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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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Mary, Lady Chudleigh: Before December 1697
Women writers item
Author event in Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Before December 1697
, wrote a poem in praise of
's translation of
, which was about to be published. It seems that she would not allow her tribute to be printed with...
By late 1697: John Dryden published by subscription his...
Writing climate item
By late 1697
published by subscription his verse translation of
's Works; it was the first time a literary work by a living author had been published by this means.
Elizabeth Cooper, d. 1761: Probably 1698
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Cooper, d. 1761
Probably 1698
Elizabeth Price (later the writer
) was born by the end of this year, which was also the year of her father's death.
Elizabeth Tipper: 1698
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Tipper
1698
published with her name a volume of poetry entitled The Pilgrim's Viaticum; or, The Destitute, but not Forlorn.
1698: A man named John Castaing began to issue...
1698
A man named
began to issue from his base at Jonathan's Coffee-house in Change Alley, London, a regular list of stock and commodity prices entitled The Course of the Exchange and other things.
1698: On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin...
Writing climate item
1698
On the death of publisher
from a slow consumption, his widow,
, took over the business in name; she had in fact been running it for several years.
1698: The Blasphemy Act made it a legal offence...
1698
The Blasphemy Act made it a legal offence to question either the divinity of Christ or the doctrine of the Trinity.
1698-1715: Of eighty-five girls entering the Great Yarmouth...
1698-1715
Of eighty-five girls entering the (a charitable workhouse which prepared needy children for apprenticeship), over half could not read.
1698: Charles Perrault published an early fairy-tale...
Writing climate item
1698
published an early fairy-tale collection, Histoires et Contes du Temps Passé.
1698: The first patent for a medicine was issu...
1698
The first patent for a medicine was issued.
8 March 1698: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...
8 March 1698
The
or SPCK, set up to provide charity schools (and missionary outreach in British colonies), held its first meeting.
Mary Pix: After April 1698
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Pix
After April 1698
, again with
, was attacked in Animadversions on Mr.
's Late Answer to Mr. , probably by
.
April 1698: Jeremy Collier published his Short View of...
Writing climate item
April 1698
published his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, a book in heavy-handed pamphlet style with exaggerated typography.
2 April 1698: Anne (Mason), Countess of Macclesfield, was...
2 April 1698
, was divorced by Act of Parliament; this was the first civil divorce (not first passed by an ecclesiastical court).
Margaret Fell: Probably summer 1698
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Fell
Probably summer 1698
visited London one final time: though her address To King William of this year was handed in by
, she says the mission of its delivery has brought her two hundred miles...
Margaret Fell: June 1698
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Fell
June 1698
composed one of the last of her writings included in her collected works: To (personally delivered to the king by
); the others were To , and An...
Catharine Trotter: June 1698
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Trotter
June 1698
contributed an epilogue to
's tragedy Queen Catharine; or, The Ruines of Love.
Celia Fiennes: Summer 1698
Women writers item
Author event in Celia Fiennes
Summer 1698
rode her second Great Journey: north as far as Newcastle (visiting East Anglia, Wales, the Lake District, and undertaking a short excursion into Scotland on the way), then south-west as far as Cornwall.
Catharine Trotter: 7 July 1698
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Trotter
7 July 1698
's second tragedy, Fatal Friendship, was advertised and published. Like her other tragedies, it is in verse.
The same title was later used for an anonymous novel by a Lady, 1770.
Sarah, Lady Piers : 7 July 1698
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah, Lady Piers
7 July 1698
contributed a prefatory poem in praise of the author to
's Fatal Friendship.
14 July 1698: The ships of the Company of Scotland, projectors...
National or international item
14 July 1698
The ships of the
, projectors of the Darien Scheme, sailed out of Leith heading for Darien on the Panama isthmus, intending to found a profitable colony.
25 July 1698 : Military engineer Thomas Savery took out...
25 July 1698
Military engineer
took out a patent on the first crude steam engine for pumping unwanted water out of mines.
Mary Pix: By 28 July 1698
Women writers item
1 August 1698: The will of Gertrude Rolles was proved, which,...
1 August 1698
The will of
was proved, which, against convention, left nothing but small bequests to two sons, making two daughters the heirs and executrixes.
November 1698: The first of eighteen parts appeared of Edward...
Writing climate item
November 1698
The first of eighteen parts appeared of
's The London Spy, likely the first piece of original fiction in serial form.