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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 Scott: May 1754

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May 1754

Two years after leaving her husband, SS moved with Lady Barbara Montagu to a farmhouse at Batheaston near Bath, to practise their ideal of community and benevolence.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
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By May 1754: John Duncombe published The Feminiad. A Poem,...

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By May 1754

John Duncombe published The Feminiad. A Poem, which celebrates the achievements of women writers with strict attention to their support for conventional morality.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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Probably by May 1754: A 57-page, satirical, duodecimo pamphlet...

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Probably by May 1754

A 57-page, satirical, duodecimo pamphlet was published in London, entitled The Female Parliament; it was probably suggested by the new parliament called for the end of this month.
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John, 1920 - Brooke, editors. The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964.
1: 535

Mary Peisley: 4 May 1754

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4 May 1754

While on her missionary trip to America, MP wrote, jointly with Catherine Phillips and several others, an epistle addressed to a meeting of Friends : To the Yearly Meeting to be held at Curles for...

Hannah Glasse: 27 May 1754

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27 May 1754

A docquet of bankruptcy was granted againstHG for debts of over £10,000; the stock of her shop was, however, safe from being auctioned off, since it was held in her daughter's name.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

28 May 1754: Seeds were sown for the Seven Years' War...

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28 May 1754

Seeds were sown for the Seven Years' War when a small force of Americans (both British and native) allegedly made an unprovoked attack on a conciliatory French force on the banks of the Ohio River.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Sarah Fielding: June 1754-April 1768

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June 1754-April 1768

SF lived in the Bath area, for much of the time at Bathwick.
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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Laetitia Pilkington: June 1754

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June 1754

LP 's Memoirs, volume three, was posthumously published by her son John Carteret Pilkington , in London.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
2: 757

Henry Fielding: 26 June 1754

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26 June 1754

HF set out for Lisbon in Portugal in the hope that a warmer climate might repair his shattered health.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
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29 June 1754: In Cabinet the Duke of Newcastle for the...

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29 June 1754

In Cabinet the Duke of Newcastle for the first time enunciated the imperial idea as regards North America and the French presence there.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Mary Jones: July-August 1754

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July-August 1754

Samuel Johnson , visiting Oxford, boasted to MJ of the closeness of his friendship with Charlotte Lennox ; a few months later Jones wrote to Lennox, to say she would be visiting London soon.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, No. 1, Jan. 1971, pp. 36-60.
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Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 7 July 1754

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7 July 1754

Frances Seymour (formerly Countess of Hertford , now dowager Duchess of Somerset) died.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

9 July 1754: General Braddock had a force wiped out at...

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9 July 1754

General Braddock had a force wiped out at the Monongahela River in America by Indians who had been hidden in the trees.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Anna Williams : 24 September 1754

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24 September 1754

Johnson wrote to Samuel Richardson to enlist his support for AW in her plan to compile a dictionary of philosophical, that is scientific, terms.
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
1: 79-80

Grace Elliott: Probably later 1754

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Probably later 1754

Grissel Dalrymple (later GE ) was born in Edinburgh, supposedly at her grandparents' house, the youngest of four in her family.
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.
Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books, 2016.
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By October 1754: Thomas Birch published his Memoirs of the...

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By October 1754

Thomas Birch published his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
11 (1754): 241

Henry Fielding: 8 October 1754

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8 October 1754

HF , playwright, novelist, and lawyer, died at Junquiera near Lisbon in Portugal, where he had gone in a vain attempt to re-establish his health.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
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Frances Jacson: 13 October 1754

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13 October 1754

FJ was born in the rectory at Bebington in Cheshire, the third of five children in her family who lived to grow up.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1997, pp. 81-97.
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Hannah Glasse: 29 October 1754

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29 October 1754

The copyright of HG 's cookery book, which she had retained at publication, was bought by a publishers' conger or temporary conglomerate headed by Andrew Miller .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Frances Sheridan: November 1754

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November 1754

Having grown up, married, and borne five children in Dublin, FS moved to join her husband in London, where they lived in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
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By November 1754: David Hume published at Edinburgh the first...

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By November 1754

David Hume published at Edinburgh the first volume of his History of Great Britain (called in most later editions The History of England).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2 (1756): 385-404
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
24 (1754): 533; 29 (1759): 133
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By November 1754: John Shebbeare anonymously published The...

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John Shebbeare anonymously published The Marriage-act. A Novel, in which a whole range of marital and broader calamities are laid at the door of Hardwicke 's recent Marriage Act.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
12: 478

Eliza Haywood: 12 November 1754

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12 November 1754

EH returned to scandal fiction with The Invisible Spy, dated 1755 and written as Exploralibus (later spelled more correctly Explorabilis).
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
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Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii.
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Charlotte Lennox: 13 November 1754

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13 November 1754

A Mrs Lennox who may have been CL acted at Smock Alley Theatre , Dublin.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.

Mercy Otis Warren: 14 November 1754

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14 November 1754

Mercy Otis married James Warren , a gentleman farmer who had been at Harvard with her brother James, and who, in due course, became a patriot and a politician.
Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929–2026, 1-20.
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
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