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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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Catharine Macaulay: April 1775

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April 1775

The Rev. Thomas Wilson formally adopted CM 's daughter, Catherine Sophia, before five or six witnesses, in a ceremony borrowed from ancient Roman law.
qtd. in
Hill, Bridget. “Daughter and Mother: Some new light on Catharine Macaulay and her family”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1999, pp. 35-49.
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Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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By April 1775: M. D. T. Bienville's Nymphomanie, 1771, appeared...

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By April 1775

M. D. T. Bienville 's Nymphomanie, 1771, appeared in English translation as Nymphomania, or A Dissertation concerning the Furor Uterinus.
Dacre, Charlotte. Zofloya; or, The Moor. Editor Craciun, Adriana, Broadview, 1997.
21, 257-60
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
39 (1775): 252-3
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
45 (1775): 192

3 April 1775: Lord Pembroke told James Boswell about a...

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3 April 1775

Lord Pembroke told James Boswell about a London brothel in the habit of employing exclusively black women (it had recently gone mixed).
Boswell, James, 1740 - 1795. Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774-1776. Editors Ryskamp, Charles and Frederick A. Pottle, William Heinemann, 1963.
118
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: 5 April 1775

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Author event in Elizabeth Sarah Gooch

5 April 1775

At Bath (where her mother had taken her in the wake of her first love-affair) Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real met a baronet's son, William Gooch , who in his turn proposed eloping with her.
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Life of Mrs Gooch. Printed for the authoress and sold by C. and G. Kearsley, 1792, 3 vols.
1: 43, 44, 46, 55

6 April 1775: Sarah Baskerville asserted in a newspaper...

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6 April 1775

Sarah Baskerville asserted in a newspaper advertisement that she was running the well-known family type foundry with the same care and accuracy that was formerly observed by Mr. Baskerville .
McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.
140 and n18
Barker, Hannah. “Women, work and the industrial revolution: female involvement in the English printing trades, c. 1700-1840”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 81-100.
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Elizabeth Gilding: 15 April 1775

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15 April 1775

EG composed her earliest identified publication, a poem printed the following month in the London Magazine and reprinted next year in her own collection: The Delirium. By a Young Lady.
Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
314

19 April 1775: The first shot of the American War of Independence...

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19 April 1775

The first shot of the American War of Independence was fired at the village of Lexington, near Concord, Massachusetts.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
227, 228
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
560

Frances Burney: 1-15 May 1775

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Author event in Frances Burney

1-15 May 1775

FB was courted for marriage by a Mr Thomas Barlow ; she was of course pressured, though not too strongly, to accept him.
Burney, Frances. The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. Editors Troide, Lars E. et al., Clarendon Press, 1988–2002, 4 vols.
2: 116-29

Mary Robinson: 3 May 1775

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Author event in Mary Robinson

3 May 1775

MR 's husband was arrested for debt (some of which predated his marriage); she accompanied him to the Fleet Prison , and did not leave it for almost ten months.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
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Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
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Mary Martha Sherwood: 6 May 1775

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6 May 1775

Mary Martha Butt (later MMS ) was born at the rectory in Stanford in Worcestershire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Hannah More: 6 May 1775

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6 May 1775

HM 's first tragedy, The Inflexible Captive (published a year previously), opened on stage at the Theatre Royal , Bath.
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
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10 May 1775: The Second Continental Congress met in P...

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10 May 1775

The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford University Press, 1982.
277

Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: 13 May 1775

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13 May 1775

Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real , aged seventeen, married at St George's, Hanover Square, London, William Gooch , younger son of a baronet, whom she had known for five weeks and who had attempted to marry...

Maria Susanna Cooper: 20 May 1775

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20 May 1775

MSC 's second novel this year (through a different publisher than the first) was advertised for sale: The History of Fanny Meadows. In a Series of Letters, as by the Author of the Exemplary Mother.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 237

Elizabeth Montagu: 20 May 1775

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20 May 1775

EM 's husband, Edward Montagu, died.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
248

Radagunda Roberts: By June 1775

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By June 1775

RR 's version of a novel by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont , The Triumph of Truth, or Memoirs of Mr. De La Villette, written at the request of John Hawkesworth , was reviewed...

Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: Shortly before 15 June 1775

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Shortly before 15 June 1775

EOB was born at West Camel in Somerset.
Lucy Aikin gave her birthplace as Wells (a larger place, not far away).
The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 33 vols.
1 n.s., 1827.126
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Aikin, Lucy, and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger. “Memoir of Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger”. Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, 3rd ed., Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827.

15 June 1775: George Washington was selected by the American...

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15 June 1775

George Washington was selected by the American Congress to command all the continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defense of American liberty.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford University Press, 1982.
281

17 June 1775: A battle was fought at Bunker Hill, just...

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17 June 1775

A battle was fought at Bunker Hill, just south of Boston.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford University Press, 1982.
281
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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22 June 1775: The American Continental Congress resolved...

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22 June 1775

The American Continental Congress resolved to issue $2,000,000 in bills of credit: the first continental currency.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
91

27 June 1775: The American Continental Congress reversed...

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27 June 1775

The American Continental Congress reversed a previous decision and authorized invasion of Canada in case of need.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford University Press, 1982.
280

Mary Robinson: Summer 1775

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Author event in Mary Robinson

Summer 1775

MR published Poems, some of them written long before.
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.
75-6
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
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July 1775: On the death of Charles Say (a major London...

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July 1775

On the death of Charles Say (a major London printer, publisher of the official newspaper The Gazetteer), his widow Mary Say took over the business.
Barker, Hannah. “Women, work and the industrial revolution: female involvement in the English printing trades, c. 1700-1840”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 81-100.
91-2, 99
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

5 July 1775: The American Continental Congress adopted...

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5 July 1775

The American Continental Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition, reiterating the colonists' grievances but professing their attachment to George III .
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
91-2

Ann Yearsley: 9 July 1775

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Author event in Ann Yearsley

9 July 1775

AY bore the first of her seven children, who was christened Henry.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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