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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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4 February 1716: The Pretender and Lord Mar embarked for France...
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4 February 1716
The and
embarked for France from Scotland, abandoning their rebellion and their Jacobite supporters.
Mary Palmer : 9 February 1716
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Author event in Mary Palmer
9 February 1716
was born at Plympton Erle or Earl in Devon (now swallowed by Plymouth), the third child and the eldest daughter among eleven children.
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale: 22 February 1716
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Author event in Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
22 February 1716
The night before her
was due to be executed for treason,
, put into effect her daring, risky, but carefully planned scheme for securing his escape from the impregnable Tower of...
21 March 1716: Elizabeth Powell, whose husband had gone...
Writing climate item
21 March 1716
, whose husband had gone into hiding after publishing Jacobite material, issued the first and only number of a new periodical, for which she was arrested.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 26 March 1716
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Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
26 March 1716
's satirical mock-eclogues Monday, Thursday, and Friday were illicitly printed by
as Court Poems.
Mary Davys: 27 April 1716
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Author event in Mary Davys
27 April 1716
's one play to reach the stage, The Northern Heiress; or, the Humours of York, opened at
in London.
Susanna Centlivre: 31 May 1716
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Author event in Susanna Centlivre
31 May 1716
accused
of writing an attack on him entitled The Catholick Poet, which was probably written by
.
Sarah Butler: June 1716
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Butler
June 1716
Four months after the Jacobite rebellion fizzled out,
published the remarkable Irish Tales; or, Instructive Histories for the Happy Conduct of Life, attributed to a now-dead woman named
.
Elizabeth Tollet: Later 1716
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Author event in Elizabeth Tollet
Later 1716
probably composed To my Brother at ; her brother
was admitted there in June and presumably took up residence in the Michaelmas Term.
June 1716: Edmund Curll (a publisher with a sharp eye...
June 1716
(a publisher with a sharp eye not only for sexual and political scandal but also for writing by women) marked the latest fashion craze by issuing The Hoop Petticoat. An Heroic comical Poem...
13 June 1716: After the early death of Mary Monck, her...
Women writers item
13 June 1716
After the early death of
, her grieving father,
, published Marinda: Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions, which contains writing by her and others.
Alicia D'Anvers: 27 June 1716
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Author event in Alicia D'Anvers
27 June 1716
's Oxford university satire Academia had a new, anonymous edition (the original owner of the
's copy recorded the full date on the title-page).
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1 August 1716
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 3 August 1716-1 November 1718
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
3 August 1716-1 November 1718
dated the edited letters making up her manuscript travel book about Europe, Turkey, and the Mediterranean: her Embassy Letters.
Lady Lucy Herbert : 12 August 1716
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Author event in Lady Lucy Herbert
12 August 1716
Mother Teresa Joseph (
) was visited at her Bruges
by her sister
, in shaken health after her successful rescue of her
from the Tower of London and her...
Anne Dacier: 17 August 1716
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Author event in Anne Dacier
17 August 1716
completed her life's work in classical translation when the text of L'Odyssée d'Homère received official approval.
18 August 1716: Mary Dalton, a young unmarried woman accused...
18 August 1716
, a young unmarried woman accused of printing seditious material, was portrayed by her brother (in a plea for clemency) as a tearful, sexualised, sentimental victim.
Susanna Wesley: August 1716-January 1717
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Author event in Susanna Wesley
August 1716-January 1717
Epworth Rectory, home of the
family, was disturbingly disrupted by the pranks of an apparent poltergeist.
A later date, in December, is given by editor
for the first occasion, but
Anne Dacier: 28 August 1716
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Author event in Anne Dacier
28 August 1716
continued vigorously to defend her approach to Homeric epic in Homère défendu contre l'apologie du
, ou suite des Causes de la Corruption du Goût, officially approved on this date.
Sarah, Lady Cowper: 30 September 1716
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Author event in Sarah, Lady Cowper
30 September 1716
made her last diary entry: This is the seventh volume. 'Tis to be hoped there are some collections in them, may be useful to posterity. My phrase now is farewell For Ever.
Mary Caesar: 23 October 1716
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Author event in Mary Caesar
23 October 1716
The government discovered a plot by
(Swedish ambassador to Britain) and others for
of Sweden to invade to restore
to the throne.
Jane Brereton: November 1716
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Author event in Jane Brereton
November 1716
published her first free-standing poem, as a Lady: The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of
, Imitated: and apply'd to the .
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 24 November 1716
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Author event in Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
24 November 1716
The first child of seventeen-year-old
, was born: a daughter christened
.
3 December 1716: The new Prince of Wales requested a special...
3 December 1716
The new
requested a special performance of
's Venice Preserved including the Nicky Nacky scenes, which it had become usual to cut.
Susanna Centlivre: 17 December 1716
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Author event in Susanna Centlivre
17 December 1716
's only mature tragedy, The Cruel Gift; or, The Royal Resentment (said to have been written in collaboration with
, though its several editions give her name alone), opened at
.