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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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Sarah Harriet Burney: 29 August 1772

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29 August 1772

SHB was born, at the tail end of a large family of siblings and half-siblings from both her mother's and father's side.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
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Elizabeth Inchbald: 4 September 1772

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4 September 1772

EI fulfilled her ambition to be an actress: she opened on stage at Bristol, playing Cordelia to her new husband 's King Lear.
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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Mary Delany: 4 October 1772

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4 October 1772

MD wrote to a niece that she had invented a new way of imitating flowers. So began her best-remembered work: the Hortus Siccus or Flora Delanica or paper mosaicks, a collection of pictorial representations...

Mary Tighe: 9 October 1772

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9 October 1772

Mary Blachford (later MT ) was born in Dublin, the second of two children in her family.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Tighe, Mary. “Introduction”. Verses Transcribed for H. T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin, 2015.

Elizabeth Inchbald: 10 October 1772

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10 October 1772

EI and her husband left Bristol by sea to join West Digges ' theatre company acting at Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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 Bonhote: 13 October 1772

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13 October 1772

Elizabeth Mapes married an attorney, Daniel Bonhote , who like herself lived in Bungay and who later held the position of under-sheriff of Suffolk.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 21 October 1772

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21 October 1772

STC , poet and critic, was born at Ottery St Mary in Devon.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

By November 1772: After a widespread epidemic of puerperal...

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By November 1772

After a widespread epidemic of puerperal fever, English surgeon Charles White published a Treatise on the Management of Pregnant Women and Lying-in Women.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
34 (1772): 340-9
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.

2 November 1772: Twelve proprietors launched the Morning Post,...

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2 November 1772

Twelve proprietors launched the Morning Post, published by John Wheble and edited by Henry Bate .
Brooke, Frances. The Excursion. Editors Backscheider, Paula R. and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
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Maria Riddell : 4 November 1772

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4 November 1772

Maria Woodley (later MR ) was born in England (whereabouts is not known), the youngest daughter and youngest child but one in her family of seven.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Lindsay, Maurice. The Burns Encyclopedia. Third, revised and enlarged, St Martin’s Press, 1980.
301
MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975.
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Frances Brooke: By December 1772

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By December 1772

FB relieved her feelings over William Kenrick , her rival in translation, by publishing a verse attack on him, The Kenrickad.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
131ff
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
42 (1772): 586

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: By December 1772

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By December 1772

Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) was keeping a diary by this month; probably she had been doing so for years. This date is the first for which Henry Moore includes an entry in his memoir.
Fletcher, Mary Bosanquet. The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher. Editor Moore, Henry, 1751 - 1844, T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837.
93

Elizabeth Bonhote: By December 1772

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By December 1772

EB published, anonymously with Becket and De Hondt , the first two volumes of The Rambles of Mr. Frankly, Published by his Sister.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
34 (1772): 472

Anna Letitia Barbauld: 19 December 1772

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19 December 1772

A volume of Poems by Anna Aikin (later ALB ) was entered in the Stationers' Register ; though bearing the date 1773, it was out by the end of 1772.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xxx

21 December 1772: The Narrative appeared of the life of James...

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21 December 1772

The Narrative appeared of the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw , who died this year; he described himself on the title-page as an African Prince.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Charlotte Brooke: 1773

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1773

CB 's mother died, leaving Charlotte and her father almost the last survivors of his large family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Dorothea Du Bois: 1773

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1773

DDB 's final stage piece, The Haunted Grove, was performed in Dublin; it was never published and is now lost.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
386

Charlotte Forman: 1773-1775

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1773-1775

A second series of about two dozen Probus essays, also probably by CF and espousing the cause of American independence, appeared in several different London papers.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
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Elizabeth Griffith: 1773-January 1779

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1773-January 1779

EG published fifteen short stories in the Westminster Magazine; or, The Pantheon of Fame (which was generally, in prose at least, a very masculine and often anti-feminist environment).
Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii.
xxxi
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XXII: Elizabeth Griffith 1727-1793”. The Book Collector, Vol.
8
, 1959, pp. 418-24.
424
Pitcher, Edward W. The Literary Prose of "Westminster Magazine" (1773-1785). Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
60

Anna Margaretta Larpent: 1773

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1773

The fifteen-year-old Anna Margaretta Porter (later Larpent) began to keep a daily diary.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anna, Lady Miller : 1773

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1773

Back at Batheaston, ALM set up a literary salon, instituting fortnightly gatherings where poetry contests were held, based on those of Renaissance Italy.
Hesselgrave, Ruth Avaline. Lady Miller and the British Literary Circle. Yale University Press, 1927.
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By 1773: Thomas Hookham was publishing in London....

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By 1773

Thomas Hookham was publishing in London. He ran the Logographic Press from 1785, then the firm of Hookham and Carpenter from 1791. His partnership with James Carpenter was acrimoniously dissolved in 1798.
Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol.
17
, 1987, pp. 191-07.
192

1773: London, with a population estimated at three...

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1773

London, with a population estimated at three quarters of a million and after fifty years of inoculation in England, recorded well over a thousand deaths from smallpox. This was less than the previous major...

1773: One of the two leading subscribers' or metropolitan...

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1773

One of the two leading subscribers' or metropolitan libraries opened in Bristol.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
180

1773: John Leake published A Lecture Introductory...

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1773

John Leake published A Lecture Introductory to the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, arguing, like others, that this ought to be taken over by men.
O’Malley, Andrew. The Creation of the Modern Child Subject: Children’s Literature, Pedagogy, Pediatrics, and the Politics of Class in Late Eighteenth-Century England. University of Alberta, 1999.
136
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.