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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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11 October 1709: Richard Steele's use of Mrs Jenny Distaff...

Writing climate item

11 October 1709

Richard Steele 's use of Mrs Jenny Distaff (supposedly half-sister of the supposed author, Isaac Bickerstaff) in The Tatler gave rise to a short-lived periodical, The Whisperer, written as by this fictional woman.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
43
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Elizabeth Freke: 20 October 1709

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Author event in Elizabeth Freke

20 October 1709

EF began to quarrel by letter with Charles Trimnell , Bishop of Norwich, over the matter of licensing Charles Buck , the curate she had installed in the parish church she claimed to control.
Freke, Elizabeth. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714. Editor Anselment, Raymond A., Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001.
111

Delarivier Manley: 29 October-5 November 1709

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Author event in Delarivier Manley

29 October-5 November 1709

DM was imprisoned (to rescue, she said, the printer and publisher of her New Atalantis) until she was bailed.
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.
4

5 November 1709: Henry Sacheverell preached a notorious sermon...

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5 November 1709

Henry Sacheverell preached a notorious sermon at St Paul's Cathedral challenging the 1688 settlement of the succession.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
216
Backscheider, Paula R. Daniel Defoe: His Life. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
264
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

23 November 1709: Aaron Hill started as manager at Drury Lane...

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23 November 1709

Aaron Hill started as manager at Drury Lane Theatre and pursued a policy of rivalry with Thomas Betterton 's company at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 197

December 1709-February 1710: During a great frost of three months, fairs...

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December 1709-February 1710

During a great frost of three months, fairs were held on the frozen Thames at London.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
23 and n33, 101

Susanna Centlivre: 12 December 1709

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Author event in Susanna Centlivre

12 December 1709

SC 's next comedy, The Man's Bewitch'd; or, The Devil to Do about Her, opened at the Haymarket .
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
117

29 December 1709: Richard Steele's reference in The Tatler...

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29 December 1709

Richard Steele 's reference in The Tatler to the new fashion of hoop petticoats marked the establishment of the mode in England or at least in London.
Chrisman, Kimberly. “Unhoop the Fair Sex: The Campaign Against the Hoop Petticoat in Eighteenth-Century England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
30
, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1996, pp. 5-23.
7-9, 11

Mary Barber: By January 1710

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Author event in Mary Barber

By January 1710

MB was married. Her husband was Rupert Barber, a Dublin tailor.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
392

May Drummond: 1709-10

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Author event in May Drummond

1709-10

MD was born in Edinburgh, the third and last surviving child of parents who must have been relatively elderly; her father may even have died before she was born.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Margaret Fell: 1710

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Author event in Margaret Fell

1710

After MF 's death her family published a nearly complete collection of her writings, including the short autobiography which she finished writing during or after July 1690.
Bonnelyn Young Kunze gives the publication date as...

Susanna Wesley: 1709 or 1710

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Author event in Susanna Wesley

1709 or 1710

SW bore her last child, a daughter christened Kezia .
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Elinor James: January 1710

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Author event in Elinor James

January 1710

Thomas James died, and his wife Elinor became nominally, as she had long been in fact, director of his printing business.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
47
James, Tom Beaumont. “The James Family Bible and Lost Portraits of Bodley’s First Librarian and of his Grandson”. Bodleian Library Friends Newsletter, 1 Sept. 2006–28 Feb. 2007, p. [6].

1710: The first edition appeared of Onania; or...

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1710

The first edition appeared of Onania; or The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, a treatise against masturbation which mingles scare tactics with moral admonition; the reprints kept coming for decades.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
68
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
114

1710: Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through...

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1710

Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through the university press the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland , Antiquary.
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.

1710: Anne Oldfield, leading actress, was viciously...

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1710

Anne Oldfield , leading actress, was viciously attacked as promiscuous and power-hungry in a pamphlet, A Justification of the Letter to John Stanley.
Crouch, Kimberly. “The public life of actresses: prostitutes or ladies?”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 58-78.
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Susanna Hopton : Early 1710

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Early 1710

George Hickes included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH to Henry Turberville on choosing the Anglican over...

Elinor James: 11 February 1710

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Author event in Elinor James

11 February 1710

EJ published Mrs. James Prayer for the Queen and Parliament, and Kingdom too.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
139

Delarivier Manley: 11 February 1710

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Author event in Delarivier Manley

11 February 1710

DM was tried for libel on account of her New Atalantis, but discharged.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
xv

8 March 1710: A character in The Female Tatler, Emilia,...

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8 March 1710

A character in The Female Tatler, Emilia, remarked that if it had not been for male tyranny we [i.e. women] had sat in Parliament long before this time.
Italia, Iona. The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century. Anxious employment. Routledge, 2005.
61-2

10 March 1710: A Mrs Carey advertised that so much neglected...

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10 March 1710

A Mrs Carey advertised that so much neglected . . . Art of Reading, and Writing true English, as being taught at her London school.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
38-9

Susanna Centlivre: 27 March 1710

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Author event in Susanna Centlivre

27 March 1710

Drury Lane put on a farce or opening piece by SC entitled A Bickerstaff's Burying; or, Work for the Upholders.
Upholders were undertakers or funeral directors.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 217
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
133

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 28 March 1710

Women writers item

28 March 1710

Lady Mary Pierrepont (later LMWM ) began her negotiation by letter with her future husband, Edward Wortley Montagu .
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1: 24-167

10 April 1710: An Act for the Encouragement of Learning...

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10 April 1710

An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (later called the Copyright Act), passed in 1709, became effective.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
29
Sutherland, James. Defoe. Methuen, 1937.
170

19 April 1710: Four Iroquois sachems or leaders, visiting...

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19 April 1710

Four Iroquois sachems or leaders, visiting London, had an audience with Queen Anne .
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
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