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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 Davys: By September 1724

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By September 1724

MD published her longest book so far, The Reform'd Coquet, or Memoirs of Amoranda; a novel, by subscription: the first novel by a woman to be issued in this way.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.

Mehetabel Wright: Autumn 1724

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Autumn 1724

The Wesley family suffered from smallpox.
Wesley, Susanna. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings. Editor Wallace, Charles, Jr, Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Eliza Haywood: 9 December 1724

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9 December 1724

The first instalment was advertised of EH 's second collection, second edition: Secret Histories, Novels and Poems, which reprinted many items from her earlier Works.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
65
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
176

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 14 December 1724

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14 December 1724

LMWM and Mary Astell wrote, on opposite sides of the same sheet of paper, polemical poems on the death of the fourteen-year-old bride Eleanor Bowes (née Verney ), denouncing the institution of marriage.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
240-1

Mary Astell: 18 December 1724

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18 December 1724

Only four days after she and Montagu had both written poems together on the death of a young bride , MA wrote the bulk of her verse and prose preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Barber: 1725

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1725

MB published two poems at Dublin: public addresses to the Lord Lieutenant and his wife.
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.
Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734.
2-5, 139-40

Jane Sharp: 1725

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1725

A fourth, heavily revised edition of JS 's textbook of 1671 appeared, as The Complete Midwife's Companion, with her name on the title-page.
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.

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 1725

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1725

Two poems by Frances, Countess of Hertford , about Yarico, a native American woman brutally betrayed by her white English lover Thomas Inkle, appeared anonymously in A New Miscellany: Being a Collection of Pieces of Poetry.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1725: Allan Ramsay established a circulating library...

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Allan Ramsay established a circulating library in Edinburgh which may have been the first in Britain. Another opened in Bath the same year.
Nicholson, Colin. “"Of Eminent Significancy": Allan Ramsay’s ‘British’ Poetics and Post-Union Construction of Cultural Space”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
25
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2002, pp. 203-16.
203
Feminist Companion Archive.

1725: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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1725

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge commissioned engraver William Caslon to design a typeface; he set up his famous type-foundry nine years later.
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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1725: Francis Hutcheson published anonymously,...

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1725

Francis Hutcheson published anonymously, in two separate forms, An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, in two treatises, one on aesthetics (beauty, order, harmony, design) and one...

1725: William Hendley published A Defence of the...

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William Hendley published A Defence of the Charity-Schools, in response to Bernard Mandeville 's attack in An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools.
Hendley, William. A Defence of the Charity-Schools. W. Mears, 1725.
The fuller title is: A defence of the Charity-Schools. Wherein...

1725: In this boom year 762 paintings and about...

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In this boom year 762 paintings and about 11,000 prints were imported into England from European countries by dealers and Grand Tourists.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
202-3

1725: As an index of the decline of brewing as...

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As an index of the decline of brewing as women's work, historian Deborah Simonton notes that Edinburgh had only seven female brewers this year, compared to 230 in the sixteenth century.
Simonton, Deborah. A History of European Women’s Work, 1700 to the Present. Routledge, 1998.
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Eliza Haywood: 22 January 1725

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22 January 1725

EH opened another productive year (some of its titles had begun in 1724; some finished in 1726) with The Lady's Philosopher's Stone, translated from the French of Louis-Adrien Duperron de Castera .
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
221-2
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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Teresia Constantia Phillips: 28 February 1725

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28 February 1725

Henry Muilman received the verdict that his marriage to TCP was null and void on grounds of her previous marriage; this ran counter to the facts that the first marriage had been illegal and was...

Mary Delany: 8 March 1725

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8 March 1725

MD 's first marriage ended with the death of her husband, Alexander Pendarves .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum, 1986.
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Eliza Haywood: 10 March 1725

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10 March 1725

EH issued another novel, The Unequal Conflict; or, Nature Triumphant. She followed it with a sequel, Fatal Fondness: or, Love its own Opposer, on May 19th (of which only a single copy is...

Mary Davys: By May 1725

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By May 1725

MD issued her Works . . . consisting of plays, novels, poems, and familiar letters. Several of which never before published. Again she published by subscription.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.

1 May 1725: Nathaniel Mist's Opposition paper The Weekly...

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1 May 1725

Nathaniel Mist 's Opposition paper The Weekly Journal; or, Saturday's-Post changed its name to Mist's Weekly Journal.
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.

Eliza Haywood: 7 May 1725

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7 May 1725

EH published with her name the first volume of her miscellaneous ragbag or pseudo-periodical (since it is divided into numbers) The Tea-Table; the second followed about a year later.
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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18 May 1725: Lord Hervey remarked hyperbolically on the...

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18 May 1725

Lord Hervey remarked hyperbolically on the terminal decay of marriage as an institution among the upper classes.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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Laetitia Pilkington: 31 May 1725

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31 May 1725

After an elaborate courtship, Laetitia Van Lewen married Matthew Pilkington .
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
1: 14-17, 20-1; 2: 378

By 8 June 1725: The criminal Jonathan Wild was hanged: Daniel...

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By 8 June 1725

The criminal Jonathan Wild was hanged: Daniel Defoe wrote a hasty account of his life, and eighteen years later Henry Fielding made him a mock-heroic over-reacher.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe, edited by Michael F. Shugrue, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, p. v - xxvi.
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McDowell, Paula. “Narrative Authority, Critical Complicity: The Case of Jonathan WildStudies in the Novel, Vol.
30
, No. 2, 1 June 1998–2026, pp. 211-31.
225
The date is that of Defoe's catchpenny biography.

19 June 1725: Dorothy Stanley, née Milborne, published...

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19 June 1725

Dorothy Stanley , née Milborne, published by subscription Sir Philip Sidney 's Arcadia Moderniz'd, in four books (coinciding with the thirteenth edition of the original romance).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Mitchell, Marea. “Dorothy Stanley’s Enterprise: Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia Moderniz’d (1725)”. Sidney Journal, No. 28, 2010, pp. 63-76.
Mitchell, Marea. “Awakening Other Spirits: Dorothy Stanley’s Arcadia and the Apparatus of Authorship”. Parergon, No. 29, 2012, pp. 113-31.