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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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By 4 December 1745: The Young Pretender's Jacobite army arrived...

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By 4 December 1745

The Young Pretender 's Jacobite army arrived at Derby on their march south towards London.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
3: 262n2
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
412, 419
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
3: 262n2

6 December 1745: After mustering 6,500 men, seizing Edinburgh,...

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6 December 1745

After mustering 6,500 men, seizing Edinburgh, and forcing his way into England as far as Derby, Charles Edward Stuart , the Young Pretender, retreated to Scotland, seeing no chances of success in Derby.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
11: 636
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
1: 529

Thomas Holcroft: 10 December 1745

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Author event in Thomas Holcroft

10 December 1745

TH , future novelist, playwright and autobiographer, was born in Orange Court, Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square), in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Collyer: 1746

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Author event in Mary Collyer

1746

A probably pirated Life and Adventures of Indiana, the Virtuous Orphan, appeared, a version of Marivaux 's La vie de Marianne designed to rival MC 's Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne...

Anna Williams : 1746

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Author event in Anna Williams

1746

AW anonymously published a translation from French of Jean Philippe de La Bléterie 's The Life of the Emperor Julian.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
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Frances Reynolds : 1746

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Author event in Frances Reynolds

1746

The year after their father died, Joshua Reynolds settled at Plymouth Dock in Devon, and Frances and his next youngest sister left the family home at Plympton Erle in Devon to live with him there.
Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press, 1996.
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Charlotte McCarthy: 1746

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Author event in Charlotte McCarthy

1746

In a second London edition of The Fair Moralist with some poems newly appended, CMC added her name to the title-page.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1746: The Whitehall Evening-Post was launched to...

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1746

The Whitehall Evening-Post was launched to join the select group of leading London newspapers in the field of publishers' book advertising.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
154-5
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.

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: 21 January 1746

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21 January 1746

Caroline Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest (later SFG ) was born the eldest of her family at Champcéry, near Autun, in the French region of Burgundy.
Broglie, Gabriel de. Madame de Genlis. Librairie Académique Perrin, 1985.
13
Trousson, Raymond. Romans de femmes du XVIIIe siècle. Robert Laffont, 1996.
774

Charlotte Lennox: 29 January 1746

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Author event in Charlotte Lennox

29 January 1746

Charlotte Ramsay (later CL ) first appeared on stage in London: at Drury Lane , as Lavinia in The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 1214

Cassandra, Lady Hawke: 28 February 1746

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Author event in Cassandra, Lady Hawke

28 February 1746

Cassandra Turner (later CLH ) was born at Ambrosden in Oxfordshire, the youngest of a large family.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Burke, John, editor. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s Peerage.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 3 March 1746-20 November 1761

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3 March 1746-20 November 1761

LMWM wrote her surviving letters to her daughter, Lady Bute .
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 366, 3: 281-2

16 April 1746: The (mostly Highland) forces of Charles Edward...

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16 April 1746

The (mostly Highland) forces of Charles Edward Stuart , and with them the Jacobite cause, were defeated at the Battle of Culloden in Scotland by forces (mostly English) loyal to George II , led by...

Sarah Scott: About the end of April 1746

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Author event in Sarah Scott

About the end of April 1746

SS 's mother, Elizabeth Robinson , died of breast cancer.
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: 227

Charlotte Charke: May 1746

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Author event in Charlotte Charke

May 1746

CC secretly married John Sacheverell ; he died not long afterwards.
Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber, 1988.
216

Eliza Haywood: May 1746

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Author event in Eliza Haywood

May 1746

EH 's The Female Spectator ceased publication after a run of two years.
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
203

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: May 1746

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May 1746

LMWM took a short tour by road and canal around the south of France, seeking somewhere to settle instead of Avignon.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
478

1 May 1746: A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament...

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1 May 1746

A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament in 1745 declared that from this date any marriage of a Protestant solemnised by a Catholic priest (whether to a Catholic or Protestant) was null and void.
“Statutes in Chronological Order, 3: The Reigns of King George I and II”. University of Minnesota Law School: Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery, commonly known as the Penal Laws.

Elizabeth Hands: Shortly before 5 June 1746

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Author event in Elizabeth Hands

Shortly before 5 June 1746

Elizabeth Herbert (later EH ) was born at Harbury in Warwickshire: this was the day of her christening.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Ann Radcliffe: 18 June 1746

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18 June 1746

Mary Clayton, who later wrote as MAR , was baptised in St Nicholas' Church at Nottingham, the elder of two daughters, and the sole survivor.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Anne Radcliffe. 1 June 2016.

27-28 June 1746: Flora Macdonald, in her early twenties, sailed...

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27-28 June 1746

Flora Macdonald , in her early twenties, sailed from the island of Benbecula to Skye with Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart ) disguised as her maid.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

30 July 1746: Officers of the Manchester Regiment, which...

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30 July 1746

Officers of the Manchester Regiment , which had fought for Prince Charles Edward at the battle of Culloden, were hanged, drawn, and quartered in London.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
416

Eliza Haywood: 2 August-4 October 1746

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Author event in Eliza Haywood

2 August-4 October 1746

EH , writing as the Authors [sic] of the Female Spectator, ran a weekly periodical in the guise of a sequel to the better-known magazine: The Parrot. With a Compendium of the Times.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
490-3
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
193

Hannah Glasse: 16 August 1746

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Author event in Hannah Glasse

16 August 1746

HG published, by subscription and as a Lady, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 16 August 1746

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16 August 1746

LMWM spent a night under cannon fire in the citadel of Seravalle.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
478