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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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Elizabeth Thomas: 18 May 1728

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18 May 1728

Pope mercilessly portrayed ET (then in debtors' prison) in the Dunciad.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
127

Alexander Pope: 18 May 1728

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18 May 1728

AP issued, anonymously and with a colophon falsely claiming that the book was reprinted from a Dublin edition, the original version of his mock-epic poem The Dunciad.
Mack, Maynard. Alexander Pope: A Life. Yale University Press, 1985.
457
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
5: xvii

Eliza Haywood: 18 May 1728

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18 May 1728

Pope 's Dunciad featured EH as a lewd sex-object being offered as prize in a contest among the (male) dunces or versifiers.
Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen, 1969.
111

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 18 May 1728

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18 May 1728

The earliest form of Pope 's Dunciad launched his second attack on LMWM , implying her membership in the class of rapacious whores.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
277

Eliza Haywood: 21 June 1728

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21 June 1728

EH anonymously published the first part of a novel entitled The Agreeable Caledonian, with another perhaps ironical dedication, to Lady Betty (or Elizabeth) Henley , a fifteen-year old noblewoman who had just eloped.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
294-5
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
178

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 21 June 1728

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21 June 1728

LMWM 's deranged sister, Frances, Lady Mar , was abducted and carried off by agents of her brother-in-law Lord Grange , in pursuit of his own financial interest.
This was the same Lord Grange who...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 24 June 1728

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24 June 1728

LMWM 's deranged sister Lady Mar was placed under her guardianship.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
280

July 1728 to June 1753: Jean Barbeyrac and others published at Amsterdam...

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July 1728 to June 1753

Jean Barbeyrac and others published at Amsterdam the quarterly periodical series Bibliothèque raisonnée des ouvrages des savans de l'Europe, in which reviews were anonymous.
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.

Constantia Grierson: 8 August 1728

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8 August 1728

A piece which has been attributed to CG , The Art Of Printing, A Poem (beginning Hail Sacred Art, thou Gift of Heaven), was printed in ceremonial circumstances as a single sheet at Dublin.
qtd. in
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
33 and n3
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Eliza Haywood: 8 August 1728

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8 August 1728

EH 's Irish Artifice; or, The History of Clarina (sometimes known by its subtitle) appeared, with her name, as part of The Female Dunciad.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
299-300
Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen, 1969.
142

Eliza Haywood: 16 August 1728

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16 August 1728

EH published the first part of a translation from French dedicated to the merchant's wife Lady Lombe : The Disguis'd Prince; or, The Beautiful Parisian.
Lady Lombe, who died in 1753, was wife of...

Judith Cowper Madan : 23 August 1728

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23 August 1728

JCM , at Brettby (now Bretby) in Derbyshire, addressed to her absent husband a poem entitled (by Ashley Cowper) merely To the Same, which thanks him for his goodness to her in her...

Mehetabel Wright: September 1728

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September 1728

MW probably wrote her now well-known death-wish poem, To an Infant expiring the second Day of its Birth when one of her babies died.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Jane Sharp: September 1728

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September 1728

A new edition of The Midwives Book, JS 's textbook of 1671, was reported.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Elizabeth Thomas: 5 September 1728

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5 September 1728

Curll published one of the many prose attacks on Pope , who at once concluded it was written by ET: Codrus: Or, The Dunciad Dissected. Being the Finishing-Stroke.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
196
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
128
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.

Autumn 1728: Elizabeth Nutt and Anne Dodd each submitted...

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Autumn 1728

Elizabeth Nutt and Anne Dodd each submitted a petition from prison against their punishment for publishing a libel.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
104-5
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Nutt

Mercy Otis Warren: 25 September 1728

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25 September 1728

Mercy Otis (later MOW ) was born at Barnstable, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, her parents' eldest daughter (though not their eldest child).
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
19-20, 28

Eliza Haywood: 25 September-16 October 1728

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25 September-16 October 1728

A weekly periodical called The Parrot ran for four numbers, as the work of a widow, Mrs Prattle, née Tell-Tale. Sometimes ascribed to EH , it is probably not by her.

28 September 1728: Following the prosecution of its proprietor,...

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28 September 1728

Following the prosecution of its proprietor, Nathaniel Mist , the Opposition paper Mist's Weekly Journal changed its name to Fog's Weekly Journal.
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.

28 September 1728: The Daily Journal carried an advertisement...

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28 September 1728

The Daily Journal carried an advertisement for the return of a runaway slave boy wearing a metal collar engraved My lady Broomfield's black in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Street, Peter. “Slavery in the Eighteenth Century”. New Rambler, 1999–2000, pp. 3-7.
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Constantia Grierson: Just before 1 October 1728

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Just before 1 October 1728

CG bore her son George Abraham Grierson , the only one of her children to survive infancy. He became, like her, a noted scholar.
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
46n24
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.

Elizabeth Ashbridge: 28 October 1728

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28 October 1728

A young man courting the probably fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Sampson (later EA ), apparently named William Husbands , took out a licence for them to be married—but specified that if either was under age they must...

Anne-Thérèse de Lambert: 7 November 1728

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7 November 1728

ATL having printed at Paris this year (out of annoyance at Pierre Nicolas Desmolets 's publication of her letter to her son) Avis d'une mère à son fils et à sa fille, containing both...

8 November 1728: The mercury Anne Dodd was sentenced to Newgate...

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8 November 1728

The mercuryAnne Dodd was sentenced to Newgate Prison for publishing a libel; she had petitioned against the sentence, as a working woman not as a figure of pathos.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
104-5

Oliver Goldsmith: 10 November probably 1728

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10 November probably 1728

OG , poet, novelist, historian, biographer and playwright, was born probably at Pallas, Longford, Ireland, a middle child in a family of eight.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.