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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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1775: The Irish Presentation Order of nuns was...

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1775

The Irish Presentation Order of nuns was founded in Dublin, to educate the poor, by Honora ('Nano') Nagle (who came from Catholic gentry stock in County Cork, and had independent wealth); they opened their...

1775: The London Review of English and Foreign...

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1775

The London Review of English and Foreign Literature began publication.
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.

1775: The Old Bailey Sessions Papers, accounts...

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1775

The Old Bailey Sessions Papers, accounts of criminal trials which were previously mere hasty, topical pamphlets to be sold on the streets, attained the status of official court records.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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1775: The Sunday Observance Society was founde...

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1775

The Sunday Observance Society was founded.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
307

1775: The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas...

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1775

The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas Gray 's sonnet on the death of Richard West caused a literary sensation; it laid the foundation for Charlotte Smith 's Elegiac Sonnets, 1784, and the revival of the sonnet form.
Curran, Stuart. “Reading with Both Hands: The Dialog of Novelist and Poet”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Boston, MA, 27 Mar. 2004.

1775: Major Alexander Hannay (sent by Warren Hastings)...

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1775

Major Alexander Hannay (sent by Warren Hastings ) established diplomatic relations with the Mogul (or Mughal) Emperor in India.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
128

1775-87: Figures of insurance policies held with the...

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1775-87

Figures of insurance policies held with the Royal Exchange Assurance provide at least approximate percentages of businesses thoughout England over these years which were female-owned.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
132-3, 267-8n14

1775: Richard Arkwright's latest, duly patented...

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1775

Richard Arkwright 's latest, duly patented machine proved capable of itself carrying through the entire process of yarn manufacture.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Samuel Johnson: 13 January 1775

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13 January 1775

SJ published his Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, a travel book which is also an examination of a society far behind England or lowland Scotland in technological development.
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
2: 168n3

By 14 January 1775: Arms were seized from royal forts in New...

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By 14 January 1775

Arms were seized from royal forts in New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
197

Maria Theresa Kemble: 17 January 1775

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17 January 1775

Maria Theresa De Camp (later Kemble) was born in Vienna, into a French family of musicians and dancers.
The Highfill, Burnim, and Langhans Biographical Dictionary of Actors gives the date thus. The Oxford Dictionary...

17 January 1775: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's first play, The...

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17 January 1775

Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's first play, The Rivals, had its opening performance.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4.3: 1862

Lady Charlotte Bury: 28 January 1775

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28 January 1775

Lady Charlotte Campbell (later LCB ) was born at Argyll House in Oxford Street, the London residence of her parents.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

30 January 1775: Walter Savage Landor, poet and essayist,...

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30 January 1775

Walter Savage Landor , poet and essayist, was born probably at Ipsley Court, Warwick.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Hester Mulso Chapone: By February 1775

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By February 1775

HMC published Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, with her name, dedicated to Elizabeth Carter .
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
45 (1775): 86

Susannah Dobson: 8 February 1775

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8 February 1775

SD dated the dedication of The Life of Petrarch to Soame Jenyns ; the book was published the same year.
Sade, Jacques François Paul Aldonce de. The Life of Petrarch. Translator Dobson, Susannah, James Buckland, 1775.
prelims

9 February 1775: Edmund Burke wrote that he supported full...

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9 February 1775

Edmund Burke wrote that he supported full civil protection, including freedom of publick religious worship, and a power of teaching in schools . . . to Jews Mahometans and even Pagans.
De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 577-00.
578
De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 577-00.
578, 579 and n10, 583

Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 10 February 1775

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10 February 1775

Charles Lamb , poet and essayist, much younger brother of the writer Mary Lamb , was born in Crown Office Row, the Inner Temple, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Charles Lamb

Elizabeth Griffith: 11 February 1775

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11 February 1775

EG published a didactic and critical work, The Morality of Shakespeare 's Drama Illustrated.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XXII: Elizabeth Griffith 1727-1793”. The Book Collector, Vol.
8
, 1959, pp. 418-24.
423

Janet Schaw: 14 February 1775

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14 February 1775

JS and her party sailed up the Cape Fear River to the former town of Brunswick, North Carolina, where they arrived from Antigua on the vessel Rebecca.
Schaw, Janet. Journal of a Lady of Quality. Editors Andrews, Evangeline Walker and Charles McLean Andrews, Third Edition, Yale University Press, 1939.
141 note, 144 and note

Charlotte Lennox: 14 February 1775

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14 February 1775

CL printed proposals (written for her by Johnson ) for a subscription edition of her collected Works; but nothing came of this.
Duncan Isles gives the date as 27 March.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
327
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 1240

15 February 1775: Lord Barrington, Secretary at War, asked...

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15 February 1775

Lord Barrington , Secretary at War, asked for British troops in Boston to be increased to about ten thousand men
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
198

Anna, Lady Miller : By March 1775

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By March 1775

ALM both edited and contributed to the first volume of Poetical Amusements at a Villa near Bath, to which she later added a series of three more volumes, the last by May 1781.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
34 (March 1775): 251; 51 (May 1781): 372

21 March 1775: The New England Trade and Fishery Act restricted...

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21 March 1775

The New England Trade and Fishery Act restricted the trade of the four northern American colonies to Britain and the West Indies only.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
197

Maria Susanna Cooper: By April 1775

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By April 1775

MSC , by now the author of three published novels, recast her earliest one, Letters Between Emilia and Harriet, under the title of The Daughter, in order to point up its relationship to...