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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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Mrs F. C. Patrick: By October 1798

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By October 1798

MFCP published her second novel, More Ghosts!, by the wife of an Officer, author of the Irish Heiress.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 755

Elizabeth Moody: October 1798

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October 1798

EM dated her collection, Poetic Trifles, written at Surbiton Farm and published that year.
Moody, Elizabeth. Poetic Trifles. Cadell and Davies, 1798.
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4 October 1798: Wordsworth and Coleridge published at Bristol...

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4 October 1798

Wordsworth and Coleridge published at Bristol the first edition of their epoch-making poetry collection Lyrical Ballads.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 409, 370, 401-2
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Wordsworth

Anne Hart Gilbert: 7 October 1798

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7 October 1798

In Antigua, Anne Hart married John Gilbert after many practical difficulties stemming from their racial difference (which did not end with their marriage). Thirty-two years later, however, he said he had no regrets.
Gilbert, John et al. Memoir of J.G. 1835.
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Elizabeth Inchbald: 11 October 1798

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11 October 1798

EI 's Lovers' Vows, adapted from (and toned down from) Das Kind der Liebe by Kotzebue , opened at Covent Garden . Inchbald, who did not speak German, worked from an intermediate literal version...

Mary Leadbeater: Early October 1798

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Early October 1798

In the dying days of the Irish Rebellion, ML and her family were robbed and threatened with death in their own home by rebels.
Leadbeater, Mary, and Mary Cunningham. The Annals of Ballitore, 1766-1824. Editor McKenna, John, Stephen Scroop, 1986.
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Mary Stockdale: Later 1798

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Later 1798

MS (as Miss Stockdale) issued through her father 's firmThe Family Book; or, Children's Journal, translated from the French of Arnaud Berquin , Interspers'd with Poetical Pieces written by the Translator...

Margaret Holford, the elder: November 1798

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November 1798

A five-act comedy by Margaret Holford the elder , Neither's the Man, was performed at the Theatre Royal in Chester.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
236

Mrs Martin: : Probably well before November 1798

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Probably well before November 1798

The Minerva Press issued the first novel by the talented but untraced MM : Deloraine. A Domestic Tale, by a Lady, in two volumes; the preface is signed with her pseudonym, Helen of Herefordshire

6 November 1798: One John Way wrote an account of a poor widow...

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6 November 1798

One John Way wrote an account of a poor widow in Hasketon near Ipswich in Suffolk and her—successful—struggle to maintain her family.
Myers, Mitzi, and Andrea Immel. “Introduction”. Revolutionary Reviewing, Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, 1990, p. vii - xv.
ix-x

Annabella Plumptre: Probably by November 1798

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Probably by November 1798

AP and her sister Anne were at 56 Wells Street, London, either living there or visiting.
Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen, 2004.
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Hannah Brand: Probably late 1798

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Probably late 1798

HB published by subscription her Plays and Poems, dedicated to her elder sister .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
(1798): 467
Brand, Hannah. Plays and Poems. Beatniffe and Payne; Elmsley and Bremner, 1798.
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Eliza Fenwick: December 1798

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December 1798

EF 's husband John Fenwick published On the Trial of James Coigley for High Treason, a fierce critique of the execution of Irish radical James Coigly .
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019.
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Young, Mary Julia : Late 1798

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Late 1798

In her PoemsMJY 's previously-published work made up about half the volume.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Young, Mary Julia : By December 1798

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By December 1798

MJY published with the Minerva Press her first novel, Rose-Mount Castle; or, False Report, in three volumes, with her name as M. J. Young.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1:765
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Leah Sumbel: December 1798

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December 1798

LS fled from her second husband , and the marriage ended.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.

Eleanor Sleath: Probably late 1798

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Probably late 1798

ES published with the Minerva Press her first novel, The Orphan of the Rhine. A Romance, anonymous in four volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 760-1

Anna Maria Porter: By December 1798

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By December 1798

AMP published, with her name, her second novel, Octavia, dedicated to Mary Champion de Crespigny .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 758
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 24 (1798): 471

Ann Taylor Gilbert: December 1798

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December 1798

Ann (later ATG ), at nearly seventeen, was the first to hold her newborn youngest sister, Jemima; she later said she had felt for her as a mother.
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: 127

Mrs Martin: : By the end of 1798

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By the end of 1798

MM 's second book appeared from the Minerva Press : Melbourne, A Novel, as by the author of Deloraine.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: Winter, probably 1798

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Winter, probably 1798

Sydney Owenson took up a governess job with Margaret Featherstone or Featherstonehaugh of Bracklin Castle, Westmeath.
Literary critic James Newcomer , who chooses the second version of the employers' family name, mistakenly says this...

Early December 1798: Merchants in Edinburgh and Aberdeen sent...

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Early December 1798

Merchants in Edinburgh and Aberdeen sent messages to the Lord Mayor of London endorsing the levying of higher taxes for the war effort.
Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66.
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Mary Brunton: 4 December 1798

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4 December 1798

Mary Balfour was married at Edinburgh to the Rev. Alexander Brunton , whose father had been a working man.
The International Genealogical Index lists this record as compiled from Edinburgh Parish Blotter Comparison, which...

December 1798 - February 1799: Unusually severe weather conditions gripped...

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December 1798 - February 1799

Unusually severe weather conditions gripped most of Britain, compounding the hardships already being experienced by the poor.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Hannah Kilham: 20 December 1798

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20 December 1798

HK 's husband, Alexander Kilham , died, only eight months after their wedding and leaving her five months pregnant.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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