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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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Dorothea Celesia: 4 June 1769

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4 June 1769

DC wrote from Genoa to David Garrick in England, submitting a manuscript of a blank-verse tragedy which she had based on Voltaire 's Tancrède, 1760. Though she had entertained Garrick at her house, she...

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 22 June 1769

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22 June 1769

Hester Thrale bore her third living daughter, Lucy Elizabeth, whose second name was given in honour of Johnson 's dead wife.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
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Jane Marcet: Shortly before 23 June 1769

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Shortly before 23 June 1769

Jane Haldimand (later JM ) was born in London; she was baptised on this day.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna Maria Falconbridge: July 1769

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July 1769

Anna Maria Horwood (later AMF ) was born in All Saints' Lane, Bristol, the youngest of six in her immediate family, with half-siblings from her father's second marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria et al. “Two Voyages to Sierra Leone”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 45-168.
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26 July 1769: The London Chronicle reported Susannah Lott's...

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26 July 1769

The London Chronicle reported Susannah Lott 's execution by burning, near Maidstone in Kent, for the petty treason of poisoning her husband.
Oldham, James. “Law Reporting in the London Newspapers, 1756-1786”. American Journal of Legal History, Vol.
31
, No. 3, –July 1987, pp. 173-06.
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Staves, Susan. Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660 - 1833. Harvard University Press, 1990.
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David Garrick: 6-9 September 1769

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6-9 September 1769

David Garrick 's Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford caused a mighty furore, and laid the foundation for a whole tradition of bardolatry and the heritage industry.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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20 September 1769: The Corsican independence leader Pasquale...

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20 September 1769

The Corsican independence leader Pasquale Paoli reached London as a political refugee.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Judith Sargent Murray: 3 October 1769

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3 October 1769

Judith Sargent (later JSM ) married ship's captain John Stevens , whose home port was Gloucester, Massachusetts.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Harris, Sharon M., and Judith Sargent Murray. “Introduction”. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, edited by Sharon M. Harris and Sharon M. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. xv - xliv.
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14 October 1769: Garrick's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at...

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14 October 1769

Garrick 's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at Drury Lane , where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Amelia Opie: 12 November 1769

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12 November 1769

Amelia Alderson (later AO ) was born in Norwich, her parents' only child.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
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Catharine Macaulay: December 1769

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December 1769

Horace Walpole expressed the hope that CM might be elected to a vacant alderman's position (like her brother ): he was not, of course, being serious.
Hill, Bridget. “Daughter and Mother: Some new light on Catharine Macaulay and her family”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
22
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1999, pp. 35-49.
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Elizabeth Heyrick: 4 December 1769

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4 December 1769

Elizabeth Coltman (later EH ) was born in Leicester.
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
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Ann Batten Cristall: Shortly before 7 December 1769

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Shortly before 7 December 1769

ABC was born at Penzance in Cornwall, into a family which in the end amounted to six children, including an elder half-brother.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
MacKenzie, Charlotte. “Cornish connections with 1790s radical and literary circles: Part 1”. Cornish Story, 7 Apr. 2019.

Penelope Aubin: 1770

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1770

PA 's Life of Charlotta Du Pont was plagiarised almost wholesale in an anonymous novel: The Inhuman Stepmother; or, The History of Miss Harriot Montague, published by J. Robson .
Moulton, Kate, and Isobel Grundy. Email about Penelope Aubin to Isobel Grundy. Oct. 2000.

Maria Susanna Cooper: January 1770

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January 1770

MSC made the earliest identified (in 2015) of her appearances in the periodical press, anonymously, when her tale Osman was carried by the sixth volume of The Court Miscellany.
Pitcher, Edward W. “Maria Susanna Cooper (1738–1807): The Exemplary Mother from Norfolk”. American Notes and Queries, Vol.
17
, No. 3, 1978, pp. 35-6.
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Ann Fisher : 1770

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1770

Two more school-books by AF appeared this year at Newcastle—The Young Scholar's Delight and A New English Exercise Book, Calculated to Render the Construction of the English Tongue Easy and Familiar.
Horsley, P. M. “Some Local Ladies of the Eighteenth Century”. Heaton Works Journal, Vol.
6
, No. 33, C A Parsons and Company, pp. 131-8.
137-8
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Robinson: 1770

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1770

Hester Darby opened her own boarding-school in Chelsea, where her daughter Mary (later MR ) made her debut as a teacher.
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
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Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
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Elizabeth Griffith: 1770

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1770

EG issued a translation from the recent Souvenirs of the marquise de Caylus : Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Characters of the Court of Lewis XIV; she is identified as the translator of the life and...

Elizabeth Inchbald: 1770

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1770

Elizabeth Simpson (later Inchbald) , aged about seventeen, began keeping a diary; she was to continue this practice all her life.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Elizabeth Moody: 1770

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1770

EM includes in her volume of poems some which date from this year.
Moody, Elizabeth. Poetic Trifles. Cadell and Davies, 1798.
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1770-75: The upper-class Ladies' Club flourished during...

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1770-75

The upper-class Ladies' Club flourished during these years: it had a mixed, predominantly male membership.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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1770: The Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion or Venedotian...

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1770

The Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion or Venedotian Society was founded in London as a literary and social club, whose meetings had the goal of fostering Welsh literature and reviving the tradition of the eisteddfod or contest...

By 1770: The proportion of fiction among annual publications...

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By 1770

The proportion of fiction among annual publications in England had risen to four percent (from 1.1% in about 1730).
McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.
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1770: A parliamentary Select Committee on burglaries...

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1770

A parliamentary Select Committee on burglaries made its report.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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1770: The minority Roman Catholic population in...

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1770

The minority Roman Catholic population in Britain was estimated at 80,000.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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