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Events Timeline
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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Elizabeth Singer Rowe: After spring 1710
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Singer Rowe
After spring 1710
Elizabeth Singer married
, also a writer, who was thirteen years her junior and from a distinguished nonconformist family.
Delarivier Manley: May 1710
Women writers item
Author event in Delarivier Manley
May 1710
followed the New Atalantis with a secret history or scandal novel entitled Memoirs of Europe, Towards the Close of the Eighth Century . . . .
Anne Docwra: 4, 6 May 1710
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Author event in Anne Docwra
4, 6 May 1710
made her will. Although poorer than ten years previously, she added to former gifts by herself and her husband to the
, with twenty pounds to buy a burial ground, besides...
23 May 1710: The Tatler ironically argued that women's...
23 May 1710
The Tatler ironically argued that women's chief aim in life is to be pleasing (to men, that is) and men's is to be wise.
Elizabeth Freke: 28 May 1710
Women writers item
Elizabeth Boyd: A little before 11 June 1710
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Boyd
A little before 11 June 1710
A baby was born in London who was probably the writer
.
Elizabeth Freke: 22-3 June 1710
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Freke
22-3 June 1710
copied among her remembrances four poems on biblical subjects, which she describes as Some emblems for my own reading.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: By 20 July 1710
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
By 20 July 1710
Lady Mary Pierrepont (later
) spent a week translating into English prose the Enchiridion of
.
3 August 1710: The Examiner, or, Remarks upon Papers and...
Writing climate item
3 August 1710
The Examiner, or, Remarks upon Papers and Occurrences was launched by
with the express intention of examining and correcting false statements from other periodicals; it ran until 1716
Grisell Murray: 16 August 1710
Women writers item
Author event in Grisell Murray
16 August 1710
At the age of seventeen,
was married in Edinburgh to
of Stanhope.
Anne Docwra: 14 September 1710
Women writers item
Mary, Lady Chudleigh: About October 1710
Women writers item
Author event in Mary, Lady Chudleigh
About October 1710
, published, with her name, Essays upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse, dedicated to
.
Princess Sophia was heir apparent to the British throne, but missed...
October 1710: The Tories won a large majority in the general...
National or international item
October 1710
The Tories won a large majority in the general election, leading to a predominantly Tory ministry under the leadership of
.
5 October 1710: A Whig periodical entitled the Medley was...
Writing climate item
5 October 1710
A Whig periodical entitled the Medley was launched to combat the Tory Examiner; it was probably the work of
and possibly of
.
Sarah Fielding: 8 November 1710
Women writers item
16 November 1710: George Powell brought from Bath to London...
Writing climate item
16 November 1710
brought from Bath to London a puppet show presenting the titillating History of Chast Susanna, and the 2 wicked Elders.
Jane Lead: 30 November 1710
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Lead
30 November 1710
The Tatler ridiculed
's
and its mixed-sex membership in number 257, which targets the sects in general.
Mary, Lady Chudleigh: 15 December 1710
Women writers item
Author event in Mary, Lady Chudleigh
15 December 1710
, died, not long after a period staying at the house of an Exeter doctor for treatment.
Mary Barber: 1711-14
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Barber
1711-14
A manuscript of poems written in London during these years has been ascribed to
, but is probably not hers.
It is now at
. The strong Whig tone is quite unlike
's sentiments.
Anne Dacier: 1711
Writing climate item
Author event in Anne Dacier
1711
tackled the summit of classical translation with her French rendering of
's Iliad: L'Iliade d'Homère, traduite en françois avec des remarques.
Elizabeth Stirredge: 1711
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Stirredge
1711
's autobiography, Strength in Weakness Manifest, was posthumously published by the Quaker printer
.
Elinor James: 1711
Women writers item
Author event in Elinor James
1711
donated her late
's fine book collection to
in Twickenham near London, a crucial moment in the building of its library.
Early 1711: At Walkern in Hertfordshire Jane Wenman rather...
Early 1711
At Walkern in HertfordshireJane Wenman rather bravely went to lawyer
to complain that neighbours were accusing her of witchcraft; the results show how opinion was poised between belief and disbelief.
1711: The third Earl of Shaftesbury published a...
Writing climate item
1711
published a work of philosophy, or of aesthetic, moral, and cultural criticism: Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: a beautiful book with allegorical illustrations.
1711: John Brightland published A Grammar of the...
1711
published A Grammar of the English Tongue, one of the first popular eighteenth-century grammars.