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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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1730-1750: Infant mortality rates in London ran at 75%...

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1730-1750

Infant mortality rates in London ran at 75% before the age of five.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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8 January 1730: The Grub-Street Journal began publication...

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8 January 1730

The Grub-Street Journal began publication in London; it ran until 29 December 1737.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Eliza Haywood: 14 January 1730

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14 January 1730

EH issued her single work this year, dedicated to Mrs Walpole , Relict of the Honourable Galfridus Walpole : Love-Letters on All Occasions Lately passed between Persons of Distinction; three apparently silent years followed.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
314-16
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii.
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Alicia D'Anvers: 22 January 1730

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22 January 1730

A new edition of ADA 's Academia appeared, again anonymously, in response to a recent play: The Humours of Oxford , A Comedy, by a Wadham undergraduate.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

24 January 1730: Dr John Mowbray published The Female Physician,...

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24 January 1730

Dr John Mowbray published The Female Physician, containing all the Diseases incident to that Sex . . ..
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.

Elizabeth Boyd: After February 1730

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After February 1730

EB , as Louisa, published a congratulatory poem To the Right Honourable William Lord Harrington , on his late Return from Paris.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
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.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Charlotte Charke: February 1730

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February 1730

Charlotte Cibber married Richard Charke , actor and musician, at St Martin's Church, after a six months' acquaintance.
Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber, 1988.
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Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 9-62.
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27 February 1730: Colonel Francis Charteris was convicted for...

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27 February 1730

Colonel Francis Charteris was convicted for raping a servant.
Battestin, Martin C., and Ruthe Battestin. Henry Fielding: A Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Schwarz, Joan I. “Statutory and Case Rape Law and Women’s Representation”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Providence, RI, 1993.

30 March 1730: Henry Fielding's The Author's Farce opened...

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30 March 1730

Henry Fielding 's The Author's Farce opened at his Little Theatre in the Haymarket , which was currently presenting its first season.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 3, 45

Charlotte Charke: 8 April 1730

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8 April 1730

CC made her stage debut, as Madamoiselle in Vanbrugh 's Provok'd Wife, by personal request of the leading actress Anne Oldfield , and for Oldfield's benefit night.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 48
Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 9-62.
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Eliza Haywood: April 1730-May 1737

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April 1730-May 1737

EH appeared on stage as a member of Henry Fielding 's company at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket.
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.

10 April 1730: George Rouson was convicted of raping a child...

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10 April 1730

George Rouson was convicted of raping a child of nine; he was sentenced at Hicks Hall, London, to two whippings and one year's hard labour.
The Grub-Street Journal. James Roberts.
10 April 1730

3 May 1730: Negroes (for the slave trade) were reported...

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3 May 1730

Negroes (for the slave trade) were reported scarce in coastal districts near Aunamabo in Africa, owing to a bloody war with their inland neighbours.
The Grub-Street Journal. James Roberts.
17 September 1730
Dabydeen, David. Hogarth’s Blacks: Images of Blacks in Eighteenth Century English Art. University of Georgia Press, 1987.
121

15 May 1730: Sir Robert Walpole's Whig ministry was confirmed...

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15 May 1730

Sir Robert Walpole 's Whig ministry was confirmed in power following the general election.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Elizabeth Bury: 26 May 1730

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26 May 1730

A fourth edition appeared of Samuel Bury 's An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury (containing her surviving writing, primarily her diary).
A Register of Books 1728-1732, extracted from the Monthly Chronicle. Gregg Press, 1964.
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Elizabeth Thomas: June 1730

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June 1730

ET's The Metamorphosis of the Town: or, A View of the Present Fashions. A Tale: after the manner of Fontaine, was anonymously published.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

8 June 1730: James Thomson published by subscription The...

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8 June 1730

James Thomson published by subscription The Seasons as a four-fold poem, with A Hymn on the Seasons and William Kent 's illustrations.
Thomson, James, 1700 - 1748. Winter. J. Millan, 1726.
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Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
4: 367n17

Mary Barber: Summer 1730

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Summer 1730

MB was on a little-documented visit to England.
Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734.
xxii, 122-3

Mary Barber: August 1730

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August 1730

MB addressed a verse petition to two noblewomen at Tunbridge Wells on behalf of a potential recipient of charity: little Jemmy Pen.
Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734.
122-3

Elizabeth Boyd: By 13 August 1730

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By 13 August 1730

EB , as Louisa, published A Poem on the Arrival of the Right Honourable William Earl Cowper , after a Dangerous Illness, Against his Birth-Day.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Mary Delany: 14 August 1730-July 1734

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14 August 1730-July 1734

Letters written by the future MD as Aspasia to John Wesley over this span of time are extant, and are printed among his works.
Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press, 1975–1983.
25: 246-390

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: September 1730

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September 1730

LMWM was dangerously ill, and attended by Dr Arbuthnot .
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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September 1730: Four young men beat and kicked a young woman...

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September 1730

Four young men beat and kicked a young woman who ran a punch house in College Green, Dublin, killing the child with which she was pregnant and bringing her near death.
The Grub-Street Journal. James Roberts.
(17 September 1730): 3

By 11 September 1730: Stephen Duck published The Thresher's Labour,...

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By 11 September 1730

Stephen Duck published The Thresher's Labour, a georgic poem that was unique as an account of labour by a labouring man.
The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.

Late September 1730: The death of Laurence Eusden activated interest...

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Late September 1730

The death of Laurence Eusden activated interest in the question of who would be next Poet Laureate; many despised both leading candidates, Stephen Duck and Colley Cibber .
Ennis, Daniel J. “The Making of the Poet Laureate, 1730”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
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, 2000, pp. 217-35.
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