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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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Susan Smythies: 1754

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Author event in Susan Smythies

1754

SS issued her second novel, through a different publisher, as by a Lady, and titled it The History of Lucy Wellers.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Anna Seward: 1754

Women writers item
Author event in Anna Seward

1754

Thomas Seward , AS 's father, became a canon of Lichfield, which became and remained the family's home.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Sarah Scott: From May 1754

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Author event in Sarah Scott

From May 1754

SS became part of a community of single women centred on herself and Lady Barbara Montagu , devoted to writing, good works, and study.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
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Teresia Constantia Phillips: 1754

Women writers item

1754

TCP married the first of the three husbands whom she serially acquired in Jamaica, Hugh Montgomery of Kingston, a successful Irish land-surveyor.
Wilson, Kathleen. The Island Race. Routledge, 2003.
158

Sophia Hume: 1754

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Author event in Sophia Hume

1754

SH published with her name An Epistle to the Inhabitants of South-Carolina; containing Sundry Observations proper to be considered by every Professor of Christianity in general.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Sophia Hume: Probably 1754

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Author event in Sophia Hume

Probably 1754

SH anonymously published, probably at London, a pamphlet entitled A Caution to All Such as Observe Days and Times called Festivals; the doubtful date comes from the English Short Title Catalogue.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Rachel Hunter: 1754

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Author event in Rachel Hunter

1754

RH was born in London.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1754: The architect John Wood the elder began work...

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1754

The architect John Wood the elder began work on The Circus in Bath; he died only three months later, and it was completed by his son, John Wood the younger .
Parker, Keiko. “What Part of Bath Do You Think They Will Settle In?: Jane Austens Use of Bath in PersuasionPersuasions, Vol.
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, 2001, pp. 166-76.
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By January 1754: Richard Glover's Short History of Boadicea,...

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By January 1754

Richard Glover 's Short History of Boadicea, the British Queen, was published (staged at Drury Lane late the previous year).
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
10: 78

1754: The Royal College of Physicians made public...

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1754

The Royal College of Physicians made public their official approval of inoculation for smallpox, as introduced to England by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu thirty-three years before.
Hopper, Karine. “Doctors, Ministers, and Women Novelists: The Effect of Print on the Inoculation Debate in the later Eighteenth Century”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 24 Oct. 2002.

1754: The Rev. William Dodd published his novel...

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1754

The Rev. William Dodd published his novel The Sisters; or, The History of Lucy and Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend, a morally oversimplified example of the bad-sister-damned/good-sister-saved plot.
Campbell, Ann M. “Sister Plots: The Double in English Courtship Novels”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 27 Mar. 1999.

Sarah Scott: 24 January 1754

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Author event in Sarah Scott

24 January 1754

R. and J. Dodsley issued Agreeable Ugliness by SS , a translation of La Laideur Aimable by Pierre Antoine de La Place .
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xliv

31 January 1754-30 September 1756: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton published...

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31 January 1754-30 September 1756

George Colman and Bonnell Thornton published their periodical The Connoisseur, under the pen name of Mr Town, critic and censor-general.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
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Colman, George, the elder, and Bonnell Thornton. The Connoisseur. Harrison, http://U of A Special Collections.

Elizabeth Tollet: 1 February 1754

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Author event in Elizabeth Tollet

1 February 1754

ET died at West Ham near London.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
13 (1755): 374

Catherine Talbot: By spring 1754

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Author event in Catherine Talbot

By spring 1754

CT wrote her Fairy Tale, a moralistic attempt to reform a bad child.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Sarah Fielding: 2 March 1754

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Author event in Sarah Fielding

2 March 1754

The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable, a remarkable novelistic collaboration between SF and Jane Collier , was published.
Battestin, Martin C., and Clive T. Probyn, editors. “General Introduction”. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding, Clarendon Press, 1993, p. xv - xliii.
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Frances Sheridan: 2 March 1754

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Author event in Frances Sheridan

2 March 1754

Riots and a serious fire at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin proved a final, irrecoverable financial blow to Thomas Sheridan .
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
16-17

16 March 1754: The Duke of Newcastle became Prime Minister...

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16 March 1754

The Duke of Newcastle became Prime Minister after a long career of managing the Whig party machine.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
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Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

22 March 1754: A group of Nobles, Clergy, Gentlemen, & Merchants...

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22 March 1754

A group of Nobles, Clergy, Gentlemen, & Merchants met to establish what became the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Mackay, David. In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science and Empire, 1780-1801. Croom Helm, 1985.
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Allan, D. G. C., and John L. Abbott, editors. The Virtuoso Tribe of Arts and Sciences. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
3, 16-17, 44

25 March 1754: Lord Hardwicke's Act (the Marriage Act) came...

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25 March 1754

Lord Hardwicke 's Act (the Marriage Act) came into effect in England, Wales, and Ireland; it aimed to prevent clandestine marriages by requiring either a special licence or the calling of banns...

After 25 March 1754: Following Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act,...

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After 25 March 1754

Following Lord Hardwicke 's Marriage Act, solemnization of marriages ceased at the Fleet Chapel in London (chapel of the Fleet Prison).
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Sarah Scott: 26 March 1754

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Author event in Sarah Scott

26 March 1754

SS published, through Millar and as a Person of Quality, a volume of tales A Journey Through Every Stage of Life.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xliv

By April 1754: Thomas Warton published Observations on the...

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By April 1754

Thomas Warton published Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
24 (1754): 195

April-May 1754: Women of Bristol were specifically canvassed...

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April-May 1754

Women of Bristol were specifically canvassed in print at election time.
Chalus, Elaine. “’That epidemical Madness’: women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth century”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 151-78.
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Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
1: 133
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John, 1920 - Brooke, editors. The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964.
1: 535

Sarah Fielding: About May 1754

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Author event in Sarah Fielding

About May 1754

SF sent David Garrick the draft of an unfinished play; it remains unpublished, unperformed, and lost.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
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