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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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Catharine Trotter: By April 1750

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By April 1750

The year after the death of Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT ), a work of theological and cosmological speculation by her husband was posthumously published.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
2 (1750): 497ff

4 April 1750: Londoners panicked (those with transport...

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4 April 1750

Londoners panicked (those with transport fled to the country) after earthquakes on 8 February and 8 March: a third and more destructive one was widely predicted for April the 8th.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
87
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
20 (1750): 89, 137, 184

Teresia Constantia Phillips: By 5 April 1750

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By 5 April 1750

TCP almost certainly published, though once again with some obfuscation over her authorship, A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
2 (1750): 447

Sarah Scott: 19 April 1750

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19 April 1750

The publisher Andrew Millar released the first, anonymous novel by Sarah Robinson (later SS ): The History of Cornelia.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xliii

Hester Mulso Chapone: 21 April 1750

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21 April 1750

Hester Mulso (later HMC ) contributed four brief letters from imaginary, high-society correspondents to the tenth number of Samuel Johnson 's Rambler.
Johnson, Samuel. The Rambler. Editors Bate, Walter Jackson and Albrecht B. Strauss, Yale, Yale University Press, 1969, 3 vols.
1: 51-4

Joanna Southcott: 25 April 1750

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25 April 1750

JS was born at Tarford near Ottery St Mary, though shortly after her birth her family moved to Gittisham in Devon, where she lived until she set out for Exeter and then London...

Catherine Talbot: Spring 1750

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Spring 1750

CT , with Archbishop Secker and the usual family party, visited Canterbury, Dover, and Deal, where they stayed with Elizabeth Carter .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
74

Sophia Lee: Shortly before 13 May 1750

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Shortly before 13 May 1750

SL was born in London to parents who were both on the stage.
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.

Catherine Talbot: June 1750

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June 1750

CT 's Letter to a New-born Child appeared in The Universal Magazine as by Miss T—; from there it was picked up for further publications.
Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
147-8

Catherine Talbot: 30 June 1750

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30 June 1750

CT contributed to number 30 of Samuel Johnson 's The Rambler, a letter from Sunday.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
214
Fairer, David. “Authorship Problems in The AdventurerReview of English Studies, Vol.
n.s. 25
, No. 98, 1974, pp. 137-51.
143

Sarah Fielding: 5 July 1750-January 1751

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5 July 1750-January 1751

During these seven months SF 's sisters, Catharine, Ursula, and Beatrice, died in rapid succession.
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.
xii

Laetitia Pilkington: 29 July 1750

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29 July 1750

LP died in Dublin: as a result, said her son Jack , of chronic digestive problems and a heavy cough. She probably had ulcers
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
2: 740
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Carter: 18 August 1750

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18 August 1750

EC made her first contribution to Samuel Johnson 's first essay series, The Rambler.
Johnson, Samuel. The Rambler. Editors Bate, Walter Jackson and Albrecht B. Strauss, Yale, Yale University Press, 1969, 3 vols.
1: 237ff

Sarah Chapone: September 1750

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September 1750

Remarks on Mrs. Muilman's Letter to the . . . Earl of Chesterfield, by a Lady, appeared, addressing the courtesan memoirist T. C. Phillips and now known to be by SC .
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.
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(September 1750): 432

Anna Williams : September 1750

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September 1750

The Gentleman's Magazine published proposals, written for AW by Samuel Johnson , for a miscellany or collection of poems and essays which would include her own work along with some pieces by other people.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
11-12, 16-17, 121

16 October 1750-April 1753: Christopher Smart and John Newbery, under...

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16 October 1750-April 1753

Christopher Smart and John Newbery , under the persona of Mary Midnight, issued a periodical entitled The Midwife; or, Old Woman's Magazine; they acknowledge the influence of Delarivier Manley .
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
43
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
249n56, 250

By November 1750: Robert Dodsley issued his successful work...

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By November 1750

Robert Dodsley issued his successful work of homespun philosophy, The Oeconomy of Human Life, whose title-page announced it as translated from an Indian manuscript.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
4: 64

17 November 1750: Westminster Bridge was opened: only the second...

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17 November 1750

Westminster Bridge was opened: only the second bridge over the Thames in London.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
20 (1750): 523

Priscilla Wakefield: 20 November 1750

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20 November 1750

Priscilla Bell (later PW ) was born at Tottenham in Middlesex, then just outside London. She was the eldest in a family of six.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Anne Barnard: 8 December 1750

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8 December 1750

Lady Anne Lindsay (later LAB ) was born at Balcarres in Fife, Scotland, the eldest of eleven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Lennox: By 13 December 1750

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By 13 December 1750

CL published her first novel, The Life of Harriot Stuart, written by herself; the title-page said 1751.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
326

Jane Warton: Late 1750

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Late 1750

JW fell extremely ill wth [sic] a Feaver partly on her Brain, which left her in some way crippled.
The Gentleman's Magazine obituary at her death said she was deprived of the use of her...

Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: 17 December 1750

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17 December 1750

Elizabeth Berkeley, who later wrote as Lady Craven and then as Margravine of Anspach , was born in Spring Gardens in London, the youngest but one of her parents' eight children, of whom four...

Sophia Hume: Shortly before Christmas, perhaps 1750

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Shortly before Christmas, perhaps 1750

SH published a signed broadside, A Word of Advice and Warning to Handicrafts-men, Labourers, Carmen, Coachmen, Chairmen, &c.
The British Library assigns this tentative date to its copy of this broadside, the only known copy...

Henrietta Battier: About 1751

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About 1751

Henrietta Fleming (later HB ) was born in County Meath.
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.
Carpenter, Andrew, editor. Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Cork University Press, 1998.
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