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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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22 October 1741: Horace Walpole reported the vogue for Peg...

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22 October 1741

Horace Walpole reported the vogue for Peg Woffington 's acting, which he thought due not to its quality but to her achievement in clawing her way up from poverty.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 113

Abigail Adams: 11 November 1741

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11 November 1741

Abigail Smith (later AA ) was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
This date was 22 November in the New Style calendar.
Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Little, Brown, 1980.
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Samuel Richardson: 7 December 1741

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7 December 1741

SR followed Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded with a sequel, Pamela in her Exalted Condition. again in two volumes, having the form of an epistolary novel but some of the characteristics of a conduct book.
Richardson, Samuel. “Introduction”. Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family, edited by Christine Gerrard, Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. i - xlix.
xxvii

Laetitia Pilkington: Probably 1742

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Author event in Laetitia Pilkington

Probably 1742

LP abandoned, unfinished, her tragedy, The Roman Father.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
2: 583

Isabel Pagan: By 1742

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By 1742

IP was born near four miles from Nith-head, that is at New Cumnock in Ayrshire.
Pagan, Isabel. A Collection of Songs and Poems on Several Occasions. Niven, Napier and Khull, 1803.
3
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 1742

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1742

An unperformed tragedy, Inkle and Yarico by the obscure Mrs Weddell (apparently based on Frances, Lady Hertford 's poem of this title), was published in London.
Scholar Vincent Carretta thinks that Mrs Weddell may be...

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 1 January - 15 March 1742

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1 January - 15 March 1742

Frances, Lady Hertford , kept a fragmentary political journal coinciding with the end of Robert Walpole 's long tenure of power as Prime Minister.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
182

1742: The Bath General Infirmary (the first hospital...

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1742

The Bath General Infirmary (the first hospital in the city, now the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases ) opened—but for visitors only, not for residents.
“A Short History of the Royal United Hospital, Bath”. NHS England: List of all NHS Acute (Hospital) Trusts in England.

1742: Irish physician Fielding Ould gave the first...

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1742

Irish physician Fielding Ould gave the first description of an episiotomy in his three-part Treatise on Midwifery.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1742: The mercury or trade publisher Mary Cooper...

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1742

The mercury or trade publisher Mary Cooper published The Child's New Play-Thing, an alphabet book with spelling games, which has a claim to the title of first modern children's book.
O’Malley, Andrew. “The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature”. The Lion and The Unicorn, Vol.
24
, 2000, pp. 18-44.
38n4

1742: At a boarding school for girls in Covent...

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1742

At a boarding school for girls in Covent Garden, London, the curriculum included English, arithmetic, geography, drawing, and domestic science.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
250

1742: Ludwig Holberg's satirical fantasy A Journey...

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1742

Ludwig Holberg 's satirical fantasy A Journey to the World Under-Ground by Nicholas Klimius was first translated into English; it describes several societies enjoying gender equality.
Coleman, Deirdre. “Claire Clairmont and Mary Shelley: identification and rivalry within the ’tribe of the Otaheite philosophers’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 309-28.
318-19

1742: A directory of rich women and heiresses was...

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1742

A directory of rich women and heiresses was published at Dublin: The Irish Register: or a List of all the Duchess Dowagers, Countesses, Widow Ladies, Maiden Ladies and Misses of Large Fortunes in England.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
376, n24

Elizabeth Carter: 25 January 1742

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25 January 1742

EC celebrated, in a letter to Catherine Talbot , the anniversary of their first meeting.
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.
1: 12-13

Mary Jones: By February 1742

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By February 1742

MJ 's newly-written ballad The Lass of the Hill was anonymously printed as a single sheet, not by her agency but presumably as a result of circulating in manuscript.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1742) 12: 101
Jones, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. Dodsley, 1750.
397
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Squire: After 2 February 1742

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After 2 February 1742

JS published, for the Author and with her name, her scientific treatise A Proposal for Discovering our Longitude.
Squire, Jane. A Proposal for Discovering Our Longitude. Printed for the author, and sold by P. Vaillant and F. Needham, 1742.
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2 February 1742: Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime...

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2 February 1742

Sir Robert Walpole , Britain's first Prime Minister, communicated his intention of retiring.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1368

16 February 1742: The Earl of Wilmington, Spencer Compton (Whig),...

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16 February 1742

The Earl of Wilmington, Spencer Compton (Whig), became Prime Minister following Walpole 's resignation; he lasted only eighteen months.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
280
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
113
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

18 February 1742: Horace Walpole noted at a masquerade the...

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18 February 1742

Horace Walpole noted at a masquerade the popularity of Mary Queen of Scots costumes, and those dressed like Van Dyck portraits in vaguely seventeenth-century style.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 181-2

Sarah Fielding: 22 February 1742

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22 February 1742

Henry Fielding 's novel Joseph Andrews was published: its inset tale of Leonora and Horatio was probably written by SF .
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xxxviii

Around late February 1742: A woman named Margaret Ogle published, with...

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Around late February 1742

A woman named Margaret Ogle published, with her name, two verse satires on Walpole's fall from power: Mordecai Triumphant, or, the Fall of Haman prime minister of state to King Ahasuerus: an heroic poem and...

Alexander Pope: March 1742

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March 1742

AP published The New Dunciad: that is, an extra book to complete the three already extant, with an apocalyptic vision of the end of intelligent life.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
5: 248

Eliza Haywood: Between 8 March and 12 April 1742

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Between 8 March and 12 April 1742

EH and William Hatchett received in instalments a total of eleven guineas from publisher William Nourse for translating the immensely popular French erotic novel Le Sopha, by Crébillon fils .
Spedding, Patrick. “Eliza Haywood, Writing (and) Pornography in 1742”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Walwood and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, 2001, pp. 237-51.
375, 245-7 and n1

Anne Hunter: 13 March either 1742 or 1743

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13 March either 1742 or 1743

Anne Home (later AH ) was born, probably at Waterford in Ireland, where her Scottish father was stationed as an army surgeon.
Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009.
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Mary Collyer: By April 1742

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By April 1742

MC 's The Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne (a translation and free adaptation from Marivaux ) was published.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
12 (1742): 224
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