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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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31 January 1707: Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions...

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31 January 1707

Matthew Prior 's Poems on Several Occasions were published illicitly, through Edmund Curll .
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
154: 82
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
27

Alice Thornton: January 1707

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January 1707

AT died at East Newton in Yorkshire, a house built by her and her husband in August 1662.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Thornton, Alice. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton. Editor Jackson, Charles, 1809 - 1882, Published for the Society by Andrews, 1875.
204

13 February 1707: The Treason Act received royal assent, making...

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13 February 1707

The Treason Act received royal assent, making it treasonable to assert in writing or to put in print Jacobite claims to the throne.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
64
Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
15: 543

Aphra Behn: March-December 1707

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Author event in Aphra Behn

March-December 1707

The Muses Mercury: or, The Monthly Miscellany included in every issue at least one poem by AB .
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
125n58

Judith Drake: After March 1707

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After March 1707

JD completed, edited, and published Anthropologia Nova; or, A New System of Anatomy, which her husband left unfinished on his death this year.

Mary Jones: Shortly before 8 March 1707

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Shortly before 8 March 1707

MJ was born in Oxford, the second of five children, and the only girl.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
165

8 March 1707: The last of George Farquhar's six comedies,...

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8 March 1707

The last of George Farquhar 's six comedies, The Beaux' Stratagem, opened at the Haymarket .
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.

Henry Fielding: 22 April 1707

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22 April 1707

HF , playwright, novelist, and lawyer, was born at Sharpham Park, Sharpham, near Glastonbury in Somerset.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
xl

Susanna Centlivre: 23 April 1707

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23 April 1707

SC made her final marriage: with Joseph Centlivre, at St Benet Church in London.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
92-3

Elizabeth Cairns: Mid 1707 - mid 1714

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Mid 1707 - mid 1714

Between the woful [sic] union that was made between the two kingdoms of England and Scotland,
qtd. in
Cairns, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life of Elizabeth Cairns. Editor Greig, John, John Brown, 1762.
91
and the death of Queen Anne , EC was much exercised about the state of national politics.
Cairns, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life of Elizabeth Cairns. Editor Greig, John, John Brown, 1762.
91, 96

Mary Pix: 1 May 1707

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1 May 1707

MP published A Poem, Humbly Inscrib'd to the Lords Commissioners for the Union of the Two Kingdoms: her final appearance in print.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

1 May 1707: England and Scotland were united by the Act...

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1 May 1707

England and Scotland were united by the Act of Union.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
159
Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
15: 258, 512, 543

20 May 1707: Jacob Tonson the elder signed the first of...

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20 May 1707

Jacob Tonson the elder signed the first of two copyright agreements giving him sole right in Shakespeare 's plays.
Nichol, Donald W. “Warburton (Not!) on copyright: Clearing up the Misattribution of An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
19
, No. 2, 1996, pp. 171-82.
172
Bernard, Stephen. Whig Literary Culture and the Canon: the Legacy of the Tonsons. Oxford University Press, 2015.

Catharine Trotter: By mid-June 1707

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By mid-June 1707

CT published A Discourse concerning "A Guide in Controversies", a religious or theological work with a preface by Gilbert Burnet , which belatedly answers The Guide in Controversies, probably 1677, by Abraham Woodhead .
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
151n37
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
5 (1751): 115
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

24 July 1707: Isaac Watts published his influential volume...

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24 July 1707

Isaac Watts published his influential volume of Hymns and Spiritual Songs.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Joan Whitrow: 8 September 1707

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8 September 1707

JW died, in or near Twickenham, aged probably seventy-seven.
Cole, William. Twickenham Town in Middlesex.

28 September 1707: The Privy Council turned down a scheme by...

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28 September 1707

The Privy Council turned down a scheme by entrepreneurs including John Breholt for ending piracy by disaffected and allegedly very wealthy British seamen off the island of Madagascar.
Baer, Joel H. “Penelope Aubin and the Pirates of Madagascar: Biographical Notes and Documents”. Eighteenth- Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 49-62.
49-52

Penelope Aubin: 27 November 1707

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27 November 1707

PA published her first work: The Stuarts: A Pindarique Ode, dedicated to Queen Anne .
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy: 1708

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1708

MCA 's historical romance Hypolitus, Earl of Douglas. Containing some Memoirs of the Court of Scotland, was translated into English along with a good deal of extraneous fictional material from other authors.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Elizabeth Burnet : 1708

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1708

EB published, at her own expense and anonymously, in order to do good,A Method of Devotion: or Rules for Holy and Devout Living, which she had begun more than twenty years before.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Burnet, Elizabeth. “journals and papers”. Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. D. 1092, folios 111–203.
140

Elizabeth Elstob: 1708

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1708

EE published An Essay upon Glory—translated, as the title-page explains, from the French of Madeleine de Scudéryby a Person of the Same Sex.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Sarah Fyge: 1708

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1708

SF wrote a verse address to the Duke of Marlborough , which seems not to have been printed.
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.

Catharine Trotter: Early 1708

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Early 1708

CT married the Rev. Patrick Cockburnin the beginning of the year.
Trotter, Catharine. “Life of Mrs. Cockburn”. The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn, edited by Thomas Birch, J. and P. Knapton, 1751, p. i - xlviii.
1: xxxiii

Sarah, Lady Piers : 1708

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1708

An untitled poem by Sarah, Lady Piers, reached print, which fervently praises the virtue and beauty of just some among the ladies who frequent the health resort of Tunbridge Wells in Kent.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1708: The first Quaker bibliography, John Whiting's...

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1708

The first Quaker bibliography, John Whiting's A Catalogue of Friends' Books. . . , was published by Tace Sowle .
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
53, 145-6