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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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10 February 1763: The Peace of Paris ended the Seven Years'...

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10 February 1763

The Peace of Paris ended the Seven Years' War (known in North America as the French and Indian War), which had firmly established Britain's pre-eminence as a maritime power.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
533, 643, 765, 778
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David Garrick: 21 February 1763

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21 February 1763

Garrick succeeded in a reform which put an end to on-stage audience seating at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 947, 979

Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins: By 27 February 1763

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By 27 February 1763

EST was born in London, second of an innumerable family
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
(of which two brothers and four sisters are recorded).
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia, and Sir Thomas Edwyne Tomlins. Tributes of Affection. Longman and Dilly, 1797.
18-19

March 1763: At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic...

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March 1763

At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic farm workers rose in protest against working conditions and evictions.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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8 March 1763: William Thomas's diary notes that an old...

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8 March 1763

William Thomas 's diary notes that an old woman buried this day was universally feared in the neighbourhood (south-east Glamorgan) as a witch.
Howell, David W. “Review of R. T. W. Denning, ed., The Diary of William Thomas, 1762-1795, 1995”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2001, pp. 100-1.
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Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 10 March 1763

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10 March 1763

Mary Bosanquet dated a letter which was printed three years later as a pamphlet at both London and Bristol: Jesus, Altogether Lovely; or, A Letter to Some of the Single Women in the Methodist Society

Mary Berry: 16 March 1763

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16 March 1763

MB  was born on the estate of Kirkbridge at Stanwick, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the elder of two surviving sisters.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Berry, Mary. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry. Editor Lewis, Lady Theresa, Longmans, Green, 1865, 3 vols.
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Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 24 March 1763

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24 March 1763

[A]fter praying for God's guidance,Mary Bosanquet and Sarah Ryan set up house together at The Cedars in Leytonstone (a building dating from the Restoration) intending to use their home as a centre for service...

After April 1763: Martin Madan published An Account of the...

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After April 1763

Martin Madan published An Account of the Triumphant Death of F. S. a Converted Prostitute, who had supposedly died recently at the age of twenty-six.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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9 April 1763: Christopher Smart published A Song to Da...

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9 April 1763

Christopher Smart published A Song to David.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
15 (1763): 324
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.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
9 April 2009

16 April 1763: George Grenville was appointed Prime Minister...

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16 April 1763

George Grenville was appointed Prime Minister of Britain, and formed his government.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
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23 April 1763: John Wilkes and Charles Churchill's North...

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23 April 1763

John Wilkes and Charles Churchill 's North Briton number 45 attacked the king's speech; the arrest of Wilkes and the printers followed.
Miles, Peter. “’Humphry Clinker’: the politics of correspondence”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 167-82.
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Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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May 1763: The anonymous Every Woman her own Broker...

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May 1763

The anonymous Every Woman her own Broker was printed: not a straight guide to investment (like its exemplar, Every Man his own Broker), but a joke about earnings from prostitution.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
15 (1763): 408

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 7 May 1763

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7 May 1763

Making posthumous and unauthorised use of her name, Becket and De Hondt published LMWM 's Embassy Letters as Letters . . . written during her travels.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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Elizabeth Carter: Summer 1763

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Summer 1763

EC travelled in Europe with Elizabeth Montagu and Lord Bath .
Pennington, Montagu, and Elizabeth Carter. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter. F. C. and J. Rivington, 1807.
I: 270-2
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
194

Frances Brooke: 5 July 1763

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5 July 1763

Before departing for Québec to join her husband , FB attended a farewell party with Samuel Johnson and other literary friends.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
69

Frances Brooke: 5 July 1763

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5 July 1763

The publisher James Dodsley paid FB 100 guineas for her first original novel, the epistolary, sentimental The History of Lady Julia Mandeville, published this same year.
Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988.
561

Frances Brooke: 6 July 1763

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6 July 1763

FB sailed from England to join her husband in Québec.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
69

Elizabeth Montagu: 14-18 July 1763

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14-18 July 1763

EM , travelling in Europe with Lord Bath , wrote from Spa in present-day Belgium, to describe to Elizabeth Vesey her visit there.
qtd. in
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.
1: 48-9

Samuel Johnson: 31 July 1763

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31 July 1763

James Boswell recorded a crushing response made by SJ as part of his account of hearing Margaret Bell , c. 1708-77, a Quaker minister, preach at Lombard Street meeting.
Lustig, Irma S. “The Myth of Johnson’s Misogyny in the Life of Johnson: Another View”. Boswell in Scotland and Beyond, edited by Thomas Crawford and Thomas Crawford, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997.
78

Susannah Gunning: By August 1763

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By August 1763

Susannah Minifie (later SG ) collaborated with her sister Margaret Minifie in a sentimental epistolary novel, The Histories of Lady Frances S— and Lady Caroline S—: three volumes appeared this year.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
16 (1763): 108

Margaret Minifie: 1763-1766

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1763-1766

MM collaborated as an equal partner with her sister Susannah on two sentimental and didactic epistolary novels.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: August 1763-July 1764

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August 1763-July 1764

The parents of Georgiana Spencer, later Duchess of Devonshire , spent a year in Italy, leaving Georgiana under the care of her grandmother in Antwerp.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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10 September 1763: Henry Brooke and others launched a new journal...

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10 September 1763

Henry Brooke and others launched a new journal in Dublin called the Public Register: and, The Freeman's Journal. In 1806 it changed its title to Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Sarah Gardner: 1 October 1763

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1 October 1763

Sarah Cheney (later SG ) made her first appearance on the London stage, before her marriage, as Congreve 's Miss Prue in Love for Love: A Comedy at Drury Lane .
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.
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