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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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1764: There was published An Authentic Narrative...

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1764

There was published An Authentic Narrative of some . . . Particulars in the Life of [John Newton], an autobiography in which the ex-slave-trader Newton expressed penitence for his pre-conversion, sinful life.
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.

1764: The Order of Jesuits was suppressed in France,...

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1764

The Order of Jesuits was suppressed in France, and its property confiscated.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
697

1764: Mademoiselle d'Espinassy published Essai...

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1764

Mademoiselle d'Espinassy published Essai sur l'éducation des demoiselles, a considered response to Rousseau 's Emile.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
64, 66

A. Woodfin: 14 January 1764

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14 January 1764

AW 's publisher, T. Lowndes , wrote her a receipt for five guineas cash and the value of five more in books, to pay for her novel The Discovery; or, Memoirs of Miss Marianne Middleton...

Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : 16 February 1764

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16 February 1764

Mary Clarke , aged sixteen, was married at St Giles, Camberwell, to Claude Champion de Crespigny , an Admiralty official who later became a baronet.
Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere, 26 July 2012.
2 November 2012
Blanch, William Harnett. Ye Parish of Camerwell. A Brief Account of the Parish of Camberwell. E. W. Allen, 1875.
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Sarah Murray : 20 February 1764

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20 February 1764

Sarah Maese (as her birth name is spelled in the first volume of her work The School) opened a boarding-school for girls in Beauford Square, Bath.
Murray, Sarah. The School, being a Series of Letters, Between a Young Lady and her Mother. W Flexney, 1766–1772, 3 vols.
1: prelims

Sarah Chapone: Shortly before 24 February 1764

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Shortly before 24 February 1764

SC died, five years after her husband .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Cobbold: 25 February 1764

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25 February 1764

Elizabeth Knipe (later EC ) was born in Watling Street, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Ann Fisher : 24 March 1764

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24 March 1764

Thomas Slack , husband of AF , published the first number of his Newcastle Chronicle; the paper continued in the family for eighty-six years, becoming a leading Liberal voice in the region.
Horsley, P. M. “Some Local Ladies of the Eighteenth Century”. Heaton Works Journal, Vol.
6
, No. 33, C A Parsons and Company, pp. 131-8.
136
Rodriguez-Gil, Maria. “Deconstructing Female Conventions: Ann Fisher (1719-1778)”. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of Language Sciences, Vol.
33
, No. 1-2, John Benjamins, 2006, pp. 11-38.
31

30 March 1764: Parliament passed the American Duties Act...

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30 March 1764

Parliament passed the American Duties Act (usually called either the Sugar Act or the Revenue Act): an effort to collect the tax due on molasses.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
44-50

Mary Whateley Darwall: Spring 1764

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Spring 1764

Before her first book of poetry had appeared, Mary Whateley (later Darwall) wrote the first of the poems eventually published in her second book.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
75-6

Frances Sheridan: Spring and Summer 1764

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Spring and Summer 1764

FS accompanied her husband to Bath, Bristol and Edinburgh as he wore himself out on a lecture tour designed largely to keep the family out of the clutches of its creditors.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
xl
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
xv

Phebe Gibbes: By April 1764

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By April 1764

PG published anonymously a novel entitled The Life and Adventures of Mr. Francis Clive, one of two works she issued this year, which may be her first.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
17 (1764): 307

15 April 1764: Madame de Pompadour, former mistress of Louis...

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15 April 1764

Madame de Pompadour , former mistress of Louis XV , died: she had exercised a powerful influence on the visual arts, and on French public life generally, for nearly twenty years.
Gordon, Alden R. “Searching for the Elusive Madame de Pompadour”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 91-111.
94-5 and nn. 1, 4, 7

Ann Hatton: 29 April 1764

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29 April 1764

Ann Julia Kemble (later AH ) was born at Worcester.
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.
7:171

Mary Whateley Darwall: May 1764

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May 1764

Original Poems on Several Occasions, the first book by Mary Whateley (later Darwall) was published with her birth name by Robert Dodsley .
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
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Elizabeth Griffith: Before May 1764

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Before May 1764

EG again moved from Dublin to London (having left her two children in the care of her mother in Ireland).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jemima Kindersley: June 1764-February 1769

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June 1764-February 1769

JK travelled to India with her husband (visiting Brazil and South Africa en route), travelled widely while in India, and embarked on her voyage home.
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.

Jemima Kindersley: June 1764

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June 1764

JK wrote, from Santa Cruz on Tenerife, the first letter which she later included in her travel book.
Kindersley, Jemima. Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies. J. Nourse, 1777.
1

26 June 1764: Oliver Goldsmith published his well-known...

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26 June 1764

Oliver Goldsmith published his well-known History of England; it was well reviewed and remained a standard pedagogical text for generations.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
2: 1197

By July 1764: James Grainger published his georgic The...

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By July 1764

James Grainger published his georgic The Sugar-Cane: A Poem; he advised slaves not to repine, on the grounds that others were even worse off.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
18 (1764): 170-2, 273-7
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 1061
Carlile, Susan. “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennoxs Age and The Life of Harriot StuartEighteenth-Century Novel, edited by Albert J. Rivero and George Justice, Vol.
4
, 2005, pp. 103-37.
111-12

Ann Radcliffe: 9 July 1764

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9 July 1764

Ann Ward (later AR ) was born in Holborn, an only child.
Radcliffe, Ann. “Introduction and Explanatory Notes”. A Sicilian Romance, edited by Alison Milbank, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. Various Pages.
xxxiii
Radcliffe, Ann. Gaston de Blondeville. Henry Colburn, 1826, 4 vols.
1: 5

10 July 1764: A new play, The True-born Scotsman, a caricature...

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10 July 1764

A new play, The True-born Scotsman, a caricature of Scottishness by the Irishman Charles Macklin , opened at Smock Alley Theatre (or the Theatre Royal) in Dublin.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
122
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.
10: 17
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 430

William Cowper: 26 July 1764

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26 July 1764

WC found relief from his mental collapse in an experience of religious conversion: becoming convinced of his salvation by Jesus Christ restored his equilibrium.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Hannah Griffitts: August 1764

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August 1764

HG wrote her poem On the Death of a Child.
Moore, Milcah Martha. Milcah Martha Moore’s Book. Editors Blecki, Catherine La Courreye and Karin A. Wulf, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
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