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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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Teresia Constantia Phillips: 11 November 1722

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11 November 1722

One year after her rape, the fourteen-year-old TCP married Francis Delafield (bigamously, since he was married already, but with proper forms and witnesses), apparently in order to evade her creditors.
Phillips, Teresia Constantia. An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips. Printed for the author, 1750, 3 vols.
1: 82, 87
Stone, Lawrence. Uncertain Unions. Marriage in England, 1660-1753. Oxford University Press, 1992.
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December 1722: Alexander Pope edited and published his late...

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December 1722

Alexander Pope edited and published his late friend Thomas Parnell 's Poems on Several Occasions.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Mary, Countess Cowper : January-February 1723

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January-February 1723

William, Earl Cowper , husband of MCC , was examined before a committee of the House of Commons on suspicion of Jacobite sympathies. In 1722 the actual Jacobite conspirator Christopher Layer , while under investigation...

Anne Finch: 1723

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1723

AF 's The Spleen was reprinted to preface Dr William Stukeley 's medical treatise, Of the Spleen, Its Description and History, Uses and Diseases, Particularly the Vapors, with Their Remedy.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
161
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. “The Progress of Another Error: Anne Finchs The SpleenLumen, Vol.
xviii
, 1999, pp. 107-17.
107

Elizabeth Teft: Presumably after 1723

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Presumably after 1723

ET 's birth, at Rothwell in Lincolnshire, has generally been dated 1723; but the baby given this name in this year died in 1724. Her parents must have used the same name again, as...

Elizabeth Nihell: 1723

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1723

EN was born, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1723: James Jurin, Secretary of the Royal Society,...

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1723

James Jurin , Secretary of the Royal Society , published a pioneering work of statistical analysis, A Letter to the Learned Caleb Cotesworth . . . Containing A Comparison Between the Morality of the Natural...

1723: The status of sanctuary for debtors was removed...

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1723

The status of sanctuary for debtors was removed from its final bastion in London: the district of the Mint.
Stirk, Nigel. “Fugitive Meanings: The Literary Construction of a London Debtors’ Sanctuary in the Eighteenth Century”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
24
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 175-88.
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1723: Johann Sebastian Bach was appointed to the...

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1723

Johann Sebastian Bach was appointed to the position of Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig. He was the first to hold this position without a certificate of his competence in the field of teaching Latin.
Grafton, Anthony. “Not Dead Yet”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 1, 8 Jan. 2015, pp. 32-4.
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1723: Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who improved the...

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1723

Antony van Leeuwenhoek , who improved the microscope and identified some types of bacteria, died in Delft, Holland.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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1723: Dr Thomas Bray, who had founded the Society...

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1723

Dr Thomas Bray , who had founded the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , used a bequest from a Dutch secretary to William III to found Dr Bray's Associates , an organization supporting parochial libraries...

Sarah Fyge: 13 February 1723

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13 February 1723

SF died at Winslow in Buckinghamshire after a few years of widowhood.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Jane Robe: : 23 April 1723

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23 April 1723

Late in the season, JR 's tragedy (and only known work) The Fatal Legacy, translated from La Thébaïde by Jean Racine , opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields ; it ran just three nights.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
397

23 April 1723: The Prince of Wales was formally reconciled...

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23 April 1723

The Prince of Wales was formally reconciled with his father, George I .
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
1: 26, 2

Eliza Haywood: 24 April 1723

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24 April 1723

With her novel Idalia, EH opened a publishing year which saw the appearance of two more novels, her comedy A Wife to be Lett, and three volumes of collected Works.
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.
xxxix
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
187-8, 195

Just before 4 May 1723: A prostitute was sentenced to a year in prison...

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Just before 4 May 1723

A prostitute was sentenced to a year in prison for fatally stabbing a client whom she suspected of seeking to seduce her younger sister.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 20 and n2

18 May 1723: The Black Act (originally directed against...

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18 May 1723

The Black Act (originally directed against night-time poaching) passed the House of Commons .
Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
20: 217
Thompson, Edward Palmer. Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act. Allen Lane, 1975.
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3 June 1723-17 February 1724: Philip, Duke of Wharton, published a Jacobite...

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3 June 1723-17 February 1724

Philip, Duke of Wharton , published a Jacobite periodical entitled True Briton, until the government suppressed it.
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
145 and n19

Jane Barker: 13 June 1723

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13 June 1723

JB 's second novel, A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (the middle volume in her trilogy and probably her best-known work today), was advertised as just published.
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press, 2000.
160n38
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
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Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
4 (June 1723)

18 June 1723-1724: A periodical entitled The Visiter was published...

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18 June 1723-1724

A periodical entitled The Visiter was published in London; it promised its readers to be a friend to them.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
158, 161

Penelope Aubin: July 1723

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July 1723

PA 's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe.
The novel is available...

Just before 27 July 1723: The government called for all and every person...

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Just before 27 July 1723

The government called for all and every person whatsoever over eighteen years of age (male or female) in Great Britain to take the oaths of allegiance.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
202

Later 1723: Bernard Mandeville's attack on charity schools,...

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Later 1723

Bernard Mandeville 's attack on charity schools, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, was published in the second edition of his Fable of the Bees.
Mandeville, Bernard. “Introduction”. The Fable of the Bees, edited by Irwin Primer, Capricorn Books, 1962.
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Mandeville, Bernard. The Fable of the Bees. 2nd ed., Edmund Parker, 1723.
Mandeville, Bernard. “Introduction”. The Fable of the Bees, edited by Phillip Harth, Penguin Classics, Penguin, 1989, pp. 7-50.
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Eliza Haywood: 12 August 1723

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12 August 1723

EH 's comedy A Wife to be Lett opened at Drury Lane. Haywood took the leading comic role of Mrs Graspall (owing to someone else's illness), and also spoke an epilogue.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
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Eliza Haywood: 12 August 1723

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12 August 1723

A three-volume edition was advertised of EH 's Works . . . Consisting of Novels, Letters, Poems, and Plays. A four-volume editioon eventually appeared, in which all volumes were dated 1724.
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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