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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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August 1715: Isaac Watts published Divine Songs Attempted...

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August 1715

Isaac Watts published Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

21 August 1715: Louis XIV died; a Regency was established...

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21 August 1715

Louis XIV died; a Regency was established (under the second duc d'Orleans ) for the underage Louis XV .
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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Michaud, Joseph François, and Louis Gabriel Michaud. Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne. Michaud frères, 1811–1857, 84 vols.
This date was 1 September in France.

Elizabeth Cairns: Autumn 1715

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Author event in Elizabeth Cairns

Autumn 1715

During the first Jacobite Rebellion, EC 's family refused help to the rebels. Nevertheless, their house was not burned by rebel sympathisers when others were.
Cairns, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life of Elizabeth Cairns. Editor Greig, John, John Brown, 1762.
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6 September 1715: The first Jacobite Rebellion began when John...

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6 September 1715

The first Jacobite Rebellion began when John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar , raised his standard. He also issued a proclamation at Braemar, Scotland, declaring that James III was the rightful king.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Gregg, Edward. “The Jacobite Career of John, Earl of Mar”. Ideology and Conspiracy: Aspects of Jacobitism, 1689-1759, edited by Eveline Cruickshanks, John Donald, 1982, pp. 179-94.

Mary Delany: About October 1715

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About October 1715

The parents of Mary Granville (later MD ) suffered arrest on suspicion of supporting a Jacobite rebellion in the West Country planned by Lansdowne ; soldiers arrived to search their house in the middle of...

Elizabeth Elstob: October 1715

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Author event in Elizabeth Elstob

October 1715

The same year that her brother died, the death of her fellow-scholar George Hickes removed yet one more anchor from EE .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Anne Finch: 18 October 1715

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18 October 1715

AF expressed her feelings about the Jacobite rebellion in A Letter to Mrs Arrabella Marrow.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
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Charlotte Forman: 23 October 1715

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23 October 1715

CF was born, one of a family of five: she had a sister and three elder brothers.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
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, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elinor James: 5 November 1715

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5 November 1715

In Mrs. James's Thanks to the Lords and Commons for their great Sincerity to King George, EJ again marked an anniversary in national political life and in her career as its interpreter.
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.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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13 November 1715: The Duke of Argyll fought the rebellious...

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13 November 1715

The Duke of Argyll fought the rebellious Jacobite forces at Sheriffmuir in Scotland.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
328

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: December 1715-January 1716

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December 1715-January 1716

LMWM was dangerously ill with smallpox.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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December 1715: Joseph Addison began publishing a political...

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December 1715

Joseph Addison began publishing a political periodical, The Freeholder.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
The Monthly Catalogue lists its opening date as 17 December; the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature says 23 December.

Jane Collier: 1716

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Author event in Jane Collier

1716

JC 's family made the short move from Steeple Langford in Wiltshire to Salisbury, where she then lived until at least 1745.
Keymer, Tom. “Jane Collier, Reader of Richardson, and the Fire Scene in ClarissaNew Essays on Samuel Richardson, edited by Albert J. Rivero, Macmillan; St Martins Press, 1996, pp. 141-61.
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Mary Collyer: By 1717

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By 1717

MC was born; the record of her wedding says that when she married in September 1738 she was over twenty-one.
Culshaw, Geoff. Geoff’s Genealogy. 21 Feb. 2009, http://www.geoffsgenealogy.co.uk/index.htm.

Mary Davys: 1716-18

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1716-18

From events it alludes to (including politics), MD 's epistolary novella Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady seems to be conceived as belonging to this timespan.
Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix.
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Sarah Dixon: 1716

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Author event in Sarah Dixon

1716

After her father died SD probably went to live with a wealthy aunt, Elizabeth Tysoe , in London.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.
139

Catharine Trotter: January-May 1716

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Author event in Catharine Trotter

January-May 1716

The Rev. Patrick Cockburn , husband of CT , held meetings at home with three other men with whom he planned to set up a Charitable Society; in the end this went ahead without him.
Wilson, Adrian. “The Politics of Medical Improvement in Early Hanoverian London”. The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Andrew Cunningham and Roger French, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 4-39.
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Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 1716-37

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Author event in Elizabeth Singer Rowe

1716-37

ESR corresponded with Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , who was herself a poet and letter-writer.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
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1716: The hawker Elizabeth Scales, eighty years...

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1716

The hawker Elizabeth Scales , eighty years old, poor, and ill, petitioned Lord Townshend against her imprisonment for selling an opposition newspaper which she could not read, being illiterate.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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January 1716: John Gay published Trivia; or, The Art of...

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January 1716

John Gay published Trivia; or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London.
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.

January 1716: A great frost of three weeks in London produced...

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January 1716

A great frost of three weeks in London produced the usual carnival atmosphere, but was bad for the poor.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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1716: Parliament passed the Septennial Act, which...

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1716

Parliament passed the Septennial Act, which set the maximum duration of a British government at seven years before an election had to be called (more than twice the previous three-year term).
Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson: A Critical Edition of the Major Works. Editor Greene, Donald, Oxford University Press, 1984.
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1716: Lady Catherine Herbert willed £6,000 for...

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1716

Lady Catherine Herbert willed £6,000 for the building and maintenance of almshouses for poor women and girls at Preston-upon-the-Weald in Shropshire.
Laurence, Anne. Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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1716: There were estimated to be 60,000 debtors...

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1716

There were estimated to be 60,000 debtors imprisoned in England and Wales.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
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Just before 21 January 1716: Two poor female hawkers, sentenced to the...

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Just before 21 January 1716

Two poor female hawkers, sentenced to the pillory for singing Jacobite ballads they had for sale, drew a sympathetic crowd who took up a collection for them amounting to £4.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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