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Events Timeline
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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May 1756: The Literary Magazine: or, Universal Review...
Writing climate item
May 1756
The Literary Magazine: or, Universal Review (often known as the Literary Review) began publication in London;
was a contributor and, for the first four issues, the editor.
Frances Brooke: 22 May 1756
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Brooke
22 May 1756
used her periodical The Old Maid as a forum for praise of poetry by
and
.
Finch had also been celebrated in one of the essays in The World which...
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: June 1756
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
June 1756
The death of her spiritual advisor
came only three days after Mary Bosanquet (later
) had spent a whole day, a profitable time, with her.
June 1756: Britain declared war on France, following...
National or international item
June 1756
Britain declared war on France, following the fall of Minorca in the Mediterranean on 19 May. This began the Seven Years' War.
June 1756: Jonas Hanway, with the help of twenty-two...
June 1756
, with the help of twenty-two fellow-merchants, founded the
for fitting out orphan boys and unemployed men and recruiting them into the navy.
2 June 1756: The London Foundling Hospital was granted...
2 June 1756
The London
was granted £10,000 on the condition of maintaining an open admissions policy.
Innes gives the figure for the grant as thirty thousand pounds, but the Gentleman's Magazine...
Margaret Calderwood : 3 June 1756
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Calderwood
3 June 1756
, with her
, two young sons, and two servants (
and
), set out from Polton on their journey towards the German Spa (now in Belgium...
Elizabeth Elstob: 3 June 1756
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Elstob
3 June 1756
died in her seventies, after nearly twenty years as a dependent of the
.
Margaret Calderwood : 25 June 1756
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Author event in Margaret Calderwood
25 June 1756
and her party set out from London after some days' stay, heading for Harwich to cross the English Channel.
13 July 1756: East Hoathley in Sussex was shaken by the...
13 July 1756
East Hoathley in Sussex was shaken by the death of Elizabeth Elless, a destitute single woman who was about to give birth.
Elizabeth Hamilton: Probably 21 July 1756
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Hamilton
Probably 21 July 1756
was born in Belfast, Ireland, the youngest of her family.
Many sources give 1758. Scholar
, having inclined to this date when editing Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: August 1756
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Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
August 1756
After several years of thwarted attempts to leave Brescia for Venice,
succeeded, in the face of actual physical threat from
, in getting away.
August 1756: Frederick II of Prussia invaded neutral Saxony,...
National or international item
August 1756
of Prussia invaded neutral Saxony, finally precipitating the Seven Years' War.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: September 1756-September 1761
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Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
September 1756-September 1761
lived at Venice and Padua, at each of which she bought a house.
Margaret Calderwood : 20 September 1756
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Author event in Margaret Calderwood
20 September 1756
and her
,
,
, and their sons left Spa for Brussels in Belgium, since young Jamie Calderwood was ill, and they had no confidence in their ability to communicate with a German doctor.
Frances Sheridan: October 1756
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Sheridan
October 1756
and her
moved back from London to Ireland; Frances lodged with her children in a village forty miles away from Dublin.
16 November 1756: Upon the resignation of the Duke of Newcastle,...
National or international item
16 November 1756
Upon the resignation of the
, the
, a Whig, briefly became Prime Minister. He was in turn replaced by Newcastle in July of the following year as the...
Mary Robinson: Almost certainly 27 November 1757
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Robinson
Almost certainly 27 November 1757
Mary Darby (later
) was born during a tempestuous night, at the Minster House, College Green, Bristol: two years earlier than the date given by her published memoirs and her gravestone.
A...
A. Woodfin: By December 1756
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Author event in A. Woodfin
By December 1756
, writing as a Lady, published her first known work, Northern Memoirs: or, the History of a Scotch Family, in two volumes, with the
brothers, who ran a circulating library as...
December 1756: John Home's tragedy Douglas was enthusiastically...
Writing climate item
December 1756
's tragedy Douglas was enthusiastically received in Edinburgh by both audiences and critics; in London three months later the former were more unanimously positive than the latter.
Charlotte McCarthy: By 15 December 1756
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Author event in Charlotte McCarthy
By 15 December 1756
wrote News from Parnassus; or, Political advice from the nine muses, to His Grace, the
. A poem, published at Dublin and dated 1757.
Charlotte Forman: 1757
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Author event in Charlotte Forman
1757
suffered an illness of three months which took her almost as far as the gates of eternity.
A. Woodfin: 1757
Women writers item
Author event in A. Woodfin
1757
, as the author of Memoirs of a Scotch Family, published a second novel, The History of Miss Sally Sable, set this time not in romantic Scotland but in familiar, commercial London.
Ann Martin Taylor: 1757
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Martin Taylor
1757
, later matriarch of the Taylor family of Ongar, was born in London.
Teresia Constantia Phillips: 1757-8
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Author event in Teresia Constantia Phillips
1757-8
held the post of Mistress of the Revels, charged with directing the theatrical and other public entertainments, at Kingston, Jamaica.