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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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By March 1800: A midwife named Mrs Wright published An Essay...

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By March 1800

A midwife named Mrs Wright published An Essay to instruct women how to protect themselves in a State of Pregnancy, from the Disorders incident to that Period.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 28 (1800): 344-5

Margaret Catchpole: 26 March 1800

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Author event in Margaret Catchpole

26 March 1800

MC made an extraordinary escape from prison in Ipswich, wearing the dress of a male convict to climb a twenty-two-foot wall; but she was re-apprehended.
“Margaret Catchpole Papers, 1797-1917; 1801-1870”. State Library of New South Wales: PICMAN Database.
qtd. in
Barber, Richard, and Richard Cobbold. “The Real Margaret Catchpole”. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl, Boydell Press, 1979, p. x - xviii.
xv-xvi
Heney, Helen, editor. Dear Fanny, Women’s Letters to and from New South Wales, 1788-1857. Australian National University Press, 1985.
15

Mary Robinson: 29 March 1800

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Author event in Mary Robinson

29 March 1800

MR wrote out the passage of her Memoirs relating the death of her younger daughter and her subsequent visit to her own birthplace.
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
91

Anne Bannerman: Spring 1800

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Author event in Anne Bannerman

Spring 1800

AB published, with her name, her first volume of Poems with Mundell at Edinburgh and Longman, Rees, and Wright at London.
Kushigian, Nancy, and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
131

Susannah Gunning: By April 1800

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Author event in Susannah Gunning

By April 1800

SG published with Longman and ReesFashionable Involvements, A Novel: it was advertised, however, in December the previous year.
The preface to her last, posthumous, novel says this one was completed within a few...

Hannah More: Spring 1800

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Author event in Hannah More

Spring 1800

The curate of Blagdon near Cheddar, Thomas Bere , complained to HM of unacceptable behaviour from her Sunday-school teacher there, Henry Young or Younge .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
170

Ann Thicknesse: Biography: Spring or later, 1800

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Spring or later, 1800

The last of AT 's published works (again by subscription) was a heavily autobiographical novel or secret history, The School for Fashion.
The dedication's mention of sermons preached in Lent indicates that the book...

Catherine Sinclair: 17 April 1800

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Author event in Catherine Sinclair

17 April 1800

CS was born in Edinburgh, the seventh of thirteen children, besides two half-sisters from her father's first marriage.
Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
325
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir John Sinclair

William Cowper: 25 April 1800

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Author event in William Cowper

25 April 1800

WC , poet and letter-writer, died at East Dereham in Norfolk.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore: 28 April 1800

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28 April 1800

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , died, aged fifty-one, at Christchurch in Hampshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Joanna Baillie: 29 April 1800

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Author event in Joanna Baillie

29 April 1800

De Monfort, JB 's tragedy about hatred, one of her first Plays on the Passions, had its opening at Drury Lane Theatre , London.
Library catalogues also list this play as De Montfort.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
110

Joanna Baillie: 30 April 1800

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Author event in Joanna Baillie

30 April 1800

The authorship of JB 's first volume of Plays on the Passions was finally revealed.
Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 4, 1998, pp. 469-00.
488n17

Mary Robinson: 30 April 1800

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Author event in Mary Robinson

30 April 1800

The Morning Post published MR 's Ode on the Spring.
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
146

Elizabeth Hamilton: By May 1800

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Author event in Elizabeth Hamilton

By May 1800

EH published, at Bath as well as London, her second novel, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers.
Her habit of publishing at Bath probably derives from her friendship with the Gregorys.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
n. ser. 29: 311
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.

Hannah More: Before 1 May 1800

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Before 1 May 1800

Mary Ann Burges 's anonymous The Progress of Pilgrim Good-Intent, in Jacobinical Times was widely supposed (for instance by Hester Piozzi and Lady Eleanor Butler ) to be by Hannah More .
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
3: 186-7 and n

May 1800: A letter in the Gentleman's Magazine complained...

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May 1800

A letter in the Gentleman's Magazine complained that the great increase of wages to female servants, and gifts to them of unsuitable cast-off clothes, was leading young women into vice.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(May 1800): 435

Anne Lister: 5 May 1800

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Author event in Anne Lister

5 May 1800

AL wrote the earliest letter to be included in the collected volume of her letters edited by Muriel Green in 1992.
Lister, Anne. Miss Lister of Shibden Hall. Editor Green, Muriel, Book Guild, 1992.
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9 May 1800: John Brown,who became one of the most notorious...

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9 May 1800

John Brown ,who became one of the most notorious white activists in the American Abolitionist Movement , was born in Torrington, Connecticut.
Evans, Richard J. The Penguin Dictionary of Nineteenth Century History. Editors Belchem, John and Richard Price, Penguin, 1996.
85

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 12 May 1800

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Author event in Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847

12 May 1800

Mary Lamb was back under confinement in the asylum again after the illness and death of the long-serving family maid had sent her back into violent madness.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
162
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
162

Dorothy Wordsworth: Between 14 May 1800 and 16 January 1803

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Author event in Dorothy Wordsworth

Between 14 May 1800 and 16 January 1803

DW wrote her Grasmere journals.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
1: 37, 188

15 May 1800: King George III narrowly escaped death when...

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15 May 1800

King George III narrowly escaped death when a bullet aimed for him lodged in the pillar of his box at Drury Lane Theatre .
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
128

30 May 1800: Parliament debated a Divorce Bill....

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30 May 1800

Parliament debated a Divorce Bill.
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
193

Mariana Starke: By June 1800

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Author event in Mariana Starke

By June 1800

MS published her first travel book or guidebook (a fairly new publishing phenomenon): Letters from Italy.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
29 (1800): 194

June-November 1800: Arthur Young made a tour through East Anglia...

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June-November 1800

Arthur Young made a tour through East Anglia and several Southern counties.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
392

14 June 1800: In the War of the Second Coalition, Napoleon...

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14 June 1800

In the War of the Second Coalition, Napoleon (recently appointed First Consul of France) defeated the Austrian Empire at the battle of Marengo in Northern Italy.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.