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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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Charlotte Smith: By May 1753

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By May 1753

Anna (Towers) Turner , mother of Charlotte (later CS ), died giving birth to a son when Charlotte was three years old.
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
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Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
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Elizabeth Ashbridge: 11 May 1753

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11 May 1753

EA undertook a temporary separation from her third husband , being called overseas (from America) to preach in Ireland.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904.
79

Charlotte Lennox: 18 May 1753

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18 May 1753

CL published the first two volumes of Shakespear Illustrated, a pioneer work in the scholarship of sources.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
326

By June 1753: Thomas Gray's Poems were published by Dodsley,...

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By June 1753

Thomas Gray 's Poems were published by Dodsley , with designs by Richard Bentley the younger.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
8: 477

By June 1753: There was published anonymously Hypatia;...

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By June 1753

There was published anonymously Hypatia ; or, the history of a most beautiful, most virtuous, most learned, and every way accomplished lady.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
8: 510

Hester Mulso Chapone: July-August 1753

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July-August 1753

Hester Mulso (later HMC ) contributed The Story of Fidelia to John Hawkesworth 's The Adventurer; it appeared as numbers 77-79, by Y.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
237
Johnson, Samuel. The Idler; and, The Adventurer. Editors Bate, Walter Jackson et al., Yale, Yale University Press, 1969.
330

July 1753: James Nelson published an Essay on the Government...

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July 1753

James Nelson published an Essay on the Government of Children.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
205-6, 287n40

Ann Yearsley: Shortly before 15 July 1753

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Shortly before 15 July 1753

AY was born at Clifton, near Bristol, a beautiful spot, later important in her poetry.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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Jane Warton: 4 August 1753

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4 August 1753

JW contributed an essay (unsigned, as was customary) to John Hawkesworth 's Adventurer: number 87.
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
, No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92.
86

September 1753: George Drummond, Provost of Edinburgh (and...

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September 1753

George Drummond , Provost of Edinburgh (and brother of the Quaker preacher and writer May Drummond ), laid the foundation stone of the new Royal Exchange there.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Drummond; May Drummond

Elizabeth Tollet: 30 September 1753

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30 September 1753

ET wrote her last dated piece of poetry.
Tollet, Elizabeth. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Clarke, 1755.
238

By October 1753: Among many pamphlets relating to the Jew...

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By October 1753

Among many pamphlets relating to the Jew Bill, one was rebuked by the Monthly Review for using the most reproachful language, a malicious and uncandid disposition can invent.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
9: 316

Elizabeth Inchbald: 15 October 1753

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15 October 1753

Elizabeth Simpson (later EI ) was born in Standingfield (now Stanningfield), near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Susan Smythies: By November 1753

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By November 1753

SS anonymously published her first novel, The Stage-Coach: Containing the Character of Mr. Manly, and the History of his Fellow-Travellers, in two volumes.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
9 (1753): 394
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.

November 1753: Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem,...

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November 1753

Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem, The Judgment of Solomon, in which two women dispute the ownership not of a baby but a gigantic phallus (with man attached).
Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49.
222-4

10 November 1753: The Ladies' Magazine, subtitled The Universal...

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10 November 1753

The Ladies' Magazine, subtitled The Universal Entertainer, ended publication in London.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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Graham, Walter. English Literary Periodicals. Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1930.
168

Samuel Richardson: November-December 1753

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November-December 1753

Richardson published the last of his three novels, Sir Charles Grandison.
Harris, Jocelyn, and Samuel Richardson. “Chronology”. Sir Charles Grandison, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. xliii - xlv.
xliv
Richardson, Samuel. “Introduction”. Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family, edited by Christine Gerrard, Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. i - xlix.
xxvii

Sarah Fielding: By 19 November 1753

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By 19 November 1753

The Cry, an extraordinary experimental novel written in collaboration between SF and Jane Collier , was completed.
Literary historians have differed in attributing The Cry, some to both authors and some to Fielding...

20 November 1753: The Royal Society conferred its gold medal...

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20 November 1753

The Royal Society conferred its gold medal on Benjamin Franklin for his experiments with electricity.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
23 (1753): 587

By December 1753: Two anonymous works were published which...

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By December 1753

Two anonymous works were published which testified to the popularity of Richard Glover 's tragedy about Boadicea .
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
9: 472
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
10: 238

Late 1753: William Hogarth published The Analysis of...

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Late 1753

William Hogarth published The Analysis of Beauty, addressed to ladies as well as gentlemen of unprejudiced judgement.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
10: 100

Ann Cook: 1754

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1754

AC was provoked by the success of Hannah Glasse 's anonymous Art of Cookery to write her own work in the same genre: Professed Cookery.
The ESTC lists only one surviving copy of the...

Olaudah Equiano: 1754

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1754

OE , a child slave of about twelve or less, reached England with his current master, Michael Henry Pascal , landing at Falmouth after a passage of thirteen weeks from the colony of Virginia.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Editor Costanzo, Angelo, Broadview, 2001.
78, 82

Charlotte Forman: 1754

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1754

CF penned the earliest that has been identified of the letters, or essays on political subjects, which she contributed to periodicals under the name of Probus.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
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Anna Williams : January 1754

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January 1754

AW 's Verses to Mr. Richardson , on his Publication of Sir Charles Grandison appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
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