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.
Events Timeline
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 1739: London had a documented circulating library,...
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By 1739
London had a documented circulating library, more than fifty years after a London bookseller had first been reported as lending as well as selling.
About 1739: The young Scotsman William Strahan became...
Writing climate item
About 1739
The young Scotsman
became a partner in the publishing firm of his compatriot
.
1739: A legal case, Olive v. Ingram, opened in...
1739
A legal case, Olive v. Ingram, opened in London to enquire into a woman's right to hold the parish office of sexton, or to vote in the election of a sexton.
Last week in January 1739: David Hume published, anonymously, volumes...
Writing climate item
Last week in January 1739
published, anonymously, volumes one and two of A Treatise of Human Nature.
Mary Delany: 1 March 1739
Author event in Mary Delany
1 March 1739
A group of upper-class Opposition women caused a politically-angled disturbance at the
: they included Mary Pendarves (later
).
Jane Johnson : March 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Johnson
March 1739
wrote to a cousin about her one-year-old
, mocking the idea of seeking family resemblance in a child: She is . . . as much like herself as ever you saw a little...
Mary Masters: March 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Masters
March 1739
The Gentleman's Magazine published, with her name, a poem by
together with her self-defence (addressed to the editor,
) against an attack in the London Magazine.
Elizabeth Singer Rowe: By 8 March 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Singer Rowe
By 8 March 1739
's brother-in-law
edited and published her posthumous Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse (for which he finished the memoir begun by
).
Laetitia Pilkington: By 3 April 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Laetitia Pilkington
By 3 April 1739
issued through
her first publication, The Statues; or, The Trial of Constancy, a narrative poem.
Eliza Parsons: By 4 April 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Parsons
By 4 April 1739
was born at Plymouth in Devon, an only daughter. This was the date of her baptism.
Before 22 April 1739: Anne Dodd, for almost thirty years the best-known...
Writing climate item
Before 22 April 1739
, for almost thirty years the best-known of all the Londonmercuries or trade publishers, died, leaving the business to her daughters.
Elizabeth Boyd: After May 1739
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Author event in Elizabeth Boyd
After May 1739
's ballad-opera, Don Sancho; or, The Students Whim, was published, with Minerva's Triumph, A Masque.
Elizabeth Carter: May 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Carter
May 1739
, at not yet twenty-one, published another translation: Sir
's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of the Ladies, from an Italian popularisation by
.
Teresia Constantia Phillips: May 1739 to January 1741
Women writers item
Author event in Teresia Constantia Phillips
May 1739 to January 1741
lived with
at his estate of Sixteen-Mile Walk, near Spanish Town in Jamaica.
Sarah, Lady Pennington: 4 May 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah, Lady Pennington
4 May 1739
assumed that fatal name of Pennington when she was married in Bath Abbey to
. In fact, she wrote, this was when they were by the direction of their...
5 May 1739: Henry Brooke published his tragedy Gustavus...
Writing climate item
5 May 1739
published his tragedy Gustavus Vasa, which had been banned from production for its oppositional political views.
Sarah Fielding: 14 May 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Fielding
14 May 1739
The six surviving young Fieldings sold the East Stour estate, and divided the proceeds;
's sixth share was not much.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 25 July 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
25 July 1739
left London, en route for Venice, secretly intending to live with
.
Penelope Aubin: August 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Penelope Aubin
August 1739
's A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels was posthumously published, with a preface which may be by
.
Mary Collier: August 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Collier
August 1739
published her georgic poem The Woman's Labour: An Epistle to Mr , as Mary Collier, now a washer-woman, at Petersfield in Hampshire.
Bibliographer David Foxon gives the month of publication as...
Sarah Dixon: August 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Dixon
August 1739
wrote a poem To the Reverend
and Mrs.
of St Stephen's, on the Death of their Daughter Lucy, aged 4 Years.
Laetitia Pilkington: By 24 August 1739
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Author event in Laetitia Pilkington
By 24 August 1739
published a verse pamphlet, An Excursory View of the Present State of Men and Things, A Satire. In a Dialogue between the Author and his Friend.
9 September 1739: A Black rebellion began in Stono, South ...
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9 September 1739
A Black rebellion began in Stono, South Carolina.
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 12 September 1739
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
12 September 1739
was born at Leytonstone Manor, Leytonstone, near London, the second of four children in her family.
Her own Life gives this date in the form September the first, O[ld]...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 24 September 1739-14 August 1740
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