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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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Constantia Grierson: 1727

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1727

CG published her edition of the comedies of Terence (with the editorial materials written in Latin), dedicated to Robert Carteret , the small son of the Viceroy , who could only barely have begun the...

Mary Herberts: : 1727

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1727

The Adventures of Proteus, &c., A Sett of Novels, Never Before Publish'd appeared: a remarkable book, sole known work of the presumably pseudonymous MH , whose preface To the Reader bears this name.
Scholars have...

1727: Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi's opera...

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1727

Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi 's opera Orlando Furioso was first performed, adapted from Ludovico Ariosto 's epic of the same title.
Alberge, Dalya. “Vivaldi’s lost masterpiece is found in library archives”. The Guardian, 15 July 2012.

1727: The London Evening Post was launched as a...

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1727

The London Evening Post was launched as a thrice-weekly newspaper: one of four papers which dominated publishers' book advertising until nearly the end of the century.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
154-5, 156-7, 159-61
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.

1727: For the last time an alleged witch, Janet...

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1727

For the last time an alleged witch, Janet Horne , was burned to death in the United Kingdom: at Dornoch in Sutherland, Scotland.
In England witches had customarily been executed by other means than burning.
“Janet Horne”. First Foot.com: Great Scotswomen.

Elizabeth Thomas: Early 1727

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Early 1727

Curll included three letters by ET in his unauthorised Atterburyana.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
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Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.

Eliza Haywood: 12 January 1727

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12 January 1727

There was printed Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, Written by Captain Gulliver;
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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this was probably not by EH —but Pope (its target) thought it was.
Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen, 1969.
99

Eliza Haywood: 24 February 1727

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24 February 1727

EH published another novel (actually a collection of stories), The Fruitless Enquiry, dedicated to Lady Elizabeth Germain ; it had Dublin editions in 1739 and 1769, and a second London edition in 1767.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
278-80
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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Catherine Phillips: 16 March 1727

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16 March 1727

Catherine Payton (later CP ) was born at Dudley in Worcestershire, the youngest of six children.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sir Isaac Newton: 20 March 1727

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20 March 1727

SIN , mathematician and natural philosopher, died in the early morning at Kensington in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mehetabel Wright: By May 1727

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By May 1727

MW set up as a teacher in her own school; but it failed.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
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By June 1727: John Gay published his first series of F...

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By June 1727

John Gay published his first series of Fables.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.

6 June 1727: Feuding supporters of the rival opera singers...

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6 June 1727

Feuding supporters of the rival opera singers Faustina and Cuzzoni caused a disturbance at the Haymarket Theatre, ending both the performance and the season.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 879, 929

11 June 1727: King George I died and George II assumed...

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11 June 1727

King George I died and George II assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: July 1727

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July 1727

The fifth edition of Horae Lyricae by Isaac Watts included at the back of the volume Lady Hertford 's Written in a Blank Leaf of Mr. Watt's Poems.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
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Constantia Grierson: 17 July 1727

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17 July 1727

The eldest of CG 's four children was baptised George Primrose Grierson . Only his younger brother lived to grow up.
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
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Eliza Haywood: 24 July 1727

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24 July 1727

EH published the first part of her novel Philidore and Placentia; or, L'Amour Trop Delicat, dedicated to Lady Abergavenny ; the second part followed later in the year.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
289-91
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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Hannah Griffitts: 29 July 1727

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29 July 1727

HG was born in colonial Philadelphia.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.

September 1727: Edmund Curll issued (with no publisher mentioned...

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September 1727

Edmund Curll issued (with no publisher mentioned in the colophon but with his name signed to the dedication) Whartoniana in two volumes, often referred to as the work of Philip, Duke of Wharton .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
172
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: About 7 September 1727

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About 7 September 1727

LMWM was reported seriously ill during the period that her runaway schoolboy son was missing.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
259

Judith Cowper Madan : 9 September 1727

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9 September 1727

Abelard to Eloisa, an epistolary reply written in 1720 by Judith Cowper (who by now was Judith Madan) to Pope 's Eloisa to Abelard, was published in William Pattison 's posthumous works.
The...

Constantia Grierson: Just before 22 September 1727

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Just before 22 September 1727

CG 's first baby, George Primrose Grierson , was unfortunately overlaid and kill'd through the carelessness of the Nurse, as a Dublin newspaper reported that day.
qtd. in
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
45

Constantia Grierson: Probably late September 1727

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Probably late September 1727

CG lamented the accidental death of her first and so far her only baby in a poem beginning Unhappy Child to early sorrows born.
qtd. in
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
45, 55

Marie de Sévigné: By October 1727

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By October 1727

Two small volumes of MS 's letters were published in translation at London.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
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: 3 October 1727

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3 October 1727

EH 's final published work this year (dated 1728) was another scandal-novel, The Perplex'd Dutchess: or, Treachery Rewarded. Being some Memoirs of the Court of Malfy, by a Sicilian Nobleman.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
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