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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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Mary Davys: 6 November 1698

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6 November 1698

Peter Davys , MD 's husband, was buried in St Patrick's Cathedral: he must have died a few days earlier.
Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix.
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Mary Fisher: Before 19 November 1698

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Before 19 November 1698

MF died at Charles Towne (now Charleston), South Carolina: her will, which she had made in August, was proved on this day.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

M. Marsin: 19 November 1698

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19 November 1698

MM 's lengthy tract Truth Vindicated against all Heresies was advertised in The Flying-Post as just published.
Burns, William E. “’By Him the Women will be delivered from that Bondage, which some has found intolerable’: M. Marsin, English Millenarian Feminist”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 19-38.
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By December 1698: George Farquhar's first play, Love and a...

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By December 1698

George Farquhar 's first play, Love and a Bottle, was opened on stage.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

7 December 1698: Edward Rigby, a naval captain, was prosecuted...

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7 December 1698

Edward Rigby, a naval captain, was prosecuted for sodomy with William Minton, whom he had picked up at a fireworks display and taken to a tavern.
May, James E. “Scribleriana Transferred since late 1994”. The Scriblerian, Vol.
xxxi
, No. 1, Department of English, Temple University, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1998, pp. 118-32.
130

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy: 1699

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1699

MCA 's Tales of the Fairies (English translation of Les contes des fées, 1697) is thought to have been published: no copies have been traced.
Palmer, Melvin D. “Madame d’Aulnoy in England”. Comparative Literature, Vol.
27
, 1975, pp. 237-53.
251

Ann Cook: Late 1690s

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Late 1690s

This was probably the date of birth of the future AC . The homely Cottage
Cook, Ann. Professed Cookery. White, 1754.
iii-x
in which she first saw the light may have been in County Durham.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Lead: 1699

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1699

JL published, with a signed preface, The Ascent to the Mount of Vision: where many things were shewn.
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.

1699: A Statute was passed in Britain against shoplifting,...

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1699

A Statute was passed in Britain against shoplifting, making it in some cases a capital crime.
Beattie, John M. “’Hard-pressed to make ends meet’: Women and Crime in Augustan London”. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, edited by Valerie Frith, Coach House Press, 1995, pp. 103-15.
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1699: Golden Square in London was built as an exclusive...

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1699

Golden Square in London was built as an exclusive upper-class development; by the 1770s it had lost its cachet.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
68

5 January 1699: Actress Elizabeth Barry wrote that she never...

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5 January 1699

Actress Elizabeth Barry wrote that she never knew a worse Winter in the theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 507

Elizabeth Bury: 25 January 1699

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25 January 1699

EB , in her mid-fifties, walked sixteen miles to hear a lecture, safely, and without Prejudice to my Health.
Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint, 1720.
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Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale: 2 March 1699

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2 March 1699

Lady Winifred Herbert married the Scottish peer William Maxwell, Earl of Nithsdale , a fellow Catholic and Jacobite, four years younger than she was.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Maxwell
Maxwell Stuart, Flora. Lady Nithsdale and the Jacobites. Traquair House, 1995.
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Frances, Lady Norton: After April 1699

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After April 1699

Frances, Lady Norton , published a beautifully-produced volume in memory of her deceased daughter, Grace, Lady Gethin , its compiler: Misery's Virtues Whetstone. Reliquiae Gethinianae.
This is dated from J. M.'s dedication.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mary Davys: 5 April 1699

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5 April 1699

MD 's baby daughter Piddy or Mary, born after her father's death, was buried at St Patrick's, following her father and elder sister.
Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix.
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Anne Halkett: 22 April 1699

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22 April 1699

AH died at Dunfermline, aged seventy-six.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 3-7.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Thomas: 25 April 1699

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25 April 1699

John Norris of Bemerton (in the course of a letter discussing philosophy and poetry) congratulated the young ET on her pregnant Genius for Poetry.
qtd. in
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
146

By the end of April 1699: The first volume of François de Fénelon's...

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By the end of April 1699

The first volume of François de Fénelon 's Télémaque appeared at Paris, and was quickly suppressed.
Labrosse, Claude. “La fiction, le récit et le livre: l’illustration du Télémaque de Fénelon”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 1-32.
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Mary Pix: Probably May 1699

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Probably May 1699

MP 's tragedy The False Friend; or, the Fate of Disobedience had its premiere at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 511

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 10 May 1699

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10 May 1699

Frances Thynne (later Countess of Hertford) was born, the elder of two daughters, most probably at her paternal grandfather's estate, Longleat in Wiltshire.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
4 and n2
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

11 May 1699: The Rev. John Sprint preached a notorious...

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11 May 1699

The Rev. John Sprint preached a notorious misogynist wedding sermon at Sherborne in Dorset.
Chudleigh, Mary, Lady. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xvii - xxxvi.
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M. Marsin: About 16 May 1699

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About 16 May 1699

MM published Two Sorts of Latter Days, proved from Scripture, which reprints and incorporates Truth Vindicated from 1698; this day's advertisement for it was carried in several papers for months.
William E. Burns elsewhere...

Elizabeth Thomas: By 12 November 1699

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By 12 November 1699

ET sent two of her poems to John Dryden , the Poet Laureate, asking for his criticism.
Dryden, John. The Letters of John Dryden: With Letters Addressed to Him. Editor Ward, Charles E., Duke University Press, 1942.
125-8, 132, 186
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.

Anne Docwra: 30 November 1699

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30 November 1699

AD signed and dated An Apostate-Conscience Exposed, calling herself on its title-page an Ancient Woman.

1 December 1699: John Pomfret published The Choice, a poem...

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1 December 1699

John Pomfret published The Choice, a poem in praise of the good life; among many other poems sharing this title, or that of The Wish, Pomfret's became a long-lived favourite.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.
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