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Events Timeline
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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Teresia Constantia Phillips: By August 1748-1749
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Author event in Teresia Constantia Phillips
By August 1748-1749
An Apology for the Conduct of was published by instalments.
The English Short Title Catalogue remarks on the difficulty of distinguishing the first from the second edition of a work which...
Teresia Constantia Phillips: Later 1748
Women writers item
Author event in Teresia Constantia Phillips
Later 1748
Early among printed comment on
's Apology was An Oxford Scholar with The Parallel; or,
and Phillips Compared. Being remarks upon the memoirs of those two celebrated writers.
Mary Savage: 6 August 1748
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Savage
6 August 1748
was married in St Paul's Cathedral to
, a successful musician: an organist, a bass singer, and from this year Master of the Choristers at St Paul's .
22 August 1748: The nuns of the Bar Convent at York were...
22 August 1748
The nuns of the
at York were issued with notice to quit by this date, in conformity with the anti-Catholic penal laws, by York cathedral cleric Dr
.
Before September 1748: Tobias Smollett published his first novel,...
Writing climate item
Before September 1748
published his first novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random.
Charlotte Lennox: 3 September 1748
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Lennox
3 September 1748
saw
on stage at Richmond, and thought her performance deplorable.
Mary Collyer: 14 September 1748
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Collyer
14 September 1748
bore the third of her eight children, the son named
after her husband, who later became a successful artist and engraver.
Jane Collier: 4 October 1748
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Collier
4 October 1748
wrote to
to explain why he ought not to make a change he wished to in
's The Governess.
7 October 1748: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the War...
National or international item
7 October 1748
The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the War of the Austrian Succession, known in North America as King George's War.
Jane Collier: October 1748-April 1749
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Collier
October 1748-April 1749
was living with her brother
and her mother in lodgings in Doctors' Commons, London.
Eliza Haywood: 15 November 1748
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Haywood
15 November 1748
began publishing Epistles for the Ladies, a didactic, serial letter-writing manual with unadvertised socio-political content, which she described as a sequel to The Female Spectator.
21 November 1748: John Cleland published the first volume of...
Writing climate item
21 November 1748
published the first volume of his soft-porn novel Fanny Hill.
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 2 December 1748
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
2 December 1748
, and her
became Duchess and Duke of Somerset on the death of the latter's
.
Samuel Richardson: 6 December 1748
Writing climate item
Author event in Samuel Richardson
6 December 1748
published the final three volumes of his massive novel Clarissa.
Laetitia Pilkington: By 17 December 1748
Women writers item
Author event in Laetitia Pilkington
By 17 December 1748
The subscription edition of
's Memoirs, volume two, was in print at Dublin, a year after the first advertisement for it.
Elizabeth Carter: January-March 1749
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Carter
January-March 1749
was courted by
, the tutor and preacher who was suspected of having had an affair with
.
Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : 1748 or 1749
Women writers item
Author event in Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny
1748 or 1749
Mary Clarke, later
, was born, an only daughter.
Hester Mulso Chapone: About 1749
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Ann Cook: 1749
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Cook
1749
Finding themselves the targets of a whispering campaign,
and her husband moved from Morpeth to Newcastle upon Tyne, where they planned to go into business as pastry-cooks.
Anna Williams : 1749
Writing climate item
Author event in Anna Williams
1749
When
published A True Narrative of Certain Circumstances relating to Z. W. . . . in Sutton's royal hospital, the , he included in the text some letters of
's.
Catherine Phillips: 1749
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Phillips
1749
met
at Swansea and was attracted to him; he proposed, but she refused him, out of that superior love, which bound me to the service appointed me.
Martha Hale: 1749
Women writers item
Author event in Martha Hale
1749
wrote the earliest-dated poem in her collection, an ode addressed to
, apparently seeking military preferment for the
she married the following year.
Mary Masters: 1749-1752
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Masters
1749-1752
was living in Norwich, in a house that was Part of the Deanery and formerly a Monastry [sic].
Charlotte McCarthy: 1749
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte McCarthy
1749
was selling theatre tickets in Twickenham and Richmond, both just outside London, as a means of supporting herself.
1749: Elizabeth Moxon published at Leeds her manual...
Women writers item
1749
published at Leeds her manual on cooking, entertaining, and running a household: English Housewifery. It went through fourteen editions by the end of the century, almost all published at Leeds.