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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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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: 7 June 1774

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7 June 1774

Georgiana Spencer married (in the parish church at Wimbledon near London, on her seventeenth birthday) the Duke of Devonshire .
The Complete Peerage gives the date as 5 June. Wimbledon Park (since destroyed) was one...

Ann Yearsley: 8 June 1774

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8 June 1774

Ann Cromartie married John Yearsley ; they did not have banns called in church, but chose the more expensive option of buying a licence.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
15 and n12

Mary Latter: 12 June 1774

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12 June 1774

After receiving an epistolary withering blast of Refusal of The Siege of Jerusalem from David Garrick , ML sent him a further indignant letter of protest.
Garrick, David. Correspondence. Editor Boaden, James, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831, 2 vols.
1: 633

Charlotte Forman: 18 June 1774

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18 June 1774

Probus (probably CF ) wrote in the Public Advertiser that a time was coming that will enable the people to resume the power delegated to the indolent, corrupt, and venal Parliament .
qtd. in
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
30

Charlotte Smith: 18 June 1774

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18 June 1774

Anna Augusta , CS 's favourite daughter and her last child to be born at Tottenham, was baptised.
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
63
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
40

Anna Letitia Barbauld: 23 June 1774

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23 June 1774

ALB met Elizabeth Montagu for the first time (after some months' correspondence) when on her honeymoon trip she visited Montagu's house in Hill Street, Mayfair, London site of the famous bluestocking salon.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
147
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xliv
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
80

30 June 1774: The Quebec Act settled the mode of British...

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30 June 1774

The Quebec Act settled the mode of British government in that colony; its validation of the colonists' own law sharpened the grievance of those in the Thirteen Colonies.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
38 (1774): 77
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
44 (1774): 284

Susan Smythies: After July 1774

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After July 1774

SS , who was alive when her father made his will, may have died at any date after that.
“Genealogical Notes to the Pedigree of the Smythies Family”. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol.
4: 4
, 1912, pp. 276 - 86, 306.
313

Summer 1774: Mother Ann Lee and her followers emigrated...

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Summer 1774

Mother Ann Lee and her followers emigrated from England to the USA.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

: At Yetminster in Dorset during a smallpox...

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Summer 1774

At Yetminster in Dorset during a smallpox epidemic, a farmer named Benjamin Jesty transferred cowpox matter from cattle into scratches in the arms of his wife and two small sons.
Wallace, E. Marjorie, and Joan Begbie. The First Vaccinator. Benjamin Jesty of Yetminster and Worth Matravers and his Family. Anglebury-Bartlett, 1981.
6-7, 9-11

Sarah Dixon: 6 July 1774

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6 July 1774

The Ruins of St Austin's, Canterbury, which SD wrote at seventy-three, was posthumously published in the Kentish Gazette.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
152
Dixon, Sarah. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Abree, 1740.

Anna Letitia Barbauld: By mid-July 1774

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By mid-July 1774

ALB and her husband were settled after their marriage at Palgrave in Suffolk, where they were to manage what became the well-known Palgrave School for boys.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
147
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xliv
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
64

Elizabeth Montagu: 18 July 1774

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18 July 1774

EM wrote to express to Elizabeth Vesey her strong views on the deplorable morality of Lord Chesterfield 's letters, recently published.
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.
1: 284-5

Anna Letitia Barbauld: 25 July 1774-June 1785

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25 July 1774-June 1785

ALB co-managed and taught at Palgrave School , the boarding school for boys that she and her husband founded.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xliv
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
64-83, 92
McCarthy, William. “The Celebrated Academy at Palgrave: A Documentary History of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s School”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
8
, 1997, pp. 279-92.
279

Anna Letitia Barbauld: August 1774-June 1785

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August 1774-June 1785

While managing Palgrave SchoolALB produced a regular weekly chronicle or school newspaper for the boys.
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
78

1 August 1774: After some years experimenting with nitrous...

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1 August 1774

After some years experimenting with nitrous oxide, Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen (which he called dephlogisticated air).
Priestley, Joseph. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air. Thomas Pearson, 1790.

Robert Southey: 12 August 1774

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12 August 1774

RS , poet, was born in Bristol.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Hannah Kilham: 12 August 1774

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12 August 1774

Hannah Spurr (later HK ) was born in Sheffield, her parents' seventh child.
Robertson, Fiona, and Fiona Robertson, editors. “Hannah Kilham (1774-1832)”. Women’s Writing 1778-1838, An Anthology, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 485-7.
485
Kilham, Hannah. Memoir of the late Hannah Killam. Editor Biller, Sarah, Harvey and Darton, 1837.
1

Mary Scott: By September 1774

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By September 1774

MS responded to John Duncombe 's Feminead, published twenty years before, with The Female Advocate, dedicated to her friend the poet and hymn-writer Anne Steele .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
38 (1774): 218

5 September-26 October 1774: The First Continental Congress opened in...

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5 September-26 October 1774

The First Continental Congress opened in Philadelphia.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford University Press, 1982.
234-49

30 September 1774: Thomas Warton, having issued volume one of...

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30 September 1774

Thomas Warton , having issued volume one of A History of English Poetry this year (with an essay prefixed, Of the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe, was nearly ready to go to press...

Elizabeth Griffith: October 1774

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October 1774

E. G. (probably Elizabeth Griffith ) contributed to the Westminster Magazine; or, The Pantheon of Fame a poem, From a Lady to her Friend on being Restrained from Visiting her by Certain Forms.
Pitcher, Edward W. The Literary Prose of "Westminster Magazine" (1773-1785). Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
62-3

From October 1774: The famous Bristol election campaign was...

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From October 1774

The famous Bristol election campaign was fought on the issue of taxing the American colonies, with Edmund Burke standing against the tax.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
19-20
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John, 1920 - Brooke, editors. The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964.
1: 535

Alethea Lewis: 2 October 1774

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2 October 1774

William Springal Levett , fiancé of Alethea Brereton (later AL ), died before they could be married.
Crabbe, George. The Complete Poetical Works. Editors Dalrymple-Champneys, Norma and Arthur Pollard, Clarendon Press, 1988, 3 vols.
1: 611

Olaudah Equiano: 6 October 1774

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6 October 1774

At Cadiz in Spain, OE had a spiritual reawakening which he calls conversion, after which he worshipped as a Methodist as well as an Anglican . His conversion came as the climax and resolution...