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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 December 1711: The Duke of Marlborough was dismissed from...

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31 December 1711

The Duke of Marlborough was dismissed from all his posts.
Harris, Frances. A Passion for Government: The life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Clarendon, 1991.
178, 186-7

Celia Fiennes: By 1712

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By 1712

CF , now travelling by coach once more, had visited every English county since she began her travels.

Elizabeth Freke: About 1712

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About 1712

EF probably began writing a second version of her remembrances. This time she revised and recast, omitted and added, apparently aiming at a tighter chronological continuity.
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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Lady Lucy Herbert : 1712

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1712

A book appeared at Douai, A Daily Exercise and Devotions for the Young Ladies and Gentlewomen Pensioners at the Monastery of the English Canonesses, which scholar Catherine S. Durrant judges to be undoubtedly by LLH .
Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1925.
429
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1712: A pornographic work warning men against women...

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1712

A pornographic work warning men against women was published: Entertainments of Gallantry, or Remedies for Love.
London, April. “Avoiding the Subject: The Presence and Absence of Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 213-27.
218-19

1712: A boarding school for girls at the Two Golden...

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1712

A boarding school for girls at the Two Golden Bulls on Mile End Green near London offered domestic science in addition to the usual accomplishments.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
250

Susanna Centlivre: 19 January 1712

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19 January 1712

Susanna Centlivre 's The Perplex'd Lovers was given without its politically risky epilogue, which had not yet received a licence.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: xli-xlii, 267-8
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
144-5

Françoise de Graffigny: 19 January 1712

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19 January 1712

Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt was married at not yet seventeen to François Huguet de Graffigny .
“La Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny”. University of Toronto, Robarts Library: Graffigny Project.

Delarivier Manley: 28 January 1712

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28 January 1712

DM (who had been seriously ill the previous year) had a sore leg and dropsy (i.e. water retention); Swift thought she cannot live long.
Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon Press, 1948, 2 vols.
2: 474

Susanna Wesley: February 1712

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February 1712

With her husband away at the annual Anglican Convocation in London, SW conducted evening services at Epworth Rectory, now rebuilt after the fire.
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
xiii

John Norris: Shortly before 5 February 1712

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Shortly before 5 February 1712

JN , philospher, clergyman, and friend of Mary Astell , died at his parish of Bemerton in Wiltshire, the place with which his name is generally associated.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

16 February 1712: People in Dublin feared the outbreak of Catholic...

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16 February 1712

People in Dublin feared the outbreak of Catholic rebellion in the west of Ireland.
Montagu, Warren. “Forum”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
10
, No. 1, Oct. 1997, pp. 101-6.
105

28 February 1712: The Whig physician-poet Sir Richard Blackmore...

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28 February 1712

The Whig physician-poet Sir Richard Blackmore published his best-known work, the physico-theologicalCreation: a Philosophical Poem. Its grandiose style was praised by some respected critics of the day, but scorned by Pope and his...

Samuel Johnson: March 1712

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March 1712

Queen Anne performed the operation of touching for the King's Evil (scrofula) on her most famous patient, the two-and-a-half-year-old SJ .
Johnson, Samuel. Diaries, Prayers, and Annals. Editors McAdam, Edward Lippincott, Jr et al., Yale Edition, Yale University Press and Oxford University Press, 1960.
8-9

4 March 1712: Jane Wenham was tried for witchcraft (whose...

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4 March 1712

Jane Wenham was tried for witchcraft (whose manifestation was flying through the air) at Hertford; the jury found her guilty, but the judge reprieved her and later got her pardoned.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
529n
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.
Bostridge, Ian. Witchcraft and its Transformations, c. 1650-1750. Clarendon Press, 1997.
132-6, 156

May 1712: The publisher Bernard Lintot edited and published...

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May 1712

The publisher Bernard Lintot edited and published Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, by several Hands.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

By 16 May 1712: The Stamp Act, which levied a tax (Stamp...

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By 16 May 1712

The Stamp Act, which levied a tax (Stamp Duty) on newspapers and periodicals, came into effect, having passed the House of Commons the previous month.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
158-9, 163n5
Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
17: 196
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
86

Elinor James: 29 May 1712

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29 May 1712

EJ published her only known verse broadside, This Day Did God . . ., which returns to the topic of Charles II .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

21 June 1712: Joseph Addison wrote in the Spectator that...

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21 June 1712

Joseph Addison wrote in the Spectator that a man of refined taste would take more pleasure from looking at a landscape than from owning the land.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
411 (1712): 538
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
414 (1712): 552

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 28 June 1712

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28 June 1712

JJR , philosopher and novelist, was born at home in the Grand' Rue, Geneva, Switzerland.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
454
Josephson, Matthew. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Harcourt, Brace, 1931.
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Anne Finch: 4 August 1712

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4 August 1712

Heneage Finch 's nephew died, and Heneage, the closest male heir, assumed his nephew's title of Earl of Winchilsea. AF found herself Countess of Winchilsea.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
98

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Probably 23 August 1712

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Probably 23 August 1712

Lady Mary Pierrepont eloped with Edward Wortley Montagu ; they were married at Salisbury.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
56

Elinor James: By September 1712

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By September 1712

Ill-feeling had erupted between EJ and the rector and churchwardens of St Benet Church, her parish church, about gifts of silver and furniture which she had made to the church.
James, Elinor. “Introductory Note”. Elinor James, edited by Paula McDowell, Ashgate, 2005, p. v - xxviii.
xix-xx

Elizabeth Freke: 14 September 1712

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14 September 1712

EF compiled a detailed list of expenditures (including the medical bills from her husband 's last illness), asserting her defiance of her troubles and her enemies.
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.
71-2

27 September 1712: Addison, in his role as Mr Spectator, obliged...

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27 September 1712

Addison , in his role as Mr Spectator, obliged to look into all kinds of men, reported on the status of the Jews in England.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
495 (1712): 255
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
495 (1712): 255-8