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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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Sarah Fielding: 1748 to early 1751

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1748 to early 1751

SF lived with her sisters in Duke Street, Westminster.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xxxix
Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne, 1996.
xi

Elizabeth Hervey, 1748 - 1820: : About 1748

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About 1748

Elizabeth Marsh (the future Elizabeth Hervey) was born, the only child of her parents. (She later had a half-brother, who became a celebrity.)
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.

1748: William Cullen, a scientist at the University...

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1748

William Cullen , a scientist at the University of Glasgow , discovered artificial refrigeration by evaporating ethyl ether into a partial vacuum.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The old DNB mentions an essay published in 1755 by Cullen entitled An...

1748: Dr John Profily published An Easy and Exact...

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1748

Dr John Profily published An Easy and Exact Method of Curing the Venereal Disease.
Stewart, Mary Margaret. “’And Blights with Plagues the Marriage Hearse’: Syphilis and Wives”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 103-13.
104
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.

1748-51: Adam Smith delivered lectures on rhetoric...

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1748-51

Adam Smith delivered lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres at Edinburgh University : the first significant university programme devoted to the analysis of English literary discourse.
Hawkes, Terence. “Dr Blair, the Leavis of the North”. London Review of Books, 18 Feb. 1999, pp. 23-4.
24
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
89-91, 144

Catherine Phillips: 10 February 1748

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10 February 1748

Catherine Payton (later CP ) prayed, in our little meeting at Dudley, that she might become a Quaker minister.
Phillips, Catherine. Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips. James Phillips and Son, 1797.
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March 1748: The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder were...

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March 1748

The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder were published by subscription.
Reid, Hugh. “’Those beck’ning ghost(s)’: The Subscribers to Thomas Warton’s Poems(1748)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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, Sept.–Dec. 1999, pp. 277-94.
277-8, 283-4

Laetitia Pilkington: Probably by 3 March 1748

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Probably by 3 March 1748

LP 's Memoirs, volume one, was in print at Dublin.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
2: 749

18 March 1748: Robert Dodsley first offered for sale his...

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18 March 1748

Robert Dodsley first offered for sale his influential Collection of Poems by Several Hands.
Suarez, Michael F., and Robert Dodsley, editors. “The Formation, Transmission, and Reception of Robert Dodsleys Collection of Poems by Several HandsA Collection of Poems by Several Hands, Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997, pp. 1-118.
6, 14, 25ff, 47, 67

Catherine Talbot: Spring 1748

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Spring 1748

CT composed a poem To the Memory of Mrs. Secker, who had just died, as to a second mother.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
214

Mary Leapor: April 1748

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April 1748

The subscribers received copies of the first volume of ML 's Poems upon Several Occasions, posthumously published for the benefit of her father.
Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press, 1993.
25, 225

11 April 1748: A woman named Sarah Bryan, having been excommunicated...

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11 April 1748

A woman named Sarah Bryan, having been excommunicated two years earlier by the Independent Church in Lime Street, London, for being unmarried and pregnant, petitioned for readmission.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
92, 253n64

Eliza Haywood: 26 April 1748

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26 April 1748

As the Author of The Fortunate Foundlings, EH published her allegorical Life's Progress Through the Passions; or, The Adventures of Natura.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
499-501
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
190

Laetitia Pilkington: 27 April 1748

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27 April 1748

LP 's comedy The Turkish Court; or, The London 'Prentice was performed at Capel Street , Dublin.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
2: 652

Samuel Richardson: 28 April 1748

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28 April 1748

Richardson published volumes three and four of Clarissa.
Smith, Sarah W. R. Samuel Richardson: A Reference Guide. G. K. Hall, 1984.
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Jane Collier: Before May 1748

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Before May 1748

JC 's dating of a six-line poetic lament for the death of Damon (the earliest item in her commonplace-book as transcribed by her sister Margaret ) suggests that she may possibly have lost an actual, unidentified lover.
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755.
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Jane Collier: May 1748

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May 1748

JC dated the first entry in the commonplace-book which her sister Margaret transcribed after her death.
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755.
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May 1748: Only a few months before his death, James...

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May 1748

Only a few months before his death, James Thomson published The Castle of Indolence, an allegorical poem in Spenserian stanzas, which had been about fifteen years in the making.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna Williams : 23 May 1748

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23 May 1748

AW was officially evicted from the lodgings where she was living with her father at the Charterhouse in London, whose rules forbade residence by women.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Anna and Zachariah Williams

Laetitia Pilkington: By 22 June 1748

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By 22 June 1748

The first London edition of LP 's Memoirs was published, following the Dublin edition by about three months.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
2: 751-2

Mary Jones: July 1748

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July 1748

MJ 's elegy Epistle to the Right Honourable Lady Aubrey Beauclerk, in memory of her Lord (who was slain on board the Prince Frederick Man of War at Carthagena, March 1741), was reprinted in the...

July 1748: William Cadogan anonymously published his...

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July 1748

William Cadogan anonymously published his Essay upon Nursing, and the Management of Children, from their Birth to Three Years of Age.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Probably 10 July 1748: Dorothea, Lady Bradshaigh, wrote her first...

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Probably 10 July 1748

Dorothea, Lady Bradshaigh , wrote her first letter to Samuel Richardson , signing herself Belfour.
Fulton, Gordon D., and Janine Barchas, editors. The Annotations in Lady Bradshaigh’s Copy of Clarissa. University of Victoria, 1998.
37n11, 103, 104

Mary Peisley: Probably 27 July 1748

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Probably 27 July 1748

MP set out from Mountmelick in Ireland with Elizabeth Hutchinson on a preaching journey to England.
The practice of both Peisley and Samuel Neale in numbering the months seems to correspond to modern practice...

Sarah Scott: August 1748

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August 1748

Sarah Robinson (later SS ) moved into Lady Barbara Montagu 's house in Trim Street in Bath.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xiii