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Mar 1797 |
By spring, Francis Place and John Ashley (moderates) have dissociated themselves from the more extreme London Corresponding Society. |
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Apr 1797 - June 1797 |
Mutinies in the British Navy at Spithead and Nore. |
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May 26, 1797 |
Grey's motion for parliamentary reform is defeated 258 to 63. |
*Parliamentary Reform |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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July 1797 - Aug 1797 |
W. Wordsworth's presence at Nether Stowey after John Thelwall's visit almost causes riots. (See also.)
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July 9, 1797 |
Edmund Burke dies. |
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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 |
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Aug 30, 1797 |
Birth of Mary Godwin (Mary Shelley); her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, dies as a result of childbirth, 10 Sept. |
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Sept 4, 1797 |
France: Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V, vs. royalists. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 10, 1797 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin dies after giving birth to Mary Godwin (the future Mary Shelley) on 10 Aug. |
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Oct 16, 1797 |
Coleridge finishes Osorio and publishes another Poems. |
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Oct 17, 1797 |
France and Austria sign peace treaty. |
*French Revolution |
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Nov 20, 1797 |
First issue of the ministerial journal The Anti-Jacobin; published until 9 July 1798. |
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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. |
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1798 |
The Edgeworths, Practical Education/ |
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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. |
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1798 |
Charlotte Smith, The Young Philosopher. |
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1798 |
Blake, Annotations to Richard Watson's (Bishop of Llandaff) "Apology"; Blake begins annotating Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses on Art. |
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1798 |
Abbé Barreul's paranoid Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is translated into English. |
*French Revolution |
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1798 |
George Canning, The Loves of Triangles, a parody of Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden. |
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1798 |
Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight." |
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1798 |
Charles Lloyd, Edmund Oliver (which ridicules Mary Hays). |
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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 |
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