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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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June 1757: Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia lost...

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June 1757

Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia lost half his army (30,000 of his best troops), at Kolin in Bohemia.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
50-4

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 7 June 1757

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7 June 1757

Georgiana Spencer, later Duchess of Devonshire , was born, at Althorp near Northampton, her father's family estate.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Frances Brooke: 10 June 1757

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Author event in Frances Brooke

10 June 1757

FB 's son, John Moore Brooke , was born; he was either her only, or her only surviving, child.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
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Horace Walpole: 25 June 1757

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Author event in Horace Walpole

25 June 1757

HW (in the words of his own Short Notes of his life) erected a printing-press at my house at Strawberry-Hill.
Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham et al. “Introduction”. Letters, Folio Society, 1951.
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Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: 27 June 1757

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Author event in Elizabeth Sarah Gooch

27 June 1757

Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real (later ESG ) was born at her father's estate of Edwinstow or Edwinstowe in Nottinghamshire.
The Feminist Companion dates her birth as 1755.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Life of Mrs Gooch. Printed for the authoress and sold by C. and G. Kearsley, 1792, 3 vols.
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29 June 1757: The Duke of Newcastle formed his second government,...

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29 June 1757

The Duke of Newcastle formed his second government, this time a Whig coalition with William Pitt .
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
18, 43ff

Olaudah Equiano: Summer 1757

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Author event in Olaudah Equiano

Summer 1757

Still in his teens, OE became a seaman on a naval vessel (eventually an able seaman),
Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Editor Costanzo, Angelo, Broadview, 2001.
84ff
in which capacity he participated in numerous battles of the Seven Years War, fighting with the British...

Grisell Murray: Summer 1757

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Author event in Grisell Murray

Summer 1757

Lady Mary Hervey (the former Molly Lepel), one of GM 's dearest and oldest friends since their youth in London, made a journey to Scotland to stay with her.
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 1822.
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5 July 1757: The London Lock Asylum (a home for reformed...

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5 July 1757

The LondonLock Asylum (a home for reformed prostitutes recently cured of venereal disease) admitted its first inmates.
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.
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July 1757: Lloyd's Evening Post, established by Thomas...

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July 1757

Lloyd's Evening Post, established by Thomas Kinnersley , joined those London newspapers selected by publishers for book advertising.
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, 157, 160

Catherine Phillips: 21 July 1757

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Author event in Catherine Phillips

21 July 1757

Catherine Payton (later CP ) set off with Sophia Hume on a missionary journey to Holland—where, however, they found the language a problem.
Phillips, Catherine. Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips. James Phillips and Son, 1797.
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8 August 1757: Thomas Gray published his Two Odes (the Pindarics...

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8 August 1757

Thomas Gray published his Two Odes (the Pindarics The Bard and The Progress of Poesy).
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
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Lady Louisa Stuart: 12 August 1757

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Author event in Lady Louisa Stuart

12 August 1757

LLS was born; she was the youngest of eleven surviving siblings and was nearly twenty years younger than her eldest sister.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
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Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: November 1757

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November 1757

Elizabeth Hervey, later Duchess of Devonshire , was born at Horrenger in Suffolk, her parents' second daughter in a family of three children .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

5 November 1757: Britain's ally Frederick II had the first...

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5 November 1757

Britain's ally Frederick II had the first of two unexpected victories, at Rossbach near Halle in Germany.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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9 November 1757: John Wesley recorded his practice of giving...

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9 November 1757

John Wesley recorded his practice of giving one hour a day to using a special apparatus on people who came to be electrified, thereby curing them of various disorders.
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
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William Blake: 28 November 1757

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Author event in William Blake

28 November 1757

WB , poet, engraver, and visionary, was born at 28 Broad Street, Soho, London, one of a family of brothers with a single sister.
Blake, William. “Introduction”. Jerusalem, Selected Poems, and Prose, edited by Hazard Adams, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, p. v - xix.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By December 1757: William Battie's Treatise on Madness made...

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By December 1757

William Battie 's Treatise on Madness made great claims for his ground-breaking methods of curing lunatics by humane methods.
Although library catalogues list the publication date as 1758, the Critical Review reviews Battie's work in...

Charlotte Lennox: 3 December 1757

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Author event in Charlotte Lennox

3 December 1757

CL , as the author of The Female Quixote, published Philander, A Dramatic Pastoral, which Garrick had rejected for the stage.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
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Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 1, Jan. 1971, pp. 36-60.
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Hannah Glasse: 12 December 1757

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12 December 1757

HG (who was between two bouts of bankruptcy, and had had to sell the copyright of her highly successful The Art of Cookery) registered three shares in a new work, to be entitled The...

Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw: 1758

Women writers item

1758

Mary Ann Jeffereyes (later MACB ) was born, her parents' eldest daughter.
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.

Charlotte Charke: After 1758

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Author event in Charlotte Charke

After 1758

CC published two more undated short novels: The Mercer; or, Fatal Extravagance and The History of Charley and Patty; or, The Friendly Strangers.
Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber, 1988.
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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.
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Sarah Fielding: 1758

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Author event in Sarah Fielding

1758

SF worked with James Harris on a memoir, An Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding, for a projected edition of his works; but it never appeared.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
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Anna Margaretta Larpent: 1758

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Author event in Anna Margaretta Larpent

1758

AML was born at Pera, a suburb of Constantinople in Turkey.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998.
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1758: Pierre-Joseph Boudier de Villemert published,...

Writing climate item

1758

Pierre-Joseph Boudier de Villemert published, allegedly at Hamburg, a book called L'Ami des femmes, which remarked on the number and excellence of women writers in French.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
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