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.
Events Timeline
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.
5201 - 5225 of 43197
Mary Collier: Probably before October 1762
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Collier
Probably before October 1762
In the year of her death
published by subscription, at Winchester, her Poems, on Several Occasions.
Anna Seward: October 1762-June 1768
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Seward
October 1762-June 1768
preserved her letters from these years, as juvenilia.
By October 1762: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile, a novel of...
Writing climate item
By October 1762
's Émile, a novel of education published in the earlier part of this year in French, had its first English translation as Emilius and Sophia.
Mary Collier: By 20 October 1762
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Collier
By 20 October 1762
died, presumably at Alton in Hampshire, where she was buried on this date.
20 October 1762: The first number of the Providence Gazette...
Writing climate item
20 October 1762
The first number of the Providence Gazette (first newspaper in the then British colony of Rhode Island) was printed by
and her son and daughter
and
.
Sarah Scott: 29 October 1762
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Scott
29 October 1762
published through
her most famous novel, A Description of Millenium Hall, or of a female utopia described by a male narrator.
Maria Susanna Cooper: 30 October 1762
Women writers item
Author event in Maria Susanna Cooper
30 October 1762
wrote to publisher
about the anonymous appearance of her first book, the novel Letters Between Emilia and Harriet. Her letter is now lost, as is one written this year by her...
November 1762: At the annual Lord Mayor's Banquet in London,...
National or international item
November 1762
At the annual Lord Mayor's Banquet in London,
was vociferously welcomed, while
, who was thought to be too soft in the peace negotiations, was nearly mauled by the crowd.
David Garrick: 3 November 1762
Writing climate item
Author event in David Garrick
3 November 1762
staged
's Henry IV, Part 2 at
in historical costume instead of in the present fashions.
15 November 1762-3 August 1763: Beginning on the day on which he left Scotland...
Writing climate item
15 November 1762-3 August 1763
Beginning on the day on which he left Scotland for London,
kept the journal which was eventually published as London Journal.
Leah Sumbel: 16 December 1762
Women writers item
Author event in Leah Sumbel
16 December 1762
Mary Stephens Davies (who later acted as Mary Wells and later again as a memoirist called herself
) was born in Birmingham.
Mary Collyer: 31 December 1762
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Collyer
31 December 1762
died of a lingering illness which her
attributed to agitation of mind brought on by her translation from
.
Frances Sheridan: 31 December 1762
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Sheridan
31 December 1762
The young
heard
and
read her play The Discovery aloud at their home in Windsor, their voices alternating.
Ann Fisher : 1762
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Fisher
1762
's The New English Tutor, or Modern Preceptor was published at Newcastle with her name (A. Fisher)—seventeen years before the Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded use of the modern sense of textbook.
Mary Wollstonecraft: 1763
Women writers item
Radagunda Roberts: 1763
Women writers item
Author event in Radagunda Roberts
1763
's earliest identified publication was a translation, begun as a French exercise, of
's highflown tales of maternal and marital love, which appeared at Gloucester as Select Moral Tales, By a Lady.
Alicia Tyndal Palmer: 1763
Women writers item
January 1763: Parliamentary investigation of London madhouses...
January 1763
Parliamentary investigation of London madhouses substantiated charges of improper confinement.
1763: George Robinson founded his publishing firm...
Writing climate item
1763
founded his publishing firm in Paternoster Row, London; it became
in 1784 when his son and brother joined as partners.
1763-4: Francis Fawkes and William Woty published...
Writing climate item
1763-4
and
published a successor to
's famous poetry anthology: The Poetical Calendar. Containing a collection of scarce and valuable pieces of poetry.
1763: The Berbice slave revolt in the Caribbean...
1763
The Berbice slave revolt in the Caribbean was put down with extreme brutality; this in the long run ensured even greater racial oppression.
1763: General Jeffrey Amherst, British commander...
National or international item
1763
General
, British commander in North America, suggested that smallpox might advantageously be introduced among the disaffected tribes of Indians currently being led in rebellion by
.
David Garrick: 25 January 1763
Frances Sheridan: 3 February 1763
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Sheridan
3 February 1763
's first play, the comedy The Discovery (which had been in rehearsal the previous November), opened at
.
Maria Susanna Cooper: 10 February 1763
Women writers item
Author event in Maria Susanna Cooper
10 February 1763
, husband of
, received twenty-four pounds and fifteen shillings from publisher
in payment for his wife's second anonymous epistolary novel, The School for Wives. In a Series of Letters.