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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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Ann Wall: By December 1771

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By December 1771

AW 's autobiographical The Life of Lamenther: A True History, was published by subscription. As an apparently factual record of her abuse by her father, it is a unique text.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
32 (1771): 471

Clara Reeve: By December 1771

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By December 1771

CR published anonymously, under the title The Phoenix; or, The History of Polyarchus and Argenis, a translation of John Barclay 's early novelistic political-historical romance, Argenis.
Barclay published Argenis in Latin (1621); it...

Dorothy Wordsworth: Christmas Day 1771

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Christmas Day 1771

DW was born at Cockermouth in Cumberland, the only girl and middle child in a family of five.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 6-7

Lady Anne Barnard: January 1772

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January 1772

Lady Anne Lindsay (later LAB ), aged twenty-one, wrote new words to replace the existing ones (which she called coarse and odious) to a loved ballad tune: Auld Robin Gray.
qtd. in
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.

Ann Fisher : 1772

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1772

This year appeared the second edition (the first being not known) of another pedagogical work by AF which seems to have been her last: An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Hamilton: 1772

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1772

EH 's brother went to India as an army officer.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
127

Elizabeth Hamilton: From 1772

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From 1772

EH wrote letters to her brother in India.
Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-50.
8-9, 49

Mary Harcourt: 1772

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1772

In her early twenties Mary Danby married a Scottish barrister and member of parliament, Thomas Lockhart , who however died only three years later, on 22 July 1775.
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John Brooke, editors. “The House of Commons, 1754-1790”. History of Parliament, 1964.
under Thomas Lockhart
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.

Jean Marishall: 1772

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1772

JM published at Edinburgh, by subscription, her play, Sir Harry Gaylove; or, Comedy in Embryo, after long and unsuccessful efforts to get it performed.
The character-name in her title had been used by...

Sarah Murray : 1772

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1772

Sarah Maese (later SM ) completed with a third volume The School, being a Series of Letters, Between a Young Lady and her Mother.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1772: An English translation, A Tour to London,...

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1772

An English translation, A Tour to London, relayed the view of Frenchman P. J. Grosley that streetwalkers in London were more numerous than at Paris, and have more liberty and effrontery than at Rome itself.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
171

1772: Following a report from the parliamentary...

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1772

Following a report from the parliamentary Select Committee on the Watch, a new Watch Act established the London force of patrolling watchmen (operative only at night) at fifty-six men.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
10, 69

1772: The Royal Marriages Act made it illegal for...

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1772

The Royal Marriages Act made it illegal for any descendant of George II to marry without the king's permission.
Gilmour, Ian. “Fuss, Fatigue and Rage”. London Review of Books, 15 July 1999, pp. 11-12.
11

1772: Henry Dagge argued in Considerations on Criminal...

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1772

Henry Dagge argued in Considerations on Criminal Law, against the whole spirit of the times, that the law was morally wrong to make property, not defilement, the measure of damage in cases of abduction.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
279

1772: William Hooper published Memoirs of the Year...

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1772

William Hooper published Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred, translated from Louis-Sébastien Mercier 's L'An deux mille quatre cent quarante, 1771.
Alkon, Paul. “Review of Gregory Claeys, ed., Modern British Utopias, 1700-1850, 1997”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 4, July 2000, pp. 578-83.
581-2

Sarah Scott: 27 January 1772

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27 January 1772

SS used another new publisher, Thomas CarnanThomas Carnan , and her customary anonymity, for her final fictional work, The Test of Filial Duty.
The title is sometimes given as A Test of Filial Duty.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xlv

6 February 1772: The House of Commons rejected a petition...

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6 February 1772

The House of Commons rejected a petition to drop the Creeds and Thirty-Nine Articles as requisites to Anglican belief.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
42 (1772): 156

17 February 1772: Dr John Burrows was granted a patent for...

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17 February 1772

Dr John Burrows was granted a patent for fourteen years of sole rights to a medicine, called Velno's Vegetable Syrup, which was alleged to cure venereal disease.
McAllister, Marie E. “John Burrows and the Vegetable Wars”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 85-102.
89-90 and n15

Phillis Wheatley: 29 February 1772

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29 February 1772

PW 's owner, John Wheatley , put out proposals for collecting and publishing a volume of her poems; but the project did not go through.
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.
188-9
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, and Phillis Wheatley. “Foreword: In Her Own Write”. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley, edited by John C. Shields and John C. Shields, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. vii - xxii.
ix

Dorothea Celesia: By March 1772

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By March 1772

Following her success on stage DC published at LondonIndolence: A Poem, by the Author of Almida.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
33 (March 1772)

Mercy Otis Warren: March 1772

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March 1772

MOW anonymously published in the Massachusetts Spy the first instalment of her patriotic, or pro-independence, one-act play The Adulateur, an attack on Governor Thomas Hutchinson .
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
83, 254

Catherine Talbot: By March 1772

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By March 1772

Elizabeth Carter published Essays on Various Subjects by CT , posthumously, as by the author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
33 (1772): 259

By March 1772: Granville Sharp published his Appendix to...

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By March 1772

Granville Sharp published his Appendix to the Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery; his previous volume had appeared in 1769.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
28 (1769): 118; 33 (1772): 261

Elizabeth Helme: 2 March 1772

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2 March 1772

In all probability the Elizabeth Horrobin who married William Helme on this day at St Martin's in the Fields in London was the future writer EH .
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Harlow, Fiona. “Author Biography: Elizabeth Helme”. Chawton House Library: Research Papers.

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Early March 1772

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Early March 1772

Anna Aikin (later ALB ) first reached print with songs contributed to her brother John 's first literary production, Essays on Song-Writing.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
107n28
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xliii-xliv, 248