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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: 13 April 1726

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13 April 1726

EH published the first part of another scandal novel, Reflections on the Various Effects of Love. A second part, with a Key for identifying the characters, seems to have actually appeared, but no copies...

Constantia Grierson: After April 1726

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After April 1726

Constantia Crawley married (as his second wife) her employer, Scottish publisher and printer George Grierson , whose business was in Dublin.
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
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By May 1726: Jonathan Swift published his puzzling, ambivalent...

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By May 1726

Jonathan Swift published his puzzling, ambivalent poetic account of his relationship with Esther Vanhomrigh : Cadenus and Vanessa.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.

Eliza Haywood: 18 May 1726

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18 May 1726

EH 's very short novel or pamphlet The Distress'd Orphan, or Love in a Mad-House proved one of her most popular. It is a frightening account of the intentional incarceration of a sane woman among...

27 June 1726: The leading colliery owners on Tyneside set...

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27 June 1726

The leading colliery owners on Tyneside set up a new cartel, the Combination or Grand Alliance, to replace an one dissolved in 1715.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
184, 86

Jane Squire: 15 July 1726

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15 July 1726

Having failed to recover a lost investment through the law courts, JS was arrested for debt and committed to London's Fleet Prison . It seems that she owed £3,400 to people named Bower (or...

Mehetabel Wright: August 1726

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August 1726

MW 's brother John offended their father by alluding in a sermon preached at Wroot to the harshness meted out to Hetty.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
110

Penelope Aubin: September 1726

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September 1726

PA published another translation (which Debbie Welham recognises as her most important): The Illustrious French Lovers, with her name on the preface.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
41: 99
Welham, Debbie. “Library and Early Women’s Writing. Women Writers. Penelope Aubin (1679 –1738)”. Chawton House Library, Jan. 2011.

1726-7: Only eight per cent of the plays staged at...

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1726-7

Only eight per cent of the plays staged at Drury Lane this season dated from as recently as the last twenty years; this, obviously, was bad news for practising playwrights.
Hume, Robert D. Henry Fielding and the London Theatre, 1728-1737. Clarendon, 1988.
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September 1726-Spring 1727: Madam Violante ran her first season of pantomime,...

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September 1726-Spring 1727

Madam Violante ran her first season of pantomime, dancing, and acrobatics at the Haymarket Theatre .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 879

Eliza Haywood: 24 September 1726

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24 September 1726

In The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania, EH mounted an anonymous, thinly-disguised attack on the morals and circle of the Prince of Wales, the future George II ...

Judith Cowper Madan : 3 October 1726

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3 October 1726

In a poem entitled simply To Lysander, JCM informed her husband of her return to poetry, after years of neglect, to celebrate the first birthday of their son.
Cowper, Ashley, editor. The Family Miscellany. 1747, http://British Library MS Add. 28,101.
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Fullard, Joyce, editor. British Women Poets, 1660-1800: An Anthology. Whitston Publishing Company, 1990.
153

28 October 1726: Cloaking himself, with a great deal of obfuscation,...

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28 October 1726

Cloaking himself, with a great deal of obfuscation, as Captain Lemuel Gulliver, Swift published Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (better known as Gulliver's Travels).
Hunting, Robert. Jonathan Swift. Twayne, 1967.

Elizabeth Boyd: November 1726

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November 1726

EB , as Louisa, issued her probable first publication, Variety . . . , a poem in witty and paradoxical defence of inconstancy, plus two verse epistles, bearing the date 1727.
On the title-page...

Catharine Trotter: Late 1726 to 1737

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Late 1726 to 1737

Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT ) lived remote from London, at Aberdeen in Scotland.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
407
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
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20 November-7 December 1726: In Godalming, Surrey, Mary Toft engrossed...

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20 November-7 December 1726

In Godalming, Surrey, Mary Toft engrossed the attention of eminent medical men and the general public by her claim to be giving birth to rabbits.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
The height of the furore is dated from pamphlet...

Judith Cowper Madan : 22 November 1726

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22 November 1726

JCM bore her second child, a daughter, Maria Frances Cecilia , at Hertingfordbury Park.
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.
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Mary Barber: 30 November 1726

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30 November 1726

MB composed On sending my Son, as a Present, to Dr. Swift , Dean of St. Patrick's on his birthday.
Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734.
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Mary Davys: December 1726

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December 1726

J. Wilford advertised The Fugitive, A Novel, by a Lady; presumably it is MD 's work of this title, but no copy of this separate edition is known.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.

5 December 1726: The Opposition paper The Craftsman, by Caleb...

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5 December 1726

The Opposition paper The Craftsman, by Caleb Danvers (Lord Bolingbroke and others) published its first number.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

Eliza Haywood: 6 December 1726

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6 December 1726

EH published with her name Cleomelia; or, The Generous Mistress. Being the Secret History of a Lady Lately arriv'd from Bengall. A Kingdom in the East-Indies.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
268-70
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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Frances Brooke: 1727

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1727

At his death FB 's father, Thomas Moore , left £1,000 to be divided between her and her sister when they reached twenty-one.
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/.

Ann Cook: Probably about 1727

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Probably about 1727

AC received that name on her marriage to John Cook, keeper of the Black Bull inn at Hexham in Northumberland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Davys: 1727

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1727

MD published The Accomplish'd Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman. Being An Exact Description of the Conduct and Behavior of a Person of Distinction.
Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix.
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Elizabeth Thomas: About 1727

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About 1727

ET wrote a somewhat inaccurate account of Dryden 's death and funeral, which was published by Curll in Memoirs of Congreve on 11 August 1729 (dated 1730).
Dryden, John. The Letters of John Dryden: With Letters Addressed to Him. Editor Ward, Charles E., Duke University Press, 1942.
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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.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
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