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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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October 1774: The Duchess of Northumberland took an active...

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October 1774

The Duchess of Northumberland took an active part in her son's campaign to be elected for Westminster in the general election (polling ran into November in some districts).
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.
172
Johnson, Samuel. Political Writings. Editor Greene, Donald, Yale University Press, 1977.
387

16 October 1774: The Scottish poet Robert Fergusson, in his...

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16 October 1774

The Scottish poet Robert Fergusson , in his earlies twenties, died at Edinburgh, in the city's Bedlam .
Houston, Rab. “Madness, morality, and creativity: Robert Fergusson and the social context of insanity in eighteenth-century Scotland”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
22
, No. 1, 1999, pp. 133-54.
133-5

Mary Robinson: 18 October 1774

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18 October 1774

MR bore her elder and only surviving daughter, Maria Elizabeth , at Trevecca House in Wales.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xi
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
70, 90

Ann Jebb: Probably late 1774

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Probably late 1774

A Letter to the Author of the Proposal for the Establishment of Public Examinations is generally named as AJ 's earliest, anonymous tract. But John Disney names the first as A Letter to the Author...

20 October 1774: The American First Continental Congress signed...

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20 October 1774

The American First Continental Congress signed the Continental Association, proposing a total trade boycott of Britain in order to force repeal of recent anti-colonialist legislation.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
167

Janet Schaw: 25 October 1774

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25 October 1774

JS embarked on her travels, boarding the Jamaica Packet at Burntisland near Leith and Edinburgh. In this year and the next she visited British colonies in the Caribbean and America, and from autumn 1775...

Janet Schaw: 25 October 1774 - 20 December 1775

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25 October 1774 - 20 December 1775

With these dates JS headed the individual travel letters which she copied and kept in the form of a journal. The last letter seems to take her narrative into the new year, 1776, and another...

27 October 1774: The Massachusetts Congress appointed a Committee...

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27 October 1774

The Massachusetts Congress appointed a Committee of Safety , which in January-February 1775 began storing weapons and ordering military supplies.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
224

28 October 1774: News reached London of the Suffolk County...

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28 October 1774

News reached London of the Suffolk County Resolves , which called for recent legislation to be disobeyed as the attempts of a wicked administration to enslave America.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
158

Anna Williams : Late October 1774

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Late October 1774

AW applied for the ten-pound annual support offered to blind people by a charity that was newly set up by William Hetherington and administered through Christ's Hospital . Her application was unsuccessful.
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
2: 152-3
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
61-2

Hannah More: Winter 1774-5

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Winter 1774-5

This was the first of several annual seasons that HM spent in London, on this occasion accompanied by two of her sisters.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Judith Sargent Murray: 3 November 1774

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3 November 1774

The itinerant minister John Murray (an English immigrant who had been preaching in the USA since 1770), arrived at Gloucester,Massachusetts (home town of Judith Sargent Stevens ), to spread the gospel of Universalism .
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
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By December 1774: William Hunter published The Anatomy of the...

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By December 1774

William Hunter published The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus exhibited in Figures: in his work he used casts taken directly from the dead body.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
38 (1774): 408-12
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.
Elliott, Nathan. “"Unball’d Sockets" and ‘The Mockery of Speech’: Diagnostic Anxiety and the Theater of Joanna Baillie”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
18
, No. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 83-103.
89-91

Janet Schaw: 12 December 1774

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12 December 1774

JS and her party arrived at the island of Antigua after an eventful and perilous voyage from Scotland.
Schaw, Janet. Journal of a Lady of Quality. Editors Andrews, Evangeline Walker and Charles McLean Andrews, Third Edition, Yale University Press, 1939.
76-77 and n

Mary Matilda Betham: Late 1775

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Late 1775

Though MMB is generally said to have been born at Stradbroke in Suffolk, it was probably her christening that was recorded on 1 January 1776 at Haceby in Lincolnshire.
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.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Sarah Gardner: 1775

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1775

SG wrote a poem entitled On the American Disturbance . . . To the King, which she preserved in her manuscript album: the earliest dated among her writings.
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Gardner: "Such Trumpery" or ‘A Lustre to Her Sex’?”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
7
, 1988, pp. 7-25.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: 1775

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1775

MW met Fanny Blood , whom she loved with a fervour which Fanny could not reciprocate.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Editor Poston, Carol H., 2nd edition, Norton, 1988.
357
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Mercy Otis Warren: 1775

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1775

MOW 's play The Group was anonymously published in several cities (As lately Acted, and to be Re-acted, to the Wonder of all Superior Intelligences), including Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.
qtd. in
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
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Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: 1775

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1775

SFG published in Paris a collection of playlets loosely based on Bible stories, for children to act: Drames sacrés à l'usage des jeunes personnes.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Constantia Grierson: 1775

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1775

Scholar Edward Harwood , in a survey of two centuries of classical scholarship, called CG 's Tacitusone of the best edited books ever delivered to the world.
qtd. in
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
40n16

Ann Hatton: About 1775

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About 1775

The eleven-year-old Ann Kemble penned a play; it was acted at her father 's theatre at Brecon. But no records substantiate her account of it.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
7: 171
Henderson, Jim. “Ann of Swansea: a life on the edge”. National Library of Wales Journal, Vol.
34
, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-47.
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Elizabeth Inchbald: January 1775

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January 1775

EI embarked on the study of French.
Tompkins dates this 9 January 1774, one year earlier than Manvell does.
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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Ann Jebb: 1775

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1775

The Whitehall Evening Post carried a contribution from AJ advocating annual examinations at Cambridge (an issue over which her husband resigned).
qtd. in
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
599

Catharine Macaulay: By January 1775

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By January 1775

CM published at Bath as well as through Dilly in London a pamphlet on the American situation: An Address to the People of England, Scotland, and Ireland, on the present Important Crisis of...

Elizabeth Montagu: January 1775

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January 1775

EM met and became friends with Hester Thrale (later Piozzi ).
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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