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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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Sarah Fielding: 14 April 1718

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14 April 1718

SF 's mother, Sarah (Gould) Fielding, died.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
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Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne, 1996.
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Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale: Before 16 April 1718

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Before 16 April 1718

At the urging of her sister the prioress , WMCN wrote out her story of rescuing her husband (the full relation of what you desired). She provided no date, but an adapted copy...

Frances, Lady Norton: 23 April 1718

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23 April 1718

Three years after the death of her separated first husband , Frances, Lady Norton , married his cousin Colonel Ambrose Norton .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Just before 23 April 1718: A man paid ten shillings to three prostitutes...

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Just before 23 April 1718

A man paid ten shillings to three prostitutes in St Giles in the Fields parish to flog him. The man later summoned one of the prostitutes to court for robbing him of two guineas, but...

May 1718: The first newspaper in the Caribbean, the...

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May 1718

The first newspaper in the Caribbean, the Weekly Jamaica Courant, began publication.
Overton, Bill, editor. A Letter to My Love. University of Delaware Press, 2001.
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Woodard, Colin. Republic of Pirates Blog. 8 Dec. 2007, http://republicofpirates.net/blog/2007/12/post.html.

5 May 1718: The Free-Thinker printed a letter from three...

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5 May 1718

The Free-Thinker printed a letter from three supposed correspondents in favour of single women, who, they said, were wedded to Philosophy; which is indeed the most perfect State of Freedom.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 16 July 1718

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16 July 1718

LMWM and her husband sailed from Constantinople on their voyage home.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1:415n3

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: End August-September 1718

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End August-September 1718

LMWM crossed the Alps for the first time, with her husband .
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1: 434-5

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 18-30 September 1718

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18-30 September 1718

LMWM visited Paris: she saw the sights and met many interesting people.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1: 438-42

18 September 1718: The thrice-weekly White-hall Evening-Post...

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18 September 1718

The thrice-weekly White-hall [sic] Evening-Post began publishing, editing by Daniel Defoe ; it ran until 10 April 1739, after which its title was used, with variations, for other papers.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale: October 1718

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October 1718

Lady Nithsdale arrived, after nearly two months' travelling from Paris, at the Jacobite court at Urbino in Italy, arriving in nearly rags
qtd. in
Maxwell Stuart, Flora. Lady Nithsdale and the Jacobites. Traquair House, 1995.
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for her first court appearance.
Maxwell Stuart, Flora. Lady Nithsdale and the Jacobites. Traquair House, 1995.
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Elizabeth Montagu: By 2 October 1718

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By 2 October 1718

Elizabeth Robinson (later EM ) was born, the elder daughter in a family of seven (surviving) brothers and two sisters.
Until recently EM 's year of birth was mistakenly supposed to be 1720.
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.
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Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 2 October 1718

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2 October 1718

LMWM arrived home in London after her Turkish travels.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
1: 443n1

6 December 1718: Nicholas Rowe, playwright, translator, and...

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6 December 1718

Nicholas Rowe , playwright, translator, and editor of Shakespeare , died after four years in the post of Poet Laureate.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1719-1739

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1719-1739

LMWM spent most of her summers at Twickenham, on the Thames near London.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
185ff

1719: Richard Steele wrote and edited another short-lived...

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1719

Richard Steele wrote and edited another short-lived periodical, The Spinster: in defence of the woollen manufactures, as by Rachel Woolpack.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
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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.

Eliza Haywood: 22 January 1719

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22 January 1719

EH brought out the first, anonymous part of her earliest known work: Love in Excess; or the Fatal Enquiry. A Novel. Two more handsome volumes followed serially, bearing her name, by 26 February 1720.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
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Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii.
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Oakleaf, David. “Review of Patrick Spedding, A Bibliography of Eliza HaywoodThe Scriblerian, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2006, pp. 61-2.
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Elizabeth Thomas: 28 January 1719

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28 January 1719

ET's mother died of breast cancer, in Peace, and at Liberty.
Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, 1731, p. iv - lxxx.
lxx
That is, she was not in debtors' prison—which her daughter, too, stayed out of for nearly another decade.
The date is often...

12 February 1719: In the second number of The Mirrour (a short-lived...

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12 February 1719

In the second number of The Mirrour (a short-lived periodical whose first number does not survive) the anonymous editor announced his aim of being a Champion for the Fair.
Miegon, Anna E. The Ladies Diary and the Emergence of the Almanac for Women, 1704-1753. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2008.
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25 April 1719: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Life...

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25 April 1719

Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a novel with elements of spiritual autobiography.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Robinson Crusoe, edited by John J. Richetti, Penguin, 2001, p. ix - xxxiv.
xxxiii

Joseph Addison: 17 June 1719

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17 June 1719

JA , poet, dramatist, periodical essayist, and civil servant, died. His health had declined rapidly; he had lung trouble and had probably suffered a stroke.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. Editor Hill, George Birkbeck, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1905, 3 vols.
2: 116

Jane Barker: July 1719

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July 1719

Curll published a two-volume collection: The Entertaining Novels of Mrs. Jane Barker.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
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Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv.
xxxiv, xxxvii, 51n1

Elinor James: Shortly before 13 July 1719

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Shortly before 13 July 1719

EJ died after about nine years of widowhood; she did not make a will, having already given away her moveable property.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
qtd. in
James, Elinor. “Introductory Note”. Elinor James, edited by Paula McDowell, Ashgate, 2005, p. v - xxviii.
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Sarah, Lady Piers : By 8 September 1719

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By 8 September 1719

Sarah, Lady Piers, died: she was buried on this day at Chelsea.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Bury: Autumn 1719

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Autumn 1719

EB and her husband Samuel Bury travelled together to Bath, where they planned to spend the season for the benefit of their health; while they were there he was offered a ministry at Bristol.
Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint, 1720.
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