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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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Hester Mulso Chapone: December 1760

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December 1760

Hester Mulso married John Chapone , an attorney, son of Sarah (Kirkham) Chapone , on the same day that her eldest brother, Thomas , married Mary Prescott , another member of the Richardson circle.
Editor...

Sarah, Lady Pennington: By December 1760

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By December 1760

The first edition of An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters; in a letter to Miss Pennington appeared. The title-page bore the date 1761 and no author's name, although the named addressee provided a...

By December 1760: Canal building was in progress in Lancashire,...

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By December 1760

Canal building was in progress in Lancashire, following the passing of the third Duke of Bridgewater 's Canal Act.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
30 (1760): 623

Christmas Day 1760: Jupiter Hammon composed a devotional poem,...

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Christmas Day 1760

Jupiter Hammon composed a devotional poem, An Evening Thought. Salvation by Christ, With Penitential Cries, which was issued as a broadside at New York: the earliest publication by an African American.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, and Phillis Wheatley. “Foreword: In Her Own Write”. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley, edited by John C. Shields and John C. Shields, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. vii - xxii.
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Frances Brooke: 27 December 1760

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27 December 1760

John Brooke , husband of FB , now an army chaplain with other overseas service behind him, was appointed garrison chaplain in Québec.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
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Helena Wells: About 1761

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About 1761

HW was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the youngest daughter in her family.
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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
94.2 (1824): 569

Mary Latter: 1761

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1761

ML published at London with her name A Miscellaneous Poetical Essay (again arranged in three parts), for which John Rich had gathered her a hundred subscribers.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Latter, Mary. The Siege of Jerusalem, by Titus Vespasian. C. Bathurst, 1763.
xxiii

Charlotte Lennox: January 1761

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January 1761

CL was sitting for her portrait to Sir Joshua Reynolds . He showed her as young and beautiful.
This is Susan Carlile's dating; Duncan Isles placed the sitting later, just before the portrait was engraved...

1761: Joseph Priestley published The Rudiments...

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1761

Joseph Priestley published The Rudiments of English Grammar; adapted to the use of schools. With observations on style.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

By 1761: Harris's List of Covent-garden Ladies: Or,...

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By 1761

Harris's List of Covent-garden Ladies: Or, New Atlantis, a directory of prostitutes, was being printed annually under this title.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
172n25
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
Wilson 24

1761: The Countess of Huntingdon established her...

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1761

The Countess of Huntingdon established her first registered chapel, at Brighton.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Whitefieldites
Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.
99-100

January 1761: Joseph Collyer, husband of the writer Mary...

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January 1761

Joseph Collyer , husband of the writer Mary Collyer , published The Parents & Guardians Directory, and the Youth's Guide, in the Choice of a Profession or Trade.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
11: 166
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
(January 1761)

January 1761: Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his epistolary...

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January 1761

Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his epistolary novel Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse; it was translated into English the same year by William Kenrick .
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
31 (1761): 34-5
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.

16 January 1761: French forces surrendered to the British...

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16 January 1761

French forces surrendered to the British at Pondicherry, capital of French India, effectively marking the end of French power in India.
Spear, Percival. The Oxford History of Modern India, 1750-1975. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1978.
19-20
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 136

Ann Thicknesse: Biography: 22 January 1761

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22 January 1761

Ann Ford (later AT ) issued the first of her two published texts from this year: A Letter from Miss F—d, Addressed to a Person of Distinction [Lord Jersey ], a defence of her...

Ann Thicknesse: Biography: Later 1761

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Later 1761

Ann Ford (later AT ) issued another publication this year: the factual and straightforward Instructions for Playing on the Musical Glasses, with her birth name and musical scores.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Catherine Talbot: February 1761

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February 1761

According to Eliza Berkeley , it was the month before George Berkeley 's marriage that CT wrote a Song of renunciation which resolves to hide her own pain and wish the best for her beloved's future wife.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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8 February 1761: In the first of two years' very great revival...

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8 February 1761

In the first of two years' very great revival among the [Methodist ] societies,
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837.
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Sarah Crosby , on a visit to Derby and having the previous week conducted a prayer meeting of twenty-seven...

Frances Sheridan: March 1761

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March 1761

FS anonymously published, at London and Dublin, her first novel, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Extracted from her own Journal.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
xi

Anna Letitia Barbauld: After 5 March 1761

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After 5 March 1761

ALB 's father, the Rev. John Aikin , took over the post of tutor in divinity at Warrington Academy , on the death of Dr John Taylor of Norwich.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xliii

Mary Jones: 16 March 1761

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16 March 1761

MJ wrote to thank Ralph Griffiths of the Monthly Review for inviting her to participate in some literary venture or other, but she declined the invitation.
Forster, Antonia. Email about Mary Jones to Isobel Grundy. 25 Apr. 2005.

Eliza Parsons: 24 March 1761

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24 March 1761

On her first wedding anniversary EP 's eldest child, a son named James after his father, was baptised at Plymouth.
Morton, Karen. A Life Marketed as Fiction. An Analysis of the Works of Eliza Parsons. Valancourt Books, 2011.
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April 1761-May 1762: Andrew Kippis edited, and Ralph Griffiths...

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April 1761-May 1762

Andrew Kippis edited, and Ralph Griffiths published, a periodical called the Library; or, Moral and Critical Magazine.
Forster, Antonia. Email about Mary Jones to Isobel Grundy. 25 Apr. 2005.

William Law: 9 April 1761

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9 April 1761

WL , writer of treatises on religion and practical morality, died at King's Cliffe near Stamford in Lincolnshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

19 May 1761: A new parliament was called for this date,...

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19 May 1761

A new parliament was called for this date, following elections, as was obligatory on the accession of a new monarch .
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John, 1920 - Brooke, editors. The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964.
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