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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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Anna Letitia Barbauld: Late June 1767

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Late June 1767

Anna Aikin (later ALB ) wrote On Mrs P— 's Leaving Warrington, one of her earliest important surviving poems, which she threw into the carriage that was to carry the Priestleys away to Joseph

Frances Sheridan: By July 1767

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By July 1767

FS 's romance oriental tale The History of Nourjahad was posthumously published.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
37 (1767): 365-6

Susanna Blamire: 10 July 1767

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10 July 1767

SB 's sister, Sarah , married a Scots army officer, Colonel Thomas Graeme (or Grame or Graham) , significantly older than herself, whose family came from Duchray Castle in Stirlingshire.
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
25-6
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Whateley Darwall: Between August 1767 and January 1776

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Between August 1767 and January 1776

MWD added to her family of step-children six children of her own.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
92, 95, 114

5 September 1767: August Wilhelm von Schlegel, critic, was...

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5 September 1767

August Wilhelm von Schlegel , critic, was born in Hanover, which was then its own nation-state but is now part of Germany.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
94

14 September 1767: Midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg was hanged at...

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14 September 1767

Midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg was hanged at Tyburn (in London near the present Marble Arch) for the murder of Mary Clifford , a workhouse apprentice.
Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.
300
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Charlotte Forman: 22 October 1767

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22 October 1767

CF melodramatically reproached her surviving brother for marrying a rustic servant and leaving for Ireland, without saying goodbye to her.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
31-2, 33

Elizabeth Bentley: Shortly before 26 November 1767

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Shortly before 26 November 1767

EB was born in Norwich, her parents' only child; this was the date of her christening.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Margaret Minifie: By December 1767

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By December 1767

MM published, anonymously and without her sister, Barford Abbey, A Novel, in a Series of Letters.
The English Short Title Catalogue records no surviving copy of the first edition, and only two copies (at...

Phillis Wheatley: 21 December 1767

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21 December 1767

The appearance of a poem by PW , On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin, in a Boston newspaper was remarkable (though not a first) because of Wheatley's status as a chattel slave.
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.
337-8

Maria Edgeworth: 1 January 1768

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1 January 1768

ME was born at Black Bourton in Oxfordshire, home of her mother's family.
ME 's biographer Marilyn Butler , in a footnote, discusses the different dates ascribed to her birth—1 January 1767 or 1768...

Mary Wollstonecraft: 1768

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1768

MW 's family moved right away from London, to Beverley in Yorkshire.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
18

Anne Hart Gilbert: 1768

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1768

Anne Hart (later AHG ) was born in Antigua, the eldest daughter in a large family.
Editor Moira Ferguson makes Anne the younger, reversing her and Elizabeth's birth dates, but Elizabeth says that Anne...

Mary Latter: 1768

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1768

A benefit performance of ML 's tragedy The Siege of Jerusalem was given at Reading, but without producing any emolument to the author,
Baker, David Erskine. Biographia Dramatica. AMS Press, 1966, 3 vols.
1: 446
which suggests that it was not a success.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
392
Baker, David Erskine. Biographia Dramatica. AMS Press, 1966, 3 vols.
1: 446

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1768

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1768

Following the first, posthumous publication of LMWM 's Letters, Isaac Reid collected and edited her Poetical Works.
Grundy, Isobel. “Editing Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchinson and Ann M. Hutchinson, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 55-78.
65-6

January 1768: The radical Political Register celebrated...

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January 1768

The radical Political Register celebrated the learning and political acumen of the chevalier d'Éon, publishing long extracts from his works.
Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-48.
27

1768-79: During these years alone, seven licences...

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1768-79

During these years alone, seven licences were issued to provincial theatres.
Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 9-62.
35

1768: Arthur Young published the first of his surveys...

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1768

Arthur Young published the first of his surveys of the state of the British countryside: A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
387

1768: By act of parliament, the spa resort of Bath...

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1768

By act of parliament, the spa resort of Bath (which had supported a theatre since 1705) received a patent for the first Theatre Royal outside London.
“A Brief History of the Theatre Royal, Bath”. Theatre Royal, Bath: History.

1768: The second of the two leading subscribers'...

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1768

The second of the two leading subscribers' or metropolitan libraries opened in Leeds.
Raven, James. Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800. Clarendon, 1992.
128-9
Poulson, Christine. “Hidden treasures”. The Author, Vol.
cxvii
, No. 4, 1 Dec. 2006–28 Feb. 2007, pp. 145-6.
146

1768: The Countess of Huntingdon opened Trevecca...

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1768

The Countess of Huntingdon opened Trevecca College , for the training of evangelical Dissenting ministers, at Trevecca, Brecknockshire, Wales.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
79
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.
99

Catharine Macaulay: 6 January 1768

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6 January 1768

CM gave a Twelfth Night Rout, or party, where games were played: it lasted until 3 a.m.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
17-18

Elizabeth Isabella Spence : 12 January 1768

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12 January 1768

EIS was born, an only child, at Dunkeld in Perth, Scotland, where her father was then practising medicine.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Eliza Haywood: 12 January 1768

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12 January 1768

Noble published a posthumous edition of The Agreeable Caledonian (1728) with EH 's own revisions, entitled Clementina (perhaps implying a relationship to Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison).
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
297-8
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
25 (1768): 59
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
178

29 January 1768: The earlier of Oliver Goldsmith's two comedies,...

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29 January 1768

The earlier of Oliver Goldsmith 's two comedies, The Good Natur'd Man, opened at Covent Garden Theatre , where it ran long enough for three author's benefit nights. It was printed the same year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.