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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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Katherine Philips: 28 June 1729

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Author event in Katherine Philips

28 June 1729

Another edition of KP 's Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus was published by Lintot , priced at half a crown.
The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.

17 July 1729: The all-female mercury firms of Elizabeth...

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17 July 1729

The all-female mercury firms of Elizabeth Nutt and Anne Dodd were summonsed about a libel they had published. Subordinate members of each firm testified that the mistress was not responsible, having been away ill at...

Elizabeth Thomas: 23 July 1729

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Author event in Elizabeth Thomas

23 July 1729

A warrant was issued for the release of ET from the Fleet Prison , where she had languished for debt for a year and a half.
Rebecca Mills notes that Curll dates the warrant, wrongly, 3 July.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
122
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
122

Jane Squire: 23 July 1729

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Author event in Jane Squire

23 July 1729

JS was released from the Fleet Prison following the passage through parliament of an Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Cooper, d. 1761: 4 August 1729

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4 August 1729

Auctioneer John Cooper , husband of the future writer Elizabeth Cooper , died at under the age of forty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

26 August 1729: Dr James Augustus Blondel published The Power...

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26 August 1729

Dr James Augustus Blondel published The Power of the Mother's Imagination over the Foetus examin'd.
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.

Sir Richard Steele: 1 September 1729

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Author event in Sir Richard Steele

1 September 1729

Sir Richard Steele , periodical writer, playwright, and theatre manager, died in King Street, Carmarthen, Wales.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
497
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.
96
Dammers, Richard H. Richard Steele. Twayne, 1982.

Sarah Savage: 27 September 1729

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Author event in Sarah Savage

27 September 1729

SS 's husband, John , died suddenly. They had been married for forty-two years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829.
117

18 October 1729: The Universal Spectator no. 54 printed a...

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18 October 1729

The Universal Spectator no. 54 printed a letter from a young lady signing herself Clarissa, complaining of the way that men debar women from learning and condemn them to ignorance.
Pitcher, Edward W., and Isobel Grundy. Email about ongoing research to Isobel Grundy. 26 Mar. 2002.

31 October 1729: Another new London theatre opened: Goodman's...

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31 October 1729

Another new London theatre opened: Goodman's Fields , on Ayliff Street in Whitechapel.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 3, 12

3 November 1729: Professor Thomas Simson Chandos of the University...

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3 November 1729

Professor Thomas Simson Chandos of the University of St Andrews published The System of the Womb . . ..
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.

22 November 1729: Jonathan Swift anonymously published A Modest...

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22 November 1729

Jonathan Swift anonymously published A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.

27 November 1729: Dr Daniel Turner printed a reply to James...

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27 November 1729

Dr Daniel Turner printed a reply to James Augustus Blondel 's recent attack, on the question of a mother's imagination influencing the form of her foetus; it appeared with 1730 on the title-page.
The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.
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.

December 1729: Lady Abergavenny died in childbirth, having...

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December 1729

Lady Abergavenny died in childbirth, having been literally turned out while heavily pregnant by her husband, on grounds of her adultery.
Stone, Lawrence. Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987. Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
296

31 December 1729: Mary Unknown, a political pamphleteer also...

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31 December 1729

Mary Unknown , a political pamphleteer also writing as Thom Tell Truth , was interrogated before Walpole and Newcastle about her authorship of a libel entitled A Letter to a Member of Parliament in the North.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Elizabeth Boyd: 1730

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1730

EB , again calling herself Louisa, published Verses congratulatory humbly Inscrib'd to Sir William Morris , Bart. on his return from his travels.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Celia Fiennes: 1730

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Author event in Celia Fiennes

1730

CF , with six other people, registered a house at Highwood Hill near Barnet in Middlesex for legally holding Presbyterian meetings.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
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Radagunda Roberts: About 1730

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Author event in Radagunda Roberts

About 1730

RR was born.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Constantia Grierson: 1730

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Author event in Constantia Grierson

1730

CG published her edition of Tacitus : three volumes in slightly larger format, dedicated this time to the Viceroy himself, Lord Carteret (later Granville) , who, she said, had suggested the work and encouraged its progress.
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
40, 47

Constantia Grierson: 1730

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Author event in Constantia Grierson

1730

CG 's poem The Goddess Envy to Dr. D—l—y was anonymously published at Dublin; it was attributed to her only recently, when a draft was identified in her manuscript book.
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
46, 55

Anne Irwin: 1730

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1730

AI made a journey through the Low Countries and France.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1730: The first cotton stockings were knitted on...

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1730

The first cotton stockings were knitted on a frame in Nottingham; thus began the industrial manufacture of hosiery.
Chambers, Jonathan David. Nottinghamshire in the Eighteenth Century, a study of life and labour under the squirearchy. 2nd edition, Frank Cass, 1966.
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1730s: In this decade poetry became the genre in...

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1730s

In this decade poetry became the genre in which greatest numbers of women embarked on the publication or circulation of their writings.
Stanton, Judith Phillips. “Statistical Profile of Women Writing in English from 1660 to 1800”. Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts, edited by Frederick M. Keener and Susan E. Lorsch, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 247-54.
251

1730-1740: The first Maroon War took place between the...

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1730-1740

The first Maroon War took place between the British and Maroons of Nanny Town and Trelawny Town in Jamaica.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
155, 159
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xi
Colley, Linda. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History. HarperCollins, 2007.
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From about 1730s: The fashionable rococo style encouraged women...

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From about 1730s

The fashionable rococo style encouraged women to use profuse trimmings and accessories in their dress.
Campbell, Kimberly Chrisman. “Milliners in Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
25
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2002, pp. 157-71.
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