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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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Eliza Haywood: 2 July 1725

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2 July 1725

EH published a biography, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots: a new genre for her. The title-page claimed that it was a translation from French.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
233, 236
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
191

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 13 July 1725

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13 July 1725

Three months after her mother 's death, and late in pregnancy, Frances, Countess of Hertford , wrote a poem lamenting that friends on whom we most rely / Change like th'inconstant moon.
qtd. in
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
90 and n2

Alicia D'Anvers: Just before 19 July 1725

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Just before 19 July 1725

ADA died in Oxford.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
376

Mehetabel Wright: 19 July 1725

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19 July 1725

A lawyer named Green travelled from Kelstein with Mehetabel Wesley (later Wright) to ask her father for her hand in marriage.
Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 15-38.
18, 38

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: August 1725

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August 1725

Late in pregnancy, Frances, Countess of Hertford , wrote for her eight-year-old daughter a letter of advice for the future, leaving it sealed up to be given her in case I had died.
qtd. in
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
36

Mehetabel Wright: 2 August 1725

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2 August 1725

Susanna Wesley told her son John that she would not be sorry to part with Hetty , being quite tired out with her very licensuous and scandalous adventures.
qtd. in
Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 15-38.
18, 32

Mehetabel Wright: 12 August 1725

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12 August 1725

Samuel Wesley apostrophised his daughter Hetty (writing to his son John ), Gangrene farewell! And mayst thou never cause me any pain hereafter.
qtd. in
Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 15-38.
15, 30

Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 11 September 1725

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11 September 1725

On her fifty-first birthday, ESR solemnly renewed her baptismal vow.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
213

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 11 September 1725

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11 September 1725

Lady Hertford bore the second of her two children who survived: a son whose death from smallpox on his nineteenth birthday, while he was away in Italy on the Grand Tour, was a heavy blow.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
30
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Barker: October 1725

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October 1725

JB completed her Galesia trilogy with The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen; Design'd for the Farther Entertainment of the Ladies.
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press, 2000.
xiv
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
30 (October 1725)

Judith Cowper Madan : 5 October 1725

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5 October 1725

JCM bore her eldest child, a son named Martin after his father, at her parents' townhouse in Bond Street, London.
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.
78

Mehetabel Wright: 13 October 1725

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13 October 1725

Mehetabel Wesley , probably still pregnant, was married at Haxey in Lincolnshire, against her will, to William Wright , an illiterate plumber and glazier.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
110
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

By 20 November 1725 : Daniel Defoe published the first volume of...

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By 20 November 1725

Daniel Defoe published the first volume of his business manual The Complete English Tradesman; a second volume followed the next year.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Sarah Chapone: 28 December 1725

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28 December 1725

Sarah Kirkham married the Rev. John Capon or Chapone .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press, 1975–1983.
25: 247n1
Glover, Susan Paterson, and Sarah Chapone. “Introduction”. The Hardships of the English Laws, Routledge, 2018, pp. 1-16.
5

Catharine Trotter: 1726

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1726

Patrick Cockburn , husband of the former CT , took the Oath of Abjuration, and so became eligible (as a loyal supporter of the present monarchy) for a church post.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
407

Catharine Trotter: 1726

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1726

Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT ) published (as the author of A Defence of Mr. Lock 's Essay of Humane Understanding) A Letter to Dr. [Winch] Holdsworth: her first publication since her marriage in 1708.
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.

Elizabeth Thomas: 1726

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1726

Desperate for money, ET sold letters in her possession to Edmund Curll , including letters from Pope to Henry Cromwell .
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
138

Anne-Thérèse de Lambert: 1726

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1726

Two works by ATL reached print in Paris: Réflexions nouvelles sur les femmes, published as by une dame de la cour de France, and Lettres d'une dame a son fils. Sur la vraye...

1726: Guy's Hospital was opened as a voluntary...

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1726

Guy's Hospital was opened as a voluntary hospital alongside St Thomas's Hospital ; the two United Hospitals of the Borough [of Southwark] jointly undertook medical teaching.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
52-57, 277

1726: The University of Edinburgh established a...

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The University of Edinburgh established a medical faculty and the first chair of obstetrics in Great Britain.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.

February 1726: Richard Savage published his Miscellaneous...

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February 1726

Richard Savage published his Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: dedicated to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , it included work by Eliza Haywood , Martha Fowke , and Miranda Hill .
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
263-4 and nn68, 69
Prescott, Sarah. Women, Authorship, and Literary Culture, 1690-1740. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Eliza Haywood: 10 February 1726

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10 February 1726

EH published The Mercenary Lover; or, The Unfortunate Heiresses, which advertises its shared authorship with a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia, that is Memoirs of a Certain Island.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
239-41
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
191
Haywood, Eliza. Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood. Editor Backscheider, Paula R., Oxford University Press, 1999, http://HSS.
121
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
193

Penelope Aubin: By March 1726

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By March 1726

PA published her next novel, The Life and Adventures of the Lady Lucy, in which the virtuous Lucy is contrasted with the lustful Henrietta.
A Register of Books 1728-1732, extracted from the Monthly Chronicle. Gregg Press, 1964.
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April 1726: James Thomson published his georgic or pastoral...

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April 1726

James Thomson published his georgic or pastoral poem Winter.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
95

Elizabeth Thomas: 12 April 1726

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12 April 1726

ET wrote a panegyric on the new Duchess of Somerset .
Thomas, Elizabeth, 1675 - 1731, and Richard Gwinnett. Pylades and Corinna. 1731.
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