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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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Sarah Chapone: 11 December 1699

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11 December 1699

Sarah Kirkham (later SC ) was born at Stanton near Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, where her father was the rector.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Christmas Day 1699 : Playwright and amateur architect John Vanbrugh...

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Christmas Day 1699

Playwright and amateur architect John Vanbrugh recorded in a letter his progress on designs for an ambitious rebuilding of Castle Howard in Yorkshire in the style later called English baroque.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Vanbrugh

Mary Davys: Around 1700

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Around 1700

The widowed and now childless MD moved from Dublin to London to try her fortune there as a writer.
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 Davys: 1700

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1700

MD wrote the novel later called The Lady's Tale, the Effect of my first Flight to the Muses.
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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 Docwra: 1700

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1700

AD made her first and most sizeable donation to the Society of Friends : a one-thousand-year lease of an estate in the town of Cambridge, valued at a thousand pounds.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Docwra: 1700

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1700

AD responded to Bugg 's attacks with The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed, whose title-page proclaims it as an answer to his scurrilous Jezebel Withstood.
Docwra, Anne. The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed. 1700.
title-page

Eugenia: : 1700

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1700

A Lady of Quality writing as Eugenia published her single known work: the earliest answer to John Sprint 's famous misogynist sermon: her title was The Female Advocate; or, A Plea for the Just Liberty...

Sarah Fyge: 1700-1703

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1700-1703

Some time now SF married (presumably against her will, since she still loved Alexis) her second cousin the Rev. Thomas Egerton , a widower twenty years older than herself.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Susanna Hopton : 1700

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1700

SH 's revised or reformed version of John Austin 's popular Roman CatholicDevotions in the Ancient Way of Offices, 1668, was published through George Hickes . Austin concealed himself under the name of William Birchley.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Lead: 1700

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1700

In The Wars of David, and the Peaceable Reign of Solomon, JL related more of her religious experience in an autobiographical preface.
Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985.
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M. Marsin: 1700

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1700

MM 's A Full and Clear Account the Scripture gives of the Deity (a work of Bible commentary published under a slightly different title in 1698 but here with her name), had, like her other...

M. Marsin: 1700

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1700

MM issued her most feminist text, the 16-page Good News to the Good Women.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

By 1700: There were estimated to be 2,000 coffee-houses...

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By 1700

There were estimated to be 2,000 coffee-houses (all-male social and sometimes political, intellectual or literary) establishments in London.
Carter, Philip J. “Men about town: representations of foppery and masculinity in early eighteenth-century urban society”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 31-57.
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Shapin, Steven. “At the Amsterdam”. London Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2006, pp. 12-14.
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1700: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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1700

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded a High School for Girls at St Martin in the Fields, London.
Turner, Barry. Equality for Some: The Story of Girls’ Education. Ward Lock Educational, 1974.
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1700: New urban development began in Bristol with...

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1700

New urban development began in Bristol with Queen Square; five more new squares were completed in the city by 1784.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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About 1700: The earliest examples of fountain pens (in...

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About 1700

The earliest examples of fountain pens (in brass, with quill nibs) were made by Nicolas Bion, instrument-maker to Louis XIV .
Marshall, Jim. “Fountain Pens”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Dec. 1999–28 Feb. 2000, pp. 173-4.
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1700: A doctor was appointed to Bridewell Pris...

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1700

A doctor was appointed to Bridewell Prison .
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Papermac, 1987, http://4-22.

1700: The English Parliament prohibited the import...

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1700

The EnglishParliament prohibited the import of Indian cottons and muslins.
Heita, Kawakatsu. “Japanese Civilization (Part 6): Maritime Asia and the Industrial Revolution”. Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry, Jan. 2003.

1700: In Campania Foelix, a treatise on agriculture,...

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1700

In Campania Foelix, a treatise on agriculture, Timothy Nourse on balance praised the system of common lands in England (still mostly unenclosed).
Neeson, J. M. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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1700: There was published Baron and Feme. A Treatise...

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1700

There was published Baron and Feme. A Treatise of the Common Law concerning Husbands and Wives.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 23

Elisabeth Wast : 13 January 1700

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13 January 1700

EW 's father died after an illness during which she had feared he might be heading for hell, had told him he was dying and must lay it to Heart,
Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724.
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and had been almost...

March 1700: John Dryden published his last work: a volume...

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March 1700

John Dryden published his last work: a volume of translations and imitations, Fables, Ancient and Modern.
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.

Probably 5 March 1700: William Congreve's last play, the comedy...

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Probably 5 March 1700

William Congreve 's last play, the comedy The Way of the World, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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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.

Margaret Fell: April 1700

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April 1700

MF composed her latest known work, An Epistle to Friends, urging the Society not to isolate themselves from society by adopting the distinctive dress with which they nevertheless proceeded to identify themselves.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

About 10 April 1700: Legislation passed Parliament disqualifying...

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About 10 April 1700

Legislation passed Parliament disqualifying Catholics as heirs to property: if the owner remained Catholic after the age of eighteen, the estate would pass to the nearest Protestant heir.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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