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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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20 May 1761: George III consented to marry Princess Charlotte...

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20 May 1761

George III consented to marry Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ; formal proposals began.
Tillyard, Stella. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
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Phebe Gibbes: 21 May 1761

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21 May 1761

At St Peter's Church at Kineton in south Warwickshire (which she claimed as her home parish), Phebe French married an attorney named Charles Gibbes of Abthorpe.
Hopkinson, David. Emails to Jennie Batchelor and Isobel Grundy about Phebe Gibbes. 24 Mar. 2015.

22 May 1761: Lady Sarah Lennox returned to court after...

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22 May 1761

Lady Sarah Lennox returned to court after recovering from a broken leg.
Tillyard, Stella. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
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June 1761: The Society of Artists of Great Britain held...

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June 1761

The Society of Artists of Great Britain held its annual exhibition in the rooms of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
91
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 1020

Samuel Richardson: 4 July 1761

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4 July 1761

SR , conduct letter writer, novelist and printer, died.
Harris, Jocelyn, and Samuel Richardson. “Chronology”. Sir Charles Grandison, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. xliii - xlv.
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Charlotte Lennox: By 7 July 1761

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By 7 July 1761

CL had the two daughters of Saunders Welch , Mary and Anne, living in her house at Camberwell Green for their education.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 1, Jan. 1971, pp. 36-60.
55
Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
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8 July 1761: The engagement of George III and Princess...

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8 July 1761

The engagement of George III and Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was announced at a Privy Council meeting.
Tillyard, Stella. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
132

Phillis Wheatley: 11 July 1761

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11 July 1761

PW arrived on a slave ship in Boston, Massachusetts, having been kidnapped in Africa.
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.
337

Susanna Wright: 4 August 1761

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4 August 1761

SW , in her sixties, wrote a poem she called My own Birth Day, which was preserved among Hannah Griffitts 's papers.
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.

Annabella Plumptre: Shortly before 5 August 1761

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Shortly before 5 August 1761

AP was born, probably at Cambridge, where her father was President of Queen's College and where she was baptised on this date. She was the fourth of ten children and the third daughter.
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15 August 1761: While negotiations were in progress to end...

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15 August 1761

While negotiations were in progress to end what was later called the Seven Years' War, the Bourbon kings (of France and Spain) entered the Family Compact, which provided in a secret clause...

Hester Mulso Chapone: September 1761

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Author event in Hester Mulso Chapone

September 1761

John Chapone died unexpectedly of a fever after less than a year of marriage, leaving HMC a childless widow.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: September 1761-January 1762

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September 1761-January 1762

LMWM made her last journey, overland from Venice to Rotterdam and then by water to London.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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By September 1761: Edward Thompson published a scurrilous poem,...

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By September 1761

Edward Thompson published a scurrilous poem, The Meretriciad.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
12 (1762): 201-3
Crouch, Kimberly. “The public life of actresses: prostitutes or ladies?”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 58-78.
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Mary Collier: After 8 September 1761

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After 8 September 1761

MC , aged seventy-one, wrote the last datable poem in her volume Poems, on Several Occasions: On the Marriage of George the Third.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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22 September 1761: King George III and Queen Charlotte were...

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22 September 1761

King George III and Queen Charlotte were crowned; Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray each left a vivid account of the occasion, while Catherine Talbot wrote a prose poem about non-attendance, about spending a festal day...

Ann Thicknesse: Biography: 15 October 1761

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15 October 1761

Ann Ford (later AT ) gave the first of a series of performances at the Spring Gardens (the pleasure-grounds better known as Vauxhall), playing the musical glasses, English guitar, and viola da gamba as well...

Deborah Norris Logan: 19 October 1761

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19 October 1761

Deborah Norris (later DNL ) was born at the family home, Norris House in Philadelphia, then deemed out of town.
Watson, John F. “Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania (1857)”. USGenWeb Archives: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia.
ch. 52
Premo, Terri L. “’Like A Being Who Does Not Belong’: The Old Age of Deborah Norris Logan”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.
107
, No. 1, Jan. 1983, pp. 85-112.
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James, Edward T. et al., editors. Notable American Women, 1607-1950. Harvard University Press, 1971, 3 vols.

November 1761: The Lady's Magazine, or polite companion...

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November 1761

The Lady's Magazine, or polite companion for the fair sex printed a correspondent's letter remarking, The greatest reproach of an old maid . . . is her ill humour.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
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Elizabeth Meeke: 13 November 1761

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13 November 1761

Elizabeth Allen (later EM ) was born at King's Lynn, the youngest of three children. She was baptised the same day at St Margaret's Church there.
Legend had it that in 1421 St Margaret's...

26 November 1761: John Rich, holder of the licence for Covent...

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26 November 1761

John Rich , holder of the licence for Covent Garden Theatre , died; his widow, Priscilla (who had been a performer before her marriage), took nominal control of the theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 881, 905
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
4: 346, 348-9

Mary Collyer: Late 1761

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Late 1761

After silent years MC published a translation of The Death of Abel from the German of Salomon Gessner , with a dedication to the queen .
Feminist Companion Archive.

Elizabeth Griffith: 5 December 1761

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5 December 1761

EG (a Lady) issued a first translation: The Memoirs of Ninon de L'Enclos , with Her Letters to Monsieur de St. Evremond and the Marquis de Sevigné—actually a novel ascribed to Douxménil

Maria Susanna Cooper: 28 December 1761

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28 December 1761

Maria Susanna Bransby married Samuel Cooper , who had taken his BA degree only the year before, but who was ordained in the Church of England in 1763 and was then appointed Rector of Yelverton...

Elizabeth Cairns: 1762

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1762

EC 's Memoirs were posthumously published at Glasgow.
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.