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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 Astell: February 1704

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February 1704

MA 's tract or pamphlet Moderation Truly Stated was published, with no name or pseudonym on the title-page. She wrote it to confute the dissenting minister James Owen 's Moderation a Vertue, 1703, as...

Mary Pix: After 9 February 1704

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After 9 February 1704

MP published A Pastoral Elegy on the Death of the Right Honourable the Earl of Burlington.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
2: 431-2

19 February 1704: Daniel Defoe issued the first number of his...

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19 February 1704

Daniel Defoe issued the first number of his long-running, one-man periodical, A Review of the State of the British Nation,, which began under the title A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
134

Mary Astell: 23 March 1704

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23 March 1704

MA 's anonymous An Impartial Enquiry into the Causes of Rebellion and Civil War in this Kingdom, another intervention in pamphlet controversy, was advertised in The Daily Courant (published in May).
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors, XXVII: Mary Astell, 1666-1731”. The Book Collector, Vol.
10
, 1961, pp. 58-65.
64

12 April 1704: The French preacher, critic, and stylist...

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12 April 1704

The French preacher, critic, and stylist Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet died in Paris.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.

24 April 1704: The first successful colonial paper, The...

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24 April 1704

The first successful colonial paper, The Boston News-Letter, published its first number, for the week of 17-24 April.
Black, Jeremy. The English Press in the Eighteenth Century. Croom Helm, 1987.
12
Lake, Brian. British Newspapers: A History and Guide for Collectors. Sheppard, 1984.
59
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

May 1704: Swift anonymously published, together, his...

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May 1704

Swift anonymously published, together, his first major works: A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, written about eight years earlier.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
3: 434n26

1 June 1704: The habit of ladies' attending the theatre...

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1 June 1704

The habit of ladies' attending the theatre in masks was satirised in a song performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 67

Mary Astell: 21 June 1704

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21 June 1704

MA 's latest pamphlet polemic, A Fair Way with the Dissenters, published in May as by a very Moderate Person, and Dutiful Subject to the Queen, was first advertised in The Daily Courant.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors, XXVII: Mary Astell, 1666-1731”. The Book Collector, Vol.
10
, 1961, pp. 58-65.
64

By 11 July 1704: John Tipper was planning a Chronology of...

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By 11 July 1704

John Tipper was planning a Chronology of Famous Women for his publication Ladies' Diary, or, The Woman's Almanack (currently in its first year).
Ellis, Sir Henry, editor. Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Camden Society, 1843.
311-12

13 August 1704: Marlborough and Prince Eugene wiped out the...

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13 August 1704

Marlborough and Prince Eugene wiped out the French army at Blenheim in Bavaria.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Jane Lead: 19 August 1704

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19 August 1704

JL died of stomach cancer, composing and dictating almost to the end.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Bury: 6 October 1704

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6 October 1704

Elizabeth Bury recorded in her diary that a poor Woman died in a Barn alone, too much neglected by the Parish.
Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint, 1720.
150

John Locke: 28 October 1704

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28 October 1704

JL , philosopher, scientist, and political and religious thinker, died at the home of Sir Francis and Damaris Masham : Oates, High Laver, Essex.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
307
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
12: 34
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.
437

Anne Finch: Probably autumn 1704 or later

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Probably autumn 1704 or later

A booklet containing five poems by AF was copied out in handsome format by a transcriber who has not been identified, perhaps as a gift from Finch to her husband . It is now in...

December 1704: Vanbrugh and Congreve were licensed to operate...

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December 1704

Vanbrugh and Congreve were licensed to operate a new theatre, the Haymarket , on the grounds that they would help reform and clean up the stage.
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.

14 December 1704: Joseph Addison published The Campaign, a...

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14 December 1704

Joseph Addison published The Campaign, a patriotic poem celebrating Marlborough 's victory of Blenheim.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Barbara Blaugdone: By 1705

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By 1705

BB died in London, by all accounts at a very advanced age.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Chandler: By 1705

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By 1705

MC was running a milliner's shop opposite the Pump Room in Bath (in fact, she seems to have been there before the Pump Room, which opened in 1706).
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49.
36
Parker, Keiko. “What Part of Bath Do You Think They Will Settle In?: Jane Austens Use of Bath in PersuasionPersuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 166-76.
167

Mary Davys: 1705

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1705

MD , now living in York, published at LondonThe Fugitive, a novel which she revised for her Works, 1725, as The Merry Wanderer.
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.
xv, xlviii

Susanna Wesley: 1705

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1705

SW 's husband spent some time imprisoned in Lincoln Castle, apparently for debt.
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
xiii

Catharine Trotter: Probably very early 1705

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Probably very early 1705

CT published A Poem on His Grace the Duke of Marlborough 's return from his German Expedition.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Katherine Philips: 1705

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1705

KP 's side of her correspondence with Cotterell was posthumously published as Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus.
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume II: The Letters, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1992, p. xi - xviii.
2: xviii

Delarivier Manley: 1705

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1705

DM 's friendship with Sarah Fyge (whom she had visited in the country the previous summer) turned to bitterness when Fyge gave evidence in court which implicated DM in a forgery fraud.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
xii-xiii

Frances, Lady Norton: 1705

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1705

Frances, Lady Norton , issued both her published works during the same year: severally—as The Applause of Virtue and Memento Mori—and in a combined volume.
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.