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Events Timeline
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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Samuel Johnson: 23 September 1777
Author event in Samuel Johnson
23 September 1777
dictated to
his legal opinion in the case of
, a slave suing in Scotland for his liberty: he concluded, No man is by nature the property of another: The defendant...
Hester Mulso Chapone: By October 1777
Women writers item
Author event in Hester Mulso Chapone
By October 1777
published A Letter to a New-Married Lady: a pamphlet-sized book on a subject suggested by
.
Clara Reeve: October 1777
Women writers item
Author event in Clara Reeve
October 1777
published in The Lady's Magazine a brief article entitled Thoughts on the Female Literature of the Present Age.
Elizabeth Inchbald: October 1777
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald
October 1777
and her husband were hired by
: this was a coup, for to join his theatre company had long been their ambition.
Catharine Macaulay: Autumn 1777-January 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Macaulay
Autumn 1777-January 1778
visited Paris for some months, ostensibly for the sake of her health; this may not have been her first visit.
Elizabeth Meeke: October 1777
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Meeke
October 1777
, who was not yet sixteen, was married at Ypres to
, an Englishman twenty years older than herself, with whom she had eloped (or by whom she had been abducted)...
17 October 1777: General Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga,...
National or international item
17 October 1777
General
surrendered at Saratoga, at the end of a campaign he had begun on 30 July.
Elizabeth Montagu: 11 November 1777
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Montagu
11 November 1777
observed to
that their faces and character-sketches were now circulated in all kinds of popular media.
15 November 1777: The American Congress approved Articles of...
National or international item
15 November 1777
The American
approved Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the new United States.
Late 1777: Publisher Joseph Johnson issued the anonymous...
Late 1777
Publisher
issued the anonymous The Laws Respecting Women, in four sections, on the personal rights of women, the property of women, crimes committed by and with women (as well as their corresponding...
Hannah More: 10 December 1777
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah More
10 December 1777
had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by
at
.
Ann Eliza Bleecker: Early December 1777
Writing climate item
Author event in Ann Eliza Bleecker
Early December 1777
, whose
was away seeking a wartime refuge for them, fled on foot from her New York estate, Tomhanick, at the approach of the British general
.
17 December 1777: The French Foreign Minister promised that...
National or international item
17 December 1777
The French Foreign Minister promised that France would quickly recognize American independence and make a treaty with the new nation.
Elizabeth Moody: 23 December 1777
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Moody
23 December 1777
married the Rev.
at Thames Ditton in Surrey. She was forty and he twenty-three.
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: Probably 24 December 1777
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Probably 24 December 1777
's
having decreed her banishment to a convent in France, she set off in the snow on Christmas Eve.
She says 1778, which is probably a year too late. A manuscript note...
Frances Burney: January 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Burney
January 1778
, with elaborate safeguards of her anonymity, published her first novel, Evelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World.
Mary Wollstonecraft: 1778-autumn 1781
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Wollstonecraft
1778-autumn 1781
worked as companion to a Mrs Dawson, who spent most of her time at Bath and Windsor.
Susanna Wesley: 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Wesley
1778
For the first time some of
's writing was published: by her son
in the first volume of the Arminian Magazine.
Germaine de Staël: 1778
Writing climate item
Author event in Germaine de Staël
1778
At the age of twelve, Germaine Necker, later
, wrote a comedy, The Inconveniences of Parisian Life.
Anna Seward: 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Seward
1778
contributed (by post) a poem, Invocation of the Comic Muse, to the vase of
at Batheaston.
Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson
1778
Susanna Haswell, aged about twelve, returned with her family from Boston, Massachusetts, to England, on account of the revolutionary war. She was sorry to leave America.
Sophia Lee: 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Sophia Lee
1778
and her family brought their peripatetic years to an end by settling in Bath, where she lived for the rest of her life.
Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan: Probably 1778
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan
Probably 1778
, published Verses on the Present State of Ireland in Dublin as Lady L—n and in London as a Lady.
Anna, Lady Miller : 1778
Writing climate item
Author event in Anna, Lady Miller
1778
An anonymous 18-page pamphlet entitled On Novelty: and On Trifles, and Triflers. Poetical Amusements at a Villa near Bath reads like comment on ALM 's Batheaston Vase; it is not clear why library catalogues ascribe...
Elizabeth Montagu: 1778
Women writers item