Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray, 1906, 2 vols.
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Elizabeth Montagu: By 24 February 1732
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By 24 February 1732
Elizabeth Robinson (later
) became a friend of
), who was seven years her senior.
Elizabeth Boyd: March 1732
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Author event in Elizabeth Boyd
March 1732
published by subscription The Happy-Unfortunate; or, The Female Page: a Novel, for which the label of romance might seem more appropriate.
Jane Barker: Just before 18 March 1732
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Author event in Jane Barker
Just before 18 March 1732
died at the Chancellerie in St Germain near Paris.
The date comes from the burial record from the St Germain parish register, and assumes that this French source, saying 29 March, was...
Mary Davys: 8 April 1732
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Author event in Mary Davys
8 April 1732
The Dean and Chapter of
, Dublin, noted the gift of £5 from
to buy a handsome Bible.
10 April 1732: William Hogarth began selling to subscribers...
10 April 1732
began selling to subscribers the prints of A Harlot's Progress, first of his visual narrative series of engravings done from paintings.
May-July 1732: A number of poor women at Hackney were paid...
May-July 1732
A number of poor women at Hackney were paid parish money for nursing the elderly, sick, or insane.
Alison Cockburn: 15 May 1732
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Author event in Alison Cockburn
15 May 1732
bore her only child,
, who was named after his paternal grandfather, an eminent lawyer. Adam the younger was educated to be a phisician—went thro' all the Coledges, but became...
Mary Davys: 3 July 1732
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Anne Steele: 9 July 1732
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9 July 1732
, aged fifteen, was baptised as a Particular Baptist, along with two other people.
Elizabeth Ashbridge: 15 July 1732
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Author event in Elizabeth Ashbridge
15 July 1732
The future
, not yet twenty, landed in New York after a nine-week voyage from Dublin.
Susanna Wesley: 24 July 1732
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Author event in Susanna Wesley
24 July 1732
wrote the famous letter to her son
in which she outlined in detail her system of childrearing.
Catharine Trotter: August 1732
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Author event in Catharine Trotter
August 1732
Catharine Cockburn (formerly
) composed, at Aberdeen, A Poem, Occasioned by the busts set up in the
's Hermitage . . . .
Anne Irwin: 12 September 1732
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Author event in Anne Irwin
12 September 1732
addressed to her father an anonymous topographical or country-house poem, Castle-Howard, The Seat of the Right Honourable .
Mary Davys: November 1732
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Author event in Mary Davys
November 1732
's The False Friend; or, the Treacherous Portugueze, which she had included in her Works as The Cousins, was issued alone in a different version, with this title.
November 1732: The first settlers for the new colony of...
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November 1732
The first settlers for the new colony of Georgia (for which
had that year secured a charter from
) set sail. They landed in February 1733.
Constantia Grierson: 2 December 1732
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Author event in Constantia Grierson
2 December 1732
died, probably of tuberculosis: she had made light of a persistent cough and joked about the highly imaginative dreams that followed a sleeping-draught, probably laudanum.
Her death-date has generally been given (following Mary Barber)...
7 December 1732: John Rich opened a new theatre in Covent...
7 December 1732
opened a new theatre in
, the Theatre Royal, and moved his farces and pantomimes there from the other Theatre Royal in
.
19 December 1732: Benjamin Franklin published the first issue...
Writing climate item
19 December 1732
published the first issue of Poor Richard'sAlmanac, which went on to sell nearly ten thousand copies a year.
Jane Squire: Christmas Day 1732
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Author event in Jane Squire
Christmas Day 1732
had the engraving made of an astronomical chart (beautifully lettered but wrongly headed LODGITUDE) for binding into her book.
1733: A law passed by Jamaica's assembly decreed...
1733
A law passed by Jamaica's assembly decreed that no one shall be deemed a mulatto after the third generation . . . but . . . shall have all the privileges and immunities of...
1733: Ralph Allen began building his Palladian...
1733
began building his Palladian mansion, Prior Park, on a hill above Bath, designed by
. He had a practical as well as an aesthetic end: to prove the quality of...
1733: The physician George Cheyne published his...
1733
The physician
published his treatise on spleen, vapours, or what today is called depression, under the title of The English Malady.
1733: The Lord Chancellor Charles Talbot handed...
1733
The Lord Chancellor
handed down a judgement (Chaplin v. Chaplin) making it harder for a widow to secure dower (traditional entitlement to one-third of her husband's property).
Alexander Pope: 15 January 1733
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Author event in Alexander Pope
15 January 1733
published the second-printed of what became his Epistles to Several Persons (or Moral Essays): Epistle to .
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 15 January 1733
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Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
15 January 1733
attacked
's
's business practices in his Epistle to .