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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 |
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1798 - 1799 |
Beethoven, Piano Sonato in C minor (Sonate pathetique), Op. 13. |
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1798 - 1800 |
Beethoven, String Quartets in F major, G major, D major, C minor, A major, and B flat major, Op. 18. |
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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. |
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Feb 1798 - Oct 1798 |
Ireland: The Irish Rebellion. 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die. Irish Parliament abolished. |
*Ireland |
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Mar 1798 |
Ireland: United Irish leaders arrested in Dublin; martial law imposed. |
*Ireland |
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Mar 6, 1798 |
In a letter to James Tobin, W. Wordsworth says he has written 1,300 lines of a poem called The Recluse or views of Nature, Man, and Society (maybe "The Ruined Cottage" combined with "The Pedlar"; maybe also "The Discharged Soldier," "The Old Cumberland Beggar"); Coleridge is helping him with the plan. |
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May 1798 |
Ireland: Rebellions in Wexford. |
*Ireland |
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May 11, 1798 |
France: the Coup of 22 Floreal, Year VI, vs. Jacobins. |
*French Revolution |
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June 1798 |
Thomas Robert Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population. |
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July 13, 1798 |
W. Wordsworth revisits Tintern Abbey and writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey" quickly enough to have the poem included in Lyrical Ballads. (See also his visit to Tintern Abbey in 1793.) |
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Aug 1798 |
Ireland: French forces land at Killala. |
*Ireland |
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Sept 1798 - Oct 1798 |
Lyrical Ballads (1798, vol. 1) (by W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge) is published anonymously. Joseph Cottle prints a few copies in Bristol, then in a confusing series of maneuvers (perhaps motivated by financial difficulties) attempts to pass on his interest in the volume to London publishers--first Longman and then J. Arch.
The volume is finally published by J. Arch on Oct. 4. Enroute to Germany, meanwhile, Wordsworth tries futiley to have Cottle transfer the volume to the Joseph Johnson in London, with whom Wordsworth has come to an independent agreement for publication. |
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Sept 8, 1798 |
Ireland: French forces surrender at Ballinamuck. |
*Ireland |
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Oct 6, 1798 |
W. Wordsworth goes to Germany with Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth (according to E. P. Thompson, to dodge the draft)--it was during this trip, according to De Selincourt, that Wordsworth's "republican ardour evanesced"; Coleridge at the University at Gottingen. |
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Nov 3, 1798 |
Ireland: Wolfe Tone arrested after arriving in Lough Swilly with another French force. |
*Ireland
*France |
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Nov 19, 1798 |
Ireland: Wolfe Tone commits suicide in prison. |
*Ireland |