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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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December 1728: George II's eldest son, then Frederick Augustus,...

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December 1728

George II 's eldest son, then Frederick Augustus, Prince of Brunswick-Lunenburg , arrived in England for the first time.
Backscheider, Paula R. “The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-102.
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By December 1728: William Law published A Serious Call to a...

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By December 1728

William Law published A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.

Elizabeth Cairns: About 1729

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Author event in Elizabeth Cairns

About 1729

EC , in her mid-forties and having lost both her parents, began to think through and to write down the story of her up-and-down relationship with God.
Cairns, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life of Elizabeth Cairns. Editor Greig, John, John Brown, 1762.
148-9, 163

Mehetabel Wright: 1729

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1729

MW wrote in a state of distress to her father , fearing that his anger might have influenced God to punish her with the death of a child.
Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 15-38.
19

Anne-Thérèse de Lambert: 1729

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1729

New Reflexions on the Fair Sex, an English translation of ATL 's Réflexions nouvelles sur les femmes, was published in London, dedicated by the translator, John Lockman , to the Duchess of Manchester .
Fassiotto, Marie-José. Madame de Lambert. Peter Lang, 1984.
33
Boulan, Emile. Figures du dix-huitième siècle. Société d’editions A.W. Sijthoff, 1920.
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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.

1729: Philip Yorke, later Lord Hardwicke (Solicitor...

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1729

Philip Yorke, later Lord Hardwicke (Solicitor General), and Charles Talbot (Attorney General) endorsed the legality of slavery.
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
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Craton, Michael. Testing the Chains. Cornell University Press, 1982.
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1729: Carl von Linné (also known as Linnaeus),...

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1729

Carl von Linné (also known as Linnaeus) , twenty-two this year, published his early Praeludia Sponsaliarum Plantarum, which already sexualises and anthropomorphises plant reproduction.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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1729: The publisher Andrew Millar, a Scotsman,...

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1729

The publisher Andrew Millar , a Scotsman, established his printing house at 141 The Strand, London.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
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1729: John Wood began building Queen Square, Bath:...

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1729

John Wood began building Queen Square, Bath: an early stage in his creation of the Georgian city.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1729: 5,225 pupils were registered at 132 charity...

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1729

5,225 pupils were registered at 132 charity schools in London.
Sonnet, Martine. “A Daughter to Educate”. A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, edited by Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge, translated by. Arthur Goldhammer and Arthur Goldhammer, Vol.
3
, Harvard University Press, 1993, pp. 101-31.
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Judith Cowper Madan : 10 January 1729

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10 January 1729

JCM showed she had not lost the knack for satire in Verses occasioned by Reading a scandalous Satire called Sarah the Quaker to Lothario, lately deceased, upon meeting him in the Shades, an indignant...

William Congreve: 19 January 1729

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19 January 1729

WC , poet and playwright, died at his lodgings in Surrey Street, London.
Congreve, William. “Chronology”. The Way of the World, edited by Kathleen M. Lynch, University of Nebraska Press, 1965, pp. 126-36.
135

Clara Reeve: 23 January 1729

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23 January 1729

CR was born at Ipswich in Suffolk, the eldest daughter in a family of eight children.
Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977.
xii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Eliza Haywood: 29 January 1729

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29 January 1729

EH published what is probably her first novel of this year: The Fair Hebrew; or, A True, but Secret History of Two Jewish Ladies, Who lately resided in London.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
307-8
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
183

Penelope Aubin: 31 January 1729

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31 January 1729

PA published another translation: The Life of the Countess de Gondez, from the French of Marguerite de Lussan .
A Register of Books 1728-1732, extracted from the Monthly Chronicle. Gregg Press, 1964.
2: 26

25 February 1729: The Haymarket Theatre, hitherto occupied...

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25 February 1729

The Haymarket Theatre , hitherto occupied by temporary foreign troupes, opened as a mainstream theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 987, 1017

Eliza Haywood: 4 March 1729

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4 March 1729

EH 's tragedy Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh, dedicated to Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales , opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields . It was published before the end of the month.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 2, 1018
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
312

Charlotte Lennox: Between March 1729 and March 1730

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Between March 1729 and March 1730

Charlotte Ramsay (later CL ) was born, in the British possession of Gibraltar: not, as had been supposed, an only child, but the youngest of five.
Many sources give her an earlier birth date...

Mary Delany: 14 March 1729

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14 March 1729

Mary Pendarves (later MD ) expressed anxiety that she might be thought (by a man) to set up for a poet, and that is a character I detest, unless I was able to maintain it...

Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 25 March 1729

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25 March 1729

As the author of Friendship in Death, ESR published a volume entitled Letters on Various Occasions, in prose and verse, which in all later editions became part one of Letters Moral and Entertaining...

Alexander Pope: April 1729

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April 1729

AP published The Dunciad Variorum: this was the second major version in the poem's evolution, still anonymous and bearing the same misleading colophon as the first.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
5: 3
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

: Charles Wesley and two or three other undergraduates...

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Spring 1729

Charles Wesley and two or three other undergraduates founded a society at Oxford which others called methodistical.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Penelope Aubin: 22 April 1729

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22 April 1729

In a new departure for her, PA put on a so-called concert at what she called the Lady's Oratory in York Buildings, Villiers Street, London.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.

Mary Chandler: 22 April 1729

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22 April 1729

Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands, an anthology edited by James Ralph , included some works by MC (as well as one by Judith Madan ).
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Frances Reynolds : 10 May 1729

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10 May 1729

FR was born at Plympton Erle in Devon, the youngest of eleven children who survived their birth.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press, 2000.
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