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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 August 1703

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By August 1703

MP wrote a commendatory poem for Sarah Fyge 's Poems on Several Occasions.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
414, 415

Mary, Lady Chudleigh: 17 August 1703

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17 August 1703

Mary, Lady Chudleigh , published, with her name (the Lady Chudleigh), Poems on Several Occasions, dedicated to Queen Anne , with a further dedication To the Ladies.
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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Elizabeth Elstob: Autumn 1703

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Autumn 1703

EE made a visit to Bath (where she was to live for some time later in her life).
Collins, Sarah Huff. Elizabeth Elstob: A Biography. University of Indiana, 1970.
77

Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 14 October 1703-29 August 1704

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14 October 1703-29 August 1704

Elizabeth Singer (later ESR ) engaged in a correspondence, light-hearted at least on his side, with the poet Matthew Prior , who flirted with her and made fun of her godliness.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
79, 85

3 November 1703: Mary Raby was executed at Tyburn for crimes...

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3 November 1703

Mary Raby was executed at Tyburn for crimes against property.
Backscheider, Paula R. Daniel Defoe: His Life. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
482

3 November 1703: John Tipper, a schoolmaster of Coventry,...

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3 November 1703

John Tipper , a schoolmaster of Coventry, wrote to Humfrey Wanley about his projected Ladies' Diary, or The Woman's Almanack.
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.
45-52
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
25
Ellis, Sir Henry, editor. Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Camden Society, 1843.
304-14
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.
144
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
166

27 November 1703: The Great Storm hit much of Southern England,...

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27 November 1703

The Great Storm hit much of Southern England, leaving many houses demolish'd and people kill'd.
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
403

Sir Isaac Newton: 30 November 1703

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30 November 1703

Isaac Newton was elected President of the Royal Society .
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
19: 590
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Pix: 4 December 1703

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4 December 1703

MP 's comedy The Different Widows; or, Intrigue all-a-Mode, was anonymously published, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury .
The widowed Countess of Salisbury was also celebrated by Anne Finch . A manuscript note...

Elinor James: 14 December 1703

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14 December 1703

As Elianor James, EJ published To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal (not her only broadsheet with this title) urging the House of Lords to pass an anti-Dissenter bill which forbade Occasional Conformity.
Both EJ

Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale: Christmas Eve 1703

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Christmas Eve 1703

The family home of Lady Nithsdale , Terregles Castle near Dumfries, was broken into by an armed mob a hundred strong, led by Presbyterian ministers, looking for illicit Catholic priests or Jesuits .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Maxwell

Jane Barker: 1704

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1704

Two years after Queen Anne succeeded to the throne, JB returned from France to England to live at Wilsthorpe.
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
21
, No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38.
22
Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv.
xxix

Mary Davys: 1704

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1704

MD 's novel later called The Lady's Tale was published under the title The Amours of Alcippus and Lucippe.
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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Sarah Dixon: 1704

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1704

The death of SD 's stepmother adversely affected the Dixon family finances, for her relations succeeded in getting her property into their own hands.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.
139

Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 1704

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1704

Poems by Elizabeth Singer (later ESR ) appeared this year in three significant separate publications.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
86, 230

Mary Pix: Some time between 1704 and 1706

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Some time between 1704 and 1706

MP published To the Right Honourable Earl of Kent , Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesties Household . . ..
Kent's tenure of this position began in 1704; he acquired a new title in 1706...

Mary Pix: 1704

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1704

MP published an anonymous verse tale, Violenta; or, The Rewards of Virtue: turn'd from Boccace into verse.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Constantia Grierson: About 1704

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About 1704

Constantia Crawley (later CG ) was born in Kilkenny, Ireland.
A. C. Elias, Jr, dates her birth only to between 1703 and 1705.
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
39n14
Brooke, Henry, 1703 - 1783. Brookiana. Printed for R. Phillips, 1804, 2 vols.
2: 123
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
36, 38

1704: Queen Anne's Bounty (a fund for supplementing...

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1704

Queen Anne 's Bounty (a fund for supplementing the stipends of the most poorly-paid clergy) was instituted.
Dobree, Bonamy. English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-1740. Clarendon Press, 1959.
570

1704: John Harris published Lexicon Technicum,...

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1704

John Harris published Lexicon Technicum, or An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. This was an early example (though not quite the first) of the alphabetically-arranged reference book in English.
Stavisky, Aaron. “Review of Pat Rogers, The Samuel Johnson DictionaryThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
10
, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 302-28.
302
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1704: John Marten published his influential medico-sexual...

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1704

John Marten published his influential medico-sexual Treatise of all the Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disease in Both Sexes.
Porter, Roy. “’Laying Aside any Private Advantage’: John Marten and Venereal Disease”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Prance, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 51-67.
52-3

1704: A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman...

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A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman Catholic estates in Ireland from descending by primogeniture to the eldest son; unless that eldest converted to Protestantism, the estate was to be shared equally among all...

1704: Joseph Pitts published at Exeter (his home...

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1704

Joseph Pitts published at Exeter (his home town) A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans, the fruit of years of experience as a Barbary captive and Islamic convert.
Pagden, Anthony. “Oak in a Flowerpot”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 9-10.
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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.

January 1704: Volume one of Antoine Galland's Les mille...

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January 1704

Volume one of Antoine Galland 's Les mille et une nuit, was published at Paris; the first English version appeared in 1706, as Arabian Nights Entertainments: later usually Arabian Nights.
Mack, Robert L., editor. Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Oxford University Press, 1998.
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1704: Sir Isaac Newton published his Optics; further...

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1704

Sir Isaac Newton published his Optics; further editions over the next few years included one in Latin.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.