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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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Anna Letitia Barbauld: July 1758

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Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld

July 1758

The Rev. John Aikin , ALB 's father, was appointed tutor in languages and belles lettres at the newly opened Dissenting Warrington Academy , in Warrington, Lancashire.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen. Smith, Elder, 1883.
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5 July 1758: The Universal Chronicle complained of the...

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5 July 1758

The Universal Chronicle complained of the inappropriateness, in the heart of London, of a market (Smithfield) for live cattle, tortured as they generally are, and made mad.
Woodruff, James F. “Two More Johnson Pieces in the Universal Chronicle?”. New Rambler, 1999–2000, pp. 59-70.
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Frances Sheridan: Late summer 1758

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Author event in Frances Sheridan

Late summer 1758

FS and her husband travelled back to London from Ireland; they did not intend to stay, and left all but their eldest child behind.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
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10 August 1758: The Magdalen Hospital (for fallen women)...

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10 August 1758

The Magdalen Hospital (for fallen women) opened in Prescot Street, London, after a considerable campaign to influence public opinion.
Dodd, William, 1729 - 1777. An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Magdalen Hospital, for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes. 5th ed., W. Faden, 1776.
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Bullough, Vern L. “Prostitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century England”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
9
, No. 3, May 1985, pp. 61-74.
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Woodruff, James F. “Two More Johnson Pieces in the Universal Chronicle?”. New Rambler, 1999–2000, pp. 59-70.
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Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Binhammer, Katherine. “The Virtue of Vice in the Histories of Penitent Prostitutes”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 31 Mar. 2005.

18 August 1758: News reached London of the British capture...

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18 August 1758

News reached London of the British capture of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island; four days later came news of Montcalm 's capture of Ticonderoga in the colony of New York.
Louisbourg was an...

Elizabeth Montagu: 2 September 1758

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2 September 1758

EM experienced a fainting fit; though this was not a serious threat to her health, the attempted treatment was.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray, 1906, 2 vols.
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Hannah Webster Foster: 10 September 1758

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10 September 1758

Hannah Webster (later HWF ) was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts.
Shurter, Robert L. “Mrs Hannah Webster Foster and the Early American Novel”. American Literature, Vol.
4
, No. 3, 1932, pp. 306-8.
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Catherine Talbot: Probably October 1758

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Probably October 1758

CT moved with the rest of her household from Cuddesdon near Oxford to Lambeth Palace in London.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Mary Delany: Early October 1758

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Early October 1758

MD made an expedition to see the Giant's Causeway (off the Antrim coast in Ireland).
Delany, Mary, and Sybil Connolly. Letters from Georgian Ireland. Editor Day, Angélique, Friar’s Bush Press, 1991.
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Dorothea Celesia: Before December 1758

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Before December 1758

Dorothea Mallet , aged about twenty, married the cultivated and scholarly ambassador to England from the Republic of Genoa, Pietro Paolo Celesia .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Catherine Talbot: Late 1758

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Late 1758

CT received a proposal of marriage from George Berkeley , son of the bishop and philosopher of the same name; he was ordained, and about to take on his first church living.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Mary Leadbeater: 1 December 1758

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1 December 1758

Mary Shakleton or Shackleton (later ML ) was born at Ballitore in Kildare, the second in a family of three sisters and a brother.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Mary Leadbeater”. Dictionary of Irish Biography, edited by James McGuire and James Quinn, 2009.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Françoise de Graffigny: 12 December 1758

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12 December 1758

FG died in her early sixties.
Trousson, Raymond. Romans de femmes du XVIIIe siècle. Robert Laffont, 1996.
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Mary Delany: 1759

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1759

MD wrote for her sister a moral romance, Marianna, set among the contemporary upper classes; it was never published.
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.

Sarah Trimmer: 1759

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1759

The Kirby family (including Sarah, the future ST , now in her teens) moved out from London to nearby Kew to a Grace and Favour residence overlooking Kew Green.
This is the name to...

Elizabeth Griffith: 1759-January 1761

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1759-January 1761

EG was back in Ireland at Danesfort in Kilkenny, working as a companion; her husband was also a member of the household.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Nihell: 1759

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1759

EN published at Rouen a Traité des eaux minérales de la ville de Rouen, now rare.
National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield, 1956.

1759: The royal botanical gardens were founded...

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1759

The royal botanical gardens were founded at Kew outside London, by Augusta, Princess of Wales .
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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1759: The London Magazine pronounced 1759 a year...

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1759

The London Magazine pronounced 1759 a year as glorious as ever appeared, even in the glorious annals of this nation - for the glory of Great Britain may now be justly said to extend from...

1759: Adam Smith published with the Scottish firm...

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1759

Adam Smith published with the Scottish firm of Millar, Kincaid and BellThe Theory of Moral Sentiments.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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1759: Josiah Wedgwood leased a pottery at Burslem...

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1759

Josiah Wedgwood leased a pottery at Burslem in Staffordshire (where he had begun as a worker twenty years before), and began production.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1759: An Excise Office survey for tax purposes...

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1759

An Excise Office survey for tax purposes of England and Wales found 141,700 retail outlets, of which 21,603 were in London.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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By January 1759: Thomas Marriott published Female Conduct,...

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By January 1759

Thomas Marriott published Female Conduct, Being an essay on the art of pleasing.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
7 (1759): 26-30
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1759: David Garrick finally barred non-paying servants...

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1759

David Garrick finally barred non-paying servants from the gallery of Drury Lane Theatre in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1759: Jedediah Strutt invented a machine frame...

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1759

Jedediah Strutt invented a machine frame which revolutionised the manufacture of cotton goods.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.