Alberge, Dalya. “Vivaldi’s lost masterpiece is found in library archives”. The Guardian, 15 July 2012.
Events Timeline
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
Women writers item
Author event in Constantia Grierson
1727
published her edition of the comedies of
(with the editorial materials written in Latin), dedicated to
, the small son of the
, who could only barely have begun the...
Mary Herberts: : 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Herberts:
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
, whose preface To the Reader bears this name.
Scholars have...
1727: Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi's opera...
Writing climate item
1727
Italian composer
's opera Orlando Furioso was first performed, adapted from
's epic of the same title.
1727: The London Evening Post was launched as a...
Writing climate item
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.
1727: For the last time an alleged witch, Janet...
1727
For the last time an alleged witch,
, 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.
Elizabeth Thomas: Early 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Thomas
Early 1727
included three letters by ET in his unauthorised Atterburyana.
Eliza Haywood: 12 January 1727
Writing climate item
Author event in Eliza Haywood
12 January 1727
There was printed Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, Written by ; this was probably not by
—but
(its target) thought it was.
Eliza Haywood: 24 February 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Haywood
24 February 1727
published another novel (actually a collection of stories), The Fruitless Enquiry, dedicated to
; it had Dublin editions in 1739 and 1769, and a second London edition in 1767.
Catherine Phillips: 16 March 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Phillips
16 March 1727
Catherine Payton (later
) was born at Dudley in Worcestershire, the youngest of six children.
Sir Isaac Newton: 20 March 1727
Writing climate item
Author event in Sir Isaac Newton
20 March 1727
, mathematician and natural philosopher, died in the early morning at Kensington in London.
Mehetabel Wright: By May 1727
Women writers item
By June 1727: John Gay published his first series of F...
Writing climate item
By June 1727
published his first series of Fables.
6 June 1727: Feuding supporters of the rival opera singers...
6 June 1727
Feuding supporters of the rival opera singers
and
caused a disturbance at the
Theatre, ending both the performance and the season.
11 June 1727: King George I died and George II assumed...
National or international item
11 June 1727
died and
assumed the throne.
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: July 1727
Writing climate item
Author event in Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
July 1727
The fifth edition of Horae Lyricae by
included at the back of the volume
's Written in a Blank Leaf of Mr. Watt's Poems.
Constantia Grierson: 17 July 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Constantia Grierson
17 July 1727
The eldest of
's four children was baptised
. Only his younger brother lived to grow up.
Eliza Haywood: 24 July 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Haywood
24 July 1727
published the first part of her novel Philidore and Placentia; or, L'Amour Trop Delicat, dedicated to
; the second part followed later in the year.
Hannah Griffitts: 29 July 1727
Writing climate item
September 1727: Edmund Curll issued (with no publisher mentioned...
Writing climate item
September 1727
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
.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: About 7 September 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
About 7 September 1727
was reported seriously ill during the period that her runaway schoolboy
was missing.
Judith Cowper Madan : 9 September 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Judith Cowper Madan
9 September 1727
to , an epistolary reply written in 1720 by
to
's Eloisa to Abelard, was published in
's posthumous works.
The...
Constantia Grierson: Just before 22 September 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Constantia Grierson
Just before 22 September 1727
's first baby,
, was unfortunately overlaid and kill'd through the carelessness of the Nurse, as a Dublin newspaper reported that day.
Constantia Grierson: Probably late September 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Constantia Grierson
Probably late September 1727
lamented the accidental death of her first and so far her only baby in a poem beginning Unhappy Child to early sorrows born.
Marie de Sévigné: By October 1727
Writing climate item
Author event in Marie de Sévigné
By October 1727
Two small volumes of
's letters were published in translation at London.
Eliza Haywood: 3 October 1727
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Haywood
3 October 1727
'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.