Grundy, Isobel. “Mary Seymour Montague: Anonymity and ’Old Satyrical Codes’”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, MacMillan Press, 1999, pp. 67-80.
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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.
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Mary Seymour Montague: : 1771
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Seymour Montague:
1771
An Original Essay on Woman, a poem in four verse epistles addressed to Charlotte, appeared as by a Lady; the Author's Preface is signed Mary Seymour Montague—who is otherwise unknown.
1771: Political thinker Richard Price (who was...
1771
Political thinker
(who was later a
) published probably the best-known attack on enclosures, Observations on Reversionary Payments, which went through six editions.
1771: In a year when Sir Joshua Reynolds painted,...
Women writers item
1771
In a year when
painted, as Girl Reading, his niece
perusing
's Clarissa, five novels by women advertised their Clarissa kinship.
1770 or 1771: Scottish painter George Romney did a portrait...
1770 or 1771
Scottish painter
did a portrait of English painter
which shows her using the medium of oils, mark of the professional rather than the amateur.
1771: John Millar published Observations concerning...
1771
published Observations concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society.
1771: J. D. T. Bienville published an influential...
1771
published an influential treatise, Fureurs utérines (also known as Nymphomanie), which ascribed a long and varied list of maladies to the female reproductive system.
Priscilla Wakefield: 3 January 1771
Women writers item
Author event in Priscilla Wakefield
3 January 1771
married
; she was then aged twenty.
The Feminist Companion and other sources wrongly give her husband's name as Daniel.
Dorothea Celesia: 12 January 1771
Women writers item
Author event in Dorothea Celesia
12 January 1771
's Almide, an adaptation of Tancrede by
, opened at
in London. It proved a success, and ran for ten nights.
19 January 1771: The best-known of Richard Cumberland's dozen...
Writing climate item
19 January 1771
The best-known of
's dozen plays, The West Indian, opened in Londonto the greatest applause imaginable.
19 January 1771: French parlements, the sovereign court of...
National or international item
19 January 1771
French
, the sovereign court of Justice in Paris and thirteen other centres, were abolished by
.
By February 1771: Scottish poet James Beattie published the...
Writing climate item
By February 1771
Scottish poet
published the first book of his poem The Minstrel.
February 1771: The House of Commons clamped down on parliamentary...
National or international item
February 1771
The House of Commons clamped down on parliamentary reporting of its proceedings: printers of the Middlesex Journal and the Gazette were ordered to appear before it.
5 February 1771: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...
Writing climate item
5 February 1771
, historian and
priest, was born at Winchester in Hampshire.
Ann Masterman Skinn: 9 February 1771
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Masterman Skinn
9 February 1771
's first husband,
, petitioned for divorce in the ecclesiastical court, on grounds of her adultery with
.
Soon after 18 March 1771: Jane Dunlap (born Harris, later Livermore)...
Writing climate item
Soon after 18 March 1771
published at Boston, Massachusetts, her Poems, upon Several Sermons, preached by the Rev'd, and renowned,
, while in Boston.
Elizabeth Griffith: 21 March 1771
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Griffith
21 March 1771
(as Mrs Griffith) published The Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Viaud, a translation of Naufrage et aventures de Monsieur Pierre Viaud, by
.
Different parts of the original author's...
Catharine Macaulay: 26 March 1771
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Macaulay
26 March 1771
The Gazetteer reported that
was so manly and muscular as a historian that bets were being taken on her actual gender (with implied allusion to the Chevalier d'Eon ).
By 26 March 1771: All London was agog over the chevalier d'Éon's...
By 26 March 1771
All London was agog over the chevalier d'Éon 's real sex: the issue was hotly debated, and bets laid.
Catharine Macaulay: By April 1771
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Macaulay
By April 1771
published volume five of her History of England through
, with a subtitle that reads From the Death of
to the Restoration of
.
Mary Masters: April 1771
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Masters
April 1771
It appears certain that
died in this month, although a date of a dozen years earlier used to be given.
April 1771: John Horne (later John Horne Tooke) and others...
National or international item
April 1771
John Horne (later
) and others seceded from the
to form the
.
Lucy Hutton: 23 April 1771
Women writers item
Author event in Lucy Hutton
23 April 1771
married, as his second wife, the Rev. William Hutton . His first wife, whom he had married in 1765, had died on 5 July 1768, leaving a son who died two years later...
29 April 1771: Edmund Burke spoke in parliament in support...
29 April 1771
spoke in parliament in support of a bill to prevent divorced parties from marrying again.
Elizabeth Inchbald: May-June 1771
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald
May-June 1771
(later
) made her first visit to London; there she met
, her future husband.
14 May 1771: Robert Owen, socialist, was born at Newtown...
Writing climate item
14 May 1771
, socialist, was born at Newtown in Montgomeryshire (now Powys) in Wales.