Date	Event	Topics
Edit RecID: 72	1797	Robert Southey, Letters Written . . . in Spain and Portugal.
Edit RecID: 73	1797	Ann Radcliffe, The Italian.	*The Gothic
Edit RecID: 74	1797	Mary Hays writes tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft in Monthly Magazine.
Edit RecID: 1783	1797	Matilda Bentham, Elegies and Other Small Poems.
Edit RecID: 1790	1797	William Godwin, "Of History and Romance."
Edit RecID: 1894	1797	Beethoven's Op. 5 and Op. 46 (Adelaide) are published.
Edit RecID: 2357	1797	Charlotte Smith, Volume II of Elegiac Sonnets. In response to critics such as Anna Seward who called her sonnets "a perpetual dun on pity," she responds in her Preface, "I am unhappily exemt from the suspicion of feigning sorrow," placing responsibility for her sorrows on those causing it -- the lawyers depriving her children of finances adequate to their needs.
Edit RecID: 76	Feb 1797	Bank of England suspends cash payments.	*Economics
Edit RecID: 77	Mar 1797	W. Wordsworth visits Coleridge at Nether Stowey.
Edit RecID: 78	Mar 1797	William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft marry.
Edit RecID: 79	Mar 1797	By spring, Francis Place and John Ashley (moderates) have dissociated themselves from the more extreme London Corresponding Society.	*Radicalism
Edit RecID: 7	Apr 1797 - June 1797	Mutinies in the British Navy at Spithead and Nore.
Edit RecID: 80	May 26, 1797	Grey's motion for parliamentary reform is defeated 258 to 63.	*Parliamentary Reform
Edit RecID: 1	July 1797	W. Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth move to Alfoxden House to be near Coleridge at Nether Stowey. They plan the Lyrical Ballads, whose first volume appears in 1798.
Edit RecID: 82	July 1797	In protest of the defeat of Grey's reform proposals, the Foxite Whigs secede en bloc from the House of Commons, as the opposition had during the American war.
Edit RecID: 83	July 1797 - Aug 1797	Radical leader of the Society for Constitutional Information, John Thelwall, visits W. Wordsworth and Coleridge at Nether Stowey, and they act suspiciously enough (nightly "reconnaissances" and asking questions about navigating a river to the sea) to alarm servants and neighbors during the wartime scare of invasion from France. The government Home Office sends an informer in mid August (15th-16th) to investigate.	*Radicalism
Edit RecID: 84	July 1797 - Aug 1797	W. Wordsworth's presence at Nether Stowey after John Thelwall's visit almost causes riots. (See also.)	*Radicalism
Edit RecID: 81	July 9, 1797	Edmund Burke dies.
Edit RecID: 10	July 31, 1797	London Corresponding Society holds an illegal mass meeting at St. Pancras. Some 4,000 constables and soldiers (6,000-8,000 held in reserve) force the crowd to disperse; six speakers (Ben Binns, Fergussonk Galloway, Barrow, Stuckey, and Hodgson) are arrested, but the Grand Jury dismisses charges against them.	*Radicalism
Edit RecID: 85	Aug 30, 1797	Birth of Mary Godwin (Mary Shelley); her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, dies as a result of childbirth, 10 Sept.
Edit RecID: 87	Sept 4, 1797	France: Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V, vs. royalists.	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 86	Sept 10, 1797	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin dies after giving birth to Mary Godwin (the future Mary Shelley) on 10 Aug.
Edit RecID: 88	Oct 16, 1797	Coleridge finishes Osorio and publishes another Poems.
Edit RecID: 89	Oct 17, 1797	France and Austria sign peace treaty.	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 90	Nov 20, 1797	First issue of the ministerial journal The Anti-Jacobin; published until 9 July 1798.
Edit RecID: 93	1798	Commons rejects abolition. Other motions are introduced for stiffening restrictions on the slave carrying act and for abolishing the slave trade along much of the West African coast. Negroes are eliminated from the list of "goods" favored under the free port system.	*Abolition
Edit RecID: 94	1798	The Edgeworths, Practical Education/
Edit RecID: 95	1798	Joanna Baillie, Plays on the Passions (Vol. 1). Included is the "Introductory Discourse," an explication of Baillie's theory of theatre writing, and production.
Edit RecID: 96	1798	Charlotte Smith, The Young Philosopher.
Edit RecID: 97	1798	Blake, Annotations to Richard Watson's (Bishop of Llandaff) "Apology"; Blake begins annotating Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses on Art.
Edit RecID: 99	1798	Abbé Barreul's paranoid Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is translated into English.	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 100	1798	George Canning, The Loves of Triangles, a parody of Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden.
Edit RecID: 102	1798	Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight."
Edit RecID: 104	1798	Charles Lloyd, Edmund Oliver (which ridicules Mary Hays).
Edit RecID: 91	1798 - 1799	Bonaparte's campaigns in Egypt and the Middle East. The Battle of the Nile (1798). Britain, Austria, and Russia form an alliance against France. Napoleon loses ground in Egypt, Italy, and Germany, abandons his army in Egypt, and returns to France.	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 92	1798 - 1799	Prosecution and imprisonment of Joseph Johnson, the radical printer and bookseller, and Gilbert Wakefield; Fox calls it "a death Blow to the liberty of the press."	*Radicalism
Edit RecID: 1895	1798 - 1799	Beethoven, Piano Sonato in C minor (Sonate pathetique), Op. 13.
Edit RecID: 1896	1798 - 1800	Beethoven, String Quartets in F major, G major, D major, C minor, A major, and B flat major, Op. 18.
Edit RecID: 1764	Jan 29, 1798	William Godwin publishes the Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (including her unfinished novel Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman. A Fragment.) and his own Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Edit RecID: 1765	Feb 1798 - Oct 1798	Ireland: The Irish Rebellion. 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die. Irish Parliament abolished.	*Ireland