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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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By January 1758: Novelist Tobias Smollett published his Complete...

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By January 1758

Novelist Tobias Smollett published his Complete History of England.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5 (1758): 1-17
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1758: Carl Linnaeus' tenth edition of his Systema...

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1758

Carl Linnaeus ' tenth edition of his Systema Naturae catalogued all known fauna and flora.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
524
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
passim

1758: The first subscribers' or metropolitan library...

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1758

The first subscribers' or metropolitan library opened, in Liverpool.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
180

1758-63: Christopher Smart worked on his unfinished,...

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1758-63

Christopher Smart worked on his unfinished, unpublished prose-poem or liturgy poem Jubilate Agno.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.

1758: At about the date of the founding of the...

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1758

At about the date of the founding of the Warrington Academy , the Dissenter William Eyres set up a family printing press at Warrington in Lancashire.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
512

1758: The Tory writer John Shebbeare was sentenced...

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1758

The Tory writer John Shebbeare was sentenced to stand in the pillory for writing Letters to the People of England, a scathing attack on the Newcastle government.
Hudson, Nicholas. “Discourse of Transition: Johnson, the 1750s, and the Rise of the Middle Class”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, 2002, pp. 31-51.
33

Probably 1758: Stenography, or Short-Hand Improved, by John...

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Probably 1758

Stenography, or Short-Hand Improved, by John Angell the elder , appeared, with a prefatory dedication which has been ascribed to Samuel Johnson .
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.

1758: An anonymous Lady published Female Rights...

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1758

An anonymous Lady published Female Rights Vindicated: or The Equality of the Sexes Morally and Physically Proved, a vigorous plea that society should educate women equally with men and offer them a share in...

1758: George Perry in A Description of Coalbrookdale...

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1758

George Perry in A Description of Coalbrookdale (written to accompany engravings by Francis Vivares ) reflected the established status of this Shropshire industrial village as a site for tourism.
Setzer, Sharon M. “"Pond’rous Engines" in "Outraged Groves": The Environmental Argument of Anna Seward’s ‘Colebrook Dale’”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
18
, No. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 69-82.
70-1

1758: James Ralph, political writer, historian,...

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1758

James Ralph , political writer, historian, and reviewer, argued in The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade Stated that in the post-patronage age authors were slaves to publishers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Lennox: 28 January 1758

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Author event in Charlotte Lennox

28 January 1758

CL , as the author of The Female Quixote, published her third novel, Henrietta.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
327
Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. British Library and ESTC North America, 1992.

Charlotte Charke: March-April 1758

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Author event in Charlotte Charke

March-April 1758

CC published in instalments The Lover's Treat; or, Unnatural Hatred: Being a True Narrative . . ..
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Frances Sheridan: March 1758

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March 1758

Publisher Robert Dodsley rejected FS 's romance Eugenia and Adelaide, which had been submitted to him through the good offices of Samuel Richardson .
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
x

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 18 March 1758

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18 March 1758

The final, 6-volume edition of Robert Dodsley 's Collection of Poems by Several Hands appeared, including a poem by FSCH which was falsely ascribed to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , according to the latter.
Grundy, Isobel. “The Politics of Female Authorship: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Reaction to the Printing of Her Poems”. The Book Collector, Vol.
1
, 1 Mar.–31 May 1982, pp. 19-37.
35-6

Elizabeth Montagu: After April 1758

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Author event in Elizabeth Montagu

After April 1758

EM sought out Elizabeth Carter after the publication of Carter's Epictetus.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
171

Hannah More: Easter 1758

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Author event in Hannah More

Easter 1758

HM 's elder sisters opened a school for girls at 6 Trinity Street, Bristol, and HM became one of the pupils.
Ford, Charles Howard. Hannah More: A Critical Biography. Editor Hewitt, Regina, Peter Lang, 1996, http://Rutherford HSS.
5

April 1758: Edmund Burke agreed to compile and edit a...

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April 1758

Edmund Burke agreed to compile and edit a new periodical, the Annual Register.
Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
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Samuel Johnson: 15 April 1758 to 5 April 1760

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Author event in Samuel Johnson

15 April 1758 to 5 April 1760

SJ 's next essay series, the The Idler, appeared regularly as the lead feature in a weekly journal called the Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette, beginning in the second number.
Johnson, Samuel. The Idler; and, The Adventurer. Editors Bate, Walter Jackson et al., Yale, Yale University Press, 1969.
3, opposite 4, 314
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Carter: April 1758

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April 1758

EC published her scholarly translation of All the Works of Epictetus, by subscription, as a handsome folio printed by Samuel Richardson .
Richardson, Samuel. Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin. Editor Sabor, Peter, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
726
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
169

Jane West: 30 April 1758

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Author event in Jane West

30 April 1758

Jane Iliffe (later JW ) was born in London, her parents' only child.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Lloyd, Pamela. “Some New Information on Jane West”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
31
, No. 4, Dec. 1984, pp. 469-70.
469

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: May 1758-2 July 1762

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May 1758-2 July 1762

LMWM wrote the letters in her last surviving important correspondence: with Sir James and Lady Frances Steuart .
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
3: 148-296

1 May 1758: Sir John Fielding, magistrate, questioned...

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1 May 1758

Sir John Fielding , magistrate, questioned twenty-five women rounded up from bawdy houses in Hedge Lane in London, and recorded their answers.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Susan Smythies: 6 May 1758

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Author event in Susan Smythies

6 May 1758

Proposals appeared in the Ipswich Journal for SS 's third and final novel, The Brothers, which was published by subscription the same year, alluding on the title-page to her previous works.
Black, Frank Gees. “Miss Smythies”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1756, 26 Sept. 1935, p. 596.
596
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22 May 1758: Saunders Welch published A Proposal to Render...

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22 May 1758

Saunders Welch published A Proposal to Render Effectual a Plan, to Remove the Nuisance of Common Prostitution from the Streets of the Metropolis.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
42
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 779

2 June 1758: In a temporary reversal of Robert Clive's...

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2 June 1758

In a temporary reversal of Robert Clive 's consolidation of British power in India, French forces recaptured Fort St David.
Kumar, Janardan. Company India: A Comprehensive History of India (1757-1858). Janaki Prakashan, 1980.
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Spear, Percival. The Oxford History of Modern India, 1750-1975. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1978.
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