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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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June 1770: Russia (under Catherine the Great) demonstrated...

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June 1770

Russia (under Catherine the Great ) demonstrated its new power by crushing Turkey in a naval victory.
Levitt, Marcus C. “An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great’s Debate with Chappe d’Auteroche over Russian Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 49-63.
58

Radagunda Roberts: By July 1770

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By July 1770

RR 's Sermons, she said, owed their publication to the offer of a clergyman friend a couple of years before this to preach any sermon she might write; he apparently never made good on the offer.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Roberts, Radagunda. Sermons. J. Dodsley, 1770.
iii-iv

July 1770: A Paris newspaper advertised the new invention...

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July 1770

A Paris newspaper advertised the new invention of steel pens as flexible as goose quills.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
169

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 7 July 1770

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7 July 1770

John Wesley made one of his visits to Mary Bosanquet 's settlement at Cross Hall, which he called a pattern, and a general blessing to the country.
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837.
77n

Anna, Lady Miller : By August 1770

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By August 1770

Having overspent on building and landscaping projects, ALM and her husband left England to economise in Italy for a while. Her first letter on leaving Paris (where she had stayed to bear her son) is...

August 1770: The Lady's Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion...

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August 1770

The Lady's Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex began publication in London, mixing fiction and articles, angled towards women as a separate audience.
The Lady’s Magazine. J. Wheble.
title page
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
128
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.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
216
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
10, 12

Thomas Chatterton: 24 August 1770

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24 August 1770

TC , brilliant young poet and forger, died of arsenic poisoning at not yet eighteen (probably not, as the myth has it, by suicide) in a garret in Brooke Street, Holborn, London.
Nevill, John Cranstoun. Thomas Chatterton. F. Muller, 1948.
252-3
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Frances Brooke: 29 August 1770

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29 August 1770

FB wrote a self-critical letter to Dodsley about the reasons for Emily Montague's comparative failure.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
113, 230n4

Hannah Glasse: 1 September 1770

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1 September 1770

HG died in London: the few and scanty printed reports of her death identified her as the sister of her successful brother .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Eglinton Wallace: Probably 4 September 1770

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Probably 4 September 1770

Miss Eglatina Maxwell married the former Thomas Dunlop , now Sir Thomas Wallace, who had just succeeded to a baronetcy and taken the name of his maternal grandfather (who died, according to the Annual Register...

September 1770: It was rumoured that the Duke and Duchess...

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September 1770

It was rumoured that the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland planned to hold not one but two Public Days a week.
The duchess was a letter-writer of note; her mother, as Lady Hertford , had...

Mary Palmer : 17 September 1770

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17 September 1770

MP 's husband died at their home at Great Torrington.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Anna, Lady Miller : 20 September 1770

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20 September 1770

ALM dated the first letter she sent her mother after leaving Paris on her way to Italy with her husband , which became her travel book.
Miller, Anna, Lady. Letters from Italy. Second Edition, Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777, 2 vols.
1: 1

30 September 1770: Charismatic evangelist George Whitefield...

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30 September 1770

Charismatic evangelist George Whitefield died at Newburyport, near Boston, Massachusetts.
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.
22ff

Frances Brooke: By October 1770

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By October 1770

FB published another translation from French: Memoirs of the Marquis de St. Forlaix, a novel by Nicolas Framéry .
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix.
xlviii
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1770)

Eleanor Sleath: By 15 October 1770

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By 15 October 1770

Eleanor Carter, later the novelist ES , was born shortly before this, the date on which she was baptised at Loughborough in Leicestershire.
Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. 8 May 2011, http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.

Phillis Wheatley: By 18 October 1770

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By 18 October 1770

There was published in broadside at Boston, Massachusetts, An Elegiac Poem, On the Death of . . . George Whitefield, as by Phillis , a servant girl, of 17 years of age, belonging...

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: Late 1770

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Late 1770

Mary Bosanquet printed at Leeds a pamphlet entitled A Letter, Written to Elizabeth A—ws, on Her Removal from England, anonymous but bearing her initials at the end. Another issue followed at Bristol the next...

Elizabeth Griffith: 3 December 1770

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3 December 1770

EG and Richard Griffith published the final two volumes of A Series of Genuine Letters Between Henry and Frances.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XXII: Elizabeth Griffith 1727-1793”. The Book Collector, Vol.
8
, 1959, pp. 418-24.
421

Ann Masterman Skinn: By early December 1770

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By early December 1770

AMS published (by subscription, at London and York, with 1771 on its title-page) her single identified novel: The Old Maid; or, The History of Miss Ravensworth. In a Series of Letters.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 167-8
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

29 December 1770: The Morning Chronicle began publication;...

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29 December 1770

The Morning Chronicle began publication; it became London's leading Opposition paper, and ran until the end of 1800.
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.
Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66.
160

Susanna Blamire: 1771

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1771

SB is said to have written or begun writing Stoklewath; or, The Cumbrian Village. If it does date from this year, it remained unfinished and unpublished for seventy years.
Maxwell, Patrick, and Susanna Blamire. “Preface and Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire, edited by Henry Lonsdale et al., J. Menzies, 1842, p. i - xlvii.
xxxvi

Hannah Cowley: 1 January 1771

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1 January 1771

A Hannah Parkhouse married a Thomas Cowley at Chester. If this is the future playwright, her husband had perhaps been a sea captain, and was later to work in the Stamp Office , and...

Charlotte Dacre: Perhaps 1771 or 1772

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Perhaps 1771 or 1772

CD was born at about this date, probably in London, one of three legitimate siblings and three (at least) half-brothers born outside marriage.
Her age of fifty-three at her death, given in obituaries, would...

Radagunda Roberts: 1771

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1771

RR 's version of the Abbé Millot 's Elements of the History of France (abridged) coincided with that by her friend Frances Brooke of his History of England.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.