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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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January 1777: The Magazine à la Mode, or Fashionable Miscellany...

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January 1777

The Magazine à la Mode, or Fashionable Miscellany was published in London for a single issue.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore: 3 January 1777

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3 January 1777

A first pseudonymous attack on Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , appeared in the fairly recent scandal-sheet the Morning Post, signed Hamlet, to be shortly followed by a defence signed Monitus.
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006.
52

10 January 1777: Following a defeat at Princeton on 3 January,...

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10 January 1777

Following a defeat at Princeton on 3 January, the British withdrew all their forces from New Jersey except for two posts.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
104

16 January 1777: George Colman the elder bought the Haymarket...

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16 January 1777

George Colman the elder bought the Haymarket Theatre ; he subsequently authored more than thirty plays.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
41
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5.1: 7

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore: 17 January 1777

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17 January 1777

Nine months after her first husband 's death, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , married Andrew Robinson Stoney , a marital speculator who had already spent the fortune of one mistreated wife.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Elizabeth Inchbald: 18 January 1777

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18 January 1777

EI was introduced to John Philip Kemble (who was to become famous as an actor-manager), in Manchester, by his sister Sarah Siddons .
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
16
Inchbald, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Simple Story, edited by Jane Spencer and Joyce Marjorie Sanxter Tompkins, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. vii - xxxiii.
xxxi

Elizabeth Griffith: 20 January 1777

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20 January 1777

EG published her translated A Letter from Monsieur Desenfans to Mrs. Montagu.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XXII: Elizabeth Griffith 1727-1793”. The Book Collector, Vol.
8
, 1959, pp. 418-24.
424

Susannah Dobson: By February 1777

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By February 1777

SD published her didactic Dialogue on Friendship and Society, as the translator of the Life of Petrarch (S. D.).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
43 (1777): 159

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: February-27 June 1777

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February-27 June 1777

Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) wrote almost weekly to the ex-fashionable preacher Dr William Dodd (in prison for forgery) until he was hanged, out of concern for his soul.
John Wesley visited Dodd in prison, and...

Elizabeth Gilding: By winter 1776-7

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By winter 1776-7

EG married the Rev. Daniel Turner (1746-96) , a dissenting minister, who came from Lowestoft in Suffolk, but now lived, as she did, at Woolwich.
Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
310

Elizabeth Inchbald: February 1777

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February 1777

EI began work on the novel which became A Simple Story.
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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Jane Cave: 6 February 1777

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6 February 1777

JC 's mother, a Welsh innkeeper's daughter who was also called Jane (née Vaughan), died in Brecknockshire, after being married, it was said, for forty years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
36
, No. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 415-31.
418

Cassandra, Lady Hawke: 6 February 1777

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6 February 1777

Cassandra Turner married barrister Martin Bladen Hawke , second son (later the only survivor and the heir) of the famous retired admiral Edward Hawke (who was in 1776 created Baron Hawke).
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Edward Hawke

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 8 February 1777

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8 February 1777

Hester Thrale bore another daughter, Cecilia Margaretta, the last one to prove a survivor.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
150

8 February 1777: The first volume appeared in Edinburgh of...

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8 February 1777

The first volume appeared in Edinburgh of Hugh Blair 's five volumes of exquisitely sentimental
Buchan, James. “That sh—te Creech”. London Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2007, pp. 13-14.
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and extraordinarily popular
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sermons. London publication followed on 15 April.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

8 February 1777: Thomas Chatterton's fake medieval Rowley...

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8 February 1777

Thomas Chatterton 's fake medieval Rowley poems were posthumously published; controversy over their authenticity rumbled on for years.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
187-8
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
47 (1777): 137
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

May Drummond: Probably late February 1777

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Probably late February 1777

MD died in Edinburgh; the death was reported as last week on 5 March.
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
288n1

Phebe Gibbes: About March 1777

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About March 1777

A work by the author of Lady Louisa Stroud (that is PG ) entitled Modern Seduction, or Innocence Betrayed purported to be a group biography of women in the Magdalen Hospital , but is probably...

Hannah More: By March 1777

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By March 1777

HM published her Ode to Dragon.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
43 (1777): 234

March 1777: Antiquarian John Carter argued in the Builder's...

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March 1777

Antiquarian John Carter argued in the Builder's Magazine that Gothic architecture represented the true English taste (as opposed to classical forms, which were foreign).
Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000.
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Caroline Herschel : 5 March 1777

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5 March 1777

CH made her first appearance as a professional singer (her brother William conducting), at the Upper Assembly Rooms at Bath in Handel 's oratorio Judas Maccabeus.
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
102

Lady Mary Walker: By early March 1777

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By early March 1777

LMW published a second didactic, epistolary novel, Memoirs of the Marchioness de Louvoi. In Letters, writing again as a Lady.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 259-60

Catharine Macaulay: After 23 March 1777

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After 23 March 1777

Thomas Wilson arranged the publication by Cadell of Six Odes, presented to . . . Mrs. Catharine Macaulay , on her Birth-Day.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
43 (1777): 389

Mary Latter: 28 March 1777

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28 March 1777

ML died at Reading in Berkshire at only a little past fifty.
Baker, David Erskine. Biographia Dramatica. AMS Press, 1966, 3 vols.
1: 446

Clara Reeve: Probably March 1777

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Probably March 1777

CR published at Colchester, as the Editor of the Phoenix, The Champion of Virtue. A Gothic Story, a novel which was to become better known by its later title, The Old English...