The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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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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Elizabeth Griffith: 9 March 1772
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Griffith
9 March 1772
's comedy A Wife in the Right opened at
, only to be damned for
's bad acting and fluffing his lines (he was drunk on stage).
Ann Jebb: 24 March 1772
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Jebb
24 March 1772
Addressing
in the London Chronicle,
(as Priscilla) told him, invectives may harden the heart, but can never enlighten the understanding; no difficulty was ever solved by abuse.
Christian Gray: By April 1772
Women writers item
Author event in Christian Gray
By April 1772
was born at Aberdalgie in Perthshire, Scotland, the elder of the only two children in her family who lived to adulthood.
She was christened during this month.
By April 1772: A work entitled Essay on the Force of Imagination...
By April 1772
A work entitled Essay on the Force of Imagination in Pregnant Women exploded (not for the first time) myths about a woman's fantasies physically marking the body of the embryo in her womb.
Spring 1772-Spring 1773: The passage through parliament of the Toleration...
Spring 1772-Spring 1773
The passage through parliament of the Toleration Bill gave opportunities to
to argue for religious toleration—in the belief that this would actually strengthen the
.
Elizabeth Inchbald: 11 April 1772
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald
11 April 1772
(later
) ran away from home to go to London, seeking independence and with the intention of becoming an actress.
Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson: 21 April 1772
Writing climate item
Author event in Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson
21 April 1772
Against her father's will,
married Henry Hugh Fergusson or Ferguson, a Scotsman and British loyalist, who was at least ten years younger.
Ann Jebb: 28 April 1772
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Jebb
28 April 1772
Addressing
in the London Chronicle,
(as Priscilla) noted that in most compositions where reason and argument have failed, innuendos and invectives have been called in to supply their place.
May 1772: The Gentleman's Review, in an unfriendly...
May 1772
The Gentleman's Review, in an unfriendly notice of The Danger and Immodesty of . . . Employing Men-Midwives, offered no support to women struggling to retain control of birth practices.
Sarah Scott: 19 May 1772
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Scott
19 May 1772
published anonymously, through
, her last work, another historical one: The Life of
.
Aubigné was a French Huguenot historian, dramatist, and soldier.
June 1772: Boston radicals agitated for the dismissal...
National or international item
June 1772
Boston radicals agitated for the dismissal of
, Governor of Massachusetts, after confidential letters by him were leaked.
Elizabeth Inchbald: 9 June 1772
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Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald
9 June 1772
married the actor
in a Catholic ceremony: the Anglican one, as required by law, followed the next day.
10 June 1772: A British naval ship which had seized several...
National or international item
10 June 1772
A British naval ship which had seized several trading vessels was burned after running aground near Narrangansett, Rhode Island.
15-21 June 1772: A series of London banking firms collapsed...
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15-21 June 1772
A series of London banking firms collapsed after the bank associated with
stopped payment; ensuing panic brought the biggest stock-market crash since the South Sea Bubble burst in late 1720.
22 June 1772: Chief Justice Lord Mansfield ruled (in the...
National or international item
22 June 1772
Chief Justice
ruled (in the case of
) that English law did not allow a slave-owner the right to remove a slave by force from Britain.
Clara Reeve: July 1772
Women writers item
Author event in Clara Reeve
July 1772
A C. R—ve at Windsor (who was probably
) published an article in Town and Country Magazine, volume four, in defence of the scriptures.
July 1772: A Gentleman's Magazine review extended a...
July 1772
A Gentleman's Magazine review extended a cautious welcome to an anonymous Plan for the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies.
Catherine Phillips: 15 July 1772
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Phillips
15 July 1772
married, at Bewdley in Worcestershire, William Phillips of Cornwall, who had proposed to her twenty-three years before this, when he was already a widower.
15 July 1772: The East India Company, whose steady stream...
15 July 1772
The
, whose steady stream of wealth coming out of India had diminished in the face of famine and suppression of local industry, asked the
for a bailout loan £400,000.
Sophia Lee: By 18 July 1772
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Author event in Sophia Lee
By 18 July 1772
's
was committed to the King's Bench Prison for debt; she accompanied him there for a time.
29 July 1772: The Daily Advertiser published an advertisement...
29 July 1772
The Daily Advertiser published an advertisement for a husband.
Caroline Herschel : 16 August 1772
Writing climate item
Author event in Caroline Herschel
16 August 1772
left Hanover for England with her brother
(with somewhat grudging permission from her family), in order to forward his musical career there. She settled with him at 7 New King Street in Bath...
Eliza Kirkham Mathews: 5 August 1772
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Author event in Eliza Kirkham Mathews
5 August 1772
Eliza Kirkham Strong (later
) was born at Exeter, one of at least four children.
5 August 1772: Polish territory was carved up between Austria,...
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5 August 1772
Polish territory was carved up between Austria, Russia, and Prussia in an event known as the Partition of Poland (or later, after Polish territory was further reduced in January 1793 and October 1795, as the...
Anna Letitia Barbauld: 22 August 1772
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld
22 August 1772
anonymously printed A New Map of the Land of Matrimony, Drawn from the Latest Surveys by
.