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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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Mary Howitt: 12 March 1799

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12 March 1799

Mary Botham (later MH ) was born at Whitecliffe near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, the second in a family of three daughters and a son.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Helena Wells: 15 March 1799

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15 March 1799

HW dated the preface to her conduct-book Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females, Addressed by a Governess to her Pupils.
Wells, Helena. Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females. L. Peacock; W. Creech, 1799.
prelims

Anna Atkins: Biography: 16 March 1799

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16 March 1799

Anna Children (later AA ) was born at Ferox Hall, her grandfather's house at Tonbridge in Kent.
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.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Sarah Murray : After 30 March 1799

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After 30 March 1799

SM issued A Companion, and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Maria Edgeworth: April 1799

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April 1799

ME spent three weeks touring industrial towns and factories in the English Midlands.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
141

Tabitha Tenney: April 1799

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April 1799

A pedagogic anthology appeared at Boston entitled The New Pleasing Instructor: or, Young Lady's Guide to Virtue and Happiness and ascribed to a Lady. It is probably by TT .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: April 1799

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April 1799

John Lamb, father of Mary and Charles died after years of encroaching senility; this enabled the brother and sister to live together once again.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
147-8

By April 1799: The Church Missionary Society was founded...

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By April 1799

The Church Missionary Society was founded by the Evangelical wing of the Church of England , as the Society for Missions in Africa and the East.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
91
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
214
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
75, 91
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
68 (1799): 300

Hannah Kilham: 3 April 1799

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3 April 1799

Four months after her husband 's death, HK bore a daughter, Mary, who died in January 1802 of scarlet fever and water on the brain.
Several sources give the date of her death wrongly.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
53, 60-1

Anne Plumptre: 12 April 1799

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12 April 1799

The Count of Burgundy, based on a work by Kotzebue translated by AP , opened at Covent Garden : this was the last stage appearance of the great comic actress Frances Abington .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 2160

12 April 1799: Frances Abington, a popular actress who had...

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12 April 1799

Frances Abington , a popular actress who had been before the public for forty-four years (with a short-lived retirement in 1797-8), made her last appearance at Covent Garden Theatre .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1992, 2098, 2160-1

17 April 1799: Humphry Davy, then a young man, inhaled nitrous...

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17 April 1799

Humphry Davy , then a young man, inhaled nitrous oxide in order to see what it would do to him: by the following year he had discovered and tested its anaesthetic effects.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Guardian Weekly.
(14-20 December 2000): 15

Ann Radcliffe: 18 April 1799

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18 April 1799

Henrietta Maria Bowdler , who must already have known AR socially, wrote to tell her that Elizabeth Carter very much wished to be introduced; Radcliffe declined.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
182-3

24 April 1799: A print, Yo Heave Ho, depicted a sailor's...

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24 April 1799

A print, Yo Heave Ho, depicted a sailor's wife and children grieving on the beach while his ship sails and a patriotic ballad expresses his feelings of duty.
McCreery, Cindy. “True Blue and Black, Brown and Fair: prints of British sailors and their women during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 135-52.
148-9

Charlotte Smith: 27 April 1799

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27 April 1799

CS 's only extant play, the comedy What Is She?, opened anonymously at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden .
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
400
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
289

27 April 1799: The Irish poet Thomas Campbell, aged twenty-one,...

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27 April 1799

The Irish poet Thomas Campbell , aged twenty-one, published a poem entitled The Pleasures of Hope (on the model of The Pleasures of Memory by Samuel Rogers , 1792).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna Letitia Barbauld: May 1799

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May 1799

ALB met Maria Edgeworth , who was twenty-four years her junior. They spent time together at Clifton the following month, but Barbauld declined the Edgeworths' invitation to Ireland.
Le Breton, Anna Letitia. Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld, including Letters and Notices of her Family and Friends. George Bell and Sons, 1974.
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McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlv
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
399

Mrs F. C. Patrick: May 1799

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May 1799

MFCP 's third and final work, The Jesuit; or, The History of Anthony Babington, Esq. An Historical Novel (by the authoress of More Ghosts!, The Irish Heiress and dedicated to Mrs Johnstone ) was advertised.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 795-6

Fanny Holcroft: May 1799-October 1802

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May 1799-October 1802

FH lived abroad in Europe during these years with her family, because of the difficulty of the growing debts at home which resulted from the political opprobrium in which her father was held.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Adelaide O'Keeffe: May 1799

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May 1799

AOK anonymously published, through Cawthorn , her first novel, the historical Llewellin: A Tale, in three volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 754

Maria Theresa Kemble: 3 May 1799

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3 May 1799

MTK 's first play, the five-act comedy First Faults, had its single performance (a benefit), at Drury Lane .
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.
325

4 May 1799: Forces in Mysore, India, opposing British...

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4 May 1799

Forces in Mysore, India, opposing British rule were finally defeated at the second capture of Seringapatam.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
under Seringapatam
Marshall, Peter James. Problems of Empire: Britain and India, 1757-1813. Allen and Unwin, 1968.
under Seringapatam
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
70 (1800): 165-6
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
11: 237

Honoré de Balzac: 20 May 1799

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20 May 1799

HB , French novelist, was born at Tours in central France, which gives its name to the district of Touraine.
Brosman, Catharine Savage, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 119. Gale Research, 1992.

Elizabeth Helme: Probably late May 1799

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Probably late May 1799

EH switched publishers again, to Sampson Low , for another four-volume novel, Albert; or, The Wilds of Strathnavern (which Minerva Press later reprinted).
Some years after this novel appeared, in 1814, all the dwelling-houses in...

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: By 24 May 1799

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By 24 May 1799

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was a composer of tunes for the voice: she contributed a song to Sheridan 's immense stage success, Pizarro.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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