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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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Hannah Brand: 19 November 1754

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19 November 1754

HB was born in Norwich, the youngest of her family; she was christened six days later at St Peter Mancroft in Norwich.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Charlotte Charke: By December 1754

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By December 1754

CC was back in London, proposing to live partly by writing.
Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber, 1988.
217
Charke, Charlotte, and Leonard R. N. Ashley. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke. Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1969.
176

Sarah Trimmer: 1755

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1755

The family of Sarah Kirby (later ST ) moved to London, where her father taught the future George III .
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Charlotte Smith: 1755-1757

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1755-1757

CS was sent to school in Chichester by her aunt.
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
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Maria Elizabetha Jacson: 1755

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1755

MEJ was born, probably at Bebington in Cheshire, youngest but one in a family of five surviving children (out of eight).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Percy, Joan. “Maria Elizabeth Jacson and her ’Florist’s Manual’”. Garden History, Vol.
20
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1992, pp. 45-56.
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Mary Masters: 1755-1757

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1755-1757

MM lived in the household of the rector, Samuel Pegge , at Whittington near Chesterfield in Derbyshire.
Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press.
10th ser. 3 (1905): 405

1755: Francis Hutcheson's A System of Moral Philosophy...

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1755

Francis Hutcheson 's A System of Moral Philosophy appeared posthumously (expanded from A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, 1747, and its Latin version, 1745). As well as presenting God as benevolent and the passions...

1755: In France a pocket dictionary of the latest...

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1755

In France a pocket dictionary of the latest fashionable terms was advertised for sale: it covered costume, furnishing, and dining.
Hellman, Mimi. “Furniture, Sociability, and the Work of Leisure in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 415-45.
422

1755: Wealthy West Indian proprietor William Beckford...

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1755

Wealthy West Indian proprietor William Beckford (father of the author of the same name) launched The Monitor, the first newspaper to appeal explicitly to London freeholders, that is the well-to-do urban middle class.
Hudson, Nicholas. “Discourse of Transition: Johnson, the 1750s, and the Rise of the Middle Class”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, 2002, pp. 31-51.
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1755: Maurice-Quentin De La Tour painted Madame...

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1755

Maurice-Quentin De La Tour painted Madame de Pompadour (the Frenchking 's mistress, and a power in the land) sitting at a large (though extremely elegant) desk surrounded by learned folio volumes.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
231-4

Elizabeth Carter: 11 January 1755

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11 January 1755

EC declared that she had finished translating Epictetus (not merely his Enchiridion but his complete works)—though she needed still to write a biography of him and an essay on Stoic philosophy.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
165

Hannah Glasse: 11 January 1755

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11 January 1755

HG was discharged from her recent state of bankruptcy.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Carter: February 1755

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February 1755

Catherine Talbot suggested to EC that she might offer Robert Dodsley some poems, anonymously, for inclusion in the forthcoming fourth volume of his very popular Collection of Poems.
Carter, Elizabeth, and Catherine Talbot. A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1809, 4 vols.
2: 200-1

Oliver Goldsmith: February 1755

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February 1755

OG set out on a kind of poor man's grand tour of Europe: a year spent travelling on foot around Europe: France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

February 1755: Samuel Richardson read the alternative ending...

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February 1755

Samuel Richardson read the alternative ending to his novel Clarissa that Lady Echlin (sister of Lady Bradshaigh ) had been spurred to write by her revulsion at Clarissa's rape and unmerited death.
Echlin, Elizabeth, Lady. An Alternative Ending to Richardson’s Clarissa. Editor Daphinoff, Dimiter, Francke Verlag, 1982.

Samuel Johnson: 7 February 1755

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7 February 1755

SJ addressed his famous epistolary snub to Lord Chesterfield , the arbiter of fashion and literature who had promised his patronage to Johnson's forthcoming Dictionary.
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
1: 94-7

Anne Grant: 21 February 1755

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21 February 1755

Anne MacVicar (later AG ) was born in Glasgow; she remained an only child.
Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, 1972, p. ix - xxxvi.
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Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
239

Charlotte Charke: 1 March-19 April 1755

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1 March-19 April 1755

CC dated the instalments in which she wrote her Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke.
Charke, Charlotte, and Leonard R. N. Ashley. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke. Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1969.
270

March 1755: A committee of twenty-six artists produced...

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March 1755

A committee of twenty-six artists produced a plan for an Academy to improve and promote the arts.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
229-30
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
25 (1755): 127

18 March 1755: There was published at London an anthology...

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18 March 1755

There was published at London an anthology entitled The Matrimonial Preceptor: A Collection of Examples and Precepts Relating to the Married State.
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 300

Jane Collier: Shortly before 28 March 1755

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Shortly before 28 March 1755

JC died in London.
This date has remained unknown until very recently.
Bilger, Audrey, and Jane Collier. “Introduction and Chronology”. An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, Broadview, 2003, pp. 9-35.
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Mary Masters: By April 1755

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By April 1755

After long delay MM published by subscription, with her name, her second collection, Familiar Letters and Poems on Several Occasions.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
25 (1755): 190-1

Samuel Johnson: 15 April 1755

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15 April 1755

SJ published his long-awaited Dictionary of the English Language, after a number of obstacles and interruptions which scholars are still investigating.
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
1: 104n4

Charlotte Charke: From late April 1755

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From late April 1755

CC published in instalments A Narrative of her life, which she said she had begun writing about five years earlier.
This kind of serialisation, in a series of pamphlets rather than normal-sized volumes, had been...

Elizabeth Tollet: May 1755

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May 1755

ET 's nephew George Tollet published, with her name, a new, enlarged edition of her work: Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII . An Epistle.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
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