Events Timeline

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.

5526 - 5550 of 43197

Search by

-
Event origin
Event type

1769: Hannah Ballimg: move in unlikely event of...

Building item

1769

Hannah Ball opened an early Methodist Sunday school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.
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.

January 1769-January 1772: The mysterious and unidentified Junius published...

Building item

January 1769-January 1772

The mysterious and unidentified Junius published his pseudonymous letters of political analysis.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
523

Catharine Macaulay: 4 January 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Macaulay

4 January 1769

The Public Advertiser praised CM as the Guardian Angel of the Liberties of Great Britain.
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.
33

Frances Brooke: By April 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Frances Brooke

By April 1769

FB published her second epistolary novel, The History of Emily Montague, which until recently has been known as the first North American novel from its setting in the recently acquired British province of Lower...

Catharine Macaulay: By February 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Macaulay

By February 1769

CM published volume four of her History of England.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
27 (1769): 81

Elizabeth Griffith: 4 February 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Griffith

4 February 1769

EG 's comedy The School for Rakes opened at Drury Lane ; it was adapted from Eugénie by P. A. Caron de Beaumarchais , and had a highly satisfactory run.
Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii.
xxx-xxxi

4 February-13 April 1769: Disputes occurred over John Wilkes's right...

National or international item

4 February-13 April 1769

Disputes occurred over John Wilkes 's right to take his seat in the House of Commons , from which he had been expelled for the first time in 1764.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
56, 62, 67

Charlotte Lennox: 18 February 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Lennox

18 February 1769

CL 's comedy The Sister was disastrously staged at Covent Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1386
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.

20 February 1769: The Bill of Rights Society was founded at...

National or international item

20 February 1769

The Bill of Rights Society was founded at the London Tavern by John Horne (later John Horne Tooke ), John Sawbridge , Thomas Wilson , and others, to support Wilkes and to defend the legal...

Ann Eliza Bleecker: March 1769

Writing climate item
Author event in Ann Eliza Bleecker

March 1769

At the age of seventeen, Ann Eliza Schuyler married a wealthy lawyer named John James Bleecker .
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.

Catharine Macaulay: By March 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Macaulay

By March 1769

CM published, with her name and through a different publisher, Dilly , a second edition of her Loose Remarks on Hobbes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
27 (1769): 224

Maria Susanna Cooper: By April 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Maria Susanna Cooper

By April 1769

MSC changed publishers from Dodsley to Becket and De Hondt for her third anonymous novel, The Exemplary Mother, or Letters between Mrs Villars and her Family, this time in two volumes instead of one...

Catharine Macaulay: April 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Macaulay

April 1769

Sir Edward Walpole suggested that CM might be the mysterious, anonymous political commentator Junius; serious critics have not accepted this identification.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
70

Elizabeth Montagu: April 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Montagu

April 1769

In a counterblast to Voltaire , EM published, anonymously, An Essay on Shakespear.
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.
1: 217-18

20 April 1769: Justice Joseph Yates recorded his view in...

Writing climate item

20 April 1769

Justice Joseph Yates recorded his view in debate over intellectual property that works once published are irrevocably given to the public; they become common.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
50 and n4

20 April 1769: In Millar vs. Taylor the Court of King's...

Writing climate item

20 April 1769

In Millar vs. Taylor the Court of King's Bench confirmed the continuing existence of perpetual copyright: a decision overturned five years later by Donaldson vs. Becket.
Ross, Trevor. “Copyright and the Invention of Tradition”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1992, pp. 1-27.
7 and n14

24 April 1769: Kitty Clive gave her farewell performance....

Building item

24 April 1769

Kitty Clive gave her farewell performance. She had enjoyed great success as a comic actress, and some as a playwright.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1400-1

24 April 1769: George Armstrong opened a Dispensary for...

Building item

24 April 1769

George Armstrong opened a Dispensary for the Infant Poor in London.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
164

Eleanor Tatlock: 26 April 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Eleanor Tatlock

26 April 1769

ET was born at Alverstoke in Hampshire, on the outskirts of Portsmouth, no doubt because of her father's naval employment.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Phebe Gibbes: By May 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Phebe Gibbes

By May 1769

PG 's next novel, The History of Miss Sommerville, published as a Lady, has not been widely attributed to her; someone ascribed it to Mrs Inchbauld (which the date makes impossible) in the...

Charlotte Smith: Shortly before 2 May 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Smith

Shortly before 2 May 1769

CS bore her eldest daughter, Charlotte Mary : her fourth child, and her second to live to adulthood.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
36

8 May 1769: The independence struggle of Corsica against...

National or international item

8 May 1769

The independence struggle of Corsica against the Republic of Genoa ended in defeat by the French at Pontenuovo.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
under Paoli

Phebe Gibbes: By June 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Phebe Gibbes

By June 1769

PG chose anonymity for what seems to be her next novel, the epistolary History of Eliza Musgrove.
Some reference sources attribute this work to Mrs A. Woodfin , but PG told the Royal Literary Fund

Elizabeth Griffith: 3 June 1769

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Griffith

3 June 1769

EG and her husband published an unusual 4-volume joint venture: Two Novels. In Letters, in which Elizabeth's contribution was The Delicate Distress, in two volumes.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XXII: Elizabeth Griffith 1727-1793”. The Book Collector, Vol.
8
, 1959, pp. 418-24.
422

3 June 1769: Captain James Cook, engaged in circumnavigating...

Building item

3 June 1769

Captain James Cook , engaged in circumnavigating the world, was in Tahiti with his scientist companions to observe the transit of Venus: the passage of the planet across the disc of the sun. In...