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.

3726 - 3750 of 43197

Search by

-
Event origin
Event type

Elizabeth Griffith: 11 October 1727

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Griffith

11 October 1727

EG was born, not at Dublin (as has been supposed until very recently), but at Glamorgan in Wales. She was one of two children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Hester Mulso Chapone: 27 October 1727

Women writers item
Author event in Hester Mulso Chapone

27 October 1727

Hester Mulso was born in an Elizabethan house near the church at Twywell in Northamptonshire, the only daughter and the youngest child in her family.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
76-7

Dorothea Du Bois: 16 November 1727

Women writers item
Author event in Dorothea Du Bois

16 November 1727

The fourth Lord Altham died; his title went to a cousin, who as Lord Altham was to become DDB 's father , and who had cleared his way to the title by having his predecessor's...

28 November 1727: After elections and the dissolution of the...

National or international item

28 November 1727

After elections and the dissolution of the previous parliament on 5 August, the new parliament (obligatory on the accession of a new sovereign ) was called for this date.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
1: 132

Penelope Aubin: 1728

Women writers item
Author event in Penelope Aubin

1728

PA published a sequel to her previous novel, this one about the Lady Lucy's son: The Life and Adventures of the Young Count Albertus; it was her last work of prose fiction.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Mary Barber: 1728

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Barber

1728

There appeared at Dublin an anonymous poem by MB : A Tale, Being an Addition to Mr. Gay 's Fables.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Dorothea Du Bois: 1728

Women writers item
Author event in Dorothea Du Bois

1728

Dorothea Annesley (later DDB ) was born in Ireland.
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.

Mehetabel Wright: By 1 January 1728

Women writers item
Author event in Mehetabel Wright

By 1 January 1728

MW moved with her husband to Frith Street, Soho, London; she judged her life there obscure and mean.
Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 15-38.
23
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
110

Catharine Trotter: 1728

Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Trotter

1728

Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT ) published at Edinburgh, anonymously, the second edition of her Discourse concerning "A Guide in Controversies", in two Letters.
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.

1728: Lord Hervey later expressed the view that...

Building item

1728

Lord Hervey later expressed the view that by this date the Christian religion was so exploded in England that upper-class men and women were ashamed to admit to believing.
Hervey, John, Baron. Some Materials towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II. Editor Sedgwick, Romney, AMS Press, 1970, 3 vols.
1: 92

1728: A pamphlet appeared entitled Plain Reasons...

Building item

1728

A pamphlet appeared entitled Plain Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy in England.
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.

1728: Ephraim Chambers attempted in his Cyclopaedia...

Writing climate item

1728

Ephraim Chambers attempted in his Cyclopaedia to offer a digest of all existing modern knowledge.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
190
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(November 1738): 582
Stavisky, Aaron. “Review of Pat Rogers, The Samuel Johnson DictionaryThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
10
, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 302-28.
302
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1728: An Act of Parliament laid down acceptable...

Building item

1728

An Act of Parliament laid down acceptable levels of wages: a live-in woman servant in her twenties would receive two pounds ten shillings annually, as against her male counterpart's three pounds ten shillings.
Korshin, Paul J. “Johnson’s Life Experience with Poverty”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 3-20.
6

1728: The Royal Bank of Scotland invented the overdraft...

Building item

1728

The Royal Bank of Scotland invented the overdraft or cash credit: loans could now be made to non-landowners or prospective land-inheritors.
“Royal Bank of Scotland: A history”. BBC News: Business, 17 Jan. 2000.

Elizabeth Thomas: 11 January 1728

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Thomas

11 January 1728

ET was arrested in Southwark, and incarcerated in the Fleet Prison for debt; the warrant was dated the previous month.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
122

Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 16 January 1728

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Singer Rowe

16 January 1728

ESR anonymously published her Friendship in Death, in Twenty Letters from the Dead to the Living.
A Register of Books 1728-1732, extracted from the Monthly Chronicle. Gregg Press, 1964.
1 (January 1728): 23

29 January 1728: John Gay's The Beggar's Opera opened at Lincoln's...

Writing climate item

29 January 1728

John Gay 's The Beggar's Opera opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields . It was published on 14 February.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 931, 956-7
A Register of Books 1728-1732, extracted from the Monthly Chronicle. Gregg Press, 1964.
54

Edmund Curll: 12 February 1728

Writing climate item
Author event in Edmund Curll

12 February 1728

Edmund Curll was fined at the Court of King's Bench for his pornographic publications, and stood, according to his sentence, in the pillory.
The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.

15 February 1728: The Compleat Housewife: or, The Accomplished...

Writing climate item

15 February 1728

The Compleat Housewife: or, The Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion . . . was published.
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.

16 February 1728: Henry Fielding's first play, Love in Several...

Writing climate item

16 February 1728

Henry Fielding 's first play, Love in Several Masques, opened on stage.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2.2: 959

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 8 March 1728

Writing climate item

8 March 1728

Pope published what seems to have been the first salvo in his prolonged literary attack on LMWM : The Capon's Tale, which accuses her of passing off her lampoons as other people's.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
274

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 9 March 1728

Women writers item

9 March 1728

LMWM 's sister Lady Mar arrived in London from Paris.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
267

Martha Hale: 15 March 1728

Women writers item
Author event in Martha Hale

15 March 1728

Martha Rigby (later MH ) was christened on this date at St Mary's Church, Stoke Newington, north of London, so she must have been born shortly before it.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Martha Fowke: By late March 1728

Women writers item
Author event in Martha Fowke

By late March 1728

A second edition of MF 's and William Bond 's The Epistles of Clio and Strephon was published by Edmund Curll .
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
207

Penelope Aubin: 2 April 1728

Women writers item
Author event in Penelope Aubin

2 April 1728

PA 's The Life of Madam de Beaumount was anonymously reprinted.
A Register of Books 1728-1732, extracted from the Monthly Chronicle. Gregg Press, 1964.
105