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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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Sophia Hume: Probably 1760

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Probably 1760

SH edited an anthology of Quaker writings: Extracts from Divers Ancient Testimonies of Friends and Others.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1760: The year he was twenty, Horace Benedict de...

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1760

The year he was twenty, Horace Benedict de Saussure , natural scientist, visited Chamonix and offered a reward for the first successful ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc.
Nardin, Jane. “A Meeting on the Mer de Glace: Frankenstein and the history of Alpine mountaineering”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 441-9.
443

1760: John Roebuck set up an iron foundry in Stirlingshire,...

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1760

John Roebuck set up an iron foundry in Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
623

January 1760-December 1761: Tobias Smollett's Sir Launcelot Greaves appeared...

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January 1760-December 1761

Tobias Smollett 's Sir Launcelot Greaves appeared over twenty-five issues of the British Magazine (beginning in the first, January 1760): this made it the first-ever serialised novel.
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
193 n108

1760: A French conduct book, Traité du maintien...

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1760

A French conduct book, Traité du maintien du corps et de la maniere de se présenter avec grace, offered detailed advice on getting up gracefully from a chair.
Hellman, Mimi. “Furniture, Sociability, and the Work of Leisure in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 415-45.
442n31

About 1760: A newly invented musical instrument, the...

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About 1760

A newly invented musical instrument, the piano, was introduced into London; England soon became the world's leading piano producer.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
420-1

1760: A subscribers' or metropolitan library opened...

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1760

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

After about 1760: The term middle class began increasingly...

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After about 1760

The term middle class began increasingly to be used for that section of society formerly known as the middle ranks or middling sort.
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.
42

1760: A subscription got up for British soldiers...

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1760

A subscription got up for British soldiers had 120 known female subscribers: three times its tally of clergymen and twelve times its tally of peers.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
94

During the 1760s: Martha Winter (later Martha Routh, Quaker...

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During the 1760s

Martha Winter (later Martha Routh , Quaker minister and autobiographer) was principal of a girls' boarding school which the Quakers ran in Nottingham.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
251
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.

During the 1760s: A Mrs Harris ran the Thurloe House day school...

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During the 1760s

A Mrs Harris ran the Thurloe House day school for girls in Worcester.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
251

1760: Denis Diderot published his novel La religieuse;...

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1760

Denis Diderot published his novel La religieuse; it was translated into English as The Nun.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
313

From around 1760: The numbers of women beginning to publish...

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From around 1760

The numbers of women beginning to publish or circulate their writings in Britain showed a startling increase of around 50% each decade until the end of the century.
Stanton, Judith Phillips. “Statistical Profile of Women Writing in English from 1660 to 1800”. Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts, edited by Frederick M. Keener and Susan E. Lorsch, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 247-54.
248

1760: Thomas Braidwood opened the first school...

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1760

Thomas Braidwood opened the first school for the deaf in Britain, at Edinburgh in Scotland.
“Disability History Timeline”. Disability Social History Project, 23 Sept. 2003.

1760: Arthur Guinness opened a brewery in Dubl...

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1760

Arthur Guinness opened a brewery in Dublin.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
623

Alison Cockburn: 4 January 1760

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4 January 1760

AC addressed the earliest letter in her later printed collection (which is partly in verse) to Henrietta Cumming or Cummings (later Fordyce) , who was governess to Lady Anne Barnard and her sisters, and later...

24 January 1760-14 August 1761: The Public Ledger printed Oliver Goldsmith's...

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24 January 1760-14 August 1761

The Public Ledger printed Oliver Goldsmith 's series of essays entitled Letters from a Citizen of the World to his Friends in the East.
Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966, 5 vols.
2: 16n2, 473n1

Charlotte Forman: 16 February 1760

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16 February 1760

CF , exceptionally, devoted one of her Public Ledger essays (written as Probus) to a literary subject: a warm pre-publication welcome for Charlotte Lennox 's The Lady's Museum.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Lennox: 21 February 1760

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21 February 1760

CL published, with her name, The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy, an edition of twenty-five translated plays by Euripides and Sophocles (which had appeared in French in 1759).
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
327
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 1006

Elizabeth Nihell: 21 February 1760

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21 February 1760

EN published through Morley , at six shillings, her Treatise on the Art of Midwifery.
Nihell, Elizabeth. La Cause de l’humanité. Antoine Boudet, 1771.
xxvi
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
9 (1760): 187

Anne Plumptre: Shortly before 22 February 1760

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Shortly before 22 February 1760

AP was born at Norwich, the third of ten children and the second daughter.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Jemima Plumptre. 17 June 2017.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
xxvi, vii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Charlotte Lennox: 1 March 1760-1 February 1761

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1 March 1760-1 February 1761

CL (perhaps in collaboration with Hugh Kelly ) wrote and edited a periodical, The Lady's Museum.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
327
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 1, Jan. 1971, pp. 36-60.
51n98

From March 1760: The Royal Female Magazine, aimed at a specifically...

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From March 1760

The Royal Female Magazine, aimed at a specifically female readership, had a somewhat brief run in London
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
146, 149

March 1760: A Reverend Mr Hanbury published in the Gentleman's...

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March 1760

A Reverend Mr Hanbury published in the Gentleman's Magazine his plan for a public library in the comparatively small town of Church Langton in Leicestershire.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
30 (1760): 145

Ann Thicknesse: Biography: 18 March 1760

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18 March 1760

Ann Ford (later AT ) gave the first of a series of five concerts, by subscription at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket. She had left her father's house and declared her intention of...