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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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Ann Candler: 1762

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1762

Ann More married a cottager named Candler, who unfortunately had a taste for drinking.
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.

Mary Collier: Before 1762

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Author event in Mary Collier

Before 1762

MC gave up her job at Petersfield, and retired to a Garret (the Poor Poets fate) at Alton in Hampshire.
Collier, Mary. The Poems of Mary Collier, The Washerwoman of Petersfield. W. Minchin.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Mary Delany: 1762

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Author event in Mary Delany

1762

MD translated from Latin a treatise on flowers.
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.

A. Woodfin: 1762

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Author event in A. Woodfin

1762

AW for the first time issued a novel under her own name (Mrs. Woodfin): The History of Miss Harriot Watson.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Sarah Trimmer: 1762

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Author event in Sarah Trimmer

1762

Sarah Kirby married James Trimmer , a brickmaker in business with his father; although in trade, he had gentlemanly interests, being a skilled musician, horseman, and shot.
Yarde, Doris M. Sarah Trimmer of Brentford and her Children, with Some of her Early Writings 1780-1786. Hounslow and District History Society, 1990.
14, 15

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: January-21 August 1762

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January-21 August 1762

LMWM lived her last months in Great George Street, Hanover Square, London.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
3: 286-96

1762: Ten novels known to be by women were reviewed...

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1762

Ten novels known to be by women were reviewed this year.
Forster, Antonia. “’A Considerable Rank in the World of Belles Lettres’: women, fiction, and literary history in the last quarter of the eighteenth century”. Women and Literary History: ’For There She Was’, edited by Katherine Binhammer and Jeanne Wood, University of Delaware Press, 2003, pp. 106-18.

1762: Shop signs overhanging the street were prohibited;...

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1762

Shop signs overhanging the street were prohibited; soon after this, buildings began to be numbered in the modern fashion.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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January 1762: James Macpherson published Fingal, an Ancient...

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January 1762

James Macpherson published Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem, in Six Books., which purported to be the work of the ancient bard Ossian .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
13 (1762): 45-53
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.

1762-December 1772: Under the auspices of the third Duke of Bridgewater,...

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1762-December 1772

Under the auspices of the third Duke of Bridgewater , a canal was built connecting Manchester with Liverpool (about 56 miles).
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
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1 January 1762: Lady Cust, head of a politically influential...

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1 January 1762

Lady Cust , head of a politically influential family, organised an event which demonstrated skill in wooing potential voters.
Chalus, Elaine. “’That epidemical Madness’: women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth century”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 151-78.
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1762: Elizabeth Taylor of Southampton patented...

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1762

Elizabeth Taylor of Southampton patented a lucrative invention, made by her late husband and their son, for manufacturing blocks for ships' tackle.
MacLeod, Christine. Inventing the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
105

Lady Mary Walker: 3 January 1762

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3 January 1762

Lady Mary Leslie married a doctor, James Walker; the wedding took place in Edinburgh.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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.

18 January 1762: Spain declared war on Britain, in advance...

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18 January 1762

Spain declared war on Britain, in advance of its secret promise in the Family Compact to do so.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
187-91

Sarah Fielding: 27 January 1762

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27 January 1762

SF published by subscription her last book, a translation of Xenophon 's Memoirs of Socrates , With the Defence of Socrates.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xl

1 February 1762: A group of gentlemen eminent for their rank...

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1 February 1762

A group of gentlemen eminent for their rank and character investigated and exploded the Cock Lane Ghost story.
Boswell, James, 1740 - 1795. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon, 1934, 6 vols.
1: 407n3
Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966, 5 vols.
4: 418ff

Mary Latter: 12 February 1762

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12 February 1762

Three months after the death of John Rich , licensee of Covent Garden Theatre , ML finally lost hope of staging of her blank-verse tragedy The Siege of Jerusalem, by Titus Vespasian.
The...

Susanna Haswell Rowson: By 15 February 1762

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By 15 February 1762

Susanna Haswell (later Rowson) was born at Portsmouth in Hampshire, an only child.
Rowson, Susanna Haswell. “Introduction; Susanna Haswell Rowson: A Brief Chronology”. Reuben and Rachel, edited by Joseph F. Bartolomeo, Broadview, 2009, pp. 8-34.
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“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Maria Susanna Cooper: 21 February 1762

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21 February 1762

MSC bore her first child, a son whom they christened with her birth name of Bransby. Robert Bransby Cooper was still alive in 1842, at eighty the longest-surviving member of the family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cooper, Bransby Blake. The Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. John W. Parker, 1843, 2 vols.
1: 1n

Elizabeth Carter: By March 1762

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By March 1762

EC published a second, expanded volume of poetry: Poems on Several Occasions.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
12 (1762): 180

Mary Whateley Darwall: Probably in March 1762

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Probably in March 1762

Mary Whateley first met the Rev. John Darwall , her future husband, then a married man with two small children (another had died).
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
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Sarah Scott: 3 March 1762

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3 March 1762

SS used a different publisher, John Newbery , for The History of Mecklenburgh. This time anonymous instead of pseudonymous, it was, like her previous historical work, thought to be written by a man.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xliv

Margaret Catchpole: 14 March 1762

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14 March 1762

MC was born, probably at Hoo in Suffolk.
Barber, Richard, and Richard Cobbold. “The Real Margaret Catchpole”. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl, Boydell Press, 1979, p. x - xviii.
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28 March 1762: Preaching at the opening of a chapel at the...

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28 March 1762

Preaching at the opening of a chapel at the LondonLock Hospital (for sexually transmitted disease) the Rev. Martin Madan pointed the finger at men who knowingly infect children.
Merians, Linda E. “The London Lock Hospital and the Lock Asylum for Women”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 128-45.
134-5

Mehetabel Wright: April-November 1762

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Author event in Mehetabel Wright

April-November 1762

The Christian's Magazine printed half a dozen poems by MW , calling her Mrs Wright.
Feminist Companion Archive.