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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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14 October 1799: Napoleon reached Paris, where he intended...

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14 October 1799

Napoleon reached Paris, where he intended to seize power.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xv

Frances Burney: By 30 October 1799

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By 30 October 1799

Thomas Harris , manager of Covent Garden Theatre , informed FB 's brother Charles that he planned to stage her comedy Love and Fashion in March 1800.
Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering, 1995, 2 vols.
1: 105

9-10 November 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in France,...

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9-10 November 1799

Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in France, overturning the Directory in a coup d'état.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xv
Runciman, David. “Shockingly Worldly”. London Review of Books, 23 Oct. 2003, pp. 7-10.
9
This was 18-19 Brumaire, year 8.

Elizabeth Inchbald: 30 November 1799

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30 November 1799

Another adaptation from Kotzebue by EI , The Wise Man of the East, was performed at Covent Garden ; before the end of the year it was published by Robinsons .
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 28 (1800): 69
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mrs Showes: By December 1799

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By December 1799

MS chose anonymity for the publication of her second original novel, The Restless Matron. A Legendary Tale, which has marked gothic elements.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
27 (1799): 475

Ann Taylor Gilbert: December 1799

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December 1799

The Taylor family (including Ann and Jane ) met the family of John Constable the landscape painter.
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: 126

Elizabeth Gunning: By December 1799

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By December 1799

EG published The Gipsy Countess, A Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 784

Elizabeth Helme: By December 1799

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By December 1799

EH published a translation from the German of J. H. Campe entitled Columbus ; or, The Discovery of America: As Related by a Father to His Children, and Designed for the Instruction of Youth...

By late 1799: Mary Ann Radcliffe in The Female Advocate...

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By late 1799

Mary Ann Radcliffe in The Female Advocate estimated the number of poverty-stricken prostitutes in London as 5,000, and the public money spent on containing them as 20,000 pounds annually.
Campbell, Thomas J. “The Other Mrs. Radcliffe: ’The Female Advocate’ in her Memoirs”. Studies in the Humanities, Vol.
24
, No. 1-2, 1997, pp. 65-74.
66

Jane Marcet: 4 December 1799

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4 December 1799

Jane Haldimand married Dr Alexander Marcet , who was slightly younger than herself, and whom she had first met as a visitor to her father in 1795.
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.
Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, 2006, p. i - xxi.
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Mrs E. M. Foster: : 12 December 1799

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12 December 1799

A novel entitled Fedaretta was advertised with the attribution By a Lady. It was later listed on title-pages together with novels generally accepted as by MEMF .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 781

Judith Sargent Murray: After 14 December 1799

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After 14 December 1799

An ode by JSM on the death of George Washington was sung at the First Universal Church, Boston.
Hymns and Odes, Composed on the Death of Gen. George Washington. Charles Peirce, 1800.
10-11

Sarah Green: By late 1799

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By late 1799

SG published with the Minerva Press , as Author of Mental Improvement , Court Intrigue; or, The Victim of Constancy: An Historical Romance.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 784
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
279

Mrs Martin: : Mid-December 1799

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Mid-December 1799

The Minerva Press published MM 's third novel, the gothic Reginald; or, The House of Mirandola, A Romance, as by the author of Melbourne, &c.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 794

Dorothy Wordsworth: 20 December 1799

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20 December 1799

DW and her brother , after their time abroad and after staying seven months with the Hutchinsons at Sockburn-on-Tees, arrived at the cottage they had rented at Grasmere, later (after the Wordsworths' time) named...

24 December 1799: Samuel Taylor Coleridge published in the...

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24 December 1799

Samuel Taylor Coleridge published in the Morning Post his ode in praise of the poetry of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire .
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poetical Works [of] Coleridge, including poems and versions of poems herein published for the first time. Editor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, Oxford University Press, 1969.
335

25 December 1799: In France the Constitution of the Year VIII...

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25 December 1799

In France the Constitution of the Year VIII was implemented. This constitution set up a Council of State and a Consulate headed by a First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte . It was completed on 22 Frimaire...

Elizabeth Bonhote: 1800

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1800

EB sold Bungay Castle to the Duke of Norfolk .
Mann, Ethel. Old Bungay. Heath Cranton, 1934.
29

Anna Eliza Bray: 1800

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1800

At the age of ten, Anna Eliza Kempe (later AEB ) was sent to board for two years at Miss Jane Wrather 's school.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
97-100

Helen Craik: Probably by January 1800

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Probably by January 1800

HC published anonymously in three volumes a historical novel, Henry of Northumberland; or, The Hermit's Cell: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century.
Its mention on the title-page of Adelaide de Narbonne, which was...

Helen Craik: By January 1800

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By January 1800

HC , identifying herself as the Author of Henry of Northumberland, published a novel of more recent history, Adelaide de Narbonne, with Memoirs of Charlotte de Cordet . A Tale.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
286

Maria Edgeworth: 1800

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1800

ME set her name to an enlarged third edition of The Parent's Assistant.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
505

Maria Edgeworth: January 1800

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January 1800

ME , as M. E., published her first novel, Castle Rackrent, pioneer in the genre of the national tale.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
354, 505

Mrs E. M. Foster: : 1800

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1800

Four novels attributed to MEMF were published by Minerva Press in this year, though it's not clear in what order they appeared: Emily of Lucerne, Frederic and Caroline, or the Fitzmorris Family, Miriam...

Melesina Trench: 1800

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1800

Melesina St George (later MT ) issued as a Lady, through John Stockdale , her earliest known published work, Mary, Queen of Scots , an Historical Ballad, With Other Poems.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.