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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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Mary Latter: 12 January 1722

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12 January 1722

ML was baptised at Frilsham in Berkshire.
Many reference sources have her born in 1725, probably on the basis of a statement in her first-published volume, 1759, that she was seventeen years old seventeen...

14 January 1722: The London black community turned out in...

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14 January 1722

The London black community turned out in force for the funeral of Phipps, the black owner of an eating-house.
Feminist Companion Archive.

27 January 1722: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunes...

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27 January 1722

Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, his first fictional autobiography of a criminal woman.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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Jane Brereton: February 1722

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February 1722

JB 's estranged husband, Thomas , having been to visit his daughters the previous evening, was accidentally drowned at Saltney in Flintshire.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
79

Elizabeth Thomas: 5 February 1722

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5 February 1722

ET published, anonymously through Thomas Combes , Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
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.

11 February 1722: Jonathan Swift wrote: It is a little hard,...

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11 February 1722

Jonathan Swift wrote: It is a little hard, that not one gentleman's daughter in a thousand, should be brought to read, or understand her own natural tongue, or be judge of the easiest books that...

12 February 1722: The Quarantine Act received the royal as...

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12 February 1722

The Quarantine Act received the royal assent.
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. Editor Landa, Louis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
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20 February 1722: Daniel Defoe published Religious Courtship...

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20 February 1722

Daniel Defoe published Religious Courtship . . ., a comprehensive tract on marriage from a religious viewpoint.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 23 February 1722

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23 February 1722

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (who at this date had a daughter but no son), miscarried of a male foetus: this event was reported in the newspapers.
The Evening Post.
24-27 February 1722
The St James’s Evening Post.
26-28 February 1722

Elizabeth Cooper, d. 1761: 25 February 1722

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25 February 1722

Elizabeth Price married the auctioneer John Cooper at St Benet Church, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mary Leapor: 26 February 1722

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26 February 1722

ML was born at Marston St Lawrence in Northamptonshire.
Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press, 1993.
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Elizabeth Bury: 3 March 1722

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3 March 1722

The London Mercury printed a piece about EB 's life and death, drawn from Samuel Bury 's Account.
A Register of Books 1728-1732, extracted from the Monthly Chronicle. Gregg Press, 1964.
106

10 March 1722: Parliament was dissolved: elections followed...

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10 March 1722

Parliament was dissolved: elections followed before the new parliament was summoned for 10 May.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
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17 March 1722: Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague...

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17 March 1722

Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague Year (set during the plague which began in April 1665).
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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Eliza Haywood: April and December 1722

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April and December 1722

EH published two short novels this year: The British Recluse; or, The Secret History of Cleomira, Suppos'd Dead and The Injur'd Husband; or, The Mistaken Resentment.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
111, 117
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
180, 187

21 April 1722: The first alleged death from smallpox inoculation...

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21 April 1722

The first alleged death from smallpox inoculation followed by only four days the inoculation of two royal princesses (daughters of Princess Caroline ).
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
215
Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston. Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
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Mary Astell: 8 June 1722

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8 June 1722

MA re-issued Bart'lemy Fair with a new preface.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors, XXVII: Mary Astell, 1666-1731”. The Book Collector, Vol.
10
, 1961, pp. 58-65.
65

8 July 1722: The Rev. Edmund Massey preached at St Andrew's...

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8 July 1722

The Rev. Edmund Massey preached at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, a sermon published that year as A Sermon Against the Dangerous and Sinful Practice of Inoculation.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
216
Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston. Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
63

21 July 1722: A London newspaper reported that link boys...

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21 July 1722

A London newspaper reported that link boys with flaming torches (employed to light pedestrians home at night) had attacked a woman wearing a calico gown and petticoat (imported from India). She died of burns...

6 August 1722: A letter from Elizabeth Brown exemplifies...

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6 August 1722

A letter from Elizabeth Brown exemplifies pro-government spying by print-trade women; she informed on a young man she had heard news of from his mother.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Jane Squire: September 1722

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September 1722

An accusation was brought against JA of being a Popish recusant convict, that is of practising the outlawed Roman Catholic religion. The charge (which was dismissed) probably had something to do with her ongoing court case.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 13 September 1722

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13 September 1722

The Flying-Post printed LMWM 's polemical essay A Plain Account of the Innoculating of the Small Pox, as by a Turkey Merchant.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Judith Cowper Madan : October 1722

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October 1722

Pope complimented Judith Cowper (later Madan) in To Erinna on her (still unpublished) lines to him. He praised her for not seeking, like Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , to emulate the sun's brightness, but for...

Susanna Centlivre: 2 October 1722

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2 October 1722

SC 's final comedy, The Artifice, opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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7 November 1722: Richard Steele's The Conscious Lovers (his...

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7 November 1722

Richard Steele 's The Conscious Lovers (his final play) was first performed.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.