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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Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 13 October 1719

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13 October 1719

Pope published in the second edition of his Eloisa to Abelard (postdated 1720) a poem addressed to him by ESR , and her elegy on her husband .
Griffith, Reginald Harvey. Alexander Pope: A Bibliography. University of Texas Press, 1922, 2 vols.
1: 84
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
49-51, 518n35

6 November 1719: A nineteen-year-old journeyman, John Matthews,...

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6 November 1719

A nineteen-year-old journeyman, John Matthews , was hanged for his part in printing the Jacobite tract Vox Populi, Vox Dei—the only such punishment under the Treason Act, 1707 (Royal Assent 1708).
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
74ff

26 November 1719: A letter from Martha Hubart exemplifies pro-government...

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26 November 1719

A letter from Martha Hubart exemplifies pro-government spying by women in the print trade.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
92

Ann Fisher : Shortly before 9 December 1719

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Shortly before 9 December 1719

AF was born at the village of Oldscale, in the parish of Lorton in Cumberland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

9 December 1719: The House of Commons received a petition...

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9 December 1719

The House of Commons received a petition from merchants of Bristol complaining that fashionable imports of India Chints, Callicoes and Linen
Perkins, Joe. “Searchers, not Planners”. London Review of Books, 7 June 2007, pp. 37-9.
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were ruining people in the woollen trade.
Perkins, Joe. “Searchers, not Planners”. London Review of Books, 7 June 2007, pp. 37-9.
37-9

Sarah Fielding: 1720-1733

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1720-1733

SF and her sisters lived with their grandmother Lady Gould in a rented house at Salisbury in Wiltshire.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xxxviii
Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne, 1996.
xi

Anne Finch: January 1720 or later

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January 1720 or later

If AF herself arranged for the transcription of new poems in a volume now known as the Wellesley Manuscript, she did so during the last seven months of her life.
Finch, Anne. “Introduction / Editors’ Note”. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition, edited by Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant, University of Georgia Press, 1998, p. xv - l.
xliv, xlvi, xiii

Sarah Fyge: 1720

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1720

SF 's second husband, Thomas Egerton , died, leaving her well off.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
205

Sarah Stone: About 1720-1735

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About 1720-1735

SS practised midwifery in Bristol, where there was lots of new money, and men-midwives provided hot competition.
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Stone: Enlightenment Midwife”. Clio Medica: Medicine in the Enlightenment, edited by Roy Porter, Rodopi, 1995, pp. 128-44.
129-130

Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette: 1720

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1720

A work of historical non-fiction by MML , Histoire de Madame Henriette d'Angleterre, was published posthumously and anonymously.
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.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Green, Anne. Privileged Anonymity. Legenda, 1996.
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Delarivier Manley: 1720

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1720

DM published The Power of Love: in Seven Novels, five of them reworked from The Palace of Pleasure by William Painter , 1566, while the last in the volume has another, different source, and...

1720: England is said to have been threatened with...

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1720

England is said to have been threatened with an epidemic of cholera—which, however, did not take hold anywhere in Europe for more than a century after this.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
148

1720-9: Only about 1.1 percent of English annual...

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1720-9

Only about 1.1 percent of English annual print production was composed of fiction (both new and reprinted).
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.
136

1720: The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence...

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1720

The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence of the Dublinparliament on the English one at Westminster.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
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, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
72

Catherine Holland: 6 January 1720

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6 January 1720

CH died in her convent, the Nazareth Monastery in Bruges.
Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1925.
305
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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Anne Finch: 13 January 1720

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13 January 1720

AF composed the latest dated poem in her Wellesley Manuscript, To His Excellency the Lord Cartret at Stockholm.
Finch, Anne. “Introduction / Editors’ Note”. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition, edited by Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant, University of Georgia Press, 1998, p. xv - l.
xliv

23 January 1720: The Lord Chancellor (the Duke of Newcastle)...

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23 January 1720

The Lord Chancellor (the Duke of Newcastle ) closed Drury Lane Theatre for several days because of a dispute with its licensee, Steele .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 547

Jane Brereton: February 1720

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February 1720

Again as a Lady and through William Hinchliffe , JB printed An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the death of Mr. Addison.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
78
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Sarah, Lady Cowper: 3 February 1720

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3 February 1720

SLC died in her later seventies, at her house in Bedford Row, London.
Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720. Stanford University Press, 2002.
191
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Martha Fowke: 26 March 1720

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26 March 1720

The pseudonymous The Epistles of Clio and Strephon (i.e. MF and William Bond ) appeared in print, containing letters punctuated by poems.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Fowke, Martha. “Introduction”. Clio, edited by Phyllis J. Guskin, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1997, pp. 15-50.
15, 44n2

2 April 1720: Handel and the Royal Academy of Music opened...

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2 April 1720

Handel and the Royal Academy of Music opened the first season of Italian opera in several years at the Haymarket . The Royal Academy of Music continued offering opera there until 1728.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 547, 575, 931

Elizabeth Bury: 4 April 1720

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4 April 1720

EB and her husband Samuel Bury set out from Bath towards Bristol. They were both invalids at the time, and took four days to make the journey.
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.
49

16 April 1720: Ralph Allen announced in the London Gazette...

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16 April 1720

Ralph Allen announced in the London Gazette his new scheme for cross-posts.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
22: 178
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Bury: 11 May 1720

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11 May 1720

EB died at Bristol: she had been struck with acutely painful deafness, followed by fever and lethargy.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography mistakenly gives the date as 8 May.
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.
49, 51
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

19 May 1720: A New Miscellany, edited by Anthony Hammond,...

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19 May 1720

A New Miscellany, edited by Anthony Hammond , included work by Pope , Prior , William Bond , George Sewell , Susanna Centlivre , Delarivier Manley , Eliza Haywood , Martha Fowke , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
84
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
198