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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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Elizabeth Thomas: By October 1701

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By October 1701

ET had begun corresponding with Mary, Lady Chudleigh , who had sent her a copy of her poem The Ladies Defence; they became intimate friends.
ET's signed copy of Chudleigh's Poems is now in the Bodleian Library .
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
150n115
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
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28 October 1701: The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was...

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28 October 1701

The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was chartered.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Early November 1701: Pleasant Rawlins, a seventeen-year-old heiress,...

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Early November 1701

Pleasant Rawlins, a seventeen-year-old heiress, was abducted and tricked into marriage by a trumped-up story, then forced into bed with her new husband, Haagen Swendsen, and raped.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
285-92

Jane Wiseman: 25 November 1701

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Author event in Jane Wiseman

25 November 1701

JW 's Antiochus the Great; or, The Fatal Relapse. A Tragedy was published; it had recently opened on stage at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 17
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
402
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mary, Lady Chudleigh: By 1702

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By 1702

Mary, Lady Chudleigh , was almost crippled with rheumatism; for years she was largely bedridden.
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.
xxi

Sophia Hume: 1702

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1702

Sophia Wigington (later SH ) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest and probably the only child of her parents.
Woolman, John. The Journal and Essays of John Woolman. Editor Gummere, Amelia Mott, Rancocas edition, MacMillan, 1922.
589

Jane Lead: 1702

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Author event in Jane Lead

1702

JL published A Living Funeral Testimony; or, Death Overcome, and Drown'd in the Life of Christ.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
309

Mary Mollineux: 1702

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Author event in Mary Mollineux

1702

Seven years after MM died, her Fruits of Retirement: or Miscellaneous Poems, Moral and Divine was published by Tace Sowle (the leading Quaker printer): she had been urged to print, but believed that would be...

1702: Hanging paper (i.e. wallpaper) was already...

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1702

Hanging paper (i.e. wallpaper) was already on sale in London, some of it imported from China.
Saumarez Smith, Charles. Eighteenth-Century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993.
122
Garnett, Oliver. “Paper Chase”. The National Trust Magazine, Vol.
90
, 1 June 2000–2026, p. 88.
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1702-1704: The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde,...

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1702-1704

The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon , was posthumously published.
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.

1702: An Act to Oblige Jews to Maintain and Provide...

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1702

An Act to Oblige Jews to Maintain and Provide for their Protestant Children forbade Jewish fathers from disinheriting daughters who (like Jessica in William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice) converted to Christianity.
Kerrigan, John. “Fathers Who Live Too Long”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 17, 13 Sept. 2013, pp. 18-19.
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Susanna Wesley: Late 1701 or early 1702

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Author event in Susanna Wesley

Late 1701 or early 1702

One evening SW refused to say Amen to her husband 's prayer for the king : that is, she implicitly declared herself a Jacobite.
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
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M. Marsin: Probably after February 1702

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Author event in M. Marsin

Probably after February 1702

MM died; a collection of her works was advertised this month, which sounds as if she was still active, but nothing is known of her place or date of death.
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.
24n10

Elizabeth Tollet: From early 1702 to at least June 1718

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Author event in Elizabeth Tollet

From early 1702 to at least June 1718

ET lived in the Tower of London, where her father had lodgings while he worked for the Navy Board.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
11, 15

20 February 1702: William III broke his collar-bone when his...

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20 February 1702

William III broke his collar-bone when his horse stumbled on a mole-hill; this was the ultimate cause of his death the following month.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
326
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Susanna Wesley: 7 March 1702

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7 March 1702

SW penned the earliest-dated among her surviving letters: to Lady Yarborough about her quarrel with her husband over her political opinions.
Wesley, Susanna. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings. Editor Wallace, Charles, Jr, Oxford University Press, 1997.
35

8 March 1702: King William III died and Queen Anne assumed...

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8 March 1702

King William III died and Queen Anne assumed the throne; she was crowned on 23 April, which was Charles II 's coronation day as well as St George's Day.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
45
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Miles, Peter. “’Humphry Clinker’: the politics of correspondence”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 167-82.
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11 March 1702: Elizabeth Mallet launched the first successful...

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11 March 1702

Elizabeth Mallet launched the first successful daily newspaper in England, The Daily Courant.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
66
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.

Anne Finch: Soon after 25 March 1702

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Soon after 25 March 1702

AF wrote a poem entitled An Apology for my fearfull [i.e. anxious] temper in a letter in Burlesque upon the firing of my chimney At Wye College.
Finch, Anne. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition. Editors McGovern, Barbara and Charles H. Hinnant, University of Georgia Press, 1998.
71-3

28 March 1702: Early in her reign Queen Anne issued a proclamation...

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28 March 1702

Early in her reign Queen Anne issued a proclamation against anyone printing, publishing, or circulating seditious papers and libels.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
241n36

14 April 1702: A Comparison Between theTwo Stages, probably...

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14 April 1702

A Comparison Between theTwo Stages, probably by Charles Gildon , was anonymously published.
Gildon, Charles. A Comparison Between the Two Stages. Editor Wells, Staring B., Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press, 1942.
xii and n5
Staring B. Wells doubted this attribution, though it continues to be generally made.
Gildon, Charles. A Comparison Between the Two Stages. Editor Wells, Staring B., Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press, 1942.
xii n5

Margaret Fell: 23 April 1702

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Author event in Margaret Fell

23 April 1702

MF died at Swarthmoor Hall, where she was buried.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Celia Fiennes: April-December 1702

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Author event in Celia Fiennes

April-December 1702

Internal evidence clearly suggests that CF did the actual writing up of her travels during these months.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
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4 May 1702: England declared war on France in the War...

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4 May 1702

England declared war on France in the War of Spanish Succession.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
158

Susanna Centlivre: 8 July 1702

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Author event in Susanna Centlivre

8 July 1702

SC 's The Beau's Duel; or, A Soldier for the Ladies, was published, having been staged about a month earlier.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 21
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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