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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 Boyd: About 30 October 1730

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About 30 October 1730

EB published with her name Verses most humbly inscrib'd to His Majesty King George IId. on his Birth-Day.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Mary Barber: Before the end of 1730

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Before the end of 1730

MB 's campaign to raise subscribers for her Poems on Several Occasions was well under way: Swift wrote to her about its progress on 23 February 1731.
Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, 1999, pp. 155-74.
170

Charlotte Charke: December 1730

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December 1730

CC bore her daughter, her only child, who grew up to be a good comedy actress.
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.
17

Penelope Aubin: 11 December 1730

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11 December 1730

As Mrs. Aubin, the Oratrix, PA spoke a new epilogue at a benefit performance of her own comedy, The Merry Masqueraders; or, The Humorous Cuckold.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 101
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.

Elizabeth Cairns: 1731

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1731

EC stopped writing her memoirs, for fear of doing harm to religion by the circulation of incorrect copies; she lost five years before she decided that this idea came from the devil.
Cairns, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life of Elizabeth Cairns. Editor Greig, John, John Brown, 1762.
169

May Drummond: 1731

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1731

MD attended the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends in Edinburgh with about thirty young women of her circle, apparently out of a joking spirit of curiosity.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Story, Thomas. The Life of Thomas Story. Isaac Thompson, 1747.
714

Catherine Talbot: By 1731

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By 1731

It seems that by the age of ten CT was writing verses which got handed round in society; an unnamed lady said in 1745 that she had seen some of them at Bath fourteen years...

Judith Cowper Madan : 1731

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1731

JCM 's ambitious poem The Progress of Poetry first appeared in print in The Flower-Piece: a Collection of Miscellany Poems. By several hands, edited by Matthew Concanen (the elder) and published by Walthoe .
Madan, Judith Cowper. “The Progress of Poetry”. The Flower-Piece, edited by Matthew Concanen, Walthoe, 1731, pp. 130-40.
Flower-Piece 130

1731: John Lockman issued The Religious Ceremonies...

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John Lockman issued The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of Several Nations of the Known World, his translation from a French original published the same year.
Potter, Tiffany. “The Taxonomy of Relative Femininity in Representations of North American Indian Women”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 25 Oct. 2002.
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.

1731: Antoine-François Prévost published the first...

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1731

Antoine-François Prévost published the first form of his novel Manon Lescaut.
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.

January 1731: Edward Cave published the first number of...

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January 1731

Edward Cave published the first number of The Gentleman's Magazine: the first monthly periodical and longest-running British literary journal.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
1 (1731)

1731: The University of Bologna (then included...

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1731

The University of Bologna (then included in The Papal States) appointed Doctress and ProfessorLaura Bassi (1711-1778), to the Chair of Anatomy; she later held a philosophy chair from which she taught Newtonian physics for...

Martha Fowke: 16 January 1731

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16 January 1731

Another re-printing of MF 's first published volume (as Clio and Strephon) was hailed in verse in Read's Weekly Journal, or, British-Gazetteer.
The Weekly Journal; or, British Gazetteer. J. Read.
16 January 1731
Feminist Companion Archive.

3 February 1731: The Daily Advertiser was launched in London:...

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3 February 1731

The Daily Advertiser was launched in London: one of four newspapers (only two dailies) which dominated publishers' book advertising until nearly the century's end.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
154-5, 157-8, 159-61
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.
The British Library Catalogue dates the first...

Mary Deverell: 4 February 1731

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4 February 1731

MD was born, according to the parish records, near Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire, into a large family.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Deverell. 7 Mar. 2016.

Elizabeth Thomas: 3 February 1731

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3 February 1731

ET died in London, in poverty.
This date, too, has been only recently discovered.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
123
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Frances, Lady Norton: Early 1731

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Early 1731

Frances, Lady Norton , died in her late eighties.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

26 February 1731: Elizabeth Rayner, having had her pamphlet...

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26 February 1731

Elizabeth Rayner , having had her pamphlet shop at Charing Cross raided for libels, challenged the raiders in a newspaper advertisement to prove their legal authority, or she would take legal redress.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
110-11

Elizabeth Singer Rowe: March 1731-October 1732

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March 1731-October 1732

ESR published the second and third volumes of her Letters Moral and Entertaining.
A Register of Books 1728-1732, extracted from the Monthly Chronicle. Gregg Press, 1964.
4 (March 1731): 61

Alison Cockburn: 12 March 1731

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12 March 1731

Alison Rutherford was married in the parish church at Ormiston in East Lothian (where her husband's family owned its estate) to Patrick Cockburn , a lawyer and later an estate manager.
Cockburn herself says she...

Catharine Macaulay: 2 April 1731

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2 April 1731

Catharine Sawbridge (later CM ) was born at her father's estate of Olantigh, in the parish of Wye in Kent.
This is just across the River Stour from Godmersham Park, which was later...

Sarah Chapone: 19 April - 12 May 1731

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19 April - 12 May 1731

John and Charles Wesley , walking across the country to visit their mother and the rest of their family at Epworth, stopped both going and coming to visit SC at Stanton.
Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press, 1975–1983.
25: 278n1

Daniel Defoe: 24 April 1731

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24 April 1731

DD , novelist, pamphleteer, Dissenter, and journalist, died in Ropemaker's Alley, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Astell: 9 May 1731

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9 May 1731

MA died at Chelsea near London, in the house of her friend Lady Betty Hastings , of the effects of breast cancer, reported as a dropsy or swelling tympany.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
323, 263

Mary Barber: 22 June 1731

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22 June 1731

Somebody signing Swift 's name, possibly MB herself, addressed to Queen Caroline a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage.
The name of Matthew Pilkington , though not yet put forward, seems a natural...