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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 Forman: 1756-1760

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1756-1760

London newspapers, first the Gazetteer and then the Public Ledger, carried a series of about 200 essays on national and international affairs by CF , under the name of Probus.
qtd. in
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.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
29

Elizabeth Tollet: 1756

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1756

Henry Dell edited and published A Select Collection of the Psalms of David, in which women's work is surprisingly prominent.
Dell, Henry, editor. A Select Collection of the Psalms of David. Henry Dell, 1756.
title-page
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
60

Teresia Constantia Phillips: 1756

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1756

TCP anonymously published in Jamaica, in the Kingston Journal, an article or letter on local colonial politics, a rousing defence of Admiral Knowles , a successful naval officer but a very unpopular governor of Jamaica.
Wilson, Kathleen. The Island Race. Routledge, 2003.
159-160

Catharine Macaulay: Probably 1756

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Probably 1756

George Macaulay (later CM 's husband) became the first obstetrician to induce labour before the due date, when the woman's pelvis was judged too small to bear a full-term child safely.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
12-13

1756: Theophilus Cibber, brother of Charlotte Charke,...

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1756

Theophilus Cibber , brother of Charlotte Charke , published Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects (also known as Two Dissertations on the Theatres), a plea against the licensed-theatre monopoly.
Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 9-62.
29

1756: The umbrella was invented by Jonas Hanwa...

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1756

The umbrella was invented by Jonas Hanway .
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
86

1756: Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont published Le...

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1756

Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont published Le Magasin des enfants, a collection containing the first influential and literary formulation of the popular fairy story Beauty and the Beast.
Zipes, Jack. “The Origins of the Fairy Tale for Children or, How Script was Used To Tame the Beast in Us”. Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. 119-34.
125-6

January 1756: The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature,...

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January 1756

The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature, a monthly, began publishing under the editorship of Tobias Smollett , ostensibly by a Society of Gentlemen.
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
35 n8
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.

January 1756: Britain broke with the Old System by allying...

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January 1756

Britain broke with the Old System by allying itself with Frederick II 's Prussia instead of Maria Theresa 's Austria (which it had supported in the War of the Austrian Succession). The stage was now...

Eliza Haywood: 6 January-17 February 1756

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6 January-17 February 1756

EH , as Euphrosine (another member of the Female Spectator team, who compensates with wisdom and learning for her lack of beauty), issued a weekly, The Young Lady; her last illness cut it short.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
601-3
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

Anna Williams : 22 January 1756

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22 January 1756

David Garrick put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW .
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
1: 124 and n3

Teresia Constantia Phillips: By February 1756

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By February 1756

Another scandalous treatment of Phillips, Thais of Corinth, to Mrs. T[eresia] C[onstantia] P[hillips] at Jamaica, was published.
This is not listed in the English Short Title Catalogue; apparently no copy has survived.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
1 (1756): 86-7

6 February 1756: A national fast day was held in Britain,...

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6 February 1756

A national fast day was held in Britain, to pray for success in the Seven Years War.
Steele, Anne. The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele. Munroe, Francis and Parker, 1808, 2 vols.
1: 226

Catherine Hutton: 11 February 1756

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11 February 1756

CH was born, prematurely. According to her father, she was perhaps the smallest human being ever seen, and at a month old she would have fitted in his pocket.
qtd. in
Constantine, Mary-Ann. “’The bounds of female reach’ Catherine Hutton’s Fiction and her Tours in Wales”. Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, issue 22, 1 Mar.–31 May 2017.
Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers, 1891.
1

Eliza Haywood: 25 February 1756

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25 February 1756

EH died at 2 Cowley Street, Westminster, of an undisclosed illness which lasted three months.
Patrick Spedding has contradicted Christine Blouch , who said that EH died in New Peter Street, Westminster.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
274
Blouch, Christine. “Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity”. Studies in English Literature, Vol.
31
, 1 June 1991–2026, pp. 535-52.
535
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
274
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.

Eliza Haywood: 26 February 1756

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26 February 1756

EH 's The Husband. In Answer to the Wife, a sequel and counterpart to her conduct book of the previous year, was her final publication. It appeared on this date, apparently the day after she died.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
604-7
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

Jane Johnson : 28 February 1756

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28 February 1756

JJ addressed to a Mrs Brompton a letter incorporating an elaborate dream-vision of herself spinning an enormous web, and sitting at its centre Arachne like, enthroned, as big as the full moon.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
177 and n121

Frances Brooke: By March 1756

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By March 1756

FB 's Virginia a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations appeared in print. David Garrick and John Rich had rejected this tragedy for the stage.
The play had been in competition with one of the...

By March 1756: Joseph Warton published An Essay on the Writings...

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By March 1756

Joseph Warton published An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
1 (1756): 226-40
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.

William Godwin: 3 March 1756

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3 March 1756

WG , novelist, political philosopher, and publisher, was born at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire.
Sherburn, George, and William Godwin. “Introduction”. Caleb Williams, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1960, p. vii - xx.
xv

Judith Cowper Madan : 4 March 1756

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4 March 1756

Martin Madan , husband of JCM , died. His health had been affected by his active service in the army, and declined steadily during the 1750s.
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.
82, 83

25 March 1756: The World described current fashions as the...

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25 March 1756

The World described current fashions as the advances the ladies have made this winter towards complete nakedness.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
129
Moore, Edward, editor. The World. R. and J. Dodsley, 4 vols.
4: 1014

April 1756: Thomas Neale published a treatise on venereal...

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April 1756

Thomas Neale published a treatise on venereal disease.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
1 (1756): 303-9
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

By 2 April 1756: Stephen Duck, the poet and former farm labourer...

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By 2 April 1756

Stephen Duck , the poet and former farm labourer who had been taken up by patrons including Queen Caroline and supplied with a living as a clergyman, drowned himself in the trout stream behind the...

Charlotte Lennox: 10 April 1756

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10 April 1756

CL , as the author of The Female Quixote and with no dedicatee, published a translated novel, The Memoirs of the Countess of Berci; the second volume conceals within itself, unnoted on the title-page...