Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
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Events Timeline
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: March 1721-October 1727
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March 1721-October 1727
wrote her surviving letters on London society to her sister
, exiled in Paris.
Eliza Haywood: 4 March 1721
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4 March 1721
's The Fair Captive, a harem tragedy (which recasts a play by a
), opened at ; it was published the same month, and went to a second issue.
Sarah Scott: 5 March 1721
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5 March 1721
Sarah Robinson (later
) was christened at five months old, at Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York.
's birth date had been given as 1721 until Rizzo corrected it to 1720.
Tobias Smollett: Shortly before 19 March 1721
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Shortly before 19 March 1721
, Scottish novelist, was born at Cardross in Dunbartonshire; he was christened Tobias George.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: April 1721
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April 1721
During a virulent smallpox epidemic,
had performed on her three-year-old
the first inoculation in England.
Anne Irwin: 10 April 1721
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10 April 1721
's first husband,
, died of smallpox before the couple could sail, as planned, for Barbados.
Catherine Talbot: 21 May 1721
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31 May 1721: The Haymarket Theatre, or Opera House, shifted...
31 May 1721
The
Theatre, or Opera House, shifted from the general opening time of 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
17 June 1721: Newspapers reported the royal plan for an...
17 June 1721
Newspapers reported the royal plan for an experiment as to the safety of inoculation against smallpox, to be conducted on inmates of
in London.
Penelope Aubin: 8 July 1721
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8 July 1721
The first of
's eight novels (novellas by today's measurements), The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and his Family, a book of travel and adventure perhaps specifically aimed at younger readers...
Judith Cowper Madan : 28 July 1721
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Author event in Judith Cowper Madan
28 July 1721
Verses written extempore in Mr
's
upon (the title of a standard legal textbook) by
(later Madan), appeared, to her dismay, in
's The Free-Thinker.
9 August 1721: Charles Maitland, under the patronage of...
9 August 1721
, under the patronage of
, experimentally inoculated six
prisoners (three of each sex) against smallpox.
Penelope Aubin: 12 October 1721
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12 October 1721
's second novel, The Life of Madam de Beaumount, a French Lady, was advertised as this day published by a conger of ten publishers (the same who also published travels by
Grisell Murray: 14 October 1721
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14 October 1721
's
's footman,
, allegedly made an attempt at breaking and entering the Dwelling-House of
. . . with an intent to ravish, and against her Will, Carnally know...
Penelope Aubin: 28 October 1721
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28 October 1721
's novel The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda, was advertised. Its title-page makes it anonymous (that is, ascribed to its protagonist with written by herself) and without a preface.
Teresia Constantia Phillips: 17 November 1721
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17 November 1721
Nine months after her mother died,
, aged thirteen, was raped by Thomas Grimes, a nobleman who got her drunk and tied her up. He was not, as long assumed, the future
Elizabeth Elstob: 19 November 1721
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19 November 1721
's uncle the Rev.
dropped dead, while officiating at divine service in Canterbury Cathedral.
Penelope Aubin: 1722
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1722
returned to use of her own name for her next novel, The Noble Slaves; or, The Lives and Adventures of Two Lords and Two Ladies.
Mary, Countess Cowper : 1722
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1722
With her husband,
, suddenly under suspicion of harbouring Jacobite sympathies,
gave way to anxiety about the outspokenness of the Court diary she had been keeping since October 1714: she destroyed most...
Lady Lucy Herbert : 1722
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1722
Several Excellent Methods of Hearing Mass, the earliest book generally recognised as by
, was published at Bruges. Long after her death this became part two of The Devotions of the Lady...
1722: The Societies for the Reformation of Manners...
1722
The
issued over seven thousand prosecutions for prostitution and bawdy-house keeping.
1722: William Sewel published, through the firm...
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1722
published, through the firm of
, his History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People Called .
1722: Knatchbull's Act stipulated that poor relief...
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1722
Knatchbull's Act stipulated that poor relief must be given within poorhouses, or workhouses, in which able-bodied paupers were put to work.
1722: Sir Hans Sloane leased land at Chelsea from...
1722
leased land at Chelsea from the
and founded the scientific centre which is still functioning as the
.
1722: Samuel Croxall finished serially publishing...
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1722
finished serially publishing A Select Collection of Novels . . . written by the most celebrated authors in several languages . . . and all new translated.