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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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9 May 1755: David Mallet's masque Britannia, with music...

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9 May 1755

David Mallet 's masque Britannia, with music by Thomas Arne , had its first performance.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 435-6, 486

Elizabeth Ashbridge: 16 May 1755

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16 May 1755

EA died on her Quaker missionary journey around Ireland, at a Friend's house in County Carlow.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904.
83-4

By 22 May 1755: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited...

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By 22 May 1755

George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited and published an anthology entitled Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
12: 512
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
210
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
86-7
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
286-7

Jane Collier: 24 May 1755

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24 May 1755

A couple of months after JC died, her sister Margaret began transcribing her commonplace-book, intending it as a gift of friendship, after her own death, to a mutual friend, Susan Carr .
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755.
front cover recto and verso

6 June 1755: Vice-Admiral Boscawen attacked a French fleet...

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6 June 1755

Vice-Admiral Boscawen attacked a French fleet off the Grand Banks near Newfoundland, though war between Britain and France was not yet declared.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
27

Frances Brooke: June-October 1755

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Author event in Frances Brooke

June-October 1755

Edward Moore 's periodical The World printed a number of highly feminist essays which might just plausibly have been written by FB .
The World. R. and J. Dodsley.

Mary Barber: By 14 June 1755

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By 14 June 1755

MB died in Dublin: the Dublin Journal reported her death on this date.
Her death-date has often been given as 1757.
Elias, A. C., Jr. “Editing Minor Writers: The Case of Laetitia Pilkington and Mary Barber”. 1659-1850 Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol.
3
, 1997, pp. 129-47.
145

By July 1755: Thomas Amory published Memoirs of the Lives...

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By July 1755

Thomas Amory published Memoirs of the Lives of Several Ladies of Great Britain (an odd, ragbag work which is not, however, history or biography, but is generally classed as a novel).
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
13 (1755): 131

Elizabeth Carter: 3 July 1755

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3 July 1755

Edward Moore 's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC as principal of an Oxford or Cambridge college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone .
The World. R. and J. Dodsley.
131: 790

Anna Williams : 12 July 1755

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12 July 1755

AW 's father Zachary or Zachariah , died. Johnson 's obituary for the newspapers said he was aged eighty-two and had been ill this time for eight months.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
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25 July 1755: The Acadians (French-speaking settlers) were...

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25 July 1755

The Acadians (French-speaking settlers) were expelled from Nova Scotia; dispossessed, they travelled south.
Story, Norah. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Oxford University Press, 1967.
6

Clara Reeve: After mid-September 1755

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After mid-September 1755

CR , with her mother and two of her sisters, moved to Colchester in Essex, following her father's death.
Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977.
xii

8 October 1755: The expulsion began of about 14,000 French...

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8 October 1755

The expulsion began of about 14,000 French settlers from Acadia, an area covering what is now part of the Canadian Maritime provinces and also some of New England.

November 1755: Carolina Williams gave money for the London...

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November 1755

Carolina Williams gave money for the LondonLock Hospital (for sexually transmitted diseases) to set up a special ward for married women.
Merians, Linda E. “The London Lock Hospital and the Lock Asylum for Women”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 128-45.
134

1 November 1755: A major earthquake at Lisbon in Portugal...

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1 November 1755

A major earthquake at Lisbon in Portugal killed more than 10,000 people (estimates vary), provoking theological debate between Rousseau and Voltaire about the nature of evil.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. Mary; and, The Wrongs of Woman. Editor Kelly, Gary, World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1980.
28, 211
Mantel, Hilary. “The Real Price of Everything”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2007, pp. 3-6.
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King, Kathryn R. “The Young Lady, the Old Maid, and the Lisbon Earthquake”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, 19 Oct. 2017.
The heroine of Wollstonecraft 's first...

David Garrick: 8-18 November 1755

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8-18 November 1755

David Garrick 's grand entertainment The Chinese Festival played to near riots at Drury Lane Theatre .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 493, 505-9

Charlotte Lennox: 8 November 1755

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8 November 1755

CL published a complete version of Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, which she had already translated in part four years before.
Dalziel, Margaret, and Duncan Isles, editors. “Introduction, Chronology, and Appendix”. The Female Quixote, Oxford University Press, 1970.
xxii

Frances Brooke: 15 November 1755-4 July 1756

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15 November 1755-4 July 1756

FB was probably already married when, writing as Mary Singleton, Spinster, she launched a periodical, The Old Maid, written by herself.
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix.
179

Sarah Fielding: After 29 November 1755

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After 29 November 1755

SF declined an invitation to work as a governess to the young daughter of Anne Dewes (sister of Mary Delany ).
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
99-100

By the end of 1755: Material from Bonnell Thornton's and George...

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By the end of 1755

Material from Bonnell Thornton 's and George Colman 's prestigious anthology, Poems by Eminent Ladies, was recycled for a different market in A Select Collection of the Love Letters of several Eminent Persons, edited by G. Gaylove.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
284-5

Eliza Haywood: 9 December 1755

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9 December 1755

EH published a conduct book entitled The Wife, dated 1756, as by Mira.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
595-7
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.
xlii
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
199

Charlotte Charke: 1756

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Author event in Charlotte Charke

1756

CC received ten guineas for her epistolary novelThe History of Henry Dumont and Miss Charlotte Evelyn, published the previous year.
Ashley, Leonard R. N., and Charlotte Charke. “Introduction”. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1969, p. vii - xxiv.
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Mary Davys: 1756

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1756

MD 's Accomplish'd Rake was reprinted by Francis Noble , circulating-library owner, a specialist in popular fiction and in reprints.
Other names appeared in the imprint along with Noble's. This time exactly the copyright period...

Eliza Fay: 1756

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1756

EF was born as a Miss C. She had two sisters.
Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, 1925, pp. 7-24.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Ann Fisher : 1756

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1756

AF followed her highly successful grammar with an educational anthology of poems and extracts, The Pleasing Instructor or Entertaining Moralist, published this year at Newcastle, London, and York, again anonymously.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.