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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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1706: Arabian Nights Entertainments first appeared...

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1706

Arabian Nights Entertainments first appeared in English, translated from Les mille et une nuit: contes arabes by Antoine Galland , itself a translation from Persian.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Edmund Curll: By 7 January 1706

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By 7 January 1706

EC was buying book collections and selling them at auction. On this day he sold what was advertised as an Extraordinary Collection of the Most Celebrated . . . Authors in many languages and on...

Catharine Trotter: 11 February 1706

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11 February 1706

CT 's final tragedy, The Revolution of Sweden (again in verse), opened at the Haymarket , having been announced but deferred four days earlier. It ran until the 16th.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 117
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
258

27 February 1706: John Evelyn, scientific enquirer and man...

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27 February 1706

John Evelyn , scientific enquirer and man of letters, died. He is now best-known for the diary which was not discovered till a century after his death.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

8 April 1706: George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer...

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8 April 1706

George Farquhar 's comedy The Recruiting Officer was first performed at Drury Lane .
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.

Catharine Trotter: Later 1706

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Later 1706

CT published On His Grace the Duke of Marlborough , A Poem, this time celebrating his victory of Ramillies in present-day Belgium on 12 May Old Style (23 May New Style) this year.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Mary Pix: Probably June 1706

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Probably June 1706

MP 's final play, The Adventures in Madrid, opened at the Haymarket .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 126

Elizabeth Freke: 2 June 1706

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2 June 1706

EF 's husband , suffering from asthma and dropsy, died in her arms at West Bilney.
Freke, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714, edited by Raymond A. Anselment, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001, pp. 1-36.
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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.
60, 62-3

Mary Astell: July 1706

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July 1706

A third edition of MA 's Reflections Upon Marriage dropped Some from the title and added most of her important preface.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors, XXVII: Mary Astell, 1666-1731”. The Book Collector, Vol.
10
, 1961, pp. 58-65.
63

Sarah Fyge: 5 July 1706

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5 July 1706

SF 's The Female Advocate was reprinted again, as by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex,
Fyge, Sarah. The Female Advocate. John Taylor, 1686.
prelims
and with 1707 on the title-page.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

: John Vanbrugh signed an agreement with Owen...

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Autumn 1706

John Vanbrugh signed an agreement with Owen Swiny , appointing Swiny to manage the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 129

Mary, Countess Cowper : 18 September 1706

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18 September 1706

Mary Clavering was married in secret to William Cowper , an eminent lawyer twenty years her senior, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and recently appointed Lord Chancellor of Britain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Stirredge: Probably 7 November 1706

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Probably 7 November 1706

ES , now a widow, died at Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire.
The testimonies in her posthumous autobiography say she died in the eleventh month. There is reason to believe that ES herself had used...

Susanna Centlivre: 25 November 1706

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25 November 1706

SC 's comedy The Platonick Lady opened at the Haymarket .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 132
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
83

Sarah, Lady Cowper: 26 November 1706

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26 November 1706

William Cowper , husband of SLC , died six days after suffering a stroke.
Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720. Stanford University Press, 2002.
141
A little over a year later she wrote: Methinks I taste and feel that liberty is sweet.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Johnson : 16 December 1706

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16 December 1706

Jane Russell (later JJ ) was born, probably at Warwick, where she was baptised. She was the younger of her parents' two children, with an elder half-sister from her father's first marriage.
A Piece of the Puzzle: The Journey of a Village through History. Witham-on-the-Hill Historical Society, 2000.
79
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
168
Arizpe, Evelyn et al. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing, 2006.
22, 28, xvii

Delarivier Manley: 16 December 1706

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16 December 1706

DM 's tragedy Almyna; or, The Arabian Vow was produced at the Haymarket Theatre .
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
393

Elizabeth Freke: 23 December 1706

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23 December 1706

EF wrote her son a formal letter of admonition about his sins (both towards her and God); she copied it in my whit vellum book of remembrances,
Freke, Elizabeth. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714. Editor Anselment, Raymond A., Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001.
254
and carefully noted this fact in her...

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy: 1707

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1707

The Diverting Works of the Countess d'Anois (MCA ) were published in London.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Sarah Fyge: 1707

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1707

Delarivier Manley printed some of SF 's letters in The Lady's Pacquet of Letters.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Delarivier Manley: 1707

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1707

DM 's The Lady's Pacquet of Letters, a work of fiction, was published bound with d'Aulnoy 's Memoirs of the Court of England and another work.
Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
5
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2001, pp. 2-5.
2
Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, 1986, p. various pages.
106

1707: Hans Sloane, later President of the Royal...

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1707

Hans Sloane , later President of the Royal Society , published the first volume of the work generally called Natural History of Jamaica, with its short, casual account of slavery, detailing but defending the...

1707: George Hickes published, as Instructions...

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1707

George Hickes published, as Instructions for the Education of a Daughter, a translation of Fénelon 's Traité de l'éducation des filles, 1687.
Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
291

1707: Fortnum and Mason's grocery shop was founded...

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1707

Fortnum and Mason's grocery shop was founded by two former footmen to the court of Queen Anne.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
215

1707: Edward Lhuyd of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford...

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1707

Edward Lhuyd of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford first demonstrated in print that the ancient British language was related to the Gaelic of Ireland and Scotland.
Sims-Williams, Patrick. “How are you finding it here?”. London Review of Books, 21 Oct. 1999, pp. 30-31.
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