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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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2 October 1733: The General Evening Post was launched as...

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2 October 1733

The General Evening Post was launched as a thrice-weekly newspaper: one of four papers 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, 159-61
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.

Catherine Talbot: After 29 November 1733

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Author event in Catherine Talbot

After 29 November 1733

The barely teenage CT wrote for a cousin her Letter to a New-born Child, daughter of Mr John Talbot , a son of the Lord Chancellor.
CT 's uncle Charles Talbot became Lord Chancellor...

Sarah Savage: 1734

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Author event in Sarah Savage

1734

Looking back on her life after five years as a widow, SS wrote: I think I may say I had my roots watered with wine.
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829.
115

1734: The Society of Dilettanti was founded: an...

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1734

The Society of Dilettanti was founded: an all-male group of travelled connoisseurs.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
256-8

1734: Jean Adam or Adams published at Glasgow her...

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1734

Jean Adam or Adams published at Glasgow her Miscellany Poems.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1734: Erasmus Jones, writing as Father Poussin...

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1734

Erasmus Jones , writing as Father Poussin (whose name is a dirty joke) published anonymously Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
345-6

1734: John Williams's Method to Learn to Design...

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1734

John Williams 's Method to Learn to Design the Passions, translated from a manual by French painter Charles Le Brun , appeared; it proved highly influential.
McMaster, Juliet. “Reading Body Language: A Game of Skill”. Persuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 90-104.
95-6, 104

1734-5: William Hogarth's second print series, A...

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1734-5

William Hogarth 's second print series, A Rake's Progress, depicted the downward spiral of a young man.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
73-5

Mary Barber: 30 January 1734

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30 January 1734

MB was arrested and taken into custody, on Matthew Pilkington 's information, in connection with publishing a seditious poem by Swift .
McLaverty, James. “Lawton Gilliver: Pope’s Bookseller”. Studies in Bibliography, Vol.
32
, 1979, pp. 101-24.
119

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 8 February 1734

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8 February 1734

LMWM 's lampoon on Swift appeared as an anonymous folio, The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room. A Poem.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
273-6

March 1734: Mary Edwards, an heiress who had made a clandestine...

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March 1734

Mary Edwards , an heiress who had made a clandestine Fleet marriage, dissolved it by expunging it from the records.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
364-5

Eliza Haywood: 15 March 1734

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Author event in Eliza Haywood

15 March 1734

EH signed the contract for her theatre history: The Dramatic Historiographer; or, The British Theatre Delineated. She was paid £16.4s.
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.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
334-5

Eliza Haywood: 30 March 1734

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30 March 1734

EH published with her name another translation, a group of stories called L'Entretien des Beaux Esprits, dedicated to Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset , who had evidently supported her work already.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
329-32
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.
xli
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
182

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: April 1734

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April 1734

Isaac Watts published Reliquiae Juveniles: Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose and Verse, including four short poems by Lady Hertford identified by the pen-name Eusebia (meaning Piety).
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 23 April 1734

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23 April 1734

LMWM 's niece Lady Frances Pierrepont , an heiress, eloped from her care with a man whom her aunt considered a fortune-hunter.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
312-14

Martha Fowke: June 1734

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June 1734

A poem On being charged with writing incorrectly appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine; it is by the mystery poet of the Barbados Gazette (arguably MF ), but was attributed merely to a Young Lady.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
4 (1734): 327

Charlotte Charke: From 3 June 1734

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From 3 June 1734

CC , at Henry Fielding 's Haymarket Theatre , appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay ), Falstaff (Shakespeare ), George Barnwell (George Lillo ), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe ).
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 402ff

13 June 1734: A new parliament was called for this date...

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13 June 1734

A new parliament was called for this date following elections at which the opposition's aim was to shake the security of Sir Robert Walpole 's mandate.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
1: 132

Agnes Wheeler: Soon before 3 July 1734

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Soon before 3 July 1734

Agnes Coward (later AW ) was born at Church Town, Cartmel in Lancashire; this was the day of her christening.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Alexander Pope: 4 July 1734

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4 July 1734

AP continued his series of Horatian imitations with The Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
344-5, 345n63

Elizabeth Justice : 4 July 1734

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4 July 1734

EJ , divorced from her husband and forced to support herself and her children, sailed from England as governess in the family of the British St Petersburg merchant Hill Evans .
Justice, Elizabeth. A Voyage to Russia. 2nd ed., G. Smith, 1746.
preface
Justice, Elizabeth. Amelia; or, The Distress’d Wife. 1751.
152
Paterson, James. “An Examination of A Voyage to Russia (1739): The First Travel Account Published by an Englishwoman”. Women Writers. A Zine, edited by Kim Wells, 14 May 2001.
2

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 4 July 1734

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4 July 1734

Pope 's Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace attacked LMWM and her husband together.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
344-5, 345n63

Margaret Minifie: A little before 15 July 1734

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A little before 15 July 1734

MM was born at Fairwater House in her father's parish of Staplegrove near Taunton in Somerset.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Margaret Minifie and Susannah Gunning. 15 Apr. 2016.

July 1734: The Gentleman's Magazine offered a prize...

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July 1734

The Gentleman's Magazine offered a prize for the best poem on the Four Last Things, or on one of them (Death, Judgement, Heaven, or Hell).
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1734): 382, 442, 508, 619, 694; 6 (1735): 159, 215, 255-6

Mary Chandler: By September 1734

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By September 1734

Samuel Richardson , in London, did another anonymous printing of MC 's A Description of Bath.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(September 1734): 51