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Events Timeline
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Jane Collier: By some time in 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Collier
By some time in 1751
was living with
in Beauford Buildings, London.
Scholars differ as to whether this was early or late in the year.
By December 1751: There was published anonymously The Petition...
By December 1751
There was published anonymously The Petition of the Unborn Babes to the Censors of the
of London.
By December 1751: The first volume of Theory and Practice of...
By December 1751
The first volume of Theory and Practice of Midwifery by Scottish obstetrician
was published (written with help from
).
3 December 1751: Christopher Smart, as Mrs Mary Midnight,...
Writing climate item
3 December 1751
, as Mrs Mary Midnight, opened his vaudeville and satire act at the Castle Tavern, an act
called the lowest buffoonery in the world.
Ann Fisher : 15 December 1751
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Fisher
15 December 1751
Just after her thirty-second birthday,
married Newcastle publisher and bookseller
, who was about three or four years younger.
19 December 1751: Henry Fielding published his last novel,...
Writing climate item
19 December 1751
published his last novel, Amelia.
26 December 1751: At Nantwich, Cheshire, Sarah Davies, a destitute...
26 December 1751
At Nantwich, Cheshire, Sarah Davies, a destitute single woman with a baby, was committed to the
for an indefinite term.
Sarah Chapone: Probably 1752
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Chapone
Probably 1752
sent another theological text, An Inquiry concerning Truth, to
for his opinion. When he died in early 1753 she was concerned about getting her paper back.
Maria De Fleury: Probably 1752
Women writers item
Author event in Maria De Fleury
Probably 1752
was born about this year if her age was correctly listed in the record of her funeral. Another source, not particularly trustworthy, gives the year of her birth as 1754.
Dorothea Du Bois: 1752
Women writers item
Author event in Dorothea Du Bois
1752
married French musician
. He seems to have been a Roman Catholic when they married, but soon afterwards converted to Protestantism.
Teresia Constantia Phillips: January 1752
Women writers item
Author event in Teresia Constantia Phillips
January 1752
set out for the second time from London to Jamaica.
Elizabeth Griffith: Probably early 1752
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Griffith
Probably early 1752
, clandestinely married, pregnant, and living in an aunt's house in Dublin, sat down for the first time to write for publication and money. She produced Theodorick, King of Denmark, published that year.
Mary Masters: Mid 1750s
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Masters
Mid 1750s
was living in London, apparently as a dependent of various friends.
1752: A severe epidemic of smallpox resulted in...
1752
A severe epidemic of smallpox resulted in 3,500 deaths in London, more than seventeen per cent of all recorded deaths this year.
1752: The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against...
1752
The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against bawdy houses in the London area: all places of public entertainment (music, dancing, etc.) now had to be licensed by justices of the peace.
1752: Nestor Druid edited the first issue of The...
1752
edited the first issue of The Lady's Curiosity or Weekly Apollo, published by
at the Bible in Chancery Lane, London.
1752: Francis Coventry anonymously published The...
Writing climate item
1752
anonymously published The History of Pompey the Little; or, the life and adventures of a lap-dog, a novel à clef which satirizes Pompey's successive owners.
1752: Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender)...
National or international item
1752
(the Young Pretender) made his second top-secret visit to England, sounding out support for another potential bid for the throne.
1752: A pseudonymous M. Ludovicus argued explicitly...
1752
A pseudonymous M. Ludovicus argued explicitly that poverty drives women to prostitution, and that shelters should be provided to help them leave the trade.
1752: Thomas Longman (1730-97) completed his apprenticeship...
Writing climate item
1752
(1730-97) completed his apprenticeship and became a partner in the London publishing firm of his uncle
the elder (1699-1755).
10 January 1752: Henry Fielding reported in his Covent Garden...
10 January 1752
reported in his Covent Garden Journal (launched on 4 January) the case of a seventy-year-old woman allegedly raped by a young man with two female accomplices.
16 January-9 April 1752: Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant,...
Writing climate item
16 January-9 April 1752
Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant,
issued thirteen weekly numbers of a periodical entitled Have at You All; or, The Drury Lane Journal.
24 January 1752: Henry Fielding's Covent Garden Journal reported...
24 January 1752
's Covent Garden Journal reported the case of a sixteen-year-old girl decoyed into a brothel and kept there by force; he advocated reform of the prostitution laws which were proving the ruin of...
Martha Fowke: By February 1752
Women writers item
Author event in Martha Fowke
By February 1752
's Clio; or, A Secret History of the Life and Amours of the Late Celebrated Mrs. S—n—m was posthumously published.
By February 1752: James Harris (friend of Sarah Fielding and...
Writing climate item
By February 1752
(friend of
and
) published Hermes: or, A Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar.