Edwards, Mary Jane, and Frances Brooke. “Editor’s Introduction”. The History of Emily Montague, Carleton University Press, 1985, p. xvii - lxxi.
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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.
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Frances Brooke: 4 October 1763
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4 October 1763
It happened that
arrived in Canada only days before Québec's new civil constitution was proclaimed.
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan: 4 October 1763
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Author event in Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
4 October 1763
Elizabeth Jervis (later
) was born in London, the eldest daughter in her family.
The International Genealogical Index spells her name as Elisabeth in its listing of her birth, but later as Elizabeth...
7 October 1763: A proclamation gave Quebec its first civil...
7 October 1763
A proclamation gave Quebecits first civil constitution under British rule, under
.
Hester Lynch Piozzi: 11 October 1763
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Author event in Hester Lynch Piozzi
11 October 1763
Hester Lynch Salusbury (later
) married the wealthy brewer
.
Mary Whateley Darwall: By November 1763
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Author event in Mary Whateley Darwall
By November 1763
Mary Whateley (later
) moved back from Walsall to Beoley, where in August her father died.
Mary Savage: November 1763
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Author event in Mary Savage
November 1763
, having seen in manuscript
's poem on Oeconomy, was sufficiently impressed to print it, anonymously, in the Gentleman's Magazine.
Elizabeth Griffith: November 1763
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Author event in Elizabeth Griffith
November 1763
was probably one of the contributors to volume one of Moral Tales, an anonymous translation from
's Contes moraux.
Catharine Macaulay: By November 1763
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Author event in Catharine Macaulay
By November 1763
published, with her name, the first volume of her History of England from the Accession of
to that of the Brunswick Line—that is, the Hanoverian monarchs.
15 November 1763: The House of Lords learned of the existence...
15 November 1763
The
learned of the existence of the scurrilous, obscene Essay on Woman by
and
, after its private, thirteen-copy edition for members of the
had...
Mary Collyer: By December 1763
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Author event in Mary Collyer
By December 1763
's translation from the German of
's The Messiah was posthumously published by her
.
William Cowper: December 1763
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Author event in William Cowper
December 1763
The young
, terrified at the prospect of public examination to establish his suitability for a legal sinecure and a steady income, embarked on a series of unconvincing suicide attempts, and finally lapsed into madness.
Mary Whateley Darwall: 3 December 1763
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Author event in Mary Whateley Darwall
3 December 1763
signed the dedication of her first book, Original Poems on Several Occasions.
Frances Sheridan: 10 December 1763
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Author event in Frances Sheridan
10 December 1763
's second comedy, The Dupe (called by editor
an interesting cross between a farce and a morality play), opened at
; but it flopped.
Alison Cockburn: 1764
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Author event in Alison Cockburn
1764
The Black Bird. A Choice Collection of the Most Celebrated Songs. Few of which are to be found in any other Collection, published at Edinburgh, included, anonymously, what is probably the best-known of...
Dorothea Du Bois: 1764
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Author event in Dorothea Du Bois
1764
published at Dublin, by subscription and dedicated to the
, Poems on Several Occasions, by a Lady of Quality.
Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson: 1764-1765
Writing climate item
Author event in Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson
1764-1765
Elizabeth Graeme (later
) spent a year in London, England, during which time she also made an extended trip to Scotland.
Charlotte Forman: 1764
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Author event in Charlotte Forman
1764
One of her brothers, who had been supporting
with money, died.
Regina Maria Roche: 1763 or 1764
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1763 or 1764
Regina Maria Dalton (later
) was born in Waterford, Ireland.
Some reference sources give her birthplace as County Wexford, but she herself says Waterford.
Anne Hunter: 1764
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Author event in Anne Hunter
1764
Anne Home (later Hunter) published an anonymous lyric, Adieu, ye streams that smoothly glide, in The Black Bird.
Mary Latter: By January 1764
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Author event in Mary Latter
By January 1764
published anonymously, at Reading and London, Liberty and Interest. A Burlesque Poem on the Present Times.
1764: A group of fashionable young Englishmen calling...
1764
A group of fashionable young Englishmen calling themselves the
embarked on a campaign to promote Continental styles of cooking and dressing.
1764: Evan Evans published Some Specimens of the...
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1764
published Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards.
About 1764: James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny...
About 1764
invented the spinning jenny after seeing a traditional spinning wheel fall over, with its wheel and spindle turning in the air.
1764: German labouring-class poet Anna Luise Karsch...
Writing climate item
1764
German labouring-class poet
first reached print with four separate publications at Berlin, most importantly a collection, Auserlesene Gedichte (edited for publication by
).
1764: Twenty-four sepoys or native soldiers who...
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1764
Twenty-four sepoys or native soldiers who had mutinied at Patna in India were executed by cannonade: standing against the mouth of a cannon fired point-blank at their shoulders.