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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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1767: Rétif de la Bretonne published Le Pornographe...

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1767

Rétif de la Bretonne published Le Pornographe ou les idées d'un honnête homme sur un projet de règlement pour les prostituées, the first of two works on the containment of female sexuality.
Norberg, Kathryn. “From Courtesan to Prostitute: Mercenary Sex and Venereal Disease 1730-1802”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 34-50.
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Howard, Heather. “Offstage Performances: Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century French Theatrical Reform”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 31 Mar. 2005.

By 1767: Of the thirty-seven county towns in England,...

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By 1767

Of the thirty-seven county towns in England, twelve had public Catholicmass-houses and at nine more a priest celebrated regular mass in his home.
Rowlands, Marie B. English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778. Catholic Record Society, 1999.
71, 73, 307, 282

1767: Man-midwife Sir John Leake assigned cost-free...

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1767

Man-midwife Sir John Leake assigned cost-free land in Lambeth, south of the Thames, on which to build to the New Westminster Lying-in Hospital , a charity institution.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1767: An Essay on Crimes and Punishments appeared,...

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1767

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments appeared, the English translation of the marchese Cesare Beccaria 's Dei delitti e delle pene, 1764, with a commentary attributed to Voltaire .
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.
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
168

1767: The elder Thomas Cadell took over Andrew...

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1767

The elder Thomas Cadell took over Andrew Millar 's publishing firm on Millar's retirement.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
His customary label as the elder is confusing: he had an uncle of the same name who was one of the...

1767: At auctions of copyright, Richardson's Clarissa...

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1767

At auctions of copyright, Richardson 's Clarissa was valued at £600, but Addison and Steele 's Spectator at £1,300, Shakespeare at £1,800, and Pope at £4,400.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
135

16 January 1767: The Northampton Mercury published an account...

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16 January 1767

The Northampton Mercury published an account of the hardship caused by enclosure at West Haddon.
Neeson, J. M. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
165 and n27

30 January 1767: Laurence Sterne published the ninth and final...

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30 January 1767

Laurence Sterne published the ninth and final volume of his novel Tristram Shandy, which had begun in December 1759.
Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy. Ann Ward; R. and J. Dodsley; T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, Dec. 1759–Jan. 1767, 9 vols.
9: title-page

Catharine Macaulay: By February 1767

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By February 1767

CM published volume three of her History of England, From the Accession of James I, with a subtitle that reads to the Elevation of the House of Hanover.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
23 (1767): 81

Ann Hatton: 12 February 1767

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12 February 1767

AH 's eldest sister, Sarah Kemble (later Siddons) , first appeared on stage (in a Worcester public house) in an entertainment to which admission was granted to those purchasing packets of tooth-powder.
qtd. in
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

12 February 1767-5 June 1769: Hugh Kelly issued his periodical The Babler,...

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12 February 1767-5 June 1769

Hugh Kelly issued his periodical The Babler, opening with the usual bow towards the Tatler and Spectator.
Kelly, Hugh. The Babler. Harrison, 1786, http://U of A Special Collections.

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 15 February 1767

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15 February 1767

Hester Thrale (later HLP ) bore the elder of her two sons, Henry Salusbury or Harry.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
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Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore: 24 February 1767

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24 February 1767

Mary Eleanor Bowes became Countess of Strathmore when on her eighteenth birthday she married, at St George's, Hanover Square, in London, John Lyon, Earl of Strathmore .
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: By March 1767

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By March 1767

An anonymous author, apparently the country apothecary Cudworth Bruch , celebrated the memory of LMWM in The Triumph of Inoculation; a Dream.
His name appears in manuscript on the title-page of the Bodleian Library

By March 1767: There was published in London The Female...

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By March 1767

There was published in LondonThe Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Elizabeth Winkfield, whose mixed-race heroine recounts her life story.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
97ff
Winkfield, Unca Eliza. The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Editor Burnham, Michelle, Broadview, 2001.
10-11, 192
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
307

Frances Sheridan: By April 1767

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By April 1767

FS 's sequel: Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, a second-generation story, was posthumously published as the two final volumes in the third edition of the whole.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
23 (1767): 274
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
xxxviii

Catharine Macaulay: By April 1767

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By April 1767

CM published an anonymous pamphlet, Loose Remarks on Hobbes, in the form of a letter to Pascal or Pasquale Paoli , Corsican national leader.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
23 (1767): 284

Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach: 30 May 1767

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30 May 1767

The seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Berkeley was married at the church of St Martin in the Fields in Spring Gardens, London, to William Craven , who two years later, when an uncle died, became the sixth Baron...

Phebe Gibbes: By June 1767

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By June 1767

PG used the upper classes again as the central figures in her next novel, The Woman of Fashion; or, The History of Lady Diana Dormer.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
23 (1767): 465
Feminist Companion Archive.

Earlier 1767: John Trusler founded the Literary Society...

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Earlier 1767

John Trusler founded the Literary Society (designed to make up for the slight attention paid to literature by the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce) and the accompanying Literary Press .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Trusler

Sarah Pearson : Shortly before 6 June 1767

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Shortly before 6 June 1767

SP was born in Sheffield. This was the day of her baptism in the cathedral there.
Sandro Jung is mistaken in giving the date of 1779.
Jung, Sandro. “Susanna Pearson and the Elegiac Lyric”. Studia Neophilologica: A Journal of Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature, Vol.
78
, No. 2, 8 Mar. 2006, pp. 153-64.
153
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. 16 May 2016.

Frances Burney: 13 June 1767

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13 June 1767

On her fifteenth birthday FB made a bonfire of her writings so far: Elegies, Odes, Plays, Songs, Stories, Farces—nay, Tragedies and Epic Poems.
Burney, Frances. Memoirs of Doctor Burney. Edward Moxon, 1832, 3 vols.
2: 124
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Anne Damer: 14 June 1767

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14 June 1767

Anne Seymour Conway , not yet twenty, was married to John Damer , eldest son of Lord Milton (later Lord Dorchester) ; the marriage was not happy.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Ann Masterman Skinn: 29 June 1767

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29 June 1767

Ann Masterman married the attorney William Skinn , who according to her fictional portrait of him three years later proved to be the greatest brute in nature.
qtd. in
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.
Staves, Susan. “Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: The Case of Ann Masterman”. Fetter’d or Free?: British Women Novelists 1670-1815, edited by Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield, Ohio University Press, 1986, pp. 169-85.
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29 June 1767: The Revenue Act imposed new and severe duties...

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29 June 1767

The Revenue Act imposed new and severe duties on the British trade with America.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
335, 370
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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