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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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Mary Harcourt: 1750

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1750

Mary Danby (later MH ) was born, the eldest in her family.
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.

Mary Jones: 1750

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1750

MJ published by subscription at OxfordMiscellanies in Prose and Verse: it seems possible that the unauthorised appearances of her work had first suggested to her the idea of a proper edition.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Elizabeth Montagu: By 1750

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Author event in Elizabeth Montagu

By 1750

EM began to hold salons at her house, 23 Hill Street, London: the matrix of the bluestocking group.
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.
122

Elizabeth Montagu: From 1750

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From 1750

EM is very likely the author of two articles in the Journal Britannique, signed E. M.
Janssens, Uta. Matthieu Maty and the Journal Britannique 1750-1755. Holland University Press, 1975.
77-8

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: January 1750-6 March 1753

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January 1750-6 March 1753

LMWM wrote some of her best-known letters: those to her daughter about the education of her grand-daughters.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 449-52, 3: 20-27

About 1750: The population figure for the British Isles...

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About 1750

The population figure for the British Isles in mid-century has been estimated at six million: up by a million since 1688.
Stanton, Judith Phillips. “Statistical Profile of Women Writing in English from 1660 to 1800”. Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts, edited by Frederick M. Keener and Susan E. Lorsch, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 247-54.
248

1750-4: John Newton captained a slaving ship; he...

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1750-4

John Newton captained a slaving ship; he got religion on board his ship, and became a leading founder of Evangelicalism .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1750: At Mr and Mrs Philips's boarding school for...

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1750

At Mr and Mrs Philips 's boarding school for girls in Lawrence Street, Chelsea, the curriculum included reading, writing, arithmetic, drawing, dancing, music, French, needlework, and religion.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
250

From 1750: Imported mahogany came into use for furn...

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From 1750

Imported mahogany came into use for furniture.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
403

1750: The progressive Pope Benedict XIV appointed...

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1750

The progressive Pope Benedict XIV appointed a woman, Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-99), as professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna .
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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January 1750: English roads and streets were hotbeds of...

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January 1750

English roads and streets were hotbeds of crime, said Horace Walpole , because of destitute disbanded soldiers and sailors.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
490
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
2: 423 and note

By 1750: More people in England worked in manufacture,...

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By 1750

More people in England worked in manufacture, commerce and in services than in agriculture.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
xxvii

By 1750: Scotland had five newspapers, printed in...

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By 1750

Scotland had five newspapers, printed in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen; meanwhile English newspaper sales totalled about 7.3 million.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
220
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
139

1750: Samuel Bownas published A Description of...

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1750

Samuel Bownas published A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to be a Gospel Minister; Advice to Ministers and Elders among the People Called Quakers.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

During the 1750s: A Mrs Dennis ran a school at 31 Queen's Square,...

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During the 1750s

A Mrs Dennis ran a school at 31 Queen's Square, Bloomsbury, which was called the Ladys' Eton.
Feminist Companion Archive.

1750: British female literacy rates at this time...

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1750

British female literacy rates at this time have been estimated as 40%, against a male rate of 60%.
Hunter, J. Paul. Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction. W. W. Norton, 1990.
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Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
167
J. Paul Hunter, however, reckons that 40% of people were now literate, overall.
Hunter, J. Paul. Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction. W. W. Norton, 1990.
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1750: There was published The Female Soldier; or,...

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1750

There was published The Female Soldier; or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell, who claimed to have served undetected for five years in the army, wearing men's clothes.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
101-4 and nn

Ann Gomersall: 24 January 1750

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24 January 1750

Ann Richardson (later AG ) was born, probably at Portsmouth in Hampshire, where her parents lived.
The Feminist Companion has her birthdate as 1751, but this is mistaken.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Ann Gomersall, Ann Hawkshaw, J. S. Anna Liddiard, Plumptre Sisters, Mary Ridgway Stockdale, Medora Gordon Byron. 8 Jan. 2016.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Hannah Griffitts: 2 February 1750

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2 February 1750

HG 's mother, Mary Norris Griffitts, died; Hannah subsequently marked her death anniversary each year with a poem.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.
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.

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 7 February 1750

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7 February 1750

Algernon Seymour, seventh Duke of Somerset , husband of Frances Seymour, formerly Lady Hertford , died after being intermittently crippled with gout for years.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Charlotte Lennox: 22 February 1750

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22 February 1750

CL acted Almeria in Congreve 's The Mourning Bride at the Haymarket ; the performance was a benefit night for her.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 177

Caroline Herschel : 16 March 1750

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16 March 1750

Carolina Lucretia Herschel was born at Hanover in Germany, the eighth of the ten children in her family (of whom four died young), and only the second girl among them to survive.
Lubbock, Constance A., editor. The Herschel Chronicle; The Life-story of William Herschel and his sister, Caroline Herschel. Macmillan, 1933.
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Herschel, Mary Cornwallis, editor. Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel. John Murray, 1876.
299

Elizabeth Tollet: 19 March 1750

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19 March 1750

ET made her will: a careful, twelve-page document which names over forty individuals.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
20

Samuel Johnson: 20 March 1750-14 March 1752

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Author event in Samuel Johnson

20 March 1750-14 March 1752

SJ published The Rambler, a twice-weekly series of essays, almost all written by himself.
Bate, Walter Jackson et al., editors. “Introduction”. The Rambler, Yale Edition, Yale University Press, 1969, p. xxi - xlii.
xxi

Mehetabel Wright: 21 March 1750

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21 March 1750

MW died, likely in London.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
111
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.