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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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Catharine Trotter: By mid-1702

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By mid-1702

CT made her first anonymous foray into philosophical debate, with A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock.
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
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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.

Judith Cowper Madan : 26 August 1702

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26 August 1702

Judith Cowper (later JCM ) was born, probably at her father's estate of Hertingfordbury Park in Hertfordshire, the only girl in a family of five.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Elizabeth Freke: Late 1702

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Late 1702

EF probably began to set down her earlier set of remembrances: a record of significant events in her life, which developed into a kind of diary, reaching back to her marriage thirty-one years before.
Anselment, Raymond A. “Elizabeth Freke’s Remembrances: Reconstructing a Self”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1997, pp. 57-75.
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Agnes Beaumont: 14 October 1702

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14 October 1702

Though tradition has asserted that AB married a Bedfordshire farmer while she was still a young woman, in fact she remained single until she was about fifty. She then married, at Cheshunt, a landowner...

Elinor James: 20 October 1702

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20 October 1702

EJ (as Elianor James) welcomed the new monarch, Queen Anne, to the throne in a broadsheet titled from its opening words, May It Please Your Lordships.
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.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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20 October 1702: The newly-elected parliament (first of Queen...

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20 October 1702

The newly-elected parliament (first of Queen Anne 's reign) assembled.
A True List of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the Parliament, which met at Westminster the 20th of October, 1702. 1702.

Elizabeth Delaval: November 1702

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November 1702

Early in Queen Anne 's reign, Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (formerly ED ) received special permission for a business visit to London from her Jacobite exile in France. She was issued with a licence under...

Catharine Trotter: 10 November 1702

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10 November 1702

The religious writer and diarist Elizabeth Burnet , who had already discussed CT 's writing with John Locke , wrote to ask him to contribute four or five guineas for what sounds like a subscription for Trotter.
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon, 1976–1989, 8 vols.
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Mary Caesar: 24 November 1702

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24 November 1702

Mary Freeman married a lawyer, landowner, MP and leading Jacobite conspirator
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, 1992, pp. 178-98.
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named Charles Caesar .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
Potter, Dorothy, and Mary Caesar. “Foreword, Acknowledgements”. The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar, 1724-1741, Edwin Mellen Press, 2002, p. viii - xii, xix-xxii.
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1 December 1702: Daniel Defoe's The Shortest Way with the...

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1 December 1702

Daniel Defoe 's The Shortest Way with the Dissenters was anonymously published.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
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Susanna Centlivre: 31 December 1702

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31 December 1702

SC 's third play, a comedy entitled The Stolen Heiress; or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields .
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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Sarah Dixon: 1703

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1703

Internal textual evidence shows that many of SD 's published poems were written around this time, though the first date she puts in print is 1716.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.
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Sarah Fyge: 1703

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1703

It seems that SF petitioned for divorce on grounds of cruelty (something she had little hope of achieving). Her husband, too, was said to be seeking a divorce.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Stone: About 1703-1720

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About 1703-1720

SS practised midwifery, from her centre in Taunton, across a large area of poor, rural, remote Somerset.
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Stone: Enlightenment Midwife”. Clio Medica: Medicine in the Enlightenment, edited by Roy Porter, Rodopi, 1995, pp. 128-44.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1703-1705

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1703-1705

The teenage Lady Mary Pierrepont (later LMWM ) served a poetic and literary apprenticeship, evidenced in two surviving volumes of prose and verse.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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1703: John Saffin published Adam Negro's Tryall,...

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1703

John Saffin published Adam Negro's Tryall, which is perhaps the earliest known slave narrative to appear in English (in this case not written by the slave, but by the master).
Nichols, Charles H. Many Thousand Gone. E. J. Brill, 1963.
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1703: A class-conscious educational pamphlet entitled...

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1703

A class-conscious educational pamphlet entitled The Ladies' Catechism was published.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
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Elizabeth Justice : 9 March 1703

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9 March 1703

Elizabeth Surby (later EJ ) was christened at St Andrew's, Holborn, in London; she had most probably been born a few days earlier.
The date given is 9 March 1702, but since her parents...

May 1703: Nicholas Rowe published his she-tragedy The...

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May 1703

Nicholas Rowe published his she-tragedyThe Fair Penitent.
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.

27 May 1703: Peter the Great founded a fortress at a site...

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27 May 1703

Peter the Great founded a fortress at a site on the Baltic Sea chosen for its strategic importance. This grew into the city of St Petersburg (called not after the tsar but after Saints Peter...

Susanna Centlivre: 4 June 1703

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4 June 1703

SC 's Molière adaptation Love's Contrivance; or, Le Medecin Malgre Luy opened anonymously at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 37
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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15 June 1703: Playwright and architect John Vanbrugh bought...

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15 June 1703

Playwright and architect John Vanbrugh bought land for a new theatre in the Haymarket, London. The theatre eventually opened as the Queen's Theatre during the 1704-5 season.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 25

Susanna Wesley: 17 June 1703

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17 June 1703

SW bore the child who became the most famous of all her offspring: John Wesley , father of Methodism .
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Mary Pix: 5 July 1703

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5 July 1703

MP was lampooned on stage by Joseph Trapp in The Players turn'd Academicks.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
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Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 40

Sarah Fyge: By August 1703

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By August 1703

SF published her Poems on Several Occasions, with prefatory verses probably by Mary Pix and Susanna Centlivre .
This text is available on line from the Women Writers Project , www.wwp.northeastern.edu.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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