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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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Frances Brooke: Autumn 1764-Autumn 1765

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Author event in Frances Brooke

Autumn 1764-Autumn 1765

FB interrupted her time in Québec, with a year spent back in England.
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix.
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Hester Lynch Piozzi: 17 September 1764

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Author event in Hester Lynch Piozzi

17 September 1764

Hester Thrale (later HLP ) bore her first child, Hester Maria Thrale , who was known by Johnson 's nickname for her, Queeney .
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
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Frances Sheridan: By October 1764

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Author event in Frances Sheridan

By October 1764

FS and her family had fled to Blois in France, where creditors could not reach them and they could live on Thomas 's state pension.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Anna Seward: October 1764

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Author event in Anna Seward

October 1764

AS left Lichfield to make her first visit to London.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
23-4

Susannah Gunning: By October 1764

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By October 1764

Susannah Minifie (later SG ) may perhaps have published, as a Lady and its single author, Family Pictures, A Novel. Containing Curious and Interesting Memoirs of several Persons of Fashion in W——re.
The Feminist...

22 October 1764: Clive achieved complete control over Bengal,...

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22 October 1764

Clive achieved complete control over Bengal, by defeating Mir Kasim and his north Indian allies at Buxar.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Abigail Adams: 25 October 1764

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25 October 1764

Abigail Smith married lawyer John Adams , who was later to become Vice-President, then second President, of the newly-constituted United States.
Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Little, Brown, 1980.
17, 113, 141-3

Anne Francis: 25 October 1764

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25 October 1764

Anne Gittings married the Rev. (Robert) Bransby Francis of Edgefield, near Holt in Norfolk.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

November 1764: Governors of the London Lock Hospital for...

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November 1764

Governors of the LondonLock Hospital for sexually transmitted disease agreed to fund the prosecution of the rapist of a five-year-old girl admitted to the hospital in June.
Merians, Linda E. “The London Lock Hospital and the Lock Asylum for Women”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 128-45.
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Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 8 November 1764

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8 November 1764

Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) wrote an actual letter which reached print the same year as A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, ascribed to a Gentlewoman but signed with her initials.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

December 1764: The Critical gave a bad review to the anonymous,...

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December 1764

The Critical gave a bad review to the anonymous, pro-woman Man-Midwifery Analysed; however, it disclaimed (less than convincingly) any prejudice in favour of men.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
18 (1764): 444-6
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
18 (1764): 478

Anne Irwin: 2 December 1764

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2 December 1764

AI died in her late sixties, probably at Kew.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 3 December 1764

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Author event in Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847

3 December 1764

Mary Lamb was born in the Temple, London, the middle one and the only girl among the three surviving children in her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
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24 December 1764: Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto,...

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24 December 1764

Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto, dedicated to Lady Mary Coke .
Reed, Joseph W., Jr et al. “Introduction”. The Castle of Otranto, edited by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
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Ann Jebb: 29 December 1764

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29 December 1764

Ann Torkington married the Rev. John Jebb , a scholarly polymath who held a fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge .
Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, 1787, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
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Elizabeth Carter: Perhaps 1765

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Perhaps 1765

EC had her portrait painted by the artist Catherine Read (at least the third painter to represent her). It was commissioned by Elizabeth Montagu .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Anne Grant: 1765

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1765

Anne MacVicar (later AG ) and her family moved from Albany, New York, a few miles up the Hudson. From here they would have gone on to their land claim at Clarendon (later...

Sophia Hume: 1765

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1765

SH published at Bristol a pamphlet with her initials, entitled A Short Appeal to Men and Women of Reason, Distinguished by Titles of Worldly Honour; or by Riches exclusive of Titles
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Catharine Macaulay: 1765

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1765

CM published the second volume of her History of England, again for the author, through J. Nourse .
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Charlotte McCarthy: Probably 1765

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Probably 1765

CMC published a pamphlet in dramatic form, The Author and Bookseller. A dramatic piece. . . . With proposals for printing by subscription, Justice and reason, faithful guides to truth.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1765-71: The Court Miscellany; or, Ladies New Magazine,...

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1765-71

The Court Miscellany; or, Ladies New Magazine, was published in London; it then continued as the Court; or Gentleman and Lady's New Magazine.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
146, 149

January-March 1765: George III was intermittently ill with his...

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January-March 1765

George III was intermittently ill with his first attack of what was almost certainly porphyria.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
10-91, 172-5, 185
There seems to be some disagreement as to whether 1765 or 1788 constituted the first major attack...

1765: The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...

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1765

The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes was published by John Newbery: the most popular children's book of its period. It had fourteen reprints before 1814.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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Fergus, Jan. “The Gothic Moan”. Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 10 Oct. 1998.
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Without Impropriety’: Maria Jane Jewsbury on Jane Austen”. Persuasions, Vol.
13
, 1991, pp. 33-8.
15: 3, 25
Brownstein, Rachel M. “Review of Jane Austen by Deirdre LeFaye”. JASNA News: The Newsletter of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Vol.
15
, No. 3, 1999, p. 25.
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Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan, 1870–1872, 2 vols.
1: vi

1765: Isaac Teale, in The Sable Venus: An Ode,...

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1765

Isaac Teale , in The Sable Venus: An Ode, unselfconsciously combined facts about the slave trade with a mythologised triumph of black Venus, arriving in Jamaica from Africa to the plaudits of colonists.
Bhattacharya, Nandini. “Family Jewels: George Colmans Inkle and Yarico and Connoisseurship”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 207-26.
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About 1765: Catharine Cappeimg: move in unlikely event...

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About 1765

Catharine Cappe opened one of the earliest recorded Sunday schools, at Catterick in Yorkshire.
Cappe, Catharine. Memoirs of the Life of the late Mrs. Catharine Cappe. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.
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