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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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1724: Allan Ramsay published his influential anthology...

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1724

Allan Ramsay published his influential anthology of Scottish works from several centuries in the past: The Ever Green.
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.
Davis, Leith. “Crossing Borders: Orality and Print in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Song Collection”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Vancouver, BC, 25 Oct. 2003.

Penelope Aubin: 2 January 1724

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2 January 1724

A Mrs Aubin, probably PA , received the profits from a benefit performance of Dryden 's The Spanish Friar at Lincoln's Inn Fields .
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.

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 20 January 1724

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20 January 1724

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford , was officially appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales .
“Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Household of Princess Caroline 1721-27”. Institute of Historical Research.

20 January 1724: Elizabeth Harrison wrote for publication,...

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20 January 1724

Elizabeth Harrison wrote for publication, with her name, A Letter to Mr. John Gay , On his Tragedy, call'd The Captives. To which is annex'd a copy of verses to the Princess.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Frances Brooke: 24 January 1724

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24 January 1724

Frances Moore (later FB ) was born shortly before this, the date of her christening at Claypole in Lincolnshire.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary, Countess Cowper : 5 February 1724

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5 February 1724

MCC , not yet forty and a widow of less than four months, died at Cole Green near Hertingfordbury in Hertfordshire, of what is often talked of, but seen in very few Instances—a broken...

Teresia Constantia Phillips: 9 February 1724

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9 February 1724

TCP married Henry Muilman , a wealthy young Dutch merchant who had fallen in love with her and lived with her for some time already; he knew of her first marriage, understood it was not...

29 February 1724: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunate...

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29 February 1724

Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunate Mistress, or . . . Lady Roxana, his second fictional autobiography of a woman living on her wits.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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Delarivier Manley: 2 March 1724

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2 March 1724

The scandalous printer Edmund Curll alleged that DM had a fifth volume of the New Atalantis set up in print ready for publishing.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
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Martha Fowke: 23 March 1724-7 May 1725

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23 March 1724-7 May 1725

MF may have done some writing for The Plain Dealer, which was run and edited by her two friends or lovers: Hill and Bond .
Fowke, Martha. “Introduction”. Clio, edited by Phyllis J. Guskin, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1997, pp. 15-50.
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Brewster, Dorothy. Aaron Hill, Poet, Dramatist, Projector. Columbia University Press, 1913.
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Eliza Haywood: 10 April 1724

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10 April 1724

The first part of EH 's libertine novel The Masqueraders appeared without her name (through trade publisher James Roberts , like the several other novels which followed it), but was very quickly identified by a...

Mary Caesar: 30 May 1724

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30 May 1724

MC began compiling a manuscript of commentary on political events and personalities,
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, 1992, pp. 178-98.
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presented from an intensely Jacobite standpoint, which extended in the course of seventeen years to about 30,000 words.
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, 1992, pp. 178-98.
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Potter, Dorothy, and Mary Caesar. “Foreword, Acknowledgements”. The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar, 1724-1741, Edwin Mellen Press, 2002, p. viii - xii, xix-xxii.
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6 June 1724: Newspapers reported with horror on a new...

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6 June 1724

Newspapers reported with horror on a new rakes' club called the Schemers, and their Designs of seducing virtuous women.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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12 June 1724: Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford reported that...

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12 June 1724

Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford reported that the English Court had almost universally taken to wearing French fashions.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
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30 June 1724: The House of Lords began hearing William...

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30 June 1724

The House of Lords began hearing William Yonge 's case for divorcing his wife.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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Judith Cowper Madan : 1 July 1724

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1 July 1724

JCM wrote a poem for the birthday of Lysander, now her husband , again bearing a date as title (July the First. 1724) and this time expressing the pure joy of love.
Cowper, Ashley, editor. The Family Miscellany. 1747, http://British Library MS Add. 28,101.
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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.
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Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.
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Delarivier Manley: 11 July 1724

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11 July 1724

DM died early in the morning, of what were diagnosed as fits of cholic.
Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2001, pp. 2-5.
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Eliza Haywood: 23 July 1724

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23 July 1724

EH published two novels, The Fatal Secret; or, Constancy in Distress, dedicated to William Yonge (who had just made a huge profit from divorcing his wife ), and The Surprize; or, Constancy Rewarded...

Edmund Curll: August 1724

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August 1724

Edmund Curll published Venus in the Cloister, or, The Nun in Her Smock, a new version of Jean Barrin 's groundbreakingVenus dans le cloître, published in France in 1683; he printed a...

4 August 1724: The first Thomas Longman bought for £2,282.9s.6d...

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4 August 1724

The first Thomas Longman bought for £2,282.9s.6d a house in Paternoster Row (later numbered 39, already identified by the Sign of the Ship) and the bookselling and publishing business based there, whose owner, William Taylor

Hannah Glasse: 5 August 1724

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5 August 1724

Sixteen-year-old Hannah Allgood was secretly married at Leyton in Essex (just to the east of London) to John Glass or Glasse ; after the ceremony she went back to her grandmother's house as if...

Jane Warton: Shortly before 20 August 1724

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Shortly before 20 August 1724

JW was born at Basingstoke in Hampshire, the middle one of three children and the only girl.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
, No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92.
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Eliza Haywood: 26 August 1724

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26 August 1724

EH anonymously published the first volume of La Belle Assemblée: or, The Adventures of Six Days, translated from Les Journées amusantes, a novel or collection of novels by Mme de Gomez .
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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Eliza Haywood: 8 September 1724

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8 September 1724

EH anonymously published the first volume of another hit, Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia.
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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Eliza Haywood: 21 September 1724

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21 September 1724

Aaron Hill 's Plain Dealer number 53 printed an admiring elegy on the lately-dead Manley whose author was probably either EH or Martha Fowke Sansom .
Fowke, Martha. Clio. Editor Guskin, Phyllis J., University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1997.
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