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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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1701: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel...

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1701

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (a major Anglican missionary organisation) was founded as an offshoot of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720. Stanford University Press, 2002.
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Probably February or March 1701: Sectarian religious writer Mary Pennyman...

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Probably February or March 1701

Sectarian religious writer Mary Pennyman having died on 14 January,
Pennyman, Mary. Some of the Letters and Papers. Editor Pennyman, John, 1701.
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her husband, John Pennyman , published Some of the Letters and Papers which were written by Mrs. Mary Pennyman, relating to An Holy and...

1701: Almost half a century after Cromwell had...

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1701

Almost half a century after Cromwell had re-admitted the Jews to England, London acquired its first synagogue building.
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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1701-4: John Norris published the two volumes of...

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1701-4

John Norris published the two volumes of his Essay towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

7 January 1701: Henry Carey launched, anonymously a periodical...

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7 January 1701

Henry Carey launched, anonymously a periodical entitled The Records of Love; or, Weekly Amusements for the Fair Sex, which foreshadowed The Ladies' Diary in its orientation towards women
Miegon, Anna E. The Ladies Diary and the Emergence of the Almanac for Women, 1704-1753. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2008.
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Elizabeth Bury: 12 April 1701

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12 April 1701

EB recorded her perplexing Difficulties over poor relations seeking money. She feared either dishonouring God, by intangling myself in Debts, or rendering herself incapable of helping other Afflicted people.
Margaret R. Hunt cites this entry...

Catharine Trotter: 4 February 1701

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4 February 1701

CT 's fourth play and third verse tragedy, The Unhappy Penitent, probably opened on this day at Drury Lane . It bore her name as Mrs. Trotter.
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
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The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 7

Sarah, Lady Piers : After 4 February 1701

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After 4 February 1701

Already the author of one prefatory poem for the tragedian Catharine Trotter, Sarah, Lady Piers, anonymously contributed a similar piece to Trotter 's The Unhappy Penitent.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mary, Lady Chudleigh: 22 February 1701

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22 February 1701

Mary, Lady Chudleigh , publicly took issue with the conspicuous misogyny of the Rev. John Sprint , in a dialogue poem or answer, The Ladies Defence, published this day.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
Chudleigh, Mary, Lady. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Editor Ezell, Margaret J. M., Oxford University Press, 1993.
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M. Marsin: 13 March 1701

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13 March 1701

MM 's An Answer to Dr. Whitby , proving the Jews are not to be called into the gospel of the Christian warfare, was advertised as newly printed.
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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Sarah Fyge: 15 March 1701

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15 March 1701

SF contributed passages to The Grove, a poem by John Froude .
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

April 1701: Richard Steele's The Christian Hero, a didactic...

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April 1701

Richard Steele 's The Christian Hero, a didactic prose work, was published.
Steele, Sir Richard. “Introduction”. The Plays of Richard Steele, edited by Shirley Strum Kenny, Clarendon, 1971.
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Mary Pix: 3 April 1701

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3 April 1701

MP 's tragedy The Double Distress was published with her name, dedicated to Viscount Fitzhardinge .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 8
Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 80. Gale Research, 1989.
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Mary Pix: 15 April 1701

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15 April 1701

MP had a second play published in the same month as its predecessor: The Czar of Muscovy.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 8

Sarah Savage: 13 May 1701

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13 May 1701

SS bore the eighth of her nine children, whom she named Hannah.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Finch: June 1701

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June 1701

AF 's pindaric ode The Spleen (together with some other poems by her) was published anonymously in Charles Gildon 's New Miscellany of Original Poems, on Several Occasions.
This was a revised and expanded...

Madeleine de Scudéry: 2 June 1701

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2 June 1701

MS , leading exponent of the multi-volume heroic romance or roman de longue haleine, died in Paris.
McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom, 1972.
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Scudéry, Madeleine de. Mademoiselle de Scudéry. Editors Rathery et Boutron, Edme Jacques Benoît and Boutron, L. Techener, 1873.
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12 June 1701: Important constitutional principles were...

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12 June 1701

Important constitutional principles were laid down in the Settlement Act or Act of Settlement. This formalised the outcome of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 (dashing the hopes of Jacobites), and placed the monarch in a...

M. Marsin: 10 July 1701

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10 July 1701

The Post-Boy carried an advertisement for MM 's recently-published, forty-page Two Remarkable Females of Womankind, which has been identified as her last tract.
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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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Susanna Centlivre: 22 July 1701

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22 July 1701

Eleven letters by SC (as Astraea) appeared in Letters of Wit, Politicks and Morality . . ., edited by Abel Boyer .
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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Elizabeth Burnet : 1 August 1701

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1 August 1701

EB composed a meditation on a future state, or life after death.
Burnet, Elizabeth. “journals and papers”. Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. D. 1092, folios 111–203.
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Anne Finch: Late 1701

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Late 1701

AF lamented the death of the former James II in an elegy published as By a lady
qtd. in
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
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and only recently identified as hers.
James died in France on 16 September (New Style), which at...

6 September 1701: The Norwich Post, probably England's first...

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6 September 1701

The Norwich Post, probably England's first provincial newspaper, was launched.
Black, Jeremy. The English Press in the Eighteenth Century. Croom Helm, 1987.
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Cranfield, Geoffrey Alan. The Development of the Provincial Newspaper, 1700-1760. Clarendon, 1962.
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Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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The date has been approximated by counting back from first surviving (weekly) issue: no. 348, 1 May 1708.

9 October 1701: Richard Steele signed an agreement with John...

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9 October 1701

Richard Steele signed an agreement with John Rich for the production of his comedy The Funeral.
Steele, Sir Richard. The Plays of Richard Steele. Editor Kenny, Shirley Strum, Clarendon, 1971.
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Catharine Trotter: 14 October 1701

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14 October 1701

Thomas Burnet of Kemnay wrote the first of his surviving letters to CT ; he was at this date thinking of her as a potential wife, and was concerned to convert her from Roman Catholicism .
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
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