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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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Teresia Constantia Phillips: About 1 June 1749

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About 1 June 1749

An anonymous epistle was published which offered, ostemsibly to TCP , comments on her Apology.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
1 (1749): 316

June 1749: Elizabeth Bennis (born Patton), a Limerick...

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June 1749

Elizabeth Bennis (born Patton), a Limerick merchant's wife in her early twenties, converted to Methodism .
Dyer, Serena. “Review”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 74, 1 Mar.–31 May 2014, pp. 37-8.

Teresia Constantia Phillips: By July 1749

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By July 1749

A gentleman of the Inner Temple published A Familiar Epistle to the celebrated Mrs. Con. Phillips , on her apology.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
1 (1749): 240

By July 1749: Charles de Montesquieu's De l'Esprit des...

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By July 1749

Charles de Montesquieu 's De l'Esprit des loix (in English On the Spirit of Laws: a key Enlightenment text) was published in London.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
1 (1749): 229
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
82

Jane Collier: July-September 1749

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July-September 1749

JC sent Richardson two commentaries on Clarissa, the first dealing with the vexed issue of pornography in the fire scene.
Keymer, Tom. “Jane Collier, Reader of Richardson, and the Fire Scene in ClarissaNew Essays on Samuel Richardson, edited by Albert J. Rivero, Macmillan; St Martins Press, 1996, pp. 141-61.
149, 151-2, 154

Teresia Constantia Phillips: By August 1749

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By August 1749

Henry Dennis of Grays Inn, calling himself an impartial gentleman, published An Answer to the anonymous authors of two familiar epistles to Mrs. Con. Philips.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
1 (1749): 316

By August 1749: Benjamin Martin published his New English...

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By August 1749

Benjamin Martin published his New English Dictionary, one of the early examples of the genre.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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Eliza Haywood: 5 August 1749

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5 August 1749

EH addressed all the Young and Gay of both Sexes in her anonymous scandal novel Dalinda; or, The Double Marriage.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
516-19
Lockwood, Thomas. “Dalinda and her Pamphlet on the Pretender”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
new series 234
, 1989, pp. 475-7.

Elizabeth Griffith: 13 October 1749

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13 October 1749

EG opened her career as an actress at Smock Alley Theatre , Dublin, as the heroine in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, playing to the middle-aged Romeo of the manager, Thomas Sheridan .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Johnson : 17 October 1749

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17 October 1749

JJ interrupted a letter of tentative moral advice to her friend Mrs Brompton, to cast her thoughts into fiction: The History of Miss Clarissa of Buckinghamshire, who is descended from Richardson 's Clarissa, but...

November 1749: The leading Quaker printer Tace Sowle (known...

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November 1749

The leading Quaker printer Tace Sowle (known as Tace Sowle Raylton since her marriage in 1706) died, a highly successful businesswoman.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
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Anne Damer: 8 November 1749

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8 November 1749

Anne Seymour Conway (later AD ) was born at the handsome Palladian house of Coomb Bank, Sundridge, Kent; she was her parents' only child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Noble, Percy. Anne Seymour Damer: A Woman of Art and Fashion, 1748-1828. Kegan Paul, 1908.
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18 November 1749: Jasper Goodwill of Oxford published, in London,...

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18 November 1749

Jasper Goodwill of Oxford published, in London, the first issue of The Ladies' Magazine, aimed at upper- and upper-middle-class women.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
29
Crane, Ronald Salmon et al. A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800. University of North Carolina Press; Cambridge University Press, 1927.
51
Ferguson, Marjorie. Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann, 1983.
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Eliza Haywood: About 21 November 1749

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About 21 November 1749

EH published A Letter from H— G— , Esq. . . . to the Young Chevalier, an anonymous pamphlet probably by her, in which a gentlemen of his bedchamber addresses Prince Charles Edward , dated 1750.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
520-6
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
189
Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii.
xlii

Laetitia Pilkington: 23 November 1749

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23 November 1749

LP 's Memoirs, volume three (still unfinished), was advertised in Dublin.
Pilkington, Laetitia. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, edited by A. C., Jr Elias, University of Georgia Press, 1997, p. xv - lxii.
xxiii

Mary Collyer: Late 1749

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Late 1749

A second edition of MC 's Felicia to Charlotte added a volume two by the author of the First Volume, in which the heroine bears a child.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Probably December 1749: Joseph Ames published Typographical Antiquities;...

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Probably December 1749

Joseph Ames published Typographical Antiquities; this established the value of old books and launched the discipline of historical bibliography.
Baines, Paul. “’Our Annius’: Antiquaries and Fraud in the Eighteenth Century”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
20
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 33-51.
41
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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Grisell Murray: 12 December 1749

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12 December 1749

GM , at Mellerstain in the Scottish Borders, began writing Facts Relating to my Mother's Life and Character, a longer, more connected, and more emotional account of her mother, Lady Grisell Baillie ...

Alethea Lewis: 19 December 1749

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19 December 1749

Alethea Brereton (later AL ) was born at Acton, near Nantwich in Cheshire.
Her place of birth is often given as Framlingham, where she grew up. The date appears clearly in the baptismal...

Anna Maria Bennett: About 1750

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About 1750

Anna Maria Evans (later AMB ) was born at Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.
Fuller, J. F. “A Curious Genealogical Medley”. Miscellanea Genealogica, 1913.
244

Henrietta Maria Bowdler: 1750

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1750

HMB was born at Covington in Huntingdonshire, into a family of six children.
The year comes from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (older sources give it as 1753); the place was submitted by...

Frances Brooke: 1750s

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1750s

Probably before her marriage, the future FB began a friendship with Richard Gifford (1725-1807), who helped her writing with comment and criticism.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
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Ann Fisher : 1750

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1750

AF 's A New Grammar: Being the Most Easy Guide to Speaking and Writing the English Language Correctly appeared anonymously at Newcastle and London in a second edition. No copy of the first, advertised in...

Eglinton Wallace: About 1750 or possibly 1754

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About 1750 or possibly 1754

Eglinton Maxwell (later EW ) was born a youngest child at Monreith in Wigtownshire, Scotland: probably, that is, at Myrton Castle (now in ruins) since the present Monreith House on the estate was built...

Martha Hale: 1750

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1750

Martha Rigby married an army officer named Bernard Hale , the son of a judge; he was later Colonel of the 20th Regiment, then Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Hospital , Chelsea.
Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
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