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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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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: October 1712

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October 1712

LMWM wrote, ex tempore in Company in a Glass Window, a brief poem of aspiration to wifely virtue and discretion.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
179

By November 1712: Thomas Newcomen, an associate of Thomas Savery,...

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By November 1712

Thomas Newcomen , an associate of Thomas Savery , demonstrated an improved version of Savery's early steam engine; his crucial addition was the use of pistons.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

6 December 1712: Joseph Addison and his associates ceased...

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6 December 1712

Joseph Addison and his associates ceased publishing The Spectator.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
554 (1712): 491

Elizabeth Ashbridge: 1713

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Author event in Elizabeth Ashbridge

1713

Elizabeth Sampson (later EA ) was born at Middlewich in Cheshire, of honest Parents.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904.
9

Susanna Centlivre: From 1713

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Author event in Susanna Centlivre

From 1713

SC and her husband lived at Buckingham Court near Charing Cross.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
93-4

Mary More: 1713-May 1715

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Author event in Mary More

1713-May 1715

MM must have died some time between these two dates: after her son made his will, and before it was proved.
Ezell, Margaret J. M. The Patriarch’s Wife. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
145-6 and nn

1713: The first English lunatic asylum outside...

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1713

The first English lunatic asylum outside London was established: at Norwich, for between 20 and 30 patients.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
18

1713: William Cockburn published his Symptoms,...

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1713

William Cockburn published his Symptoms, Nature, Cause, and Cure of a Gonorrhoea; it went through four more editions by 1728.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1713: Theft by a servant from an employer became...

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1713

Theft by a servant from an employer became a capital offence in Britain.
Beattie, John M. “’Hard-pressed to make ends meet’: Women and Crime in Augustan London”. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, edited by Valerie Frith, Coach House Press, 1995, pp. 103-15.
105

Charlotte Charke: 13 January 1713

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Author event in Charlotte Charke

13 January 1713

Charlotte Cibber (later CC ) was born, the eleventh and last in her family.
Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber, 1988.
214

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Spring 1713

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Spring 1713

LMWM wrote an epilogue (not used on stage) to Joseph Addison 's famous tragedy, Cato.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
180

Alexander Pope: 7 March 1713

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7 March 1713

AP published his georgic poem Windsor-Forest.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

12 March-1 October 1713: Richard Steele published a periodical entitled...

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12 March-1 October 1713

Richard Steele published a periodical entitled the Guardian.
Steele, Sir Richard et al., editors. The Guardian. University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
41, 569

Elizabeth Freke: 5 April 1713

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Author event in Elizabeth Freke

5 April 1713

EF set on foot the purchase of a baronetcy for her son. It cost her five hundred pounds, which she mentally added to the tally of thousands that her son's family had already cost her.
Freke, Elizabeth. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714. Editor Anselment, Raymond A., Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001.
199
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
George, Margaret. Women in the First Capitalist Society. University of Illinois Press, 1988.
181

Susanna Centlivre: After 14 April 1713

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After 14 April 1713

SC complimented Anne Oldfield 's acting in Addison 's Cato, with a poem written in Oldfield's copy of Fontenelle 's Plurality of Worlds.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
149-50

14 April 1713: Joseph Addison's influential classical tragedy,...

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14 April 1713

Joseph Addison 's influential classical tragedy, Cato, opened.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2.1: 299

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 16 May 1713

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16 May 1713

LMWM bore her son, Edward .
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1:181n1

Jane Barker: May 1713

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May 1713

JB 's earliest-printed piece of fiction, the part-autobiographical Love Intrigues, or The History of . . . Bosvil and Galesia . . ., received unauthorised publication through Edmund Curll , as by a Young Lady.
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press, 2000.
171, 181-2
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
154
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
21
, No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38.
24
Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv.
xxix, xliv

11 June 1713: Daniel Defoe issued the last number of his...

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11 June 1713

Daniel Defoe issued the last number of his periodical, A Review.
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.

Anne Finch: 18 June 1713

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18 June 1713

AF 's Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions was entered in the Stationers' Register .
This text is available on line at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
274

After 13 July 1713: The recent Peace of Utrecht was celebrated...

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After 13 July 1713

The recent Peace of Utrecht was celebrated with a Thanksgiving Day procession along The Strand in London, while four thousand charity-school children in new clothes sang loyal hymns.
Rogers, Pat. “The Maypole in the Strand”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
28
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 83-95.
85, 87

13 July 1713: The Treaty of Utrecht ended the War of Spanish...

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13 July 1713

The Treaty of Utrecht ended the War of Spanish Succession, known in North America as Queen Anne's War.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
345, 503, 660, 670
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
22

Elizabeth Elstob: After 15 July 1713

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After 15 July 1713

William Bowyer , EE 's publisher, issued her pamphlet compilation Some Testimonies of Learned Men, in Favour of the Intended Edition of the Saxon Homilies, in the form of a letter, which she dated...

Héloïse: 30 July 1713

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30 July 1713

Letters of Abelard and Heloise, translated by John Hughes , was published at London.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
2: 295n6

Delarivier Manley: 14 August 1713

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14 August 1713

In The Honour and Prerogative of the Queen's Majesty VindicatedDM commented on some of the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
xvii
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.