathbone

5 July 1798

Hannah Mary Reynolds (later HMR ) was born, at Ketley, near Wellington in Shropshire, into the middle of a family of seven children.
“Papers of the Family of Richard Rathbone (RP VII)”. University of Liverpool Library, Special Collections and Archives: The Rathbone Papers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

9 July 1798: George Canning, writing in the Anti-Jacobin,...

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9 July 1798

George Canning , writing in the Anti-Jacobin, lambasted sensibility as a literary mode stemming from France, from Rousseau , and from diseased fancy, effeminacy, and self-obsession.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
170

11 July 1798: Thomas Green reported (not favourably) on...

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11 July 1798

Thomas Green reported (not favourably) on Miss Linwood's Exhibition of Needle Work, of works imitating famous paintings such as a Raphael madonna.
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
47-8
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
1: 67

17 July 1798: Radical publisher Joseph Johnson stood trial...

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17 July 1798

Radical publisher Joseph Johnson stood trial for publishing the allegedly seditious Reply to Some Parts of the Bishop of Llandaff's Address.
Waters, Mary A. “’The First of a New Genus’: Mary Wollstonecraft as Literary Critic and Mentor to Mary Hays”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 2004, pp. 415-34.
428

Ann Radcliffe: 24 July 1798

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Author event in Ann Radcliffe

24 July 1798

AR , an only child, was left well off after her father died, at her house in London.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
178

Jane Austen: August 1798-June 1799

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Author event in Jane Austen

August 1798-June 1799

JA probably drafted her first mature novel: begun in the third person as Susan, revised in winter 1803, eventually published as Northanger Abbey.
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
5-6

Emily Frederick Clark : By August 1798

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By August 1798

The year after her grandfather's high-profile suicide, EFC published in two volumes with Hookham and Carpenter , by subscription, her first novel (also her first book): Ianthé, or The Flower of Caernarvon.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 742
Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol.
17
, 1987, pp. 191-07.
193, n10

Margaret Holford, the younger : Before August 1798

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Before August 1798

The first published work by Margaret Holford the younger was almost certainly the anonymous Calaf, a Persian Tale in two volumes, written, it says, at seventeen.
Holford, Margaret, the younger. Calaf, a Persian Tale. Hookham and Carpenter, 1798, 2 vols.
1: title and prelims

1-3 August 1798: In the Battle of the Nile (also known as...

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1-3 August 1798

In the Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir (or Abu Qir) Bay), the British fleet under Nelson attacked and in large part destroyed the fleet of revolutionary France.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Nelson
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xv
Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66.
159

August 1798: The Irish Rebellion spread to County Longford,...

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August 1798

The Irish Rebellion spread to County Longford, encouraged by a small French invasion force.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
137-8

Anne Francis: 15 August 1798

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Author event in Anne Francis

15 August 1798

A political poem by AF appeared at Norwich in the form of a broadside: A Plain Address to my Neighbours, on the model of Hannah More .
Jackson, James Robert de Jager. Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835. Clarendon Press, 1993.
129

22 August 1798: A French invasion force landed at Killala,...

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22 August 1798

A French invasion force landed at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland: joined by some Irish reinforcements, it won a victory at Castlebar but was finally defeated near Granard, County Longford, by British troops. The...

Joanna Baillie: By September 1798

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Author event in Joanna Baillie

By September 1798

JB published, anonymously, the first instalment in her planned dramatic sequence, A Series of Plays on the Passions.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
24 (1798): 13

Sarah Harriet Burney: 1 September 1798

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Author event in Sarah Harriet Burney

1 September 1798

SHB left home to live with her eldest half-brother, James ; this action caused immense scandal at the time, and has been much debated since.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
xxxvi-xxxvii

Helen Maria Williams: September 1798

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Author event in Helen Maria Williams

September 1798

HMW 's younger sister, Cecilia Coquerel , died: Williams never recovered from this blow. She became guardian to her two nephews, then aged three and one.
Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press, 2002.
153
Williams, Helen Maria. “Introduction and Chronology”. Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, edited by Neil Fraistat and Susan Sniader Lanser, Broadview, 2001, pp. 9-52.
26
Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press, 2002.
171

Annabella Plumptre: By September 1798

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Author event in Annabella Plumptre

By September 1798

AP published a novel translated from the German of Christian Heinrich Spiess : The Mountain Cottager; or, Wonder upon Wonder. A Tale.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
272

Sophia King: By September 1798

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Author event in Sophia King

By September 1798

SK published, with her name, her first novel, Waldorf; or, The Dangers of Philosophy. A Philosophical Tale.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 24 (1798): 112

5 September 1798: Conscription was introduced in France....

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5 September 1798

Conscription was introduced in France.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xv, 335-6

Maria Edgeworth: 7 September 1798

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Author event in Maria Edgeworth

7 September 1798

Richard Lovell Edgeworth , with ME and the rest of the family, were forced to leave their house to escape the Catholic rebels.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
138

Dorothy Wordsworth: 14 September-6 October 1798

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Author event in Dorothy Wordsworth

14 September-6 October 1798

DW kept a journal during her first travel abroad: of her journey from London via Yarmouth to Goslar in Germany.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
1: 19, 34

Hannah More: 22 September 1798

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Author event in Hannah More

22 September 1798

The Cheap Repository Tracts ended; reprinting rights were sold to Rivington , but Marshall went on issuing tracts by the same title, some of them bawdy or (by HM 's terms) politically suspect.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
143

Priscilla Wakefield: October 1798

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Author event in Priscilla Wakefield

October 1798

PW established near her home both a penny bank to take care of children's money and a women's benefit club which produced old age pensions for the labouring poor.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.