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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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Sarah Savage: 27 February 1752

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27 February 1752

SS died suddenly, aged eighty-seven, at her home in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, where she was buried.
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829.
139
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Lennox: 13 March 1752

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13 March 1752

CL anonymously published her best-known novel, The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella.
Dalziel, Margaret, and Duncan Isles, editors. “Introduction, Chronology, and Appendix”. The Female Quixote, Oxford University Press, 1970.
xxi

Elizabeth Justice : 15 March 1752

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15 March 1752

EJ died only the year after her fictionalised autobiography had appeared.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
21 (March 1752): 144

Charlotte Lennox: 24 March 1752

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24 March 1752

CL 's The Female Quixote was crucially reviewed by Henry Fielding in his Covent Garden Journal.
Fielding, Henry. The Covent-Garden Journal. Editor Jensen, Gerard Edward, Vol.
2 vols.
, Russell and Russell, 1964.
2: 279-82

Sarah Scott: April 1752

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April 1752

SS 's marriage ended abruptly when her father and brothers removed her from her marital home.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xv

Sarah Scott: Probably later 1752

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Probably later 1752

SS formed a friendship with Sarah Fielding at Bath.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xvii

6 April 1752: The Dutch arrived at the Cape of Good Hope...

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6 April 1752

The Dutch arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and began settlement there.
Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott. The Cape of Good Hope 1652-1833. J. L. Van Schaik, 1956.
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May 1752: The Gentleman's Magazine printed a recuperative...

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May 1752

The Gentleman's Magazine printed a recuperative Memoirs of Mrs Ellen Gwynn: it praises talent, excuses sexual licence, and suggests that only circumstances prevented her from being virtuous.
Turley, Hans. “‘A Masculine Turn of Mind’: Charlotte Charke and the Periodical Press”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 180-99.
184-5

Jane Cave: 24 May 1752

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24 May 1752

JC was baptised at Gillingham in Dorset—although her father was at enmity with the vicar there, who had on 15th March preached a rattling sermon against the Methodists, and thus against John Cave ...

Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson: By June 1752

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By June 1752

Elizabeth Graeme (later Fergusson), still in her teens, was writing poems in a commonplace-book which is now in the library of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

By June 1752: Christopher Smart published his first collection,...

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By June 1752

Christopher Smart published his first collection, Poems on Several Occasions.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
22 (1752): 291

Frances Burney: 13 June 1752

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13 June 1752

FB was born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, into the middle of a large family.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
7

Charlotte Lennox: 2 July 1752

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2 July 1752

A second edition of CL 's The Female Quixote was called for, less than four months after the first.
Dalziel, Margaret, and Duncan Isles, editors. “Introduction, Chronology, and Appendix”. The Female Quixote, Oxford University Press, 1970.
xxi

Charlotte Lennox: 11 July 1752

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11 July 1752

An anonymous translation from Voltaire , The Age of Lewis XIV, published by Dodsley , has been thought to be by CL ; her biographer Susan Carlile denies this.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
326
Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
156n69

12 August 1752: Justice John Fielding defined the crime of...

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12 August 1752

Justice John Fielding defined the crime of apprentices caught putting on an unlicensed play as mere unlawful assembly; they got off with a reprimand.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 257, 315

September 1752: The Monthly Review reported that London publishers...

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September 1752

The Monthly Review reported that London publishers had been terrified with the fear of a prosecution from printing Abraham Payba 's case against two Members of Parliament.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
7: 232

2 September 1752: Falling into line with the rest of Europe,...

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2 September 1752

Falling into line with the rest of Europe, Britain changed from the Julian calendar (developed by the Romans) to the Gregorian calendar, which corrected its accumulated slippage backwards from astronomical time; the next day...

15 September 1752: A great hurricane in South Carolina was taken...

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15 September 1752

A great hurricane in South Carolina was taken as divine warning by Sophia Hume in Epistle to the Inhabitants of South Carolina, 1754.
McCrady, Edward. The History of South Carolina Under Royal Government 1719-1776. Russell and Russell, 1969.
277

Ann Eliza Bleecker: October 1752

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October 1752

Ann Eliza Schuyler (later AEB ) was born in New York, the youngest child in her family.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.

Elizabeth Carter: After 15 October 1752

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After 15 October 1752

EC entered into a local theological controversy being played out at Deal in Kent, by anonymously publishing the polemic Remarks on the Athanasian Creed.
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.

Frances Reynolds : Later 1752

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Later 1752

FR 's style of living changed radically when she left Devon to live with her elder brother Joshua in St Martin's Lane, London.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press, 2000.
13
Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press, 1996.
71

Catherine Talbot: November 1752

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November 1752

CT met the widowed Duchess of Somerset (better known by her former title of Lady Hertford ), who had been a patron of Elizabeth (Singer) Rowe , and was herself an amateur writer.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
215

Mary Masters: November 1752

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November 1752

The Gentleman's Magazine called attention to MM 's second poetry volume with A Thought at First Waking, from Mrs. Masters's Poems, now in the Press.
qtd. in
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
22 (1752): 528

7 November 1752-9 March 1754: The self-educated John Hawkesworth edited...

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7 November 1752-9 March 1754

The self-educated John Hawkesworth edited and published an essay-periodical called the Adventurer, on the model of Johnson 's Rambler.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Thomas Chatterton: 20 November 1752

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20 November 1752

TC , poet and forger, was born, between 6 and 7 p.m., in Bristol.
Nevill, John Cranstoun. Thomas Chatterton. F. Muller, 1948.
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