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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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19 February 1747: Mrs Penelope Pry (possibly though not probably...

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19 February 1747

Mrs Penelope Pry (possibly though not probably Eliza Haywood ) edited the only surviving issue of The Lady's Weekly Magazine, published in London.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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29 March 1747: The poet Mark Akenside launched his periodical...

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29 March 1747

The poet Mark Akenside launched his periodical The Museum, which ran until the following year.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
61

Frances Sheridan: Early 1747

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Early 1747

Frances Chamberlaine married Thomas Sheridan , actor and manager of the Smock Alley Theatre (or Theatre Royal) in Dublin.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
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David Garrick: 9 April 1747

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9 April 1747

DG signed an agreement with James Lacy , by which he became joint owner of Drury Lane Theatre .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 1247
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
6: 17

Sarah Fielding: 10 April 1747

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10 April 1747

SF published by subscription Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xxxix

11 April 1747: The last of the Jacobite rebel lords, Simon,...

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11 April 1747

The last of the Jacobite rebel lords, Simon, Lord Lovat , was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, amid enormous crowds.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
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Eliza Haywood: 27 April 1747

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27 April 1747

EH 's second translation from French, Memoirs of a Man of Honour from a novel by Prévost , appeared. Its original has been widely misidentified in commentary and catalogues.
Spedding, Patrick. “Eliza Haywood, Writing (and) Pornography in 1742”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Walwood and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, 2001, pp. 237-51.
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Horace Walpole: May 1747

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May 1747

HW took a lease on a villa at Twickenham near London (for which he revived the old name of Strawberry Hill); it became famous as a site of pastiche gothic style.
Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham et al. “Introduction”. Letters, Folio Society, 1951.
xxii

Laetitia Pilkington: May 1747

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May 1747

LP moved back from London to Dublin.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
1: 321-4; 2: 718-20

30 May 1747: Thomas Gray published Ode on a Distant Prospect...

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30 May 1747

Thomas Gray published Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Hannah Glasse: June 1747

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June 1747

HG 's husband died, and was buried at Broomfield in Essex.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Laetitia Pilkington: 13 June 1747

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13 June 1747

LP 's Memoirs, volume one, was first advertised in Dublin.
Pilkington, Laetitia. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, edited by A. C., Jr Elias, University of Georgia Press, 1997, p. xv - lxii.
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13 August 1747: A new parliament was called for this date,...

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13 August 1747

A new parliament was called for this date, following elections; the previous parliament had been dissolved on 18 June.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
1: 133

Anna Gordon: 24 August 1747

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24 August 1747

AG was born in Old Aberdeen, the youngest daughter in her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Lennox: 6 October 1747

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6 October 1747

Charlotte Ramsay married Alexander Lennox , a Scotsman living in London, at St George's Chapel, Mayfair.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 1, Jan. 1971, pp. 36-60.
38n52
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
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October-November 1747: Two prints appeared depicting sailors making...

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October-November 1747

Two prints appeared depicting sailors making irregular Fleet marriages.
McCreery, Cindy. “True Blue and Black, Brown and Fair: prints of British sailors and their women during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 135-52.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: By November 1747

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By November 1747

LMWM appeared in print without her knowledge in Six Town Eclogues with some other Poemsby the Rt. Hon. Lady M. W. M.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
517-18
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
1747: 536

Charlotte Lennox: 4 November 1747

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4 November 1747

Poems on Several Occasions by the recently married CL appeared, as by a young Lady, having been advertised as by Miss Ramsay. (A variant title-page says just by a Lady.)
Dalziel, Margaret, and Duncan Isles, editors. “Introduction, Chronology, and Appendix”. The Female Quixote, Oxford University Press, 1970.
xxi
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(November 1747): 536
Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
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Henry Fielding: 27 November 1747

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27 November 1747

HF made his second marriage: to his housekeeper, Mary Daniel, with whom he had been co-habiting since the death of his wife, whom she had served as her maid.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
xlii

Sarah Scott: Between December 1747 and May 1748

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Between December 1747 and May 1748

Sarah Robinson (later SS ) first met Lady Barbara Montagu during a visit to Bath with her sister Elizabeth .
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
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Samuel Richardson: 1 December 1747

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1 December 1747

SR published the first two volumes of his second epistolary novel, Clarissa.
Smith, Sarah W. R. Samuel Richardson: A Reference Guide. G. K. Hall, 1984.
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5 December 1747: The first number appeared of Henry Fielding's...

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5 December 1747

The first number appeared of Henry Fielding 's second anti-Jacobite periodical, The Jacobite's Journal, published under the name of the ranting and drunken John Trott-Plaid.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Edmund Curll: 11 December 1747

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11 December 1747

EC , the most notorious publisher of the early eighteenth century, died.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sophia Hume: 30 December 1747

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30 December 1747

SH signed and dated her earliest known pamphlet, An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina, published at Philadelphia with her initials on its title-page, probably the following year.
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Frances Brooke: 1748

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1748

By this year, if not before, Frances Moore (later FB ) had moved to London, where, as a single woman, it seems that she began work on launching a publishing career.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.