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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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February 1768: James Boswell published his composite work...

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February 1768

James Boswell published his composite work on the Corsican liberation struggle: An Account of Corsica; the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
25 (1768): 172-81
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Ruxin, Paul. “Review of James T. Boulton and T. O. McLoughlin, eds., Boswell, An Account of CorsicaJohnsonian New Letter, Vol.
lviii
, No. 1, Mar. 2007, pp. 52-6.
53

27 February 1768: A month before he died, Laurence Sterne published...

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27 February 1768

A month before he died, Laurence Sterne published the work which is generally classed as his second novel (also an episodic travel book), A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.
Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research, 1985.
480
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
27 February 2009

Early 1768: The colony of Virginia executed some slaves...

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Early 1768

The colony of Virginia executed some slaves suspected of conspir[ing] to poison their overseers, and set their decapitated heads on display above the court house at Alexandria.
Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 37-51.
40

10 March 1768: Lord Bolingbroke divorced his wife, the former...

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10 March 1768

Lord Bolingbroke divorced his wife, the former Lady Diana Spencer , for her adultery with Topham Beauclerk , though his own infidelities were well known in society.
Rizzo, Betty. “Decorums”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 149-67.
159, 156-60, 163

Laurence Sterne: 18 March 1768

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18 March 1768

LS , Irish clergyman, sermon writer, and novelist, died in Old Bond Street, London, of consumption.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
499

Mary Whateley Darwall: 22 March 1768

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22 March 1768

John Wesley noted that he thought some of the elegies of MWDquite equal to Mr. Gray 's.
qtd. in
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
93

Melesina Trench: 22 March 1768

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22 March 1768

Melesina Chenevix (later MT ) was born in Dublin, an only child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

26 March 1768: Lord Baltimore (Frederick, the sixth baron,...

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26 March 1768

Lord Baltimore (Frederick, the sixth baron , who was known for his promiscuity and was said to admire the Islamic system of harems) was acquitted (with two female accessories) of raping a Methodist or Independent

Frances Burney: 27 March 1768

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27 March 1768

FB began her surviving diary at her home in Poland Street, London, addressing herself to Miss Nobody.
Burney, Frances. The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. Editors Troide, Lars E. et al., Clarendon Press, 1988–2002, 4 vols.
1: 1

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 1 April 1768

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1 April 1768

Hester Thrale (later HLP ) had another daughter, Anna Maria.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
72

April 1768: The first volume of The New Foundling Hospital...

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April 1768

The first volume of The New Foundling Hospital for Wit was published: an influential poetry anthology linked to the political opposition.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
25 (1768): 314
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.

Sarah Fielding: 9 April 1768

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9 April 1768

SF died near Bath, aged only fifty-seven.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xl

Anne Grant: May 1768

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May 1768

Anne MacVicar (later AG ) and her family returned to Glasgow after their time in America.
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
241

Mary Delany: 6 May 1768

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6 May 1768

MD was widowed a second time by Patrick Delany 's death.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 9 May 1768

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9 May 1768

Barbarina Ogle (later BBBD ) was born, the third daughter in a family of six children who lived to grow up.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Grey, Barbarina Charlotte, Lady. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray, 1908.
8
Fisher, D. R., editor. The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1820-1832. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2009, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/research/members/members-1820-1832.
under Ogle, Sir Charles

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 7 June 1768

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7 June 1768

Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) set out with Sarah Ryan and Sarah Crosby and all their dependants on the long move north from Leytonstone near London to Yorkshire, where Bosanquet then settled at Cross Hall near...

8 June 1768: A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland issued...

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8 June 1768

A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
issued proposals for printing by subscription a work to be called Encyclopædia Britannica, to be edited by the man of letters William Smellie .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Charlotte Forman: 12 June 1768

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Author event in Charlotte Forman

12 June 1768

CF addressed to John Wilkes , as the great asserter of the Rights of Englishmen,
qtd. in
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
33
the first of ten remarkable letters containing vivid accounts of her struggles with poverty and ill health.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
28, 30, 32-3

Cassandra Cooke: 16 June 1768

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16 June 1768

At OxfordCassandra Leigh married the Rev. Samuel Cooke , vicar of Great Bookham in Surrey.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
35

Catharine Macaulay: July 1768

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July 1768

Weekly serial publication of CM 's History of England began, to make it accessible to readers who could not afford to buy the volumes.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
49-50

Susanna Watts: 2 July 1768

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2 July 1768

SW was born in Leicester, the youngest and the only survivor of at least three sisters.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004.
6
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.

30 July 1768-12 June 1771: Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook made...

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30 July 1768-12 June 1771

Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook made his first circumnavigation of the world, bringing about huge advances in knowledge of global natural history.
Watkins, Tom H., and Cary Wolinsky. “Sir Joseph Banks”. National Geographic, Vol.
190
, No. 5, Nov. 1996, pp. 28-52.
28-52

Frances Brooke: August 1768

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August 1768

John Brooke , husband of FB , left Québec, where he had considered settling, to return to England.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
82

Sarah Scott: August 1768

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August 1768

SS underwent treatment at Dr Bartolomeo Dominiceti 's establishment in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xxviii-xxix, xli n31

Susannah Gunning: 8 August 1768

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8 August 1768

Susannah Minifie married, in London, Irish army officer John Gunning .
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
38 (1768): 398