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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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Judith Cowper Madan : 26 August 1723

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26 August 1723

A few months before her marriage Judith Cowper (later Madan) marked her twenty-first birthday with a poem opening This Day beginning to a Creature gave, which expresses indifference towards love.
Cowper, Ashley, editor. The Family Miscellany. 1747, http://British Library MS Add. 28,101.
158ff

Judith Drake: Before September 1723

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Before September 1723

JD , practising medicine, had a complaint lodged against her by an aggrieved patient (for allegedly practising without proper qualifications) with Sir Hans Sloane .
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.
4047.38

Judith Cowper Madan : 20 September 1723

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20 September 1723

Judith Cowper (later Madan) dated a fifty-line poem beginning When first Lysander's killing Form I viewed: a confession of love and expression of anxiety.
Cowper, Ashley, editor. The Family Miscellany. 1747, http://British Library MS Add. 28,101.
159-60
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.
268

Frances, Lady Norton: 24 September 1723

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24 September 1723

Only two weeks after the death of her second husband , Frances, Lady Norton , married a man named William Jones .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Lady Rachel Russell: 29 September 1723

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29 September 1723

LRR died in her eighties, at five in the morning, at Southampton House, Bloomsbury Square, London, probably of a stroke.
Schwoerer, Lois. Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women". Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
237
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Martha Fowke: October 1723

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October 1723

Martha Sansom (formerly MF ) drafted the autobiographical, epistolary work later published as Clio.
Fowke, Martha. “Introduction”. Clio, edited by Phyllis J. Guskin, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1997, pp. 15-50.
15

Delarivier Manley: 6 October 1723

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6 October 1723

DM made her will: she wanted her papers and letters (except two manuscript plays) destroyed after her death.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
xviii
Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
5
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2001, pp. 2-5.
5

Mary, Countess Cowper : 10 October 1723

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10 October 1723

William, Earl Cowper , husband of MCC , died in his mid-fifties, five days after catching a severe cold in travelling from London to his country house.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William, first Earl Cowper

Eliza Haywood: 30 October 1723

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30 October 1723

EH issued her second separately-published novel of the year, Lasselia. It had a second issue alone, apart from reprinting in Haywood collections.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
133-5

Susanna Centlivre: 1 December 1723

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1 December 1723

SC died in London.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
244

Judith Cowper Madan : 7 December 1723

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7 December 1723

Judith Cowper married Martin Madan , a captain in the King's Own cavalry, whom she calls in her poems Lysander. He had met her in September, proposed to her and been promptly accepted in October.
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48-66.
61
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.
77, 86

Mary, Countess Cowper : 10 December 1723

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10 December 1723

MCC wrote her will two months to the day after the death of her husband, Lord Cowper .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Eliza Haywood: 12 December 1723

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12 December 1723

EH issued her third singly-published novel this year, The Rash Resolve, dedicated to Lady Rumney or Romney , with 1724 on its title-page and a prefatory poem by Richard Savage .
Lady Romney, a...

Charlotte Charke: 1724-1726

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1724-1726

After some time at home doing languages, more music, and dancing, CC was sent to live with a Dr and Mrs Hales to learn household skills; it must have been an effort to retain her...

Susanna Wesley: From about 1724

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From about 1724

SW 's husband, Samuel , was put in charge of the parish of Wroot, near his existing cure at Epworth; Wroot became a second home for the family.
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
xiii

Elisabeth Wast : 1724

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1724

EW 's Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises was published at Edinburgh, exactly copied from the original Manuscript,
Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724.
vi
bearing her name: Elisabeth Wast.
“Eighteenth Century Collections Online”. Gale Databases.

Elizabeth Tollet: 1724

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1724

ET , aged thirty, apparently arranged the anonymous printing of her first collection, Poems on Several Occasions, through John Clarke , with a quotation from Ovid on the title-page.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
34, 40
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
842n116

Frances Sheridan: 1724

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1724

Frances Chamberlaine (later FS ) was born in Dublin, the youngest of five children.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
vii

Constantia Grierson: 1724

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1724

Constantia Crawley (later CG ) published the first of her small, Elsevir-format editions of classical authors (written in Latin throughout): the works of Virgil , as P. Virgilii Maronis opera. Nunc emendatiora.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
42n20

Eliza Haywood: 1724

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1724

After a possible affair with Richard Savage , EH seems to have begun her twenty-year liaison with William Hatchett , playwright and seemingly quintessential Grub Street hack,
Spedding, Patrick. “Eliza Haywood, Writing (and) Pornography in 1742”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Walwood and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, 2001, pp. 237-51.
244
who was probably the father of her second child.
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-xl
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1724: Under a pseudonym, Bernard Mandeville published...

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1724

Under a pseudonym, Bernard Mandeville published A Modest Defence of Public Stews: or, An Essay upon Whoring, as it is now Practis'd in these Kingdoms.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
99-100
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.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

1724: William Law answered Bernard Mandeville in...

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1724

William Law answered Bernard Mandeville in Remarks upon a Late Book, Entituled, The Fable of the Bees, arguing that moral or immoral behaviour is chosen rather than socially conditioned.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1724: The first volume of Gilbert Burnet's History...

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1724

The first volume of Gilbert Burnet 's History of His Own Times (begun in 1683) was posthumously published by his son Sir Thomas Burnet .
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.

1724: John Maubray published The Female Physician,...

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1724

John Maubray published The Female Physician, Containing all the Diseases incident to that Sex, in Virgins, Wives, and Widows . . . to which is added, The Whole Art of New improv'd Midwifery
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
67, 29-30

1724: Sixteen new novels or works of fiction were...

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1724

Sixteen new novels or works of fiction were published in England this year, besides three translations.
Downie, James Alan. “Mary Davys’s ’Probable Feign’d Stories’ and Critical Shibboleths about ’The Rise of the Novel’”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 2-3, Jan.–Apr. 2000, pp. 309-26.
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