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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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Phillis Wheatley: 17 June 1773

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17 June 1773

PW arrived in London, after setting sail from Boston on 8 May, under the conduct of Nathaniel Wheatley (her owner's son).
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.
273-4, 338
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.
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Susanna Blamire: 18 June 1773

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18 June 1773

SB 's brother-in-law Thomas Graeme died in his fifties, less than two years after leaving the army and only six after marrying.
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
50

Martha Hale: 22 June 1773

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22 June 1773

MH composed a poem entitled Written at Mistley . . . The first time of my going thither after I had lost my Son.
Hale, Martha. Poetical Attempts. T. Davison, 1800.
34-7

Elizabeth Bonhote: By July 1773

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By July 1773

EB published, again anonymously with Becket and De Hondt , an epistolary novel, The Fashionable Friend.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 201

July 1773: The Westminster Magazine printed, along with...

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July 1773

The Westminster Magazine printed, along with its account of Oxford University 's annual degree-giving, an article by L. P.On the Propriety of Bestowing Academical Honours on the Ladies.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
271-2

July 1773: The Sentimental Magazine complained about...

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July 1773

The Sentimental Magazine complained about the similarities between girls' boarding schools, irrespective of the social class of their pupils.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
7

21 July 1773: The Order of Jesuits was abolished by Pope...

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21 July 1773

The Order of Jesuits was abolished by Pope Clement XIV ; they took refuge in Prussia, where their presence fed English anti-Catholicism.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
697

Phillis Wheatley: 26 July 1773

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26 July 1773

PW left London again for Boston, probably earlier than intended, because of what proved to be the last illness of her mistress, Susanna Wheatley .
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.
338-9

Clara Reeve: Before August 1773

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Before August 1773

CR wrote to the Westminster Magazine to complain that its recent coverage of an unnamed woman had been slander, not truth.
Pitcher, Edward W. The Literary Prose of "Westminster Magazine" (1773-1785). Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

Maria Barrell: After August 1773

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After August 1773

Maria Weylar was married in the island of Grenada (which had been ceded by France to Britain a decade earlier) to Theodore Barrell , a Boston merchant who owned property (and slaves) there and on...

Samuel Johnson: 14 August 1773

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14 August 1773

SJ arrived in Edinburgh to join Boswell and set out together on their famous tour of the Highlands and islands of western Scotland.
Huntington Library Summary Catalogue of Montagu Papers.
5: 21

15 August 1773: James Macpherson dated the preface to his...

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15 August 1773

James Macpherson dated the preface to his second and final edition of The Poems of Ossian, published this year, which brings together all his Ossian ic writing.
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.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
126-30

Dorothea Du Bois: 27 August 1773

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27 August 1773

DDB 's The Divorce opened at Marylebone Gardens , with music by James Hook .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1738

Phillis Wheatley: By October 1773

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By October 1773

PW 's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was published in London, certified to be the unaided work of a Negro servant.
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld: Just after mid-October 1773

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Just after mid-October 1773

Anna Aikin (later ALB ) joined with her brother John in Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, in which her seven contributions and his four were not distinguished by name.
The tale of Sir Bertrand (part...

Phillis Wheatley: By 18 October 1773

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By 18 October 1773

On her return from England PW received her manumission; she wrote about it in a letter of this date.
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.
339

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 8 November 1773

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8 November 1773

Shortly after the death of her uncle Sir Thomas Salusbury , Hester Thrale (later HLP ) gave birth to her second son, Ralph.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
107

28 November 1773: The first tea ship reached Boston, Massachusetts,...

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28 November 1773

The first tea ship reached Boston, Massachusetts, since the passing of the Tea Act; this provoked violent resistance including the Boston tea-party of 16 December.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
11, 17-8, 19, 21

Frances Brooke: 29 November 1773

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29 November 1773

FB and Mary Ann Yates launched their first opera season at the Haymarket Opera House .
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix.
xlix

By December 1773: Henry Brooke published his sentimental novel...

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By December 1773

Henry Brooke published his sentimental novel Juliet Grenville.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
36 (1773): 443-53
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.

10 December 1773: Women of Maldon, Essex (one of the few boroughs...

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10 December 1773

Women of Maldon, Essex (one of the few boroughs where daughters of freemen—i.e. voters—conferred freeman status on their husbands), were canvassed in print at election time.
Chalus, Elaine. “’That epidemical Madness’: women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth century”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 151-78.
166

16 December 1773: Citizens dumped 340 chests of tea into the...

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16 December 1773

Citizens dumped 340 chests of tea into the harbour at Boston, Massachusetts, to protest duty imposed by the Tea Act of 10 May; this became known as the Boston Tea Party.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
68, 695

Elizabeth Ashbridge: 1774

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1774

Apparently, EA 's autobiographical text first appeared nearly twenty years after her death, as Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, published at Nantwich in Cheshire.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904.
89

Margaret Calderwood : 1774

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1774

MC died, only eight months after her husband 's death had left her a widow.
Calderwood, Margaret. “L’envoi”. Letters and Journals, edited by Alexander Fergusson, David Douglas, 1884, pp. 353-78.
374

Mary Charlton: By 1774

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By 1774

The ascription of MC 's birth to this period is likely but far from certain.
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.