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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: August 1713-January 1715

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August 1713-January 1715

LMWM spent most of her time at a handsome rented villa, Middlethorpe Hall near York, with her baby, often without her husband .
She would proably have been glad to know that Middlethorpe became...

Susanna Centlivre: 3 September 1713

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3 September 1713

The Masquerade. A Poem was anonymously published; it is probably by SC .
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
C95
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
150-1

Alison Cockburn: 8 October 1713

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8 October 1713

Alison Rutherford or Rutherfurd (later AC ) was born at the family's mansion house at Fairnalee in Selkirkshire, Scotland. She was much the youngest of seven children (apart from two elder half-brothers).
Craig-Brown gives...

November 1713: James Roberts, the most prolific trade publisher...

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November 1713

James Roberts , the most prolific trade publisher in London in the earlier eighteenth century, took over the business from his mother-in-law, Abigail Baldwin , herself a successful publisher.
Treadwell, Michael. “London Trade Publishers 1675-1750”. The Library, Vol.
6th ser. 4
, 1982, pp. 99-134.
106, 110, 117, 122

Elizabeth Freke: 18 November 1713

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18 November 1713

Thomas Tanner , chancellor of the diocese of Norwich, excommunicated EF for her three times failing to appear in the ecclesiastical court to discuss the issue of appointing an incumbent to her parish church.
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.
17

Laurence Sterne: 24 November 1713

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24 November 1713

LS , Irish clergyman, sermon writer, and novelist, was born at Clonmel, Tipperary.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
499

December 1713: Richard Steele published Poetical Miscellanies;...

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December 1713

Richard Steele published Poetical Miscellanies; it included poems by Pope , Anne Finch , and himself (including praise of the unnamed and only recently identified young Elizabeth Tollet ).
Londry, Michael. Thomas Parnell’s Poem ’To a Young Lady’ as Addressed to Elizabeth Tollet. 1998.

Elizabeth Elstob: By December 1713

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By December 1713

EE visited Oxford, collecting subscriptions for her projected edition of Ælfric 's complete homilies.
Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, 1985, pp. 12-48.
22-3, 45n22

Alexander Pope: January-July 1714

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January-July 1714

During these few months Pope , Swift , Gay , and others met regularly as a brilliant, informal, all-male club in London for fun, jokes, and literary projects; they called themselves the Scriblerus Club.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Eliza Haywood: 1714-1717

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1714-1717

EH began her career as an actress at the Smock Alley Theatre (or Theatre Royal) in Dublin.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.

Frances, Lady Norton: 1714

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1714

Frances, Lady Norton , published her final, least-known work: A Miscellany of Poems, Compos'd, and Work'd with a Needle, on the Backs and Seats &c. of Several Chairs and Stools; the only copy known...

1714: The Schism Act made further inroads on the...

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1714

The Schism Act made further inroads on the civil rights of Dissenters.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
108

1714: British female literacy rates at this date...

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1714

British female literacy rates at this date have been estimated as 25%, against a male rate of 45%.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
167

1714: Following the death of Mary Kettilby, her...

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1714

Following the death of Mary Kettilby , her executrix published her A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Maslen, Keith. “Samuel Richardson of London, Printer: Further Extending the Canon”. Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Vol.
36
, No. 3, Aug. 2012, pp. 133-54.
146-7

1714: Daniel Fahrenheit developed the mercury thermometer,...

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1714

Daniel Fahrenheit developed the mercury thermometer, in which the movement of mercury in a calibrated glass tube allowed for accurate reading of temperature.
Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s Daughter. Viking, 1999.
339

2 February 1714: Nicholas Rowe's Tragedy of Jane Shore was...

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2 February 1714

Nicholas Rowe 's Tragedy of Jane Shore was first performed.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

Delarivier Manley: 4 February 1714

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4 February 1714

DM joined in the anxiety surrounding Queen Anne 's worsening health in A Modest Enquiry into the Reasons of the Joy Expressed . . . upon the . . . Report of the Queen's Death.
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.

Catharine Burton: 9 February 1714

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9 February 1714

CB died as Mother Superior of the English Carmelite convent in Hopland, Antwerp; she was said to have made a holy death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Freke: 15 February 1714

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15 February 1714

EF wrote the last-dated of her remembrances or diary entries, describing the dreadfull'st storme and hurrycane of wind for severall howers was ever heard.
Freke, Elizabeth. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714. Editor Anselment, Raymond A., Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001.
209

Alexander Pope: 4 March 1714

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4 March 1714

AP published The Rape of the Lock, a mock-heroic poem in five cantos.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Grisell Murray: 15 March 1714

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15 March 1714

Any happiness in GM 's marriage was short-lived; on this day she separated from her husband and moved back into her parents' home.
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 1822.
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Elizabeth Freke: 7 April 1714

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7 April 1714

EF died in her mid seventies.
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.
17-18

Susanna Centlivre: 27 April 1714

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27 April 1714

SC unveiled at Drury Lane another comedy which was to hold the stage for generations: The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 321
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
152

Delarivier Manley: By May 1714

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By May 1714

DM was living, as she did for the rest of her life, with the publisher John Barber , who was Lord Mayor of London, a Jacobite, and a friend of Swift.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
xviii

By June 1714: Bernard Mandeville anonymously published...

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By June 1714

Bernard Mandeville anonymously published The Fable of the Bees: or, Knaves Turn'd Honest.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.