Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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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June 1714: Sophia of Brunswick, Electress of Hanover,...
National or international item
June 1714
, Electress of Hanover, died two months before her cousin
.
Delarivier Manley: 3 June 1714
Women writers item
Author event in Delarivier Manley
3 June 1714
dated the preface to The Adventures of Rivella, her fictionalised autobiography or secret history published with
within the month.
In this year, scholar
notes,
publicly renounced politics as...
18 June 1714: Addison, helped by Eustace Budgell and Thomas...
Writing climate item
18 June 1714
, helped by
and
, began publishing a continuation of the Spectator.
8 July 1714: Queen Anne signed the royal consent to the...
8 July 1714
signed the royal consent to the Longitude Act, whereby Parliament offered a reward of up to £20,000 for a foolproof method of calculating longitude at sea.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 28 July 1714
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
28 July 1714
The Spectator printed as its number 573
's contribution, an autobiographical letter from an imaginary recasting of the stereotypical predatory widow.
1 August 1714: Queen Anne died and messengers left for Hanover...
National or international item
1 August 1714
died and messengers left for Hanover to inform
that he had assumed the throne.
Jane Barker: 14 August 1714
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Barker
14 August 1714
's Exilius, or the Banish'd Roman (a collection of extravagantly heroic tales or romances) was advertised as newly published.
The
still (in 2010) lists a copy as probably 1712.
Sarah, Lady Piers : September 1714
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah, Lady Piers
September 1714
welcomed the arrival of a new monarch in
for Britain, a poem published with her name in two formats, one lavish (fine paper, wider margins) and one more ordinary.
September 1714: There was published A Collection of Queen...
Women writers item
September 1714
There was published A Collection of
's Speeches, Messages . . . from her Accession to the Throne to her Demise.
18 September 1714: George I landed in England to claim the ...
National or international item
18 September 1714
landed in England to claim the throne.
Elizabeth Boyd: About 21 September 1714
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Boyd
About 21 September 1714
An anonymous Poem on the Arrival of the
, Address'd to His Majesty, published by
, has been attributed to
, but cannot be hers if she is correctly identified here.
Sir Richard Steele: October 1714
Writing climate item
Author event in Sir Richard Steele
October 1714
was appointed governor of
. He was suspended from this position in 1720 and restored to it the following year.
Susanna Centlivre: 7 October 1714
Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Centlivre
7 October 1714
opened a series of Hanoverian poems with A Poem. Humbly Presented to His Most Sacred Majesty
. . . upon his Accession to the Throne.
The title-page of this publication bears the...
Before 21 October 1714: George Berkeley compiled and published The...
Writing climate item
Before 21 October 1714
compiled and published The Ladies Library, as by a Lady.
Mary, Countess Cowper : Late October 1714
Women writers item
Author event in Mary, Countess Cowper
Late October 1714
On her appointment as Lady in Waiting to
, the new Princess of Wales,
began keeping a private diary to record the true version of what went on at Court, in...
Mary, Countess Cowper : 25 October 1714
Women writers item
Author event in Mary, Countess Cowper
25 October 1714
In the distribution of favours that marked
's accession,
was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to his daughter-in-law
, now Princess of Wales.
Elinor James: 17 November 1714
Women writers item
Author event in Elinor James
17 November 1714
In This Day Ought Never to be Forgotten, being the Proclamation Day for ,
presented a role-model to the new
.
The date was that of Elizabeth's accession.
Anne Dacier: 25 November 1714
Writing climate item
Author event in Anne Dacier
25 November 1714
replied with Des Causes de la Corruption du Goût (offically approved on this day) to the critique of her L'Iliade d'Homère by
in his French verse adaptation and his...
18 December 1714: A new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields (built...
18 December 1714
A new
in Lincoln's Inn Fields (built by
) opened under his son,
.
This is the first theatre season for which records are complete.
Anne Finch: Christmas Eve 1714
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Finch
Christmas Eve 1714
wrote a religious poem for the occasion, addressed to her friend
(who was also a friend of
).
Margaret Calderwood : 1715
Women writers item
Elizabeth Elstob: Probably 1715
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Elstob
Probably 1715
A fragment reached print of
's complete
edition and translation, The English Saxon Homilies of
: Arch-Bishop of Canterbury (the title is given from the proposals):
Elizabeth Elstob: 1715
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Elstob
1715
published, together, her Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue and An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities.
Anne Finch: 1715
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Finch
1715
was dangerously ill, as she mentions in a poem of thanksgiving for her recovery.
Elizabeth Tollet: Probably 1715
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Tollet
Probably 1715
composed A New Ballad, beginning To all you sparkling Whiggs at Court.