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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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Tabitha Tenney: 7 April 1762

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7 April 1762

Tabitha Gilman (later TT ) was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, her parents' eldest child (though she had an uncertain number of elder half-siblings).
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Tenney, Tabitha. “Introduction”. Female Quixotism, edited by Jean Nienkamp and Andrea Collins, Oxford University Press, 1992, p. xiii - xxxi.
xxiv

Jemima Kindersley: 19 April 1762

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19 April 1762

Jemima Wicksteed married Nathaniel Edward Kindersley , a thirty-year-old artillery officer, at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

27 April 1762: The chair of Rhetoric to which Hugh Blair...

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27 April 1762

The chair of Rhetoric to which Hugh Blair (1718-1800) had been appointed at Edinburgh in 1760 was converted to a Regius Professorship of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
Hawkes, Terence. “Dr Blair, the Leavis of the North”. London Review of Books, 18 Feb. 1999, pp. 23-4.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

May 1762: William Falconer published his poem The ...

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May 1762

William Falconer published his poem The Shipwreck.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
13 (1762): 440
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.

Mary Ann Radcliffe: 2 May 1762

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2 May 1762

More than a year after being married by a Roman Catholic ceremony, MAR and Joseph Radcliffe had a second wedding in the Anglican church where she had been baptised, St Nicholas' in Nottingham.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Anne Radcliffe. 1 June 2016.

Beginning of May 1762: When a prostitute was charged with soliciting...

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Beginning of May 1762

When a prostitute was charged with soliciting in Fleet Street, London, a local tradesman spoke of her honorable character before the court, and was willing to stand surety for her to the amount of...

Charlotte Lennox: 13 May 1762

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13 May 1762

CL published, with her name (but without any dedication), Sophia, an adaptation and expansion of The History of Harriot and Sophia from her Lady's Museum.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
327

26 May 1762: The Earl of Bute (a Tory, and the young king's...

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26 May 1762

The Earl of Bute (a Tory, and the young king 's mentor) became Prime Minister.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

June 1762: John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched...

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June 1762

John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched the anti-government paper The North Briton; on 23 April 1763 the notorious number 45 attacked the king's speech and indirectly made Wilkes into a hero of radical opinion...

By June 1762: Arthur Murphy anonymously published An Enquiry...

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By June 1762

Arthur Murphy anonymously published An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
32 (1672): 295

June 1762: Catherine the Great came to power in Russia...

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June 1762

Catherine the Great came to power in Russia in a skilfully managed coup.
Levitt, Marcus C. “An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great’s Debate with Chappe d’Auteroche over Russian Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 49-63.
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6 June 1762: A British expedition sent to invade Cuba...

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6 June 1762

A British expedition sent to invade Cuba reached Havana.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 11 June 1762

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11 June 1762

JJR became an exile from France after his novel Émile was banned by the French government.
Buchan, James. “How Rousseau invented reality TV”. The Guardian, 19 Aug. 2006, p. Review 10.
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Mary Latter: By August 1762

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By August 1762

An anonymous hand greeted ML in her home town with the apparently complimentary A Familiar, Poetical Epistle to Miss Latter, on her Return from London to Reading.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
14 (1762): 155

Mary Latter: After 14 August 1762

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After 14 August 1762

ML wrote A Lyric Ode, on the Birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (later George IV ), which she published in 1763.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

14 August 1762: Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba, fell to a British...

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14 August 1762

Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba, fell to a British naval siege which had cost the lives of 1,800 British soldiers and sailors.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 21 August 1762

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21 August 1762

LMWM died of breast cancer 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: 296n2

Mary Palmer : Late August 1762

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Late August 1762

MP and her husband entertained her brother Joshua , sister Frances , and Samuel Johnson , sharing the hostess honours for several days with her married sister Elizabeth Johnson, who lived nearby.
Clifford, James L. Dictionary Johnson. McGraw-Hill, 1979.
282-5

Sarah Scott: September 1762

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September 1762

SS and Lady Barbara made the short move from their home at Batheaston to settle themselves at Bath.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xxiv

Cassandra Cooke: 5 September 1762

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5 September 1762

The future CC wrote a poem, From Miss Cassandra Leigh to her Sister, felicitating the much older Mary on her engagement.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Joanna Baillie: 11 September 1762

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11 September 1762

JB was born at Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the youngest of three surviving children.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
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Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe: By 22 September 1762

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By 22 September 1762

Elizabeth Postuma Gwillim (later EPS ) was born at her maternal grandmother's house at All Saints' Aldwinkle or Aldwincle in Northamptonshire, to a father already dead and a mother who died following her birth...

William Lisle Bowles: 24 September 1762

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24 September 1762

WLB , later well-known as a poet, was born at Kings Sutton in Northamptonshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Ann Thicknesse: Biography: 27 September 1762

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27 September 1762

Ann Ford married (at Felixstowe in Suffolk, as his third wife) the writer, entrepreneur, adventurer, and laudanum addict Philip Thicknesse , whose second wife, Lady Elizabeth, had been a good friend of hers and...

Mariana Starke: Last week of September 1762

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Last week of September 1762

MS was born at Epsom in Surrey, the second, but the first surviving, of her parents' children.
Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere, 26 July 2012.