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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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July 1800: A new Combination Act, modifying that of...

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July 1800

A new Combination Act, modifying that of 12 July 1799, outlawed trade unions and strikes.
Cook, Bernard A. “Strikes”. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sally Mitchell, Garland Press, 1988, pp. 764-6.
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Goldman, Harold. Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man’s World. Lawrence and Wishart, 1974.
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Eliza Fenwick: 4-5 July 1800

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4-5 July 1800

EF wrote to Mary Hays that she had determined, if possible, to consider myself & children totally separated from [John Fenwick 's] good or bad fortunes.
Fenwick, Eliza, and Mary Hays. The Fate of the Fenwicks. Editor Wedd, Annie F., Methuen, 1927.
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Mary Robinson: 29 July 1800

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29 July 1800

The Morning Post carried MR 's Lines Addressed to a Beautiful Infant Inscribed to Mrs Fenwick.
Close, Anne. “Into the Public: The Sexual Heroine in Eliza Fenwicks Secresy and Mary Robinsons The Natural DaughterEighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
17
, No. 1, Oct. 2004, pp. 35-52.
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Eliza Fenwick: August 1800

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August 1800

The Monthly Magazine announced that EF was at work on a new novel, adding that Secresy gave high hopes about its quality.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
363

Helena Wells: By August 1800

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By August 1800

HW published a second novel, Constantia Neville; or, The West Indian, with her name and an impressive subscription list.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 29 (1800): 472

Anna Gordon: August 1800

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August 1800

Walter Scott invited Robert Jamieson for a visit during which they exchanged copies of ballads derived from two separate manuscripts of AG 's collection of ballads, bringing their joint stores to about fifty of her...

Martha Hale: By August 1800

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By August 1800

MH became a published author when she printed by subscription (for charity) a volume entitled Poetical Attempts.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
29 (1800): 463

August 1800-March 1804: The Code Napoleon, a new code of law for...

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August 1800-March 1804

The Code Napoleon, a new code of law for France and its territorial possessions, was formulated; it was promulgated in spring 1804.
Sedley, Stephen. “Big Lawyers and Little Lawyers”. London Review of Books, 28 Nov. 1996, pp. 16-17.
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Regina Maria Roche: 13 August 1800

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13 August 1800

RMR dated a dedication to the second edition of The Vicar of Lansdowne, published by the Minerva Press .
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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Jane Loudon: 19 August 1800

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19 August 1800

Jane Webb (later JL ) was born at Kitwell House, near Halesowen (which was then a town in Worcestershire, but is now a part of Birmingham) She was her parents' only surviving child...

Isabel Hill: 21 August 1800

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21 August 1800

IH was born in Bristol, the youngest of four children, of whom the others were all boys.
Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Feb. 1842.
181
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

22 August 1800: Edward Bouverie Pusey, academic and theologian,...

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22 August 1800

Edward Bouverie Pusey , academic and theologian, was born at Pusey, Berkshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Mary Robinson: 23 August 1800

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23 August 1800

The Morning Post published MR 's London's Summer Morning, a word-painting of city life in the tradition of Swift 's Description poems.
Curran, Stuart. “Mary Robinson and the New Lyric”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
9
, No. 1, 2002, pp. 9-22.
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Elizabeth Montagu: 25 August 1800

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25 August 1800

EM died at Montagu House in Portman Square, London.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
269
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.
2: 346

Susannah Gunning: 28 August 1800

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28 August 1800

SG died in Down Street, London.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
70 (1800): 904

Eliza Parsons: 31 August 1800

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31 August 1800

Mary Robinson , writing to Samuel Jackson Pratt about visiting authoresses, said she expected soon to see Mrs Parsons—that is EP —at her daughter's house at Englefield Common.
This letter is now in the Pforzheimer Collection .
Robinson, Mary, and Samuel Jackson Pratt. Letter to Samuel Jackson Pratt, 31 August 1800.

By September 1800: The high price of wheat produced hardship...

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By September 1800

The high price of wheat produced hardship and scarcity in Britain and Ireland.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
158
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 30 (1800): 116-7, 458
A hundredweight (a measure of 112 pounds weight or one cwt) must be meant here...

Selina Davenport : 6 September 1800

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6 September 1800

Selina Granville Wheler , aged twenty-one, was married at Lambeth in south London to a writer named Richard Alfred Davenport . It was, supposedly, to disoblige
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Watkins, Louise. “Selina Davenport”. Corvey ’Adopt an Author’, May 1998.
her family that she chose him.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
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.

Elizabeth Cobbold: By October 1800

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By October 1800

Using the pseudonym Carolina Petty Pasty, EC published The Mince Pye, An Heroic Epistle humbly addressed to the Sovereign Dainty of a British Feast.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
30 (1800): 225

Mary Robinson: October 1800

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October 1800

MR published with Richard Phillips her translation of Picture of Palermo (Gemälde von Palermo) by Joseph Hager .
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
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Mary Robinson: 17 October 1800

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17 October 1800

MR published in the Morning PostTo the Poet Coleridge, a poem which demonstrates that she had read his Kubla Khan in manuscript.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
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Charlotte Smith: 20 October 1800

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20 October 1800

CS dated her preface to a two-volume collection of novellas (sometimes referred to as a unitary novel): Letters of a Solitary Wanderer.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 124

Maria Jane Jewsbury: 25 October 1800

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25 October 1800

MJJ was born at Measham in Derbyshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
66
, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
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Thomas Babington, first Baron Macaulay: 25 October 1800

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25 October 1800

Historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay was born at Rothley Temple in Leicestershire, the eldest of nine children.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Joanna Baillie: November 1800

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November 1800

JB wrote an epilogue to a play by Anne Damer , which was spoken by Damer at a performance of her work at Strawberry Hill.
Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, pp. ix - xiv, 1.
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