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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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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 13 April 1744-10 July 1754

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13 April 1744-10 July 1754

From these years date LMWM 's surviving letters to her childhood friend Lady Oxford .
She had been writing to Lady Oxford for years before this, but the earlier part of the correspondence does not...

Elizabeth Boyd: By 24 April 1744

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By 24 April 1744

EB published, with her initials, another pamphlet: Altamira's Ghost; or, Justice Triumphant. A new Ballad.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Eliza Haywood: 24 April 1744

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24 April 1744

EH began publishing an anonymous monthly magazine, The Female Spectator, running to about 6,000 words an issue.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
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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.
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Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
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Sarah Fielding: 1 May 1744

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1 May 1744

SF published her first, anonymous novel, The Adventures of David Simple, In Search of a Real Friend, in three volumes.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
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Alexander Pope: 30 May 1744

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30 May 1744

AP , poet, satirist, and translator, died at his house at Twickenham near London; what he called this long Disease, my Life, was ended by one or other of the complications caused by Pott's disease.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
4: 105

Mary Collyer: By June 1744

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By June 1744

MC published what is probably her first original work: Felicia to Charlotte; or, Letters from a Young Lady in the Country, a one-volume romantic epistolary novel.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
14 (1744): 344
Feminist Companion Archive.

18 June 1744: John Newbery advertised his Little Pretty...

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18 June 1744

John Newbery advertised his Little Pretty Pocket Book, one of the first books aimed at delighting children while instructing them.
Demers, Patricia, and Robert Gordon Moyles, editors. From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children’s Literature to 1850. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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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.
22-3, 38n5
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
445

Elizabeth Carter: July 1744

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July 1744

The Gentleman's Magazine printed EC 's On the foregoing verses. Inscrib'd to Miss L[yn]ch of Canterbury, alongside a poem by Katherine Philips , To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting.
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe. 26 Feb. 2006.

Mehetabel Wright: Probably July 1744

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Probably July 1744

MW wrote to her brother John about her search for God.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
111
Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press, 1975–1983.
25: 112-13

Sarah Fielding: 13 July 1744

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13 July 1744

A second edition of SF 's David Simple replaced the first, with revisions and an enthusiastic preface by her brother Henry .
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
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Dorothea Du Bois: 3 August 1744

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3 August 1744

In a postscript to his inheritance case, DDB 's father was convicted of assault against the successful claimant, James Annesley , whom he had previously kidnapped.
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

Dorothea Du Bois: 7 August 1744

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7 August 1744

The new wife (or alleged wife) of DDB 's father bore him a son; years later the son's legitimacy and claim to the family titles were recognised in Ireland but denied by the House of Lords

Elizabeth Montagu: Soon after 19 August 1744

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Soon after 19 August 1744

EM 's fifteen-month-old son, Punch, died at Allerthorpe in Yorkshire.
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: 191

25 August 1744: The Daily Advertiser carried an advertisement...

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25 August 1744

The Daily Advertiser carried an advertisement for The School of Venus, or The Lady's Delight, an English translation of a French pornographic text entitled L'Ecole des Filles.
Barker, Nicholas, and James McLaverty. “David Fairweather Foxon, 1923-2001”. Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol.
161
, 2009, pp. 158-75.
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Elizabeth Boyd: November-19 December 1744

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November-19 December 1744

EB dated the fictional letters which make up her periodical or pseudo-periodical, The Snail, published the following year.
Boyd, Elizabeth. The Snail. 1745.
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Sarah Fielding: November 1744-November 1747

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November 1744-November 1747

SF lived with and kept house for her brother Henry in Old Boswell Court, London, from the time of his first wife's death until his second marriage.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
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Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne, 1996.
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Teresia Constantia Phillips: Winter 1744-early 1746

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Winter 1744-early 1746

TCP was confined for debt in the Liberties of the King's Bench Prison ; this meant she was not incarcerated, but was also not free to leave a limited area.
Stone, Lawrence. Uncertain Unions. Marriage in England, 1660-1753. Oxford University Press, 1992.
272-3

By 17 December 1744: Charles Fleetwood sold out at Drury Lane...

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By 17 December 1744

Charles Fleetwood sold out at Drury Lane Theatre and James Lacy was installed as manager.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 1115, 1130-2

Maria Barrell: 1745

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1745

Maria Weylar (later MB ) was probably born in this year. She claimed to have been born in the West Indies.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Maria Barrell. 13 Apr. 2017.

Elizabeth Boyd: By January 1745

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By January 1745

EB published a periodical or pseudo-periodical, The Snail; or, The Lady's Lucubrations. Being Entertaining Letters between a Lady at St. James's, and her Friend at Dover.
The Snail is (in 2009) listed in the...

Olaudah Equiano: About 1745

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About 1745

According to his own account, OE , Black writer in English, was born in the Kingdom of Benin (probably the region of present-day Nigeria, not the country of that name); some recent scholars argue...

Jane Johnson : 1744 or 1745

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1744 or 1745

Inspired by the use of stories in family education by Richardson 's Pamela, JJ wrote, printed and bound for her daughter and eldest son A very pretty story to tell Children when they are about...

Charlotte McCarthy: By 1745

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By 1745

CMC had been living in London for some time.
McCarthy, Charlotte. Justice and Reason. printed for the author, 1767.

Charlotte McCarthy: 1745

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1745

CMC , as a Gentlewoman, published at London, printed for the author, a romance entitled The Fair Moralist; or, love and virtue. . . . To which is added, several occasional poems.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1745: Serious anti-Methodist riots occurred in...

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1745

Serious anti-Methodist riots occurred in Exeter.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
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