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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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January 1799-April 1800: According to Peter Cockburn, the price of...

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January 1799-April 1800

According to Peter Cockburn , the price of grain in Edinburgh rose during these months by 358 percent.
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.
158-9

1799: The Seditious Societies Act restricted the...

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1799

The Seditious Societies Act restricted the circulation of newspapers, books and pamphlets, all in aid of quelling any expression of sympathy with revolutionary France.
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
145

1799: Lady Charlotte Murray published The British...

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1799

Lady Charlotte Murray published The British Garden: a Catalogue of Plants Indigenous to the British Isles, a pricey, intelligent, and well-reviewed explanatory catalogue of plants both indigenous and introduced, with instructions for identification.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
67-8

1799: Catherine Rebecca, Lady Manners, published...

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1799

Catherine Rebecca, Lady Manners , published (as Lady M****) Review of Poetry, Ancient and Modern. A Poem.
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.

1799: The first continuous-paper machine was set...

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1799

The first continuous-paper machine was set up in Boxmoor, Hertfordshire.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
9: 592

1799: The year after Mary Alcock (sister of the...

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1799

The year after Mary Alcock (sister of the playwright Richard Cumberland ) died, one of her nieces published her Poems, to which Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More , among others, subscribed.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1799: Women weavers, many of whom had replaced...

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1799

Women weavers, many of whom had replaced men enlisted in the war against France, declared that they were better off than with their men at home.
Christie, Ian. Stress and Stability in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: Reflections on the British Avoidance of Revolution. Clarendon, 1984.
84

1799: French novelist Sophie de Cottin published...

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1799

French novelist Sophie de Cottin published the first of her five highly popular novels, Claire d'Albe.
Finch, Alison. “Review of Sophie Cottins Claire dAlbe and Michael J. Calls study of Cottin”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
17
, No. 1, Oct. 2004, pp. 134-7.
135

1799-1800: Robert Southey's twice-issued Annual Anthology...

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1799-1800

Robert Southey's twice-issued Annual Anthology was the first British annual.
Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle, 1967.
Curry, Kenneth. Southey. Routledge, 1975.
35-7

1799: The Evangelical movement founded the Religious...

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1799

The Evangelical movement founded the Religious Tract Society , with the object of publishing texts for the salvation of sinners.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
42-3, 36

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : Early January 1799

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Early January 1799

EIS 's first novel, Helen Sinclair (in two volumes), was advertised for sale. It appeared as by a Lady, but she signed the dedication to her aunt Mrs Fordyce.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 802

Susanna Watts: 4 January 1799

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4 January 1799

The current Duke of Rutland turned twenty-one. SW celebrated his coming of age in a poem that was carried by the Leicester Journal and also published as a broadsheet.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004.
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9 January 1799: A bill bringing in the first graduated income...

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9 January 1799

A bill bringing in the first graduated income tax resulted from William Pitt 's demand in December 1798 for increased taxation to fund the war with France.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Income Tax

Jane West: By February 1799

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By February 1799

JW published A Tale of the Times, as by the author of A Gossip's Story and narrated by Prudentia Homespun.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
69 (1799): 138-9

Mary Robinson: February 1799

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February 1799

MR , as Anne Frances Randall, published with Longman and ReesA Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination. With Anecdotes.
Editor M. J. Levy gives the date...

Mary Robinson: February 1799

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February 1799

MR published with her name, through Longman , The False Friend. A Domestic Story, an epistolary novel of sensibility in four volumes.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii
Robinson, Mary. The False Friend. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799, 4 vols.
title-page

Jane Porter: February 1799

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February 1799

Fraser's Magazine later ascribed to JP an anonymous gothic romance published this month, entitled The Spirit of the Elbe and dedicated to Elizabeth Gunning . Scholar Nicholas A. Joukovsky confirmed this ascription.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 772
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Joukovsky, Nicholas A. “Jane Porter’s First Novel: The Evidence of an Unpublished Letter”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
235
, Mar. 1990, pp. 15-16.
15-17

Mary Martha Sherwood: 2 February 1799

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2 February 1799

Margarita: A Novel by Mary Martha Butts (later MMS ) and published by the Minerva Press , under the name the Author of The Traditions, was advertised as ready for sale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 801

Elizabeth Meeke: Soon after 2 February 1799

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Soon after 2 February 1799

EM issued the first of her two works this year, Ellesmere. A Novel, bearing her name; Harcourt. A Novel followed probably in September, as by the author of The Mysterious Wife, that is...

Mary Robinson: Later 1799

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Later 1799

MR 's feminist treatise appeared in a second edition, with her name, as Thoughts on the Condition of Women, and on the Injustice of Mental Subordination.
Robinson, Mary. Thoughts on the Condition of Women. 2nd ed., Printed by G. Woodfall for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799.
title-page

Mary Hays: By March 1799

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By March 1799

MH published her second novel, The Victim of Prejudice, a bleak look at the class and gender oppression currently perpetrated in unreformed society.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
125n57

Thomas Holcroft: 4 March 1799

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4 March 1799

TH , three times a widower, married as his fourth wife Louisa Mercier .
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
lviii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Ann Radcliffe: 6 March 1799

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6 March 1799

MAR wrote the preface to The Female Advocate; or An Attempt to Recover the Rights of Women from Male Usurpation; she published it by the end of the year.
Radcliffe, Mary Ann. The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe. Printed for the author, 1810.
396
Feminist Companion Archive.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 27 (1799): 479

Sophia Lee: First week of March 1799

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First week of March 1799

A bluestocking-style brilliant Constellation
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
185
of ladies, gathered at the Leesisters ' house in Bath, debated the authorship of Plays on the Passions, which were not yet known to be by Joanna Baillie .
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
185

Mrs E. M. Foster: : Early 1799

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Early 1799

MEMF apparently published, sometime before 9 March, the novel Rebecca. It came out anonymously, but was later listed on the title pages of other books ascribed to Foster.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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