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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 1717: Henrietta Howard, later Lady Suffolk, wrote...

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August 1717

Henrietta Howard , later Lady Suffolk, wrote an introspective memorandum on her own relation to the institution of marriage.
Rumbold, Valerie. Women’s Place in Pope’s World. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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Horace Walpole: 24 September 1717

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Author event in Horace Walpole

24 September 1717

HW , letter-writer, novelist, gothicist, and printer, was born in Arlington Street, London.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
547
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.
239

Late November 1717: Edmund Curll published The Ladies Miscellany,...

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Late November 1717

Edmund Curll published The Ladies Miscellany, an anthology of poems chiefly about dress, bearing the date 1718.
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.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
108

Anne Irwin: December 1717

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Author event in Anne Irwin

December 1717

Lady Anne Howard married cavalry officer Rich Ingram, Viscount Irwin (the correct form of whose title was Irvine).
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Elizabeth Carter: 16 December 1717

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Author event in Elizabeth Carter

16 December 1717

EC was born at Deal in Kent; she was the eldest of her parents' five children.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 26 December 1717

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26 December 1717

LMWM , more than eight months pregnant and sitting in a summer-house at the British Embassy palace at Constantinople, composed a rural-retreat poem about her garden setting.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
206

Bathsheba Bowers: 1718

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Author event in Bathsheba Bowers

1718

BB died in South Carolina, where she had been based for about a dozen years.
Potts, William John. “Bathsheba Bowers”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.
3
, Historical Society of Pensylvannia, 1879, pp. 110-2.
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Mary Davys: 1718

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Author event in Mary Davys

1718

After leaving York for a last attempt to make a go of authorship in London, MD set up a coffee-house in Cambridge.
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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1718: Lady Teynham, a widow, was deprived of custody...

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1718

Lady Teynham , a widow, was deprived of custody of her infant child, principally on the ground of her being a Roman Catholic (though in fact the father's rights were legally paramount).
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
39 (1829): 188

1718: William Fleetwood tried to counter risky...

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1718

William Fleetwood tried to counter risky pursuit of excessive profits by publishing a sermon preached some years before On The Justice of Paying Debts.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
39-40

1718: The Society of Antiquaries, founded in 1572...

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1718

The Society of Antiquaries , founded in 1572 but lapsed, was refounded and endured.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
471
Baines, Paul. “’Our Annius’: Antiquaries and Fraud in the Eighteenth Century”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
20
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 33-51.
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1718: Wales acquired its first official printing-press,...

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1718

Wales acquired its first official printing-press, at Trerhedyn or Atpar in south Cardiganshire.
Jenkins, Geraint H. The Foundations of Modern Wales: Wales 1642-1780. Clarendon, 1987.
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Jane Brereton: 6 January-2 June 1718

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6 January-2 June 1718

Twenty-two numbers appeared of an anonymous periodical, The Criticks. Being Papers upon the Times, which was written by JB 's husband, Thomas , but has been ascribed to her.
Anthologist Roger Lonsdale ascribes the...

17 January 1718: The Transportation Act was read by the House...

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17 January 1718

The Transportation Act was read by the House of Commons.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
250
Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
18: 671

Mary Peisley: 19 January 1718

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19 January 1718

MP was born at Ballymore in County Kildare, Ireland, close to the River Liffey. She was the eldest of three children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Susanna Centlivre: 3 February 1718

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3 February 1718

A Bold Stroke for a Wife, another famous comedy by SC (and her penultimate play), opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 481
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
212

By 11 February 1718: A hawker named Frances Carver (Blind Fanny)...

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By 11 February 1718

A hawker named Frances Carver (Blind Fanny) was arrested for singing Jacobite ballads: this did not put an end to her career, which she pursued for another quarter century.
McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.
143

Mary Delany: 17 February 1718

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Author event in Mary Delany

17 February 1718

Mary Granville, later MD , was married in the chapel at Longleat House, Wiltshire, to Alexander Pendarves , a boorish sixty-year-old squire whom her uncle Lord Lansdowne wanted as a political ally.
Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum, 1986.
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Jane Barker: 18 February 1718

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Author event in Jane Barker

18 February 1718

The Christian Pilgrimage was advertised as published: Lenten devotional meditations, presented as a translation by JB from some unspecified work by Fénelon .
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press, 2000.
154
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
21
, No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38.
25, 36n82
Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv.
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Mary Savage: 24 February 1718

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Author event in Mary Savage

24 February 1718

Mary Belt (later MS ) was baptised in London. She was probably born shortly before this, apparently an only surviving child.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Mary Savage. 31 Mar. 2016.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: March 1718

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March 1718

LMWM , in Constantinople, had her five-year-old son inoculated against smallpox.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1: 392

By 8 March 1718: A maypole standing in The Strand in London...

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By 8 March 1718

A maypole standing in The Strand in London (destroyed by the Puritans in 1644 after such practices were made illegal, and loyally re-erected on 4 April 1661) was after various vicissitudes finally dismantled.
Rogers, Pat. “The Maypole in the Strand”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
28
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 83-95.
83-6, 88

Jane Barker: 19 March 1718

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19 March 1718

JB , in her capacity as an active Jacobite, wrote advising the Duke of Ormond (in code) regarding a suitable time to invade Britain.
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
21
, No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38.
26
Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv.
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Anne Finch: Probably early May 1718

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Probably early May 1718

AF marked the death of Mary of Modena (widow of James II ), her former employer, with an elegy rntitled On the Death of the Queen.
Mary died on 26 April/7 May (of which...

10-11 April 1718: Ann Barnham, bookbinder, was arrested for...

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10-11 April 1718

Ann Barnham , bookbinder, was arrested for possessing treasonous Jacobite publications. She testified with great aplomb that she had just picked up abandoned copies out of curiosity.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
97-8, 51n28