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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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Margaret Holford, the elder: Perhaps 1757

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Perhaps 1757

Margaret Wrench (later Margaret Holford the elder ) was born this year, according to two submissions to the International Genealogical Index.
The Feminist Companion dates her birth as about 1761.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Harriet Lee: 1757

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Author event in Harriet Lee

1757

HL was born in London, one of the younger members of a family of whose survivors to adulthood included her three sisters and a brother.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xlv

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: About 1757

Women writers item

About 1757

LMWM drew up, in Italian, some form of the document later called her Italian Memoir.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Romance Writings. Editor Grundy, Isobel, Clarendon Press, 1996.
81ff

1757: The Wide Street Commission began its task...

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1757

The Wide Street Commission began its task of laying out the handsome Georgian centre of Dublin.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
79-81

1757: The remaining medieval houses on London Bridge...

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1757

The remaining medieval houses on London Bridge were pulled down.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
622

1 January 1757: The London Chronicle: or, Universal Evening...

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1 January 1757

The London Chronicle: or, Universal Evening Post began publication.
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 706
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
155

1756 or 1757: Frances Greville, in Italy with her family...

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1756 or 1757

Frances Greville , in Italy with her family some months after the death of her eldest son (aged around six), composed a poem which became a landmark text, the Ode to [or Prayer for] Indifference.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

6 January 1757: Robert François Damiens stabbed the French...

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6 January 1757

Robert François Damiens stabbed the Frenchking in the street; he was later executed with extreme brutality as a would-be regicide: pulled limb from limb by horses, with human intervention in his dismemberment as well...

11 February 1757: Again a national fast day was held in Britain...

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11 February 1757

Again a national fast day was held in Britain (about a year after an earlier occasion of the same kind), to pray for the success of British forces in the Seven Years War.
Steele, Anne. The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele. Munroe, Francis and Parker, 1808, 2 vols.
1: 227

Margaret Calderwood : By 19 February 1757

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Author event in Margaret Calderwood

By 19 February 1757

MC was back in Britain: in London, where she was setting about finding English schools for her two sons.
Calderwood, Margaret. “L’envoi”. Letters and Journals, edited by Alexander Fergusson, David Douglas, 1884, pp. 353-78.
357-8

4 March 1757: Thomas Turner, churchwarden and poor-law...

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4 March 1757

Thomas Turner, churchwarden and poor-law overseer, was summoned to appear before a Justice of the Peace to answer accusations of being too hard on the poor.
Connors, Richard. “Poor women, the parish and the politics of poverty”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 126-47.
146

Charlotte Lennox: 12 March 1757

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Author event in Charlotte Lennox

12 March 1757

CL published Memoirs for the History of Madame de Maintenon, an abridged translation (still five volumes long) from the French of Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle .
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
327
Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966, 5 vols.
1: 81n2

14 March 1757: Admiral John Byng was executed (by firing-squad...

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14 March 1757

Admiral John Byng was executed (by firing-squad on the deck of his own flagship) for his part in the loss of the Mediterranean island of Minorca to the French the previous year: a step towards...

15 March 1757: John Dyer published his georgic poem about...

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15 March 1757

John Dyer published his georgic poem about sheep-farming and woollen manufacture, The Fleece. He died the same year, by mid-December.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3 (1757): 402-15
Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 37-51.
38-9 and n2
Larsen, Kathryn. “Virtual Textile Workers”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 19 Apr. 2001.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
4: 414 nn7, 8

Mary Peisley: 17 March 1757

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Author event in Mary Peisley

17 March 1757

MP was married at Mountrath to Samuel Neale , a paper-maker who had converted to the Society of Friends through her preaching; that very evening she addressed the assembled Friends, her guests.
Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough, 1795.
119-20
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Peisley: 19 March 1757

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Author event in Mary Peisley

19 March 1757

Only two days after she was married, MP died of violent stomach pains (possibly from a burst stomach ulcer or appendix), which had seized her the same day.
Peisley, Mary, and Samuel Neale. Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, formerly Mary Peisley. John Gough, 1795.
120

Ellis Cornelia Knight : 27 March 1757

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Author event in Ellis Cornelia Knight

27 March 1757

ECK was born in Westminster, the only child of Sir Joseph Knight and his second wife, the former Philippina Deane .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Luttrell, Barbara. The Prim Romantic. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
17

Elizabeth Griffith: By April 1757

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Author event in Elizabeth Griffith

By April 1757

The first two volumes of A Series of Genuine Letters Between Henry and Frances—that is, between EG and her future husband, Richard Griffith —were published at both Dublin and London.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
27 (1757): 191

By April 1757: William Chambers (later Sir William) published...

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By April 1757

William Chambers (later Sir William) published Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils, a shaping influence on the coming style of Chinoiserie.
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 714-15

April 1757: Six weeks after his marriage, Edmund Burke...

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April 1757

Six weeks after his marriage, Edmund Burke published A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3 (1757): 361-74
Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
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St Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
582

6 April 1757: William Pitt was dismissed from office as...

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6 April 1757

William Pitt was dismissed from office as Secretary of State.
Black, Jeremy. Pitt the Elder. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
138, 141-3
Brown, Peter Douglas. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, the Great Commoner. Allen and Unwin, 1978.
144

6 April 1757: The Battle of Prague was fought; it featured...

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6 April 1757

The Battle of Prague was fought; it featured in European minds for a generation as the bloodiest conflict imaginable.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Greene, Donald. “Johnson: The Jacobite Legend Exhumed: A Rejoinder to Howard Erskine-Hill and J. C. D. Clark”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
7
, 1996, pp. 57-135.
100

Sarah Fielding: 19 May 1757

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Author event in Sarah Fielding

19 May 1757

SF published by subscription The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, printed by Samuel Richardson as by the Author of David Simple.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xl

By 23 May 1757: Under a new Stamp Act, government duty on...

Writing climate item

By 23 May 1757

Under a new Stamp Act, government duty on periodicals doubled.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
158-9, 163n6

June 1757: Robert Clive's forces defeated the Nawab...

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June 1757

Robert Clive 's forces defeated the Nawab of Bengal at the battle of Plassey, consolidating UK power on the subcontinent.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
136
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
45-51
Pagden, Anthony. “C is for Colonies”. London Review of Books, 11 May 2006, pp. 30-1.
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Dalrymple, William. “The original corporate raiders”. Guardian Weekly, 20 Mar. 2015, pp. 26-9.
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