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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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Maria Edgeworth: Christmas 1798

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Christmas 1798

The Edgeworth family first acted Whim for Whim, a comedy by ME and her father , at home at Edgeworthstown.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: 1799

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1799

Letters written during a Residence in England (translated from Jacques-Henri Meister 's Souvenirs de mes voyages en Angleterre) was published [t]ogether with a letter from the Margravine of Anspach to the author.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Henrietta Battier: 1799

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1799

HB , as Patt. Pindar, published An Address on . . . the Projected Union, another rollicking verse satire on the plan to unite Ireland with mainland Britain.
Battier, Henrietta. An Address on the Projected Union. Printed for the author, 1799.
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Marianne Chambers: 1799

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1799

MC published by subscription through Dilly her only novel, He Deceives Himself. A Domestic Tale, dedicated to her godfather, Thomas Powell of Bristol.
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.

Louisa Stuart Costello: 1799

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1799

LSC was born, either in Ireland or in Sussex, the elder of two children.
The Feminist Companion and scholar Tamara Holloway give her place of birth as Ireland; the Dictionary of Literary Biography and...

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 1799

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1799

An edition of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's poem The Passage of Mount St. Gothard, published at Glasgow as no. 8 of the Stewart and Meikle Tracts, is its earliest-dated but surely not...

Sarah Stickney Ellis: 1799

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1799

Sarah Stickney (later SSE ) was born at Ridgmont in the area of Yorkshire called Holderness.
Sutherland and Shattock incorrectly give 1812 as her year of birth.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Home Life and Letters of Mrs. Ellis. J. Nisbet, 1893.
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Eliza Fenwick: By January 1799

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By January 1799

EF was running a school for six children aged from two to five, by which she earned £32 a year.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Young, Mary Julia : 1799

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1799

MJY moved to four-volume format for her second novel, The East Indian, or Clifford Priory, published with her full name.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1:807
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: Perhaps 1799

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Perhaps 1799

SSW published Visits to the Parsonage; or, the Juvenile Assembly, Adapted at once to amuse and instruct the youthful reader; it bore her name, and her claim to have written Midsummer Holydays.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Melesina Trench: 1799-1800

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1799-1800

After nearly a decade of widowhood, Melesina St George (later MT ) travelled through Europe (particularly Germany), spending time at Berlin, Dresden, and Vienna.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Leah Sumbel: By 1799

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By 1799

LS , divorced from her second husband , was working seriously on the account which became her Memoirs.
Sumbel, Leah. Memoirs. C. Chapple, 1811, 3 vols.

Anna Seward: By January 1799

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By January 1799

AS published her Original Sonnets on Various Subjects and Odes paraphrased from Horace.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 26 (1799): 33

Mary Ann Radcliffe: About 1799

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About 1799

MAR abandoned her latest business, running a shoe-shop, to open a school of her own at Kennington near London.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe. Printed for the author, 1810.
383
Feminist Companion Archive.

Anne Plumptre: By 1799

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By 1799

AP and her sister Bell were living in Bedford Square in London; they had both been in London the previous year, perhaps visiting, perhaps already settled.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
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Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen, 2004.
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Amelia Opie: 1799

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1799

Four poems by AO were included in the first number of the reformist Annual Anthology, edited by Robert Southey It was here that she first published under her married name.
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.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
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Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. xxxvii - lxx.
xliv

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: January 1799

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January 1799

SFG 's Rash Vows; or, The Effects of Enthusiasm. A Novel (Les voeux téméraires; ou, L'enthousiasme), translated into English by Matthew O'Hinkley , was advertised as just published.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Phebe Gibbes: 1799

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1799

PG applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund , which responded by giving her five guineas.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Elizabeth Helme: 1799

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1799

EH 's daughter Elizabeth, later Somerville , issued the first of her children's books, James Manners, Little John, and Their Dog Bluff. Several of her titles have been misattributed to her mother, while others remain doubtful.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Heyrick: Probably 1798 or 1799

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Probably 1798 or 1799

EH became a Quaker , and began to dress in plain Quaker style.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 41-67.
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Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
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Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: About 1799

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About 1799

Mary Anne Roscoe (later Jevons) moved with her family into Allerton Hall, near Liverpool: an estate bought by her father , where her paternal grandfather had once served as a butler.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Roscoe

Sophia King: 1799

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1799

The Minerva Press published SK 's (anonymous) second novel, Cordelia; or, A Romance of Real Life.
Her subtitle had been used as title by Charlotte Smith for a translation from French published twelve years before.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

Ellis Cornelia Knight : 1 January 1799

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1 January 1799

After leaving Naples, where the tide of revolution had caught up with them again, ECK and her mother reached Palermo in Sicily. They sailed through storms and high seas which took a toll...

Hannah More: By January 1799

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By January 1799

HM published through Cadell and Davies , with her name, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 26 (1799): 49

Sarah Wentworth Morton: 1799

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1799

SWM 's The Virtues of Society. A Tale, Founded on Fact (originally intended to make part of Beacon Hill), was published in Boston, dedicated to Abigail Adams , as by the Author of...