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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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18 August 1746: Lord Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino, who had...

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18 August 1746

Lord Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino , who had fought in the Jacobite rebellion led by Prince Charles Edward , were beheaded in London; a huge crowd watched.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
416

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 20 August 1746-14 August 1756

Women writers item

20 August 1746-14 August 1756

LMWM lived mostly in the province of Brescia in North Italy.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 375-7, 3: 109-10
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Romance Writings. Editor Grundy, Isobel, Clarendon Press, 1996.
100ff

25 August 1746: An Indian ambush at Deerfield, Massachusetts,...

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25 August 1746

An Indian ambush at Deerfield, Massachusetts, inspired the Black slave Lucy Terry to compose an oral ballad entitled Bars Fight.
Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002.
99-100

Elizabeth Ashbridge: September 1746

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Author event in Elizabeth Ashbridge

September 1746

Elizabeth Sullivan made her third and final marriage, at Burlington, New Jersey, to her fellow-Quaker Aaron Ashbridge .
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904.
78

November 1746: Mary Hamilton was convicted of crimes of...

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November 1746

Mary Hamilton was convicted of crimes of deception including marrying a series of women while posing as a man; Henry Fielding published The Female Husband about the case.
Fielding, Henry. The Female Husband, and Other Writings. Editor Jones, Claude E., Liverpool University Press, 1960, http://BLC.
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Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. The Female Husband, and Other Writings, edited by Claude E. Jones, Liverpool University Press, 1960.
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Mary Leapor: Just before 14 November 1746

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Author event in Mary Leapor

Just before 14 November 1746

ML died of measles at Brackley.
Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press, 1993.
22

Charlotte Charke: Late 1746

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Late 1746

CC joined a touring troupe of actors: performances included one of The Beaux' Stratagem at Tiverton to a drunken audience, when the players ad-libbed freely from other plays, for fun.
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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Mary Collyer: Probably December 1746

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Probably December 1746

MC (as Mary Homebred) published A Christmass-Box for Masters and Misses, in two small volumes, illustrated with engravings.
This is an early example of special seasonal publication, though the title Christmas Box had...

December 1746: William Collins published Odes on Several...

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December 1746

William Collins published Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects.
Gray, Thomas, and William, poet Collins. “Introductions”. Selected Poems of Thomas Gray and William Collins, edited by Arthur Johnson, Edward Arnold, 1967, pp. 9 - 14, 121.
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Grisell Murray: 6 December 1746

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6 December 1746

Lady Grisell Baillie , who had been a heroine of the Covenanter movement as a girl and whose elder daughter, GM , wrote memoirs of both her parents, died. She was buried next to her...

Catharine Trotter: 1747

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1747

Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT ) published, anonymously, Remarks upon . . . the Nature and Obligations of Virtue.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Elizabeth Teft: 1747

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1747

ET published Orinthia's Miscellanies; or, A Compleat Collection of Poems.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Ann Masterman Skinn: 1747

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1747

Ann Masterman (later AMS ) was born, probably in York, which she names as her native place on the title-page of her novel.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Françoise de Graffigny: 1747

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1747

FG published Lettres d'une Péruvienne, an epistolary novel consisting of thirty-eight letters: it is her most famous work.
Trousson, Raymond. Romans de femmes du XVIIIe siècle. Robert Laffont, 1996.
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DeJean, Joan E. et al. “Introduction and Note on Text”. Lettres d’une Péruvienne, Modern Language Assocation of America, 1993, p. ix - xxvi.
ix, xxv

Anne-Thérèse de Lambert: 1747

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1747

ATL 's Oeuvres were posthumously published at Rheims.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Mary Leapor: January 1747

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Author event in Mary Leapor

January 1747

ML first appeared in print, two months after her death, with a poem in the London Magazine.
Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press, 1993.
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Damaris Masham: 1747

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1747

A new edition of DM 's anonymous Christian Life was published as Thoughts on a Christian Life, attributed to John Locke, Esq.
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon, 1976–1989, 8 vols.
2: 471
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(May 1747): 248
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1747-55: Thomas Carte published in four successive...

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1747-55

Thomas Carte published in four successive volumes a Jacobite General History of England . . . (to A.D. 1654), which alleges that among the Celts (ancestors of the Scots Highlanders) women participated in national...

1747: The first edition of the Biographia Britannica...

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1747

The first edition of the Biographia Britannica (a ground-breaking collection of national biography) appeared.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
63

1747: Public-spirited citizens of Bath formed the...

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1747

Public-spirited citizens of Bath formed the Bath Pauper Trust to raise money for people needing medical advice and assistance; their dispensary later became the Bath City Infirmary and Dispensary .
“A Short History of the Royal United Hospital, Bath”. NHS England: List of all NHS Acute (Hospital) Trusts in England.

1747: Fleet Ditch in London (originally a country...

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1747

Fleet Ditch in London (originally a country stream, progressively polluted, and latterly a sewer) was paved over.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
283

1747: A General Description of all Trades (also...

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1747

A General Description of all Trades (also known as The London Tradesman), published this year by R. Campbell for parents planning their children's careers, mentions a few trades which take girls instead of or...

1747: The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure...

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1747

The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure began publication in London; it ran until 1815.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
142n64

Susanna Blamire: 12 January 1747

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12 January 1747

SB was born at Cardew Hall, near Dalston in Cumberland, the youngest in a family of four survivors out of six.
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

31 January 1747: The London Lock Hospital for sexually transmitted...

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31 January 1747

The LondonLock Hospital for sexually transmitted diseases opened.
Merians, Linda E. “The London Lock Hospital and the Lock Asylum for Women”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 128-45.
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