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.
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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Mary Scott: 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Scott
1751
was born at Milborne Port in Somerset.
Some sources put Milborne Port in Dorset. It is close to the border; nearby Milborne St Andrew is in Dorset.
1751: There was published Beauty's Triumph: or,...
1751
There was published Beauty's Triumph: or, The Superiority of the Fair Sex Invincibly Proved.
Sarah Fielding: Perhaps early 1751 to June 1754
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Fielding
Perhaps early 1751 to June 1754
lived with
in Beauford Buildings, Westminster.
Scholars differ as to whether they settled together early or late in the year.
13 February 1751: William Hogarth advertised the imminent availability...
13 February 1751
advertised the imminent availability of his paired prints Gin Lane and Beer Street.
15 February 1751: Thomas Gray published his Elegy Written in...
Writing climate item
15 February 1751
published his Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard, to forestall unauthorized publication.
Sarah Fielding: March 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Fielding
March 1751
was sued for debt by the man who had bought the East Stour estate.
Mary Leapor: March 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Leapor
March 1751
A second volume of
's Poems upon Several Occasions was printed by
, with a new subscription list.
By March 1751: Tobias Smollett published his novel The Adventures...
Writing climate item
By March 1751
published his novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
Charlotte Lennox: 15 March 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Lennox
15 March 1751
probably published her first translation, Memoirs of Maximilien de Bethune,
, Prime Minister to Henry the Great (excerpts from the French Mémoires de Maximilien de Béthune).
This is less than...
Elizabeth Justice : May 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Justice
May 1751
's fictionalized autobiography, Amelia; or, The Distress'd Wife, was Printed for the Authoress, who called herself on the title-page A Private Gentlewoman. For the second time she published by subscription.
Judith Sargent Murray: 1 May 1751
Writing climate item
Author event in Judith Sargent Murray
1 May 1751
Judith Sargent (later
) was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the eldest of eight children, only half of whom seem to have survived.
By May 1751: James Lind published the first results of...
By May 1751
published the first results of his research into scurvy, in his Essay on the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of the Seamen in the Royal Navy.
Elizabeth Griffith: 12 May 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Griffith
12 May 1751
married
in a private ceremony, with a witness present (
) who if necessary could later testify to its legality.
Catharine Trotter: By 13 May 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Trotter
By 13 May 1751
Historian and biographer
edited
's Works posthumously in two volumes (as by Mrs. Catharine Cockburn) with his memoir of her, and published them by subscription.
Helen Craik: Probably after June 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Helen Craik
Probably after June 1751
was born at the sixteenth-century Arbigland Hall near Kirkbean in Dumfriesshire, on a low-lying blunt peninsula jutting into the Solway Firth. She was one of six legitimate children.
Sarah Scott: 15 June 1751
Women writers item
: The Gunning sisters arrived in London from...
Summer 1751
The Gunning sisters arrived in London from Ireland, and created a sensation with their beauty:
was aged around seventeen and
was a year younger.
July 1751: The first volume of L'Encyclopédie appeared:...
Writing climate item
July 1751
The first volume of L'Encyclopédie appeared: its moving spirits were
and
.
6 July 1751: Charles Wesley, arriving to speak at a Methodist...
6 July 1751
, arriving to speak at a
meeting, was met with violence and disruption beyond what he was used to encountering.
August 1751: Mary Blandy allegedly poisoned her father...
August 1751
allegedly poisoned her father at the instigation of her suitor
. The father opposed her marriage to Cranstoun, who later turned out to be married already.
By September 1751: David Hartley published A Letter to the Learned...
By September 1751
published A Letter to the Learned Dr Mead, on the different methods of exhibiting
's Medicines.
Shortly before 21 October 1751: Parish officers of Bishopsgate in London...
Shortly before 21 October 1751
Parish officers of Bishopsgate in London refused a pauper woman relief, and instead suggested she steal or whore. (Clearly, they presumed these were her trades.)
Eliza Haywood: 24 October 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Haywood
24 October 1751
proved her mastery of the new novel of social realism in The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: 30 October 1751
Writing climate item
Author event in Richard Brinsley Sheridan
30 October 1751
, son of the novelist and playwright
, and later a playwright and theatre manager himself, was born at 12 Dorset Street, Dublin.
Samuel Johnson: 2, 5 November 1751
Author event in Samuel Johnson
2, 5 November 1751
In Rambler numbers 170 and 171
, writing as a prostitute calling herself Misella, expressed indignation at those who regard such women as irreclaimable or undeserving of sympathy.