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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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April 1742: John Wesley's earliest list of members of...

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April 1742

John Wesley 's earliest list of members of the Foundery Society (which met at The Foundery, Moorfields, East London) had forty-seven women to only nineteen men.
Chilcote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. Scarecrow Press, 1991.
48-9

By 6 April 1742: An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess...

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By 6 April 1742

An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, a political apologia and attack on her enemies composed by her over almost forty years with various helpers, appeared a few weeks after Prime...

13 April 1742: The Messiah, an oratorio by George Frederic...

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13 April 1742

The Messiah, an oratorio by George Frederic Handel , premiered at the Old Fishamble Street Music Hall in Dublin; following a public rehearsal the day before, the crowded opening was a triumph.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
30
“Messiah: George Frederic Handel”. Signature Magazine: The Official Program of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, 2001–2002, p. 33.
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May 1742: William Shenstone (poet and landscape gardener,...

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May 1742

William Shenstone (poet and landscape gardener, creator of a famous ferme ornée, The Leasowes at Halesowen in Shropshire) anonymously published his supposedly Spenserian poem The Schoolmistress.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

May 1742-January 1746: Edward Young published his long poem of mourning...

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May 1742-January 1746

Edward Young published his long poem of mourning (an influence on succeeding poetry both pious and morbid), The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality.
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(June 1742): 312; (April 1746): 212

2 May 1742: Lady Euston, formerly Lady Dorothy Boyle,...

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2 May 1742

Lady Euston , formerly Lady Dorothy Boyle , died of her husband's ill-treatment within seven months of her wedding.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 112; 2: 41

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: May 1742-August 1746

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May 1742-August 1746

LMWM lived in Avignon, where she fitted up a belvedere or study for herself on the Rocher-des-Doms.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 277-375

Catherine Talbot: After 7 June 1742

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After 7 June 1742

CT wrote a poem, On Reading the Love-Elegies of James Hammond, after Hammond's death but the year before his Love Elegies were published.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
211

12 June 1742: An advertisement for the Rev. Samuel Fancourt's...

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12 June 1742

An advertisement for the Rev. Samuel Fancourt 's Proposals for Erecting a Public Circulating Library in London is the first recorded use in English of the term circulating library.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.

25 June-14 September 1742: A French army was besieged in Prague: one...

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25 June-14 September 1742

A French army was besieged in Prague: one of three sieges of Prague during the War of the Austrian Succession, which made the city a byword for human suffering.
Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
107, 116, 124
Anderson, Matthew Smith. The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748. Longman, 1995.
112-13
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 303

Elizabeth Teft: July 1742

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July 1742

ET published a second poem, Orinthia to Fido, in the Gentleman's Magazine.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
XII (1742): 384

14 July 1742: Horace Walpole was diverted by the great...

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14 July 1742

Horace Walpole was diverted by the great physical strength of a servant-maid helping to rescue goods in danger of burning in a house fire; he thought it particularly comic that she had the pastoral name...

17 July 1742: At least six women died after being arrested...

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17 July 1742

At least six women died after being arrested in the streets at night and crammed into a round-house (i.e. a lock-up) in St Martin in the Fields, London.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 258-9
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
129

Susanna Wesley: 30 July 1742

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30 July 1742

SW died at her son John 's Methodist headquarters of The Foundery in London.
The date has also been given as 23 July.
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
xiv

Elizabeth Montagu: 5 August 1742

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5 August 1742

Elizabeth Robinson married Edward Montagu .
Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray, 1906, 2 vols.
1: 114

Charlotte Charke: Late August 1742

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Late August 1742

CC had another spell in acting work, this time the illegitimate theatre, performing at Bartholomew Fair and then in the street: Petticoat Lane, Whitechapel.
Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 9-62.
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13 September 1742: Frances Williams wrote a letter of pure anger...

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13 September 1742

Frances Williams wrote a letter of pure anger to her husband , who had hinted that she must have infected him with venereal disease when it was actually the other way round.
Stewart, Mary Margaret. “’And Blights with Plagues the Marriage Hearse’: Syphilis and Wives”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 103-13.
106-10

22 September 1742: Susannah Cibber made a triumphant comeback...

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22 September 1742

Susannah Cibber made a triumphant comeback at Covent Garden Theatre after some years off stage following her highly publicised adultery.
Nash, Mary. The Provoked Wife: The Life and Times of Susannah Cibber. Little, Brown, 1977.
183

Laetitia Pilkington: October-December 1742

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Author event in Laetitia Pilkington

October-December 1742

LP spent these months in the Marshalsea Prison on account of a debt of two pounds.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
1: 203

Anna Seward: 1 December 1742

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1 December 1742

AS was born at Eyam in Derbyshire, where her father was then rector.
Eyam was pronounced eem. Biographer Margaret Ashmun gives the birth-date in new style (eleven days later) although new style was...

Mary Collyer: 1743

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1743

MC published, as the translator of The Virtuous Orphan, a work entitled Memoirs of the Countess de Bressol. A History adapted to inspire the noblest sentiments of Virtue, Piety and Honour. Done from the...

Laetitia Pilkington: By 1743

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By 1743

LP seems to have had a manuscript volume of poems collected, and to have been seeking subscribers.
Pilkington, Laetitia. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, edited by A. C., Jr Elias, University of Georgia Press, 1997, p. xv - lxii.
xxiii

Lady Lucy Herbert : 1743

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Author event in Lady Lucy Herbert

1743

The year before LLH died another volume of her religious writing, Several Methods and Practises of Devotions, was issued at Bruges. In due course this became part one of her collected Devotions in 1873.
Feminist Companion Archive.

1743: The first number appeared of The Foundling...

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1743

The first number appeared of The Foundling Hospital for Wit, an anthology, it claimed, of Brats of Wit and Humour—that is, poems
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.
discarded by authors embarrassed to own them.
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.

1743: The last killing of a wolf in Britain took...

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1743

The last killing of a wolf in Britain took place: in the Great Caledonian Forest, now the Cairngorms.
“The Last British Wolves”. Wolf Trust.