The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Events Timeline
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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Anne Plumptre: About 24 May 1799
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Author event in Anne Plumptre
About 24 May 1799
was paid £25 for the use by
and the
of her translation of
's Die Spanier in Peru.
24 May 1799: Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened...
Writing climate item
24 May 1799
Pizarro by
opened at
. An adaptation of
's melodrama about Peru, Pizarro voiced the anti-French feelings (fore-runners of anti-Napoleonic feelings) disturbing the English people at this time.
Isabella Kelly: 28 May 1799
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Author event in Isabella Kelly
28 May 1799
's
novel Eva was advertised as just published. It was dedicated to the
(wife of
's next-but-one brother,
, unacknowledged by the royal family because...
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: Late May 1799
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Author event in Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Late May 1799
's didactic Les petits émigrés; ou, Correspondance de quelques enfans, Paris, 1798, was published in an English version as The Young Exiles; or, Correspondence of Some Juvenile Emigrants.
Jane Harvey: June 1799
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Harriet Lee: By June 1799
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Author event in Harriet Lee
By June 1799
The third volume of Canterbury Tales appeared, bearing the names of both
and
.
Mary Charlton: Probably June 1799
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Author event in Mary Charlton
Probably June 1799
's next work, again with the
, was in a new style for her: the satirical Rosella; or, Modern Occurrences, A Novel.
11 June 1799: Geologist William Smith, aged thirty, dictated...
11 June 1799
Geologist
, aged thirty, dictated to two clergymen the information that made up his chart entitled The Table of Strata, forerunner of his pioneering geological map dated 1 August 1815.
18 June 1799: The French Legislative Assembly staged a...
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18 June 1799
The French
staged a coup d'état against the
, and excluded particular Directors from office.
Clara Reeve: June 1799
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Author event in Clara Reeve
June 1799
published her last adult novel, Destination: or, Memoirs of a Private Family.
Helen Maria Williams: July 1799
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Author event in Helen Maria Williams
July 1799
The Monthly Magazine published
's biography of the Swedish anti-slavery campaigner
.
Eliza Parsons: By July 1799
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Author event in Eliza Parsons
By July 1799
moved publishers again, to
of Brentford, for The Valley of St. Gothard, A Novel, dedicated to
.
The English Novel mistakenly dates the Critical notice of this...
12 July 1799: The Combination Act prohibited all combinations...
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12 July 1799
The Combination Act prohibited all combinations (of employers as well as of workers); those accused under it were deprived of the right to trial by jury.
Cassandra Cooke: 19 July 1799
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Author event in Cassandra Cooke
19 July 1799
's single novel, Battleridge: An Historical Tale, Founded on Facts, which appeared as by a Lady of Quality, was advertised for sale. She did not intend this to be an only publication...
Ellis Cornelia Knight : 20 July 1799
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Author event in Ellis Cornelia Knight
20 July 1799
, mother of
, died at Palermo in Sicily after suffering indifferent health for a long time.
Mary Robinson: August 1799
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Author event in Mary Robinson
August 1799
published her last novel, The Natural Daughter. With Portraits of the Leadenhead Family.
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: By August 1799
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Author event in Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
By August 1799
(as Mrs. Villa-Real Gooch) published Fancied Events; or, The Sorrows of Ellen. A Novel, which picks up some of the stories begun in Wanderings.
Jane Austen: 14 August 1799
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Author event in Jane Austen
14 August 1799
,
's aunt by marriage, was arrested on a charge of stealing, or shop-lifting, a card of lace.
23 August 1799: Napoleon left his command in Egypt and headed...
National or international item
23 August 1799
left his command in Egypt and headed for Paris, leaving behind him most of the huge haul of the country's artefacts which had already been packed for shipping to France.
Anne Burke: September 1799
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Author event in Anne Burke
September 1799
, on a fresh appeal to the
, was paid five guineas but warned not to expect any further payments in the future.
Anne Plumptre: By September 1799
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Author event in Anne Plumptre
By September 1799
translated and published Letters Written from Various Parts of the Continent, between the Years 1785 and 1794 by
, which included three letters by
.
Annabella Plumptre: By September 1799
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Author event in Annabella Plumptre
By September 1799
translated from German The Foresters, a play by
, and published it with
, with her name as Bell Plumptre.
This has no connection with
Jane West: By October 1799
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Author event in Jane West
By October 1799
began publishing the four volumes of her Poems and Plays, of which volumes three and four appeared in 1805.
Mary Robinson: October 1799
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Author event in Mary Robinson
October 1799
began publishing satirical odes in the Morning Post; she also succeeded
as its poetry editor.
Eliza Kirkham Mathews: October 1799
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Author event in Eliza Kirkham Mathews
October 1799
was working on an adaptation of Adelaide of Walfingen for her
's benefit performance at Hull.