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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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1705: The German-born entomologist Maria Sibilla...

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1705

The German-born entomologist Maria Sibilla Merian (1647-1717) published at Amsterdam her handsome folio titled in Latin Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium and illustrated by herself.
Her second name is variously spelled. The British Library Catalogue records Sibylla...

1705: According to Oliver Goldsmith, Beau Nash...

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1705

According to Oliver Goldsmith , Beau Nash arrived in Bath, whose social life he was to dominate for so long, the same year that the town began its brilliant architectural redesigning.
Shuttleton, David. “Mary Chandlers Description of Bath (1733): the poetic topographies of an Augustan tradeswoman”. Womens Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 3, 2000, pp. 447-67.
466n40

By 1705: The number of printers in London reached...

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By 1705

The number of printers in London reached nearly seventy (although the number for the whole kingdom had in 1695 been officially limited to twenty-four).
McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.
138

1705-14: Robert Harley worked to establish a nationwide...

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1705-14

Robert Harley worked to establish a nationwide system of government intelligence and propaganda.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
241

1705: The third edition appeared (apparently the...

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1705

The third edition appeared (apparently the first to survive) of a pornographic work masquerading as social exposé: The London-Bawd. With her Character and Life. Discovering the Various and Subtile Intrigues of Lewd Women.
London, April. “Avoiding the Subject: The Presence and Absence of Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 213-27.
216
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy: 14 January 1705

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14 January 1705

MCA died at her house in Paris, in her mid fifties.
Mitchell, Jane Tucker. A Thematic Analysis of Mme. DAulnoysContes de fées Romance Monographs, 1978.
127

Mary Astell: February 1705

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February 1705

MA published The Christian Religion, As Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church of England.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors, XXVII: Mary Astell, 1666-1731”. The Book Collector, Vol.
10
, 1961, pp. 58-65.
64-5

Damaris Masham: 1705

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1705

DM published, again anonymously, her Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life: Abel Boyer erroneously ascribed it to Locke .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Susanna Centlivre: By 3 February 1705

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By 3 February 1705

SC scored her first major success, with her comedy The Gamester, which opened anonymously at Lincoln's Inn Fields .
Opening date went unrecorded.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 88
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 88
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
58

March 1705: Daniel Defoe published The Consolidator:...

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March 1705

Daniel Defoe published The Consolidator: an ingenious allegorick Relation or satirical science fiction about a trip to the moon on a flying machine whose 513 feathers coincide with the number of MPs in Parliament .
Backscheider, Paula R. Daniel Defoe: His Life. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
145

2 April 1705: Bernard Mandeville published The Grumbling...

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2 April 1705

Bernard Mandeville published The Grumbling Hive (later expanded as The Fable of the Bees).
McKee, Francis. “Early Criticism of ’The Grumbling Hive’”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
233
, June 1988, pp. 176-7.
176-7

9 April 1705: Vanbrugh's new Haymarket Theatre (at this...

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9 April 1705

Vanbrugh 's new Haymarket Theatre (at this date also known as both the Queen's Theatre and as the Opera House) opened with an anonymous Italian opera.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 75, 91

23 April 1705: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd...

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23 April 1705

The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fool by Richard Steele opened on stage.
Steele, Sir Richard. The Plays of Richard Steele. Editor Kenny, Shirley Strum, Clarendon, 1971.
197, 202

Mary Pix: Probably May 1705

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Probably May 1705

MP 's The Conquest of Spain opened at the Haymarket ; it expired on the sixth day.
qtd. in
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 93

9 June 1705 : John Vanbrugh was officially appointed architect,...

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9 June 1705

John Vanbrugh was officially appointed architect, with the assistance of Nicholas Hawksmoor , to build Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire as a national thank-offering to the Duke of Marlborough .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Vanbrugh

Elizabeth Freke: 13 June 1705

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13 June 1705

EF 's grandson Jack died in Norfolk Street, London: a playmate accidentally shot him with a loaded pistol left around by a servant.
Anselment, Raymond A. “Elizabeth Freke’s Remembrances: Reconstructing a Self”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
16
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1997, pp. 57-75.
67

Delarivier Manley: August-November 1705

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August-November 1705

The anonymous Secret History of Queen Zarah , and the Zarazians; being a Looking-Glass for —— In the Kingdom of Albigion may possibly be DM 's first political scandal fiction—or it might not be hers at all.
Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, 1986, p. various pages.
143

8 September 1705: On this day, according to Defoe's True Relation...

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8 September 1705

On this day, according to Defoe 's True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal (published next year), the phantom of a young woman who had just died paid a call on a friend.
Defoe, Daniel. The Earlier Life and Chief Earlier Works of Daniel Defoe. Editor Morley, Henry, 1822 - 1894, George Routledge, 1889.
435-6

Anne Audland: 30 September 1705

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30 September 1705

AA (now Anne Camm) died; she was reported to be about sixty-five, though she must actually have been more than a decade older.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Susanna Centlivre: 20 November 1705

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20 November 1705

SC 's comedy The Basset Table opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 107
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
68

Sarah Fyge: 20 December 1705

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20 December 1705

SF 's Poems on Several Occasions was re-issued, with 1706 on its title-page.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Anna Williams : 1706

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1706

AW was born at Rosemarket in Pembrokeshire, five miles west of Haverfordwest in Wales.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
1

1706: A new Act of Succession was passed....

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1706

A new Act of Succession was passed.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1706: The word condum first appeared in a poem...

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1706

The word condum first appeared in a poem called A Scots Answer to a British Vision; early variant spellings of condom included condon and condum.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Both sources suggest condoms were named after...

By 1706: The Printing Conger (the first example of...

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By 1706

The Printing Conger (the first example of a publishers' collaborative group or conger or little joint-stock company with about ten shareholders) got going, with Rebecca Bonwicke heading its very impressive phalanx of printers' names.
Hodgson, Norma, and Cyprian Blagden, editors. The Notebook of Thomas Bennet and Henry Clements (1686-1719). Oxford University Press, 1956.
85-6, 90-1