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.
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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Sarah Gardner: Summer 1765
Women writers item
July 1765: Elizabeth Parker, an independent widow of...
July 1765
, an independent widow of Alkincoats in Lancashire and an energetic diarist, eloped to Gretna Green with
, a much younger merchant: this proved a very bad choice.
July 1765: The child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
July 1765
The child prodigy
left London, where he had resided throughout the previous year, playing before the royal family, and enjoying great popular success.
Catherine Fanshawe: 6 July 1765
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Fanshawe
6 July 1765
was born at her father's estate, Shabden at Chipstead in Surrey; she was the middle one in a family of three sisters; one brother died very young and the other as a young man.
Sarah Scott: August 1765
Women writers item
Anna, Lady Miller : August 1765
Women writers item
Author event in Anna, Lady Miller
August 1765
The heiress Anna Riggs , later ALM , was married at Bath to an Irish officer, Captain
.
12 August 1765: The East India Company took over the direct...
12 August 1765
The
took over the direct administration of revenues from Bengal. The young Mughal emperor, Shah Alam , dismissed his tax-collectors and gave their powers to officers of the company, in which...
7 September 1765: Lloyd's Evening Post reported that the chevalier...
7 September 1765
Lloyd's Evening Post reported that the chevalier d'Éon and
had each been attacked by six ruffians in the streets of London.
Jean Marishall: By October 1765
Women writers item
Author event in Jean Marishall
By October 1765
published anonymously at London, with the
brothers, her first, epistolary, novel, The History of Miss Clarinda Cathcart and Miss Fanny Renton, dated 1766.
October 1765: Resistance to the Stamp Act in America i...
National or international item
October 1765
Resistance to the Stamp Act in America increased.
Samuel Johnson: 10 October 1765
Writing climate item
Author event in Samuel Johnson
10 October 1765
published by subscription, again after many delays, his edition of
.
Anne Bannerman: 31 October 1765
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Bannerman
31 October 1765
was born in Edinburgh, her parents' eldest surviving child..
By November 1765: A Bristol clergyman published A Dialogue...
By November 1765
A Bristol clergyman published A Dialogue Concerning the Subjection of Women to their Husbands.
Frances Sheridan: 16 November 1765
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Sheridan
16 November 1765
wrote to
from Blois in France about her draft comedy A Journey to Bath.
27 November 1765: In the case of Entick V. Carrington, Lord...
27 November 1765
In the case of Entick V. Carrington,
denied the right of servants of the crown to enter a private house in search of seditious papers.
Hester Lynch Piozzi: December 1765
Women writers item
Author event in Hester Lynch Piozzi
December 1765
wrote a poem, Three Warnings, which was printed four months later in
's Miscellanies.
This has no connection with her 1798 pamphlet Three Warnings to John Bull.
By December 1765: Sir William Blackstone published the first...
By December 1765
published the first book of his Commentaries on the Laws of England; he completed it in 1769.
December 1765: In the parish of St Botolph without Bishopsgate,...
December 1765
In the parish of St Botolph without Bishopsgate, London, a parish council meeting heard several Disputes whether women householders who paid the poor rate had a Right to Vote for Parish Officers.
17 December 1765: The king's speech in the House of Commons...
National or international item
17 December 1765
The king's speech in the
mentioned that matters of importance had occurred in America and made anodyne promises of diligence and attention.
Susanna Blamire: 1766
Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Blamire
1766
apparently attached this date to a poem entitled Written in a Churchyard, On Seeing a Number of Cattle Grazing in it, which captures less of the rhythms of speech than her mature poems.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Early 1766
Writing climate item
Author event in Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Early 1766
The exiled
travelled from Paris to London in company with the philosopher
, who had invited him to Britain at the urging of some of Rousseau's supporters in France.
Sophia Hume: 1766
Women writers item
Author event in Sophia Hume
1766
joined an ongoing medical-theological debate with an anonymous pamphlet (which seems to be her last) entitled Remarks on the Practice of Inoculation for the Small Pox.
Sarah Murray : 1766
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Murray
1766
signed the preface to the otherwise anonymous first volume of The School, being a Series of Letters, Between a Young Lady and her Mother.
1766 or 1767: Joseph Priestley first isolated nitrous oxide...
1766 or 1767
first isolated nitrous oxide or nitrous air.
Sources differ as to the exact date.
1766: The Annual Register printed a Humorous Proposal...
1766
The Annual Register printed a Humorous Proposal for a Female Administration by Jacobina Henriques, proposing that the tired government and constitution would be revivified by women in public office.