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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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Lady Eleanor Butler: Early in 1780

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Early in 1780

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby settled in a cottage they called Plas Newydd, in Llangollen, with which their growing reputation linked them for ever as the Ladies of Llangollen.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
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Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : About 1780

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About 1780

Mary Champion de Crespigny wrote the letters to her son William (her only child, then aged about fifteen) which she later published as Letters of Advice from a Mother to her Son.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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Mary Bosanquet Fletcher: 1780

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1780

Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) published at LeedsAn Aunt's Advice to a Niece, a conduct book which incorporates letters she had written to the condemned forger Dr William Dodd .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Catherine Talbot: 1780

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Author event in Catherine Talbot

1780

Elizabeth Carter published CT 's posthumous Works.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : 1780

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1780

LMH published an anonymous novel, she said, to raise funds for a whim of girlish patronage; she said she knew no honest means
Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts and Opinions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and C. and J. Rivington, 1824, 2 vols.
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of making money.

Anne-Thérèse de Lambert: 1780

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1780

Two essays of a proto-feminist tendency by ATL were translated into English by Eliza Hayley as Essays on Friendship and Old-Age.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
OCLC

Hannah More: 1780

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Author event in Hannah More

1780

Frances Reynolds painted a portrait of HM , now in Bristol Museums and Art Gallery.
Thompson, Henry, 1797 - 1878. The Life of Hannah More. T. Cadell, 1838.
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1780-4: The Second Mysore War was fought....

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1780-4

The Second Mysore War was fought.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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1780: James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as...

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1780

James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as a music publisher) began to issue the handsomely-produced Novelists' Magazine, a weekly serial reprinting of canonical novels.
Shevlin, Elinor. “’It is the intention of the Editor’: Griffith’s, Harrison’s, and Cooke’s collections and the making of the English novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 21 Apr. 2001.
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.
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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1780-1785: During these years, East India Company records...

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1780-1785

During these years, East India Company records show that more than one-third of British men who made a will in India bequeathed everything to their Indian wives or among their mixed-race families. In fifty years...

During the 1780s: John Crisp and his wife ran a boarding school...

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During the 1780s

John Crisp and his wife ran a boarding school for boys and girls at 28 Long Acre, London; the curriculum included writing, arithmetic, French, Latin, and Greek.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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1780: Charlotte Cowley published The Ladies History...

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1780

Charlotte Cowley published The Ladies History of England, with the avowed intention of depictiing her Sex's Worth in every Age,
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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mostly in instances of heroinism.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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1780: Of 21,000 children whose births were registered...

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1780

Of 21,000 children whose births were registered in Paris this year, only 5 per cent were fed their mothers' milk.
Jolly, Alison. “Keep Me”. London Review of Books, 10 Aug. 2000, pp. 23-4.
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1780: Sir David Hamilton was knighted by King George...

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1780

Sir David Hamilton was knighted by King George III : the first obstetrician to be so honoured.
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth Century England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
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January 1780: Evangelicalism received a boost when the...

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January 1780

Evangelicalism received a boost when the Rev. John Newton moved from Olney in Buckinghamshire to London at the invitation of businessman John Thornton .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1780: Man of letters William Smellie published...

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1780

Man of letters William Smellie published an English translation of Buffon 's famous Natural History.
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.

Around 1780: Large, broad-brimmed hats for women came...

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Around 1780

Large, broad-brimmed hats for women came into fashion, first in Paris, and then in London.
Campbell, Kimberly Chrisman. “Milliners in Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2002, pp. 157-71.
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1780: In his poem An Essay on History, in three...

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1780

In his poem An Essay on History, in three epistles to Edward Gibbon, William Hayley praised the ancient historian Anna Comnena .
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. The Victim of Fancy. Pickering and Chatto, 2009.
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1780: The first recorded use was made of the word...

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1780

The first recorded use was made of the word tourist, meaning a person who travels to see sights: in a notice of an Ode to the Genius of the Lakes in the North of England.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.

1780: James Watt (building on Erasmus Darwin's...

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1780

James Watt (building on Erasmus Darwin 's production two years earlier of a mechanically copied letter) marketed a copier for documents which enabled him to make multiple copies of contracts.
Pagden, Anthony. “Great Expectations of Themselves”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 32-3.
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1780: The comedy The Oaks, or the Beauties of Canterbury by Mrs. Burgess was published

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1780

The comedy The Oaks, or the Beauties of Canterbury by Mrs. Burgess was published. Mrs. Burgess is identified in the prologue as a pastry cook with a shop on St. George's Street.
“The last night but two. Benefit of Mrs. Dawes”. Lewis Walpole Library, 1780, https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/17337813.
 

Elizabeth Griffith: After 12 January 1780

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After 12 January 1780

EG 's Westminster Magazine stories were collected (with three by other people) as Novellettes, Selected for the Use of Young Ladies and Gentlemen; she was probably the editor.
The title is spelled with two...

Frances Burney: By 22 January 1780

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By 22 January 1780

FB , capitulating to pressure, said she was most earnestly desirous to let her first, unacted comedy, The Witlings, Die a quiet Death.
Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering, 1995, 2 vols.
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February 1780: Pennsylvania became, in the words of historian...

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February 1780

Pennsylvania became, in the words of historian Margaret Jacob , the first place in the Western world to abolish slavery.
Jullian, Philippe. “Spinoza got it”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 21, 8 Nov. 2012, pp. 26-7.
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“Slavery in Pennsylvania”. Slavery in the North, 2003.

Fanny Holcroft: 21 February 1780

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21 February 1780

Fanny Margaretta Holcroft (who later published as FH ) was born in London into the middle of a large and spread-out family from several marriages. She was not baptised until 11 July 1785.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press, 1997–1998, 2 vols.
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