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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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Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 17 August 1768

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17 August 1768

Sarah Ryan , friend and partner of Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) died in Yorkshire, only weeks after their move north, leaving Bosanquet feeling quite inadequate to the sole management of a household of thirty people.
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837.
66-9, 70-1

Frances Brooke: 10 September 1768

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Author event in Frances Brooke

10 September 1768

Dodsley paid FB thirty pounds for her second novel, Emily Montague.
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
242

Catherine Talbot: By October 1768

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By October 1768

The death of Thomas Secker , Archbishop of Canterbury, threw his dependents, CT and her mother, into painful insecurity: his will could not be found.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
222
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
38 (1768): 452-3

David Garrick: 5 October 1768

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5 October 1768

The Drury Lane theatre audience demonstrated its consumer power by compelling Garrick to alter the regular opening time.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1347, 1356

14 October 1768: The Duke of Grafton formed the government...

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14 October 1768

The Duke of Grafton formed the government in succession to William Pitt , following an election in March.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John, 1920 - Brooke, editors. The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964.
1: 535

By 16 October 1768: The long-lived publishing house of John Murray...

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By 16 October 1768

The long-lived publishing house of John Murray was founded, after John Murray I , born John McMurray, came south to London from Edinburgh; it survived until May 2002.
Murray, John R. “Going Strong”. The Author, Vol.
cxi
, No. 4, 1 Dec. 2000–28 Feb. 2001, pp. 182-4.
182
Abbott, John L. “Review of William Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1998”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
12
, 2001, pp. 495-03.
497, 501

15 November 1768: Publisher John Meres had his business seized...

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15 November 1768

Publisher John Meres had his business seized for arrears of £500 in the payment of stamp duty exacted on the printing of periodicals.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
35-6

Charlotte McCarthy: By December 1768

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By December 1768

CMC published, as Prudentia Christiania, her undated A Letter from a Lady to the Bishop of London. The bishop at this date was Richard Terrick .
The Feminist Companion is mistaken in reading...

December 1768: George III signed the papers for establishing...

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December 1768

George III signed the papers for establishing the Royal Academy of Arts . Angelica Kauffman or Kauffmann was among the twenty-eight founding members who first met in January 1769 to hear an address by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Elizabeth Bonhote: 1769

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1769

Elizabeth Mapes (later EB ) apparently published her first novel, entitled Hortensia; or, The Distressed Wife, and issued at London and Norwich as by a Lady, but identified as hers from the title-page...

Frances Brooke: Late 1760s

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Author event in Frances Brooke

Late 1760s

The painter Catherine Read , another friend of FB , did a portrait of her which was engraved by Marianne Bovili in 1771.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
135-6

Clara Reeve: 1769

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1769

CR published her first book, Original Poems on Several Occasions.
Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research, 1985.
372

Elizabeth Gunning: 1769

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1769

EG , an only child, was born in London.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
93 (1823): ii: 190

Margaret Minifie: 1769

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1769

MM published her first novel dating from the years of her sister 's marriage: The Cottage, again epistolary. She put her name on the title-page.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1769: Weavers at Fenwick in Scotland formed the...

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1769

Weavers at Fenwick in Scotland formed the first documented co-operative society, foreshadowing a significant movement, celebrated by the UN by designating 2012 the International Year of Co-operatives.
Ellwood, Wayne. “Co-ops offer a far better way to organize economic activity”. CCPA Monitor, Vol.
19
, No. 4, Sept. 2012, pp. 8-10.
8, 9

1769: Edward Bancroft published his Essay on the...

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1769

Edward Bancroft published his Essay on the Natural History of Guiana, which includes arguments for the moral justification of slavery.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
87-8, 90

1769: James Watt received a patent (number 913)...

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1769

James Watt received a patent (number 913) for his first condensing steam engine, whose scientific principles he had discovered in 1764.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1769: The Town and Country Magazine; or Universal...

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1769

The Town and Country Magazine; or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment began publication; it ran until 1795.
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.

1769-70: Bengal suffered famine, exacerbated by compulsory...

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1769-70

Bengal suffered famine, exacerbated by compulsory purchase of British goods and the throwing out of work of local artisans. Its onset coincided with a serious threat to British power there by forces from the Sultanate...

January 1769-December 1795: The Town and Country Magazine was published...

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January 1769-December 1795

The Town and Country Magazine was published at London; it became well-known for its reports of adultery trials.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

1769: Mrs Crisp (that is Elizabeth Crisp, née Marsh)...

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1769

Mrs Crisp (that is Elizabeth Crisp, née Marsh ) published by subscription The Female Captive, an account of her capture by Moroccan corsairs in 1756 and narrow escape from a new life in the...

1769: Josiah Wedgwood opened a new pottery at Etruria...

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1769

Josiah Wedgwood opened a new pottery at Etruria near Hanley in Staffordshire, a village he had designed and built for his workpeople.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1769: Eleanor Coade (1733-1821) began commercial...

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1769

Eleanor Coade (1733-1821) began commercial production of Coade stone, a material made to a secret recipe, used for garden ornaments and said to be both more workable and more durable than natural stone.
Brown, Jane. The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens and Gardening. HarperCollins, 2000.
109
“Women in Trade”. John Johnson Collection Exhibition 2001. Bodleian Library, 2001.

1769: Richard Arkwright set up a water-powered...

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1769

Richard Arkwright set up a water-powered spinning mill of his own invention near Hockley, Nottingham.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1769: Joseph Priestley began publishing The Theological...

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1769

Joseph Priestley began publishing The Theological Repository, an influential Dissenting journal.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
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