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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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9 July 1775: Matthew Gregory Lewis, later famous as the...

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9 July 1775

Matthew Gregory Lewis , later famous as the leading Gothic novelist of horror, was born on the eleventh birthday of Ann Radcliffe , leading Gothic novelist of terror.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

25 July 1775: News reached London of the battle of Bunker...

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25 July 1775

News reached London of the battle of Bunker Hill.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
254

By August 1775: Sarah Siddons first performed the role of...

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By August 1775

Sarah Siddons first performed the role of Hamlet at Worcester: she went on to repeat the part at Manchester, Bristol, and probably Liverpool even before she finally cracked the London stage in 1782.
Woo, Catherine. “Sarah Siddons’s Performances as Hamlet: Breaching the Breeches Part”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
18
, No. 5, Dec. 2007, pp. 573-95.
574 and n10

14 August 1775: American ships raided Bermuda, capturing...

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14 August 1775

American ships raided Bermuda, capturing forts and carrying off all the powder in their magazines.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
93

19 August 1775: Exactly three months after the battle of...

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19 August 1775

Exactly three months after the battle of Lexington, bluestocking Frances Boscawen , still eaten up with anxiety for her only surviving son, demanded rhetorically whether the colonies would, when destroyed, yield either taxes or traffic?
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
190
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
189-90

23 August 1775: George III proclaimed the American colonies...

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23 August 1775

George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of rebellion.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
93

28 August 1775: The American invasion of Canada began....

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28 August 1775

The American invasion of Canada began.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
93

Maria Edgeworth: Autumn 1775 to early 1781

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Autumn 1775 to early 1781

ME attended Mrs Latuffiere's boarding-school in Derby.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
51, 71

11 September 1775: Colonel Benedict Arnold marched from Cambridge,...

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11 September 1775

Colonel Benedict Arnold marched from Cambridge, Massachusetts, with 1,150 men, heading for Quebec; only 600 reached the St Lawrence River two months later.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
93

23 September 1775: Drury Lane Theatre re-opened after being...

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23 September 1775

Drury Lane Theatre re-opened after being totally re-designed as a far larger auditorium by Robert and James Adam .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1907, 1912-13

Elizabeth Moody: After September 1775

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After September 1775

Following the death this month of Edward Lovibond , her poetic mentor, EM lamented him in verse; she had addressed poetry to him during his lifetime.
Lovibond, born in 1723, lived at Hampton in Surrey...

Ann Jebb: 29 September 1775

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29 September 1775

AJ 's husband John Jebb resigned his Church of England preferments including his Cambridge lectureship.
Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, 1787, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
104
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
600

Anna Letitia Barbauld: By October 1775

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By October 1775

ALB published, through Joseph Johnson , Devotional Pieces Compiled from the Psalms and the Book of Job. Johnson advertised it only from December, when the reviews were in.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
162
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
40(1775): 359

Judith Sargent Murray: October 1775

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October 1775

Judith Stevens (later JSM ) composed her earliest-dated extant writing (published in June 1794 in the Massachusetts Magazine): Reflections in the Manner of Hervey —Occasioned by the Death of an Infant Sister.
James...

10 October 1775: General William Howe replaced General Thomas...

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10 October 1775

General William Howe replaced General Thomas Gage as Commander of the British forces in Boston.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
93

David Garrick: 31 October 1775

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31 October 1775

David Garrick mocked the fashionable, high head-dresses worn by the women of his day by donning an extravagant fruit-and-flower head-dress to play Vanbrugh 's Sir John Brute in drag.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1907, 1924

November 1775: Lord Dunmore, British governor of Virginia,...

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November 1775

Lord Dunmore , British governor of Virginia, proclaimed that slaves deserting their masters to fight for the British would be rewarded with freedom.
Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 37-51.
48, 42

Charlotte Lennox: 9 November 1775

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9 November 1775

CL 's comedy Old City Manners (an adaptation from Eastward Hoe! by Ben Jonson and others) opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1928

Janet Schaw: 10 November 1775

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10 November 1775

JS embarked on the George, sailing from North Carolina for Glasgow via Lisbon in Portugal, with her young relations and a Scotsman named Archibald Neilson , who was forced home from America by ill...

13 November 1775: American troops occupied Montreal; three...

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13 November 1775

American troops occupied Montreal; three weeks later they besieged Quebec.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
94-5

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Late 1775

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Late 1775

ALB met Hester Chapone and was invited to her London salon.
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.
81

Elizabeth Meeke: Late 1775

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Late 1775

The fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Allen travelled to Parisfor the purpose of completing her education and refining her manners.
qtd. in
Macdonald, Simon. “Identifying Mrs Meeke: Another Burney Family Novelist”. Review of English Studies, Oxford University Press, 8 Feb. 2013.

Hannah More: December 1775

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December 1775

HM published her first poem, the ballad Sir Eldred of the Bower, revised with the help of Samuel Johnson . It was printed with another poem, The Bleeding Rock, bearing the date of...

Jane Porter: 3 December 1775

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3 December 1775

JP was born in Durham, the middle one of five children. She was not baptised until 17 January 1776, with the result that 1776 has often been given as the year of her birth.
McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 1825–1846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
20
, No. 2, 1 June 2009–2026, pp. 45-62.
45n1
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
264

Janet Schaw: 4 December 1775

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4 December 1775

The ship George, carrying JS and her party home from America, after thirty-two days at sea with a fair wind and no storms, dropped anchor in the bay of Setubal (called St Tubes by...