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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 Pix: By 18 April 1700

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By 18 April 1700

MP 's comedy The Beau Defeated; or, The Lucky Younger Brother was published.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 526

John Dryden: 3 a. m., 1 May 1700

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3 a. m., 1 May 1700

JD died in London of gangrene, after refusing to have a badly infected toe amputated.
Hollis, Christopher. Dryden. Duckworth, 1933.
201

Elizabeth Thomas: After 1 May 1700

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After 1 May 1700

ET published, as a Young Lady, an elegy on Dryden in the collection Luctus Britannici.
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.

Susanna Centlivre: 11 May 1700

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11 May 1700

Two letters by SC (as Mrs C—ll) appeared in a collection issued by Samuel Briscoe (who in different formats published a good deal of women's writing).
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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Mary Delany: 14 May 1700

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14 May 1700

Mary Granville (later MD ) was born in the small village of Coulston in Wiltshire.
Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum, 1986.
170, 15

Elizabeth Burnet : May or June 1700

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May or June 1700

Elizabeth Berkeley became the third wife of Gilbert Burnet , Scottish scholar, politician, historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. She was thirty-nine, he fifty-seven.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

July 1700: William Duke of Gloucester, born in 1689,...

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July 1700

William Duke of Gloucester , born in 1689, longest-surviving child of the future Queen Anne , died of smallpox.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
1057

Sarah, Lady Cowper: St James's Day, 25 July 1700

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St James's Day, 25 July 1700

SLC branched out from keeping a commonplace-book (of excerpts from her reading) to keeping a diary, a record of her own feelings, frustrations, and pious resolutions (with excerpts still interspersed). She continued as a diarist...

Judith Drake: Shortly before 17 September 1700

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Shortly before 17 September 1700

JD 's daughter Ann was born; she was christened that day at St Andrew's, Holborn.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Susanna Centlivre: By 26 Sept 1700

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By 26 Sept 1700

SC contributed an elegy to The Nine Muses, the volume which Delarivier Manley edited on the death of John Dryden .
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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Sarah Fyge: By 26 September 1700

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By 26 September 1700

SF contributed an elegy on Dryden 's death to The Nine Muses; she wrote the same year for another collection on the same topic.
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.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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Delarivier Manley: By 26 September 1700

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By 26 September 1700

On the death of John Dryden , DM edited The Nine Muses, an all-female collection of elegies on him.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
xii-xiii

Susanna Centlivre: Probably early October 1700

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Probably early October 1700

SC 's first play, The Perjur'd Husband; or, The Adventures of Venice, was performed at Drury Lane .
Its precise date seems to be unknown.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: xlv, 4
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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Mary Astell: November 1700

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November 1700

MA anonymously published Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine 's Case; this has become the best-known of her works.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors, XXVII: Mary Astell, 1666-1731”. The Book Collector, Vol.
10
, 1961, pp. 58-65.
63

November 1700: King Carlos II of Spain died; he had no heir,...

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November 1700

King Carlos II of Spain died; he had no heir, and the War of Spanish Succession resulted within eighteen months, declared by England against France on 4 May 1702.
Jones, Dwyryd Wyn. War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough. Blackwell, 1988.
339

By November 1700: The recently founded SPCK opened a charity...

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By November 1700

The recently founded SPCK opened a charity school for forty girls at St Andrew's in Holborn, where a boys' school had opened early in the year. Subscribers included Sarah, Lady Cowper for three pounds...

Catharine Trotter: 23 November 1700

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23 November 1700

CT 's only comedy, the didactic Love at a Loss; or, Most Votes Carry It, probably opened on this day at Drury Lane .
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
256
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 5

Sarah Stone: 24 November 1700

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24 November 1700

Sarah Holmes married Samuel Stone at St Mary Magdalene's church in Bridgwater
Fissell, Mary E. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah Stone. 21 Jan. 2013.

December 1700: The Middlesex Grand Jury made a presentment...

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December 1700

The Middlesex Grand Jury made a presentment against the immorality of plays.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 3-4

Elizabeth Thomas: Probably by 1701

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Probably by 1701

ET became an acquaintance of the writer Henry Cromwell ; she was not (long-repeated and still current scandal to the contrary) his mistress.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
137-8 and n85

Elizabeth Thomas: About 1701

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About 1701

ET and Richard Gwinnett fell mutually in love.
McWhir, Anne. “Elizabeth Thomas and the Two Corinnas: Giving the Woman Writer a Bad Name”. English Literary History, Vol.
62
, 1995, pp. 105-19.
109

Sarah Stone: By about 1701

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By about 1701

Soon after her marriage, SS was practising as a midwife in Bridgwater, though some people thought her too young.
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Stone: Enlightenment Midwife”. Clio Medica: Medicine in the Enlightenment, edited by Roy Porter, Rodopi, 1995, pp. 128-44.
130

Anne Halkett: 1701

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1701

Three publications by AH , plus a heavily revised version of her autobiography, appeared posthumously at Edinburgh, published by Andrew Symson with her name affixed.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1701: The year after Dryden's death, his Comedies,...

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1701

The year after Dryden 's death, his Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas were first collected and published, both in two independent volumes and as part of a four-volume Works.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1701: John Tomkins published Piety Promoted, in...

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1701

John Tomkins published Piety Promoted, in a Collection of Dying Sayings of Many of the People Called Quakers, an important source for lives of both men and women.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
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