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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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Eliza Parsons: 24 March 1760

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24 March 1760

Eliza Philp was not yet twenty-one when she married James Parsons , a Plymouth turpentine distiller and government contractor for naval stores. (He called himself merchant on the marriage certificate.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Eliza Parsons. 30 Sept. 2016.
Morton, Karen. A Life Marketed as Fiction. An Analysis of the Works of Eliza Parsons. Valancourt Books, 2011.
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Sarah Fielding: 31 March 1760

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31 March 1760

The History of Ophelia appeared as Published by the Author of David Simple;
qtd. in
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xx
if it is by SF , it is her last novel.
She may have been telling the truth when she...

Frances Burney: About April 1760

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About April 1760

Charles Burney moved his family, including his daughter Fanny , from King's Lynn to London.
Burney, Frances. “Introduction and front matter”. Journals and Letters, edited by Peter Sabor and Lars E. Troide, Penguin, 2001, p. vii - xxviii.
ix
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
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: Lord Bute convinced the Prince of Wales (later...

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Spring 1760

Lord Bute convinced the Prince of Wales (later George III) of his duty not to marry Lady Sarah Lennox , and hinted at a possible marriage with a German princess.
Tillyard, Stella. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
127

2 April 1760: A picture-judging was held in the Great Room...

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2 April 1760

A picture-judging was held in the Great Room of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in London.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
232
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
30 (1760): 198
Cultural historian John Brewer confuses this with England's first...

6-13 April 1760: Tacky's Revolt took place in the north of...

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6-13 April 1760

Tacky's Revolt took place in the north of Jamaica: three separate insurrections destroyed four plantations; fifteen overseers were killed, and so, later, was the slave known as Tacky.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
30 (1760): 294, 307-8
Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 37-51.
39, 40

7-19 April 1760: The Society of Artists held its annual exhibition,...

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7-19 April 1760

The Society of Artists held its annual exhibition, by permission, in rooms belonging to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 1002-3

Charlotte Charke: 16 April 1760

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16 April 1760

CC died in poverty in London.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 786

Frances Brooke: By May 1760

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By May 1760

FB published her translation, made in 1759, of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni 's sentimental novel Letters from Juliet, Lady Catesby, to Her Friend, Lady Henrietta Campley.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
9 (1760): 420

Mary Whateley Darwall: May 1760-February 1762

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May 1760-February 1762

Liberty, by Mary Whateley (later Darwall) appeared in at least five newspapers or magazines.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
30

Elizabeth Nihell: By May 1760

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By May 1760

EN replied to the attack on her by Smollett , in a pamphlet entitled An Answer to the Author of the Critical Review for March 1760.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
9 (1760): 412

Elizabeth Montagu: By 7 May 1760

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By 7 May 1760

EM contributed, anonymously, three dialogues to Dialogues of the Dead by her friend George, Lord Lyttelton .
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
4: 389
Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray, 1906, 2 vols.
2: 181

22 May 1760: Laurence Sterne published Sermons of Mr....

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22 May 1760

Laurence Sterne published Sermons of Mr. Yorick.
Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research, 1985.
477

25 May 1760: Dr James Fordyce, a minister in the Church...

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25 May 1760

Dr James Fordyce , a minister in the Church of Scotland , preached a sermon which, as published, made him famous: The Folly, Infamy, and Misery of Unlawful Pleasure.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
xxvii and n24

Hannah More: After 13 June 1760

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After 13 June 1760

The teenage HM wrote an acrostic on the name of Hannah Mary Pritchard , who performed on this date at Jacob's Well Theatre in Bristol.
Pritchard was the daughter of the famous comedy actress...

Catharine Macaulay: 18 June 1760

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18 June 1760

Catharine Sawbridge married George Macaulay , a Scottish obstetrician fifteen years her senior, with whom she lived in St James's Place, London.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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From 30 July 1760: Following a petition to parliament, seven...

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From 30 July 1760

Following a petition to parliament , seven narrow medieval gates leading into the City of London (Ludgate, Aldgate, etc.) were demolished.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
30 (1760): 390, 407, 440, 591

Elizabeth Montagu: About August 1760-8 July 1764

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About August 1760-8 July 1764

EM developed a significant friendship with the former politician William Pulteney, Lord Bath , which ended only with his death.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
193-4
Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray, 1906, 2 vols.
2: 189

Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan: 25 August 1760

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25 August 1760

Margaret Smith was married at Bath to Sir Charles Bingham , about five years older than herself, who became Baron Lucan in 1776 and Earl of Lucan in 1795.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
8: 237-8

William Beckford: 29 September 1760

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29 September 1760

WB , gothicist, was born in Soho Square, Soho, London, the only legitimate offspring of a father with at least eight illegitimate children.
Chapman, Guy Patterson. Beckford. Jonathan Cape, 1937.
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30 September 1760: Lady Coventry (formerly the beautiful Maria...

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30 September 1760

Lady Coventry (formerly the beautiful Maria Gunning) died, allegedly of the effects of white lead cosmetics.
Rizzo, Betty. “Decorums”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 149-67.
157

5 October 1760: A party of English dragoons beat up the Scottish...

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5 October 1760

A party of English dragoons beat up the Scottish couple who kept the toll-gate between East Lothian and Mid-Lothian.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
118-19

25 October 1760: King George II died suddenly of a heart attack;...

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25 October 1760

King George II died suddenly of a heart attack; his grandson George III assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
426
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Sarah Scott: November 1760

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November 1760

SS published through Millar , as Henry Augustus Raymond, The History of Gustavus Erickson , King of Sweden, first of three notable works of historical biography which were not known to readers as written by a woman.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xliv

Susanna Centlivre: By December 1760

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By December 1760

An edition of SC 's collected plays, The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre, appeared with an anonymous critical and biographical preface To the World by a female author.
It was reviewed in 1760...