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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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Elizabeth Bury: After 22 May 1720

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After 22 May 1720

EB 's widower published at BristolAn Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury (who had died on 11 May), with lavish excerpts from her diary and some from her letters.
This...

25 May 1720: The printer Catherine Clifton, questioned...

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25 May 1720

The printer Catherine Clifton , questioned by government authorities about printing a Jacobite ballad, said she had it by barter with one Ann a Ballad Singer, whose last name she did not know.
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.
144

3 June 1720: The House of Commons agreed to amendments...

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3 June 1720

The House of Commons agreed to amendments from the Lords to the Transportation of Felons Act, for banishing convicted criminals.
Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
19: 375

Susanna Centlivre: July 1720

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Author event in Susanna Centlivre

July 1720

SC commented on the South Sea Bubble and on her own literary career in a poem entitled A Woman's Case.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
C97
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
226-9

August 1720: South Sea shares reached £1,000, having stood...

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August 1720

South Sea shares reached £1,000, having stood at £100 in January.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
330
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1164
Scott, William Robert. The Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-Stock Companies to 1720. Cambridge University Press, 1912.
335-429
Harris, Frances. A Passion for Government: The life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Clarendon, 1991.
228

Anne Finch: 5 August 1720

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Author event in Anne Finch

5 August 1720

AF died at her house in Cleveland Row, London. The precise cause of her death is unknown.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
191

Anne Dacier: 17 August 1720

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17 August 1720

AD died of a stroke at the Louvre apartments that were her home.
Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale, 2005.

Sarah Scott: 21 September 1720

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Author event in Sarah Scott

21 September 1720

Sarah Robinson (later SS ) was born, the younger daughter to survive in her family.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xliii

By the end of September 1720: The South Sea Bubble burst; shares which...

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By the end of September 1720

The South Sea Bubble burst; shares which had been costly and frantically sought after in August were now waste paper.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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Agnes Beaumont: 28 November 1720

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28 November 1720

Agnes Story (formerly AB ) died at Highgate near London.
Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, 1992, pp. 1-33.
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28 November 1720: At a trial in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Anne...

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28 November 1720

At a trial in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Anne Bonny and Mary Read were found guilty of piracy and sentenced to hang. However, after each claimed that she was pregnant, both were spared the death penalty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Eliza Haywood: 26 December 1720

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26 December 1720

Chetwood published EH 's only work issued by subscription (with a list of 309 names): Letters from a Lady of Quality to a Chevalier.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
104
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
189
Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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29 December 1720: A new playhouse, the New Theatre in the Haymarket,...

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29 December 1720

A new playhouse, the New Theatre in the Haymarket , opened with a company of French comedians providing the entertainment.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 591, 606

Jane Brereton: 1721

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1721

Having consulted her friends and patrons for advice, JB separated from her husband ; she found the decision to do this very painful.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
79

Martha Fowke: 1721

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1721

MF married Arnold Sansom , a lawyer who came from Leicester, but who from 1730 was a customs official at Harwich.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Fowke, Martha. “Introduction”. Clio, edited by Phyllis J. Guskin, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1997, pp. 15-50.
38, 43n1, 49n54

Samuel Richardson: Probably before 1721

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Probably before 1721

By the time of his first marriage, SR established the printing and publishing business which made his name, in Salisbury Court, London.
Harris, Jocelyn, and Samuel Richardson. “Chronology”. Sir Charles Grandison, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. xliii - xlv.
xliii
Richardson, Samuel. “Introduction”. Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family, edited by Christine Gerrard, Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. i - xlix.
xxvi

Constantia Grierson: By about 1721

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By about 1721

Constantia Crawley (later CG ) was working for George Grierson , Scottish printer and publisher in Dublin.
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
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Sophia Hume: 1721

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1721

Sophia Wigington married Robert Hume, a qualified lawyer who also owned land and held public office in the colony of South Carolina.
Woolman, John. The Journal and Essays of John Woolman. Editor Gummere, Amelia Mott, Rancocas edition, MacMillan, 1922.
589

Delarivier Manley: 1721

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1721

A political scandal-novel or secret history published in London as originally by Madame d'Aulnoy re-used DM 's title: Bribery in Perfection . . . being fresh Advices from the new Atalantis.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1721: Charles de Montesquieu published Lettres...

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1721

Charles de Montesquieu published Lettres Persanes, which purport to be letters home from a Persian visiting Paris.
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.
Bosley, Vivien. “A Pre-Wave Ripple: The Sound of Other Voices”. Not Drowning but Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts, 14 Oct. 2006.

Susan Smythies: 13 January 1721

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13 January 1721

SS was born in Colchester, the eldest of a family which later became very numerous.
The person who submitted this birth-date to the FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service gave it as 13 January 1720, but...

Before 28 January 1721: The London Journal, a newspaper, began p...

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Before 28 January 1721

The London Journal, a newspaper, began publication.
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.

February 1721: Smallpox seemed to go forth like a Destroying...

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February 1721

Smallpox seemed to go forth like a Destroying Angel in England.
Maitland, Charles. Mr Maitland’s Account of Inoculating the Small Pox. Printed for the author by J. Downing and to be sold by J. Roberts, 1722.
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Ola Elizabeth Winslow titles her book on the smallpox epidemic in Boston from Cotton Mather 's quotation of this phrase from Charles Massey 's pamphlet.

Sarah Fielding: 10 February 1721

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10 February 1721

SF 's grandmother, Lady Gould , defeated her son-in-law in an ugly legal battle and won legal custody of her grandchildren.
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

Sarah Savage: After 25 February 1721

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After 25 February 1721

After her only surviving son (Once all our joy—now all our tears)
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829.
72
died at twenty-one in a smallpox epidemic, SS wrote: with what difficulty can I part with him! O this wicked heart!
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829.
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