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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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9 October 1740: It was this day in England when the Emperor...

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9 October 1740

It was this day in England when the Emperor of Austria, Charles VI , died and was succeeded by his daughter, Maria Theresa .
Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
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Anderson, Matthew Smith. The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748. Longman, 1995.
7-8, 59, 61-62
The day of the emperor's death was 20 October New Style.

Winter 1740-1: Famine in Ireland (later remembered, by those...

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Winter 1740-1

Famine in Ireland (later remembered, by those who remembered it at all, as the year of the slaughter) killed nearly half a million people.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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Samuel Richardson: 6 November 1740

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Author event in Samuel Richardson

6 November 1740

SR anonymously published his own first novel, the epistolary Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, in two volumes.
Smith, Sarah W. R. Samuel Richardson: A Reference Guide. G. K. Hall, 1984.
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Mary Latter: 17 November 1740

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17 November 1740

The young ML placed a ludicrous advertisement, in verse in the Reading Mercury (owned by the London publisher John Newbery ) to deny that she was the author of lampoons on the persons and characters...

Ann Candler: 18 November 1740

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18 November 1740

Ann More (later AC ) was born at Yoxford in Suffolk.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Elizabeth Boyd: December 1740

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December 1740

EB , as Louisa, addressed Lord Harrington (a previous recipient of her work) in Truth, A Poem.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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Mary Caesar: 1 January 1741

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1 January 1741

MC opened the centenary year of the execution of the first Earl of Strafford (the year that was to see both her husband 's death and her own) with a lament for the nation's past...

Susanna Wesley: 1741

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1741

Some Remarks on a Letter from the Reverend Mr Whitefield to the Reverend Mr Wesley , in a letter from a Gentlewoman to her Friend was published at London: it is now known to be...

Catherine Talbot: From 1741

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From 1741

CT contributed probably four letters on ancient Greek religion and philosophy, as well as poems and oriental or African tales, for amateur ventures in authorship with her friends.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Sophia Hume: 1741

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1741

SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .
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.

Charlotte Lennox: Around 1741

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Around 1741

When she says she was thirteen, while her father was still alive and filling his position in Albany, Charlotte Ramsay (later CL ) was sent from the province of New York to London.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
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Carlile, Susan. “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennoxs Age and The Life of Harriot StuartEighteenth-Century Novel, edited by Albert J. Rivero and George Justice, Vol.
4
, 2005, pp. 103-37.
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Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
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Anna, Lady Miller : 1741

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1741

Anna or Anne Riggs (later ALM) was born in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1741: The Gentleman's Diary, subtitled A Mathematical...

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1741

The Gentleman's Diary, subtitled A Mathematical Repository,
Crane, Ronald Salmon et al. A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800. University of North Carolina Press; Cambridge University Press, 1927.
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began annual publication in London.
Crane, Ronald Salmon et al. A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800. University of North Carolina Press; Cambridge University Press, 1927.
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1741, 1743: A private edition of ten copies (only) was...

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1741, 1743

A private edition of ten copies (only) was published of Athenian Letters or, the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war, written by Philip Yorke (later Lord Hardwicke)

Early 1741-late 1742: Caribbeana was published in London: two volumes...

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Early 1741-late 1742

Caribbeana was published in London: two volumes of items from the Barbados Gazette of the previous decade.
Overton, Bill, editor. A Letter to My Love. University of Delaware Press, 2001.
16 and n10
The prefaces to the two volumes are dated 17 December 1740 and 20 August 1742.

1741: James Parsons published A Mechanical Critical...

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1741

James Parsons published A Mechanical Critical Inquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites, which he said was designed to dispell ignorance and superstition and to reinforce truth.
Costa, Palmira Fontes da. “The understanding of monsters at the Royal Society in the first half of the eighteenth century”. Endeavour, Vol.
24
, No. 1, Mar. 2000, pp. 34-9.
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1741/2: London acquired an addition to its list of...

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1741/2

London acquired an addition to its list of public places of entertainment: Ranelagh Gardens, famous for its Rotunda.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
91
Vickery, Amanda. “Venice-on-Thames”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2013, pp. 31-2.
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1741: Alexander Cruden's A Verbal Index to Milton's...

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1741

Alexander Cruden 's A Verbal Index to Milton's Paradise Lost was published in London.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Sarah Trimmer: 6 January 1741

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6 January 1741

Sarah Kirby (later ST ) was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the elder of two children.
Clara Lucas Balfour gives the date as 17 January, which suggests that she translated an Old Style date into New Style.
Balfour, Clara. A Sketch of Mrs. Trimmer. W. and F. G. Cash, 1854.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.

14 January 1741: Frederick II of Prussia declared that Silesia,...

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14 January 1741

Frederick II of Prussia declared that Silesia, which he planned to take from Maria Theresa of Austria, was as good as conquered.
Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
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Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
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Hester Lynch Piozzi: 16 January 1741

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16 January 1741

Hester Lynch Salusbury (later HLP ) was born at Bodvel, Caernarfonshire, Wales.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
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Samuel Richardson: 23 January 1741

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23 January 1741

SR 's handbook of pattern letters, the work whose composition he had interrupted for Pamela, finally appeared, anonymously like all his books. It is generally known as Familiar Letters.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Smith, Sarah W. R. Samuel Richardson: A Reference Guide. G. K. Hall, 1984.
9-10

Elizabeth Carter: 25 January 1741

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25 January 1741

EC wrote a playfully hyperbolic account to the astronomer Thomas Wright of her longing to meet Catherine Talbot ; the two women met some days later.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Carter, Elizabeth, and Catherine Talbot. A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1809, 4 vols.
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Catherine Talbot: February 1741

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February 1741

CT first met Elizabeth Carter , after hearing her praises sung by the scientist Thomas Wright .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
68

February 1741: Mary Pendarves (later Delany) wrote of her...

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February 1741

Mary Pendarves (later Delany) wrote of her friend the Duchess of Queensberry 's court dress representing botanically exact flowers of many species, with the banks and tree-stumps they grew on.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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