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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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Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : Shortly before 8 August 1759

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Shortly before 8 August 1759

LMH was born in London, second of three surviving children.
This was the date of her baptism.
Davis, Bertram H. A Proof of Eminence: The Life of Sir John Hawkins. Indiana University Press, 1973.
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Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Janet Little: Shortly before 13 August 1759

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Shortly before 13 August 1759

JL was born in Nether Bogside, near Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire.
Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, 1976, pp. 78-91.
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17 August 1759: In the Seven Years' War, the British navy...

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17 August 1759

In the Seven Years' War, the British navy won a crucial victory over the French fleet at the battle of Lagos, West Africa.

Sarah Wentworth Morton: 29 August 1759

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29 August 1759

SWM was baptised in Boston, Massachusetts, where she had been born the same month into a family that eventually numbered eleven children.
Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931.
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American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
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.

Elizabeth Gilding: Later 1759

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Later 1759

A verse Epitaph for General Wolfe (the poem that EG placed third in her single known volume, The Breathings of Genius, 1776) presumably dated from soon after his death in September this year.
Gilding, Elizabeth. The Breathings of Genius. W. Faden, 1776.
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September 1759-1763: The Hon. Mrs Stanhope issued a periodical...

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September 1759-1763

The Hon. Mrs Stanhope issued a periodical entitled The Lady's Magazine, or polite companion for the fair sex. Its aim was instruction as well as entertainment, and it sometimes strikes a proto-feminist note.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
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13 September 1759: A British party under James Wolfe climbed...

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13 September 1759

A British party under James Wolfe climbed the Heights of Abraham at Quebec and beat the French in battle there.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Wharncliffe, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, first Baron, Richard Bentley, 1836, 3 vols.
3: 191
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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Dorothea Celesia: 17 September 1759

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17 September 1759

Pietro Paolo Celesia , Genoese ambassador to England, reached the end of his appointment in London. He and his new wife, DC , travelled back to Genoa, where she lived for the rest of her life.
Bianchi, Agostino. Eloge historique de Pierre-Paul Celesia lu a l’Academie de Genes. Translator G., Madame E. C., J. Giossi, 1809.

Mary Whateley Darwall: Autumn 1759

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Autumn 1759

In this season Mary Whateley (later Darwall) dated her Elegy on a much lamented Friend.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
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Anne Steele: By October 1759

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By October 1759

AS published, as Theodosia, Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, in two volumes (for hymns and poems respectively), with 1760 on the title-page.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Broome, J. R. A Bruised Reed. Anne Steele: Her Life and Times. Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007.
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Charlotte Smith: Late 1759

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Late 1759

The early writings of Charlotte Turner (later CS ) included an elegy on the death of General Wolfe , written before she was eleven.
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
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Sarah Fielding: November 1759

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November 1759

SF has often been named as author or co-author of a fictional work, The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House, which appeared anonymously (dated 1760) fifteen months after the institution opened...

November 1759: Lady Sarah Lennox was presented at court,...

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November 1759

Lady Sarah Lennox was presented at court, where the Prince of Wales (later George III) became infatuated with her.
Tillyard, Stella. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
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A. Woodfin: By December 1759

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By December 1759

AW anonymously published The Auction. A Modern Novel (titled from a vividly described minor episode in the tale of a minor character), with 1760 on its title-page. She claimed her authorship on a later title-page...

1 December 1759: John Hawkesworth in turn adapted Thomas Southerne's...

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1 December 1759

John Hawkesworth in turn adapted Thomas Southerne 's dramatic adaptation of Aphra Behn 's Oroonoko, making it for the first time a solidly anti-slavery text.
Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and OroonokoThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
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, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 47-66.
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Mary Whateley Darwall: Late 1759

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Late 1759

Mary Whateley (later MWD ) went, against her will, to keep house for her attorney brother Henry at Walsall, Staffordshire.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
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Last week of December 1759: Laurence Sterne published the first two volumes...

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Last week of December 1759

Laurence Sterne published the first two volumes of his first novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.
Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research, 1985.
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Agnes Beaumont: 1760

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1760

AB 's Narrative first reached print, in An Abstract of the Gracious Dealings of God with Several Eminent Christians in their Conversions and Sufferings, in which subsidiary texts were attached to a chief text...

Charlotte Brooke: Probably between 1750 and 1760

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Probably between 1750 and 1760

CB was born at Rantavan in Cavan, one of the last of a large family of children and apparently the youngest survivor.
Sources differ as to this date, some saying as early as 1740....

Ann Cook: Probably 1760

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Probably 1760

AC moved with her family from Northumberland to London, where they lodged at a cabinet-maker's in Fuller's Rents, Holborn.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Cassandra Cooke: 1760

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1760

Cassandra Leigh (later CC ), still in her teens, wrote a prose Meditation upon the Vanity of all Sublunary Joys.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Dorothea Du Bois: 1760

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1760

Shortly after the birth of her youngest child, DDB heard that her father was dangerously ill; she travelled from England to Camolin Park in County Wexford to see him.
Du Bois, Dorothea. The Case of Ann, Countess of Anglesey. 1766.
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Charlotte Smith: 1760

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1760

CS 's father sent her to an exclusive school in Kensington, where she excelled at dancing and acting.
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
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Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xix - xxix.
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Hannah Glasse: 1760

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1760

HG issued by subscription The Servant's Directory; or, House-Keeper's Companion; again she published for the author, keeping possession of the copyright.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Hannah Glasse: Probably 1760

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Probably 1760

HG printed at London The Compleat Confectioner—whose title (not sub-title) had been used on later re-issues, from 1733 onwards, of a work first printed as Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts in 1718, when Hannah was...