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 February 1741: A monument was erected by subscription to...

Writing climate item

By February 1741

A monument was erected by subscription to the memory of Shakespeare in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
11 (1741): 105

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: March-May 1741

Women writers item

March-May 1741

LMWM spent these months at Turin, while Algarotti was also there on a diplomatic mission.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
436-9

Dorothea Du Bois: Between March 1741 and May 1742

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Author event in Dorothea Du Bois

Between March 1741 and May 1742

DDB 's father , known as Earl of Anglesey, allegedly made plans for decamping to France following the arrival in England of James Annesley , whose titles he had appropriated.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
14 (1744): 602

18 March 1741: The burning of several buildings in New York...

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18 March 1741

The burning of several buildings in New York City convinced the colonial authorities of the existence of a plot hatched by a conjunction of black slaves and poor whites.
Horsmanden, Daniel. A Journal of the Proceedings in Detection of the Conspiracy. James Parker, 1744.

25 March 1741: The Foundling Hospital achieved in London...

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25 March 1741

The Foundling Hospital achieved in London by Thomas Coram and others opened its doors.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
335-7

By 26 March 1741: Emilie du Chatelet composed, within a month,...

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By 26 March 1741

Emilie du Chatelet composed, within a month, a refutation to sexist attack by Jean-Baptiste Dortous de Mairin , Secretary of the Académie Française , on her Treatise on the Nature of Fire.
Zinsser, Judith P. “Emilie du Châtelet: genius, gender, and intellectual authority”. Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition, edited by Hilda L. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 168-90.
176ff
Bodanis, David. “The scientist whom history forgot”. Guardian Weekly, 4–10 Aug. 2006, p. 10.
10

Sarah Scott: April 1741

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Author event in Sarah Scott

April 1741

Sarah Robinson (later SS ) contracted a severe case of smallpox, which left her with noticeable scarring.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xi

Mary Caesar: 2 April 1741

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Author event in Mary Caesar

2 April 1741

Charles Caesar , husband of MC , died after years of increasing ill health. He had suffered a stroke in early 1739.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, 1992, pp. 178-98.
194
Rumbold, Valerie. Women’s Place in Pope’s World. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
246

Mary Caesar: After 2 April 1741

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Author event in Mary Caesar

After 2 April 1741

After her husband died, MC closed her book by pasting in his obituary notice and writing: Alas, there's no Expression / To Tell my Dismal Woe. These words from a bereaved royalist (John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham

Elizabeth Cairns: 4 April 1741

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4 April 1741

EC died at Leith in Scotland (the port attached to Edinburgh).
Cairns, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life of Elizabeth Cairns. Editor Greig, John, John Brown, 1762.
prelims

4 April 1741: Henry Fielding, publishing as Conny Keyber,...

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4 April 1741

Henry Fielding , publishing as Conny Keyber, led the rush of response to Richardson 's Pamela with a burlesque entitled Shamela.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
xli

Celia Fiennes: 10 April 1741

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Author event in Celia Fiennes

10 April 1741

CF died at Hackney, just outside London, probably at the home of one of her nieces.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
24, 13

Elizabeth Montagu: Late April 1741

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Author event in Elizabeth Montagu

Late April 1741

Elizabeth Robinson (later EM ) was sent away from home to protect her from catching smallpox from her sister, Sarah .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
38

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: May 1741-May 1742

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May 1741-May 1742

LMWM tried Genoa, Geneva, and Chambéry, but was driven from each either by the climate or the threat of invasion.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 238, 277

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: June 1741

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June 1741

LMWM , in Genoa, involved herself in local politics, taking the Republic of Genoa's side in an international incident between it and Britain.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
442-3

Eliza Haywood: 16 June 1741

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16 June 1741

EH was early in the field of adverse comment on Samuel Richardson 's Pamela, with a burlesque fiction, Anti-Pamela; or, Feign'd Innocence Detected.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
353-60
Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii.
xli

End of June 1741: News reached London of a serious British...

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End of June 1741

News reached London of a serious British defeat at Cartagena on the coast of present-day Colombia.
Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
58-61
Anderson, Matthew Smith. The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748. Longman, 1995.
18

25 June 1741: A new parliament was called for this date...

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25 June 1741

A new parliament was called for this date following elections during which Britain's entry into the War of the Austrian Succession was a leading issue.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
1: 132-3

Mary Caesar: July 1741

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Author event in Mary Caesar

July 1741

MC died, just three months after her husband .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)

Before September 1741: Corsica had begun its struggle for independence...

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Before September 1741

Corsica had begun its struggle for independence from Genoa, in which a woman, Bianca Colonna , was one of the heroes.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 103

Elizabeth Teft: 9 September 1741

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Author event in Elizabeth Teft

9 September 1741

ET composed Orinthia's Request to the Gentlemen of Fortune, the poem with which she apparently first reached print.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
XI (1741): 494

Dorothea Du Bois: 15 September 1741

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15 September 1741

DDB 's father made (he said) a second legal marriage, to Juliana Donovan, a month after the death of one estranged, possibly legal wife, though Dorothea's mother (also a perhaps-legal wife) still lived.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
under Anglesey

Jemima Kindersley: Probably 2 October 1741

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Author event in Jemima Kindersley

Probably 2 October 1741

Jemima Wicksteed, later JK , was born.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

Eliza Haywood: From perhaps mid-January 1741

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Author event in Eliza Haywood

From perhaps mid-January 1741

EH ran a publishing and bookselling business in Covent Garden, London, choosing as her shop-sign the Sign of Fame.
Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction”. Three Novellas, edited by Earla Wilputte, Colleagues Press, 1995, pp. 1-15.
37

David Garrick: 19 October 1741

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19 October 1741

DG made his sensational first appearence on any Stage
qtd. in
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 935
as Shakespeare 's Richard III at Goodman's Fields in London.
qtd. in
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 935