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Probably 22 December 1716: Nathaniel Mist began publishing his Opposition...

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Probably 22 December 1716

Nathaniel Mist began publishing his Opposition newspaper The Weekly Journal; or, Saturday's-Post.
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.
The earliest copy in the British Library is no. 9, published on 9 February 1717.

Thomas Gray: 26 December 1716

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26 December 1716

TG , poet and letter-writer, was born at 39 Cornhill, City of London.
Gray, Thomas, and William, poet Collins. “Introduction”. Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works, edited by Roger Lonsdale, Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 9-13.
5

Elizabeth Delaval: 1717

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Author event in Elizabeth Delaval

1717

ED died in this year, in Jacobite exile at Rouen in France.
Greene, Douglas G., and Elizabeth Delaval. “Introduction”. The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval: Written Between 1662 and 1671, edited by Douglas G. Greene and Douglas G. Greene, Northumberland Press, 1978, pp. 1-25.
17
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Katherine Philips: 1717

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Author event in Katherine Philips

1717

In a poetry miscellany for young people entitled The Virgin Muse (compiled by schoolmaster James Greenwood ), KP 's poem The Virgin was placed first.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
119-20

Susanna Hopton : 1717

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Author event in Susanna Hopton

1717

A Collection of Meditations and Devotions, now believed to be all the work of SH , was published by Nathaniel Spinckes , who had the text from George Hickes after Hopton's death.
Hopton, Susanna. “Introductory Note”. Susanna Hopton, edited by Julia J. Smith, Ashgate, 2010, p. ix - xxiii.
xvii-xviii
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Judith Cowper Madan : 1717

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1717

Judith Cowper (later Madan) dated a juvenile poem of compliment, written in Mr Waller 's Poems: six heroic couplets, which her daughter Maria later transcribed into a notebook.
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.
264

1717: The worthy authors chosen for a miscellany...

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1717

The worthy authors chosen for a miscellany entitled The Agreeable Variety by its female editor included Behn , Philips , Chudleigh , and Finch .
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
120
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.

1717: Daniel Turner published Syphilis: A Practical...

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1717

Daniel Turner published Syphilis: A Practical Dissertation on the Venereal Disease.
Wilson, Philip K. “Exposing the Secret Disease: Recognizing and Treating Syphilis in Daniel Turner’s London”. The Secret Malady, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 68-84.
69, 75

Sarah Savage: 14 January 1717

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14 January 1717

SS wrote a letter expressing her strongly critical judgement of her local parson, but doing so with careful tact, so as not to offend.
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829.
39-44

Alexander Pope: 16 January 1717

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16 January 1717

John Gay , AP , and John Arbuthnot 's farce Three Hours After Marriage was first staged; it was published anonymously the same month.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 431
Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 12 February 1717

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12 February 1717

LMWM and her husband crossed the recent battlefield of Peterwardein in Hungary.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
132-3

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 16 February 1717

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16 February 1717

LMWM and her husband arrived at Belgrade, their first Turkish city; they stayed there three weeks.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1:306n1

David Garrick: 19 February 1717

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Author event in David Garrick

19 February 1717

DG , actor-manager and playwright, was born at the Angel Inn in Hereford, where his father was then posted as a recruiting officer.
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.
6: 1

Susanna Centlivre: March 1717

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March 1717

SC published An Epistle to the King of Sweden , from a Lady of Great-Britain, addressing the bellicose monarch who was now plotting invasion of England.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
219
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
C93
Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols.
3 (no. 11): 52

Mary Davys: About March 1717

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About March 1717

MD may have written An Answer from the King of Sweden to the British Lady's Epistle, in response to a poem by Susanna Centlivre .
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.
xx

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Early March 1717

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Early March 1717

LMWM visited the women's public baths at Sofia in Bulgaria: a scene of female nudity which she later famously described.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1:312-15

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 24 March 1717

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24 March 1717

LMWM and her husband arrived at Adrianople, the site of the Sultan's court and so the centre of the Ottoman Empire.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1:308n. 5

April 1717: The Prince of Wales critically antagonized...

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April 1717

The Prince of Wales critically antagonized his father, George I , by arrogating too much power to himself.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
1: 26, 29

Elizabeth Thomas: 16 April 1717

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16 April 1717

ET's life suffered one more disaster when her fiancé, Richard Gwinnett , died of tuberculosis.
McWhir, Anne. “Elizabeth Thomas and the Two Corinnas: Giving the Woman Writer a Bad Name”. English Literary History, Vol.
62
, 1995, pp. 105-19.
109
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, 1731, p. iv - lxxx.
lxxii-lxxiii
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
120

Jane Wiseman: May 1717

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May 1717

JW , under her married name of Mrs. Holt, published A Fairy Tale Inscrib'd to the Honourable Mrs. W—, With Other Poems.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Delarivier Manley: 11 May 1717

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Author event in Delarivier Manley

11 May 1717

DM 's tragedy Lucius, the First Christian King of Britain, was acted at Drury Lane .
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
393

Anne Steele: By mid-May 1717

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By mid-May 1717

AS was born at Broughton in Hampshire, the younger of her parents' two surviving children.
Broome, J. R. A Bruised Reed. Anne Steele: Her Life and Times. Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007.
57
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
B., J. R., and Anne Steele. “Introduction”. Hymns, London Gospel Standard Baptist Trust, 1967.
x

Alexander Pope: 3 June 1717

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3 June 1717

AP published his one-volume Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, including the previously unpublished epistle Eloisa to Abelard and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
2: 312

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 9 June 1717

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9 June 1717

LMWM and her husband reached Constantinople.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1:362n1

Anne Finch: 13 July 1717

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13 July 1717

Pope selected for his and Bernard Lintot 's anthology, Poems on Several Occasions, a poem he addressed to AF , as well as her responding poem, and half a dozen more by her.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Finch, Anne. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition. Editors McGovern, Barbara and Charles H. Hinnant, University of Georgia Press, 1998.
68-70
Foxon, David F. Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade. Editor McLaverty, James, Clarendon Press, 1991.
48-50