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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 Reynolds : August 1766

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August 1766

From this month there survives an early draft of an untitled poem which FR apparently kept by her for years before revising it in 1785. It is known as A Melancholy Tale or by its...

Elizabeth Montagu: From 1 August 1766

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From 1 August 1766

EM toured Scotland with Dorothea and Dr John Gregory ; she visited Edinburgh, Dalkeith, and Glasgow.
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.
1: 143-7

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: 16 August 1766

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16 August 1766

Carolina Oliphant (later COLN ) was born at the Auld Hoose of Gask in Strathearn, Scotland: her parents had returned there from Jacobite exile just two years before she was born
Strathearn or Strath...

Frances Sheridan: 26 August 1766

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26 August 1766

FS died unexpectedly at Blois in France, after a fever and an illness of only two weeks.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
xv

Sarah, Lady Pennington: By September 1766

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Sarah Pennington published by subscription the first two volumes of Letters on Different Subjects; amongst which are interspers'd the adventures of Alphonso, after the destruction of Lisbon, whose title-page attributes the work to the...

Catharine Macaulay: 16 September 1766

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16 September 1766

CM 's husband died, leaving her a young widow with a small child.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Hester Lynch Piozzi: 17 September 1766

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17 September 1766

On her eldest daughter's second birthday Hester Thrale (later HLP ) began her Children's Book or rather Family Book.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
70

23 September 1766: The Gentleman's Magazine reported on the...

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23 September 1766

The Gentleman's Magazine reported on the serious food riots that were following a bad harvest, high bread prices, an increase in enclosure, and the perception of profiteering by landlords.
Neeson, J. M. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
20 and n15
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
36 (1766): 436

Cassandra Cooke: 9 October 1766

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9 October 1766

Cassandra Leigh (later CC ) wrote a prayer after my dear Mother 's death, which had happened four days before this. This was apparently her last writing to survive until sixteen years later.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
31, 32

Henrietta Sykes: Before 13 October 1766

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Before 13 October 1766

Henrietta Masterman (later HS ) was born, probably in York, where she was christened; she was an only or an only-surviving child.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Charlotte Lennox: 25 October 1766

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25 October 1766

James Dodsley paid CL twenty guineas for half the rights to The History of Eliza: keeping the other half as an investment was a new move for her.
Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988.
562

Dorothea Du Bois: By November 1766

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By November 1766

DDB published, with her name, The Case of Ann, Countess of Anglesey , lately Deceased.
Du Bois, Dorothea. The Case of Ann, Countess of Anglesey. 1766.
title-page
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
xxxvi (1766): 537-9

Mary Whateley Darwall: 4 November 1766

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4 November 1766

Mary Whateley married John Darwall , curate of Walsall, at Beoley (one year and two months after he buried his first wife).
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: By December 1766

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By December 1766

Volumes 3 and 4 of A Series of Genuine Letters Between Henry and Frances, by EG and Richard Griffith , were published.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
23 (1767): 30

Charlotte Lennox: By December 1766

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By December 1766

CL anonymously published her novel The History of Eliza. Written by a Friend (finished in October), of which her authorship was uncertain till recently. The title-page is dated 1767.
Dalziel, Margaret, and Duncan Isles, editors. “Introduction, Chronology, and Appendix”. The Female Quixote, Oxford University Press, 1970.
xxii
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
22: 434-8

Anna Letitia Barbauld: 1767

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1767

Anna Aikin (later ALB ) met her future husband in Warrington when he was admitted as a student to the Warrington Academy .
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
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Charlotte Forman: 1767

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1767

CF was imprisoned for debt, apparently for a relatively short period, in the Marshalsea Prison .
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
30-1

Sarah Scott: 1767-late 1768

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1767-late 1768

SS planned and established a self-sustaining community of women at Hitcham House, at Hitcham in Buckinghamshire, near the Bath Road (the London-Bath highway).
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xxvi-xxviii
Rizzo, Betty. “Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 193-14.
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Jean Marishall: 1767

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1767

As the author of Clarinda Cathcart, JM issued by subscription, printed fror the author and through a different publisher, her second novel, The History of Alicia Montague.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Charlotte McCarthy: 1767

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1767

CMC published at London, by subscription, a work titled (in full) Justice and Reason, faithful guides to truth. A treatise under thirty-seven heads. To which are added, Letters, moral and entertaining, (never before publish'd).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
McCarthy, Charlotte. Justice and Reason. printed for the author, 1767.
title-page

Hannah More: 1767

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1767

HM 's sisters moved their school from Trinity Street to a purpose-built house in Park Street, a new and fashionable area of Bristol.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Sarah Murray : 1767

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1767

Sarah Mease published the second volume of The School, being a Series of Letters, Between a Young Lady and her Mother.
Her name appears as Mrs Mease in the advertisement for her school which...

1767: Work began on the Royal Crescent in Bath,...

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1767

Work began on the Royal Crescent in Bath, which was completed in 1775.
Parker, Keiko. “What Part of Bath Do You Think They Will Settle In?: Jane Austens Use of Bath in PersuasionPersuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 166-76.
168

1767: Oliver Goldsmith selected and edited Poems...

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1767

Oliver Goldsmith selected and edited Poems for Young Ladies, dividing it into three sections: Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining.
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.

1767: James Craig's design for Edinburgh New Town...

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1767

James Craig 's design for Edinburgh New Town set out to demonstrate Scotland's national pride and its British loyalty.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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