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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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Bernard Mandeville: 21 January 1733

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21 January 1733

BM , satirist and physician, died at Hackney, London.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
325
Cook, Richard I. Bernard Mandeville. Twayne, 1974.
10

May Drummond: 28 January 1733

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28 January 1733

MD penned the epistle to an unknown recipient which she later placed first in her collected volume, Internal Revelation the Source of Saving Knowledge.
Drummond, May. Internal Revelation the Source of Saving Knowledge. 1736.
vii

Alexander Pope: 15 February 1733

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15 February 1733

AP published The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace , Imitated, the first of his series of free imitations or updatings of the Roman poet Horace .
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
5: li

Alexander Pope: 20 February 1733

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20 February 1733

AP published the first epistle of the four which make up An Essay on Man.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
3.i: 3

23 February 1733: A twenty-two-year-old washerwoman, Sarah...

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23 February 1733

A twenty-two-year-old washerwoman, Sarah Malcolm , standing trial for murder, failed to persuade a jury (all-male, of course) that the blood on her shift was not the victim's but her own menstrual blood.
Magrath, Jane. “(Mis)Reading the Bloody Body: The Case of Sarah Malcolm”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
11
, No. 2, 2004, pp. 223-36.
223-36

Mary Chandler: 24 February 1733

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24 February 1733

MC published the first, anonymous, edition of A Description of Bath, A Poem in a Letter to a Friend.
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.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 8 March 1733

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8 March 1733

Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace, a satiric attack on and riposte to Pope which was probably composed by LMWM and Lord Hervey , appeared in two separate, anonymous, folio editions.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
265

12 March 1733: George Lyttelton published a poem entitled...

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12 March 1733

George Lyttelton published a poem entitled Advice to a Lady.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
264

14 March 1733: Sir Robert Walpole first proposed the immensely...

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14 March 1733

Sir Robert Walpole first proposed the immensely controversial Excise Bill.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
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Jane Brereton: April 1733

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April 1733

In the Gentleman's Magazine, Edward Cave announced his competition for a poem on the busts of British worthies set up in Queen Caroline 's Cave or Grotto at Richmond.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
3 (1733): 208

Mary Masters: April 1733

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April 1733

MM published by subscription her Poems on Several Occasions: the first volume of poems in English by a woman to be issued this way. Her surviving letters show that she put a lot of...

Anne Steele: 3 April 1733

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3 April 1733

AS , aged sixteen and after an eighteen-month interruption in her schooling because of illness, began, with her half-sister, at a boarding school in the Cathedral Close at Salisbury.
Broome, J. R. A Bruised Reed. Anne Steele: Her Life and Times. Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007.
85

Charlotte Charke: May 1733

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May 1733

Colley Cibber retired abruptly from managing Drury Lane , passing it not to his son Theophilus but to John Highmore ; Theophilus, CC , and other performers defected to the illicit Little Theatre in the Haymarket .
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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Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber, 1988.
52-3

By May 1733: More than 20,000 children were reported by...

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By May 1733

More than 20,000 children were reported by an article in the Gentleman's Magazine to have attended charity schools in London since the beginning of the century.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
3 (1733): 250

Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield: 14 May 1733

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14 May 1733

Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield , made an ambitious marriage: to Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenburg , illegitimate daughter of George I .
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.

Eliza Haywood: 31 May 1733

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31 May 1733

A ballad opera, The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great, by EH and her lover, William Hatchett , was performed at the Haymarket. It was published the same day and the...

Elizabeth Boyd: June 1733

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June 1733

EB published, with her initials, The Humorous Miscellany; or, Riddles for the Beaux.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
3 (1733): 331
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

June 1733: John Laguerre painted The Stage Mutiny, which...

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June 1733

John Laguerre painted The Stage Mutiny, which shows Theophilus Cibber , Charlotte Charke , and others, confronting John Highmore , then manager of Drury Lane .
Folkenflik, Robert. “Charlotte Charke: Images and Afterimages”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 137-61.
151-3

Sarah Fielding: 7 June 1733

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7 June 1733

SF 's grandmother, Lady Gould , died.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xxxviii
Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne, 1996.
xi

Anne-Thérèse de Lambert: 12 July 1733

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12 July 1733

ATL died in Paris, after carrying on her salon to the end of her life.
Fassiotto, Marie-José. Madame de Lambert. Peter Lang, 1984.
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Mary Barber: Late August 1733

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Late August 1733

MB arrived in London from Dublin on a money-making venture: she had poems by Swift to publish.
McLaverty, James. “Lawton Gilliver: Pope’s Bookseller”. Studies in Bibliography, Vol.
32
, 1979, pp. 101-24.
119

Mary Barber: 20 August 1733

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20 August 1733

Swift dated his dedication of MB 's Poems, written on her behalf, to Lord Orrery .
Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734.
iii-vii

Mary Barber: 29 September 1733

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29 September 1733

MB composed a poem to mark the entry of one of her sons into the care of John Barber (no relation), then Lord Mayor of London.
Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734.
232-3

Mehetabel Wright: July or October 1733-December 1736

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July or October 1733-December 1736

The Gentleman's Magazine printed several poems which are or may be by MW .
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
3 (1733): 371, 542; 6 (1736): 349, 740

Françoise de Graffigny: October 1733

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October 1733

FG wrote her earliest surviving letter, which was addressed to François Devaux ; the extant correspondence (which accounts for most of her surviving letters) becomes abundant only in 1738.
“La Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny”. University of Toronto, Robarts Library: Graffigny Project.