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1708: John Marten (already known for a treatise...
1708
(already known for a treatise on venereal disease) published Gonosologium Novum, or A New System of all the Secret Infirmities and Diseases.
13 January 1708: The two licensed London theatre companies...
13 January 1708
The two licensed London theatre companies struck an agreement which would put an end to some aspects of recent cut-throat competition.
29 January 1708: John Philips, who hailed from the cider-making...
Writing climate item
29 January 1708
, who hailed from the cider-making county of Herefordshire, published his best-known poem, the georgic Cyder.
Elizabeth Thomas: By March 1708
Women writers item
Hannah Glasse: By 28 March 1708
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Glasse
By 28 March 1708
Hannah Allgood (later
) was born in Greville Street, Hatton Garden, London, apparently the eldest child in her family.
3 April 1708: Arthur Maynwaring mentioned to Sarah, Duchess...
National or international item
3 April 1708
mentioned to
, having used a letter from her as the basis for his Advice to the Electors of Great Britain.
Elizabeth Bury: 13 April 1708
National or international item
Author event in Elizabeth Bury
13 April 1708
recorded that God had heard Prayer [not only hers], and answer'd signally, in defeating the French Invasion—that is, the fleet carrying the
which got as far as the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
Damaris Masham: 20 April 1708
Women writers item
Susanna Hopton : July 1708
Anne Finch: By August 1708
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Finch
By August 1708
The main base for
and her
seems to have been London (where soon after this they were resident in Cleveland Row near St James's Palace), though they still spent time at Eastwell.
Agnes Beaumont: 2 September 1708
Women writers item
Author event in Agnes Beaumont
2 September 1708
(formerly
), widowed about a year earlier, married
or Storey, a London fishmonger in a large way of business who lived at Highgate.
23 November 1708: Classical scholar Edward Holdsworth published...
Writing climate item
23 November 1708
Classical scholar
published a burlesque Latin poem entitled Muscipula, or the little mouse, bearing the date of 1709. It is a satire on the Welsh, though dedicated, as if in apology, to...
Laetitia Pilkington: Probably December 1708 or January 1709
Women writers item
Author event in Laetitia Pilkington
Probably December 1708 or January 1709
Laetitia Van Lewen (later
) was born in County Cork, her parents' eldest surviving child.
This was several years before the date she gave herself (1712), which has therefore been generally accepted.
Jane Brereton: 1709
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Brereton
1709
This is the earliest date attached to an item in
's posthumous Poems on Several Occasions, published thirty-five years later.
Elizabeth Elstob: 1709
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Elstob
1709
published in a handsome volume, by subscription and dedicated to
, a specimen translation from the homilies (or sermons) of
: An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory.
1709: Anne Brockman published a conduct book, Age...
1709
published a conduct book, Age Rectified or, some Cautionary Hints for the Rendering it less Obnoxious to Our Selves and Others, which, unusually, addresses women's middle and later years.
1709: An Act of Parliament for Enlarging the Capital...
Writing climate item
1709
An Act of for Enlarging the Capital Stock of the is cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as its first use of capital in the sense of financial assets in hand.
1709: Bernard Mandeville published The Virgin Unmask'd,...
Writing climate item
1709
published The Virgin Unmask'd, a conduct book for women titled to suggest erotic fiction. In fact it takes a proto-feminist tone.
Teresia Constantia Phillips: 2 January 1709
Women writers item
Author event in Teresia Constantia Phillips
2 January 1709
was born, the second of five children, at West Chester in Cheshire.
Phillips says 2 January 1709. If she were using the full form of Old Style, in which the new year did...
Penelope Aubin: 20 January 1709
Women writers item
Author event in Penelope Aubin
20 January 1709
made a deposition concerning negotiations with the British pirates on the island of Madagascar, about their buying their pardons.
Baer prints this January date, twice, in transcribing the manuscript deposition, though elsewhere he...
2 February 1709: Sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued after...
Writing climate item
2 February 1709
Sailor
was rescued after surviving more than four years as a castway on Juan Fernandez island.
Elizabeth Burnet : 3 February 1709
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Burnet
3 February 1709
During one of the early eighteenth century's particularly bitter winters,
died of pleurisy.
Susanna Wesley: 9 February 1709
Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Wesley
9 February 1709
The
home at Epworth Rectory was destroyed by fire: all the family got out alive.
Susanna Wesley: 14 February 1709
Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Wesley
14 February 1709
wrote a vividly descriptive letter to her son
about the fire which destroyed the family home: by God's great mercy we all escaped.
Lady Lucy Herbert : 5 March 1709
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Lucy Herbert
5 March 1709
was elected Prioress or Mother Superior of her convent, that of the
at Bruges; she thus became Mother Teresa Joseph.