Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
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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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15 November 1743: George II was enthusiastically welcomed to...
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15 November 1743
was enthusiastically welcomed to London, with illuminations and bonfires, on his return from his victorious campaign in Europe.
Dorothea Du Bois: 25 November 1743
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Author event in Dorothea Du Bois
25 November 1743
The Dublin jury found for the claimant
, cousin of Dorothea Annesley (later
), in his case about titles, including the earldom of Anglesey, which had been unlawfully appropriated by her
Eliza Haywood: 10 December 1743
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Author event in Eliza Haywood
10 December 1743
, recording a false report that
had died, impugned her morals and thought she had amassed nearly £10,000.
Mary Chandler: 1744
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Author event in Mary Chandler
1744
The sixth edition of
's A Description of Bath added A True Tale in verse, about a marriage proposal received by the poet.
Laetitia Pilkington: 1744-5
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1744-5
perhaps offered a volume of Memoirs to a publisher for the first time.
Mary Peisley: Early 1744
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Early 1744
became a
minister and preacher, and very soon afterwards a great traveller on missionary journeys.
Sarah Murray : 1744
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Author event in Sarah Murray
1744
Sarah Mease or Maese (apparently the same woman who later wrote as
) was born.
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography expresses doubt about the identity of the two.
1744-5: The Jews were expelled from Prague by Maria...
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1744-5
The Jews were expelled from Prague by
; a few years later they were permitted to return, after a strong campaign by themselves and others.
1744: The earliest book of nursery-rhymes in English...
1744
The earliest book of nursery- rhymes in English was published, under the title Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book.
1744: The popular actress Kitty Clive argued in...
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1744
The popular actress
argued in The Case of Mrs Clive Submitted to the Publick that she had been unfairly treated by the managers of both London theatres (
and
).
1744: A new Vagrancy Act targeted chiefly prostitutes;...
1744
A new Vagrancy Act targeted chiefly prostitutes; justices of the peace were empowered to carry out quarterly searches.
14 January 1744: Mark Akenside published a lengthy, influential,...
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14 January 1744
published a lengthy, influential, philosophic poem in blank verse entitled The Pleasures of Imagination: the faculty which, he argues, the artist uses to apprehend and to imitate the wonders of God's creation.
Lady Lucy Herbert : 19 January 1744
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Author event in Lady Lucy Herbert
19 January 1744
Mother Teresa Joseph (
) died at her convent, that of the
at Bruges.
Elizabeth Griffith: 23 January 1744
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Author event in Elizabeth Griffith
23 January 1744
's father, actor-manager
, died in Dublin at the age of sixty-three, while Elizabeth was still in her teens.
Eliza Haywood: 24 January 1744
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Author event in Eliza Haywood
24 January 1744
returned to full-length fiction with the epistolary novel The Fortunate Foundlings, in which the hero and heroine are not merely siblings but twins.
Cassandra Cooke: 27 January 1744
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27 January 1744
Cassandra Leigh (later
) was born at Oxford (according to a date submitted to FamilySearch), the much younger of two surviving sisters.
Samuel Johnson: February 1744
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Author event in Samuel Johnson
February 1744
published, anonymously, The Life of Mr. ; his subject, a personal friend, had died on 1 August 1743.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Just before 5 February 1744
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Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Just before 5 February 1744
involved herself again in politics, intervening with the
, governor of Languedoc, on behalf of persecuted French Huguenots.
11 February 1744: An English fleet under Thomas Mathews had...
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11 February 1744
An English fleet under
had a somewhat desultory engagement with a slightly smaller fleet made up of French and Spanish ships.
February 1744: An anonymous fiction purportedly from French,...
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February 1744
An anonymous fiction purportedly from French, The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu, related the protagonist's picaresque adventures in men's clothes, with a female companion.
14 February 1744: Following the deaths, intestate, of her husband,...
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14 February 1744
Following the deaths, intestate, of her husband,
, and their only son,
secured, with some difficulty, the editorial or managerial role in The Ladies' Diary for herself.
Lucy Hutton: 28 February 1744
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Author event in Lucy Hutton
28 February 1744
Lucy Molyneux, later the proto-feminist writer
, was born at Preston in Lancashire, the third daughter in a family of several children.
Mary Delany: By 10 March 1744
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Author event in Mary Delany
By 10 March 1744
wrote for
a libretto adapted from
's Paradise Lost; it has not been traced.
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale: 20 March 1744
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Elizabeth Bonhote: Shortly before 11 April 1744
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Author event in Elizabeth Bonhote
Shortly before 11 April 1744
Elizabeth Mapes (later
) was born in Earsham Street at Bungay in Suffolk, close to the ruined Castle.