Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: About September 1734
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Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
About September 1734
wrote a free translation of Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, a comedy by
; she titled it Simplicity.
Fidelia: : 23 September 1734
Women writers item
Author event in Fidelia:
23 September 1734
of Lincoln (known only by her Gentleman's Magazine poems) had her first signed piece printed there, about the magazine's offer of a prize for a poem on the Four Last Things.
The four last...
Elizabeth Carter: From November 1734
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Author event in Elizabeth Carter
From November 1734
's verse appeared regularly for more than a decade in the Gentleman's Magazine as by Eliza.
The Orlando Project is grateful to
for advice on its
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Fidelia: : November 1734
Women writers item
Author event in Fidelia:
November 1734
Two months after her first Gentleman's Magazine verse,
proposed a more unusual prize for the poety contest: not money at all, but the hand of
in marriage.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: November 1734
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
November 1734
's
, having recently come of age, made a demand for family money; they had an acrimonious scene.
4 November 1734: The London Daily Post and General Advertiser...
Writing climate item
4 November 1734
The London Daily Post and General Advertiser was launched: one of four newspapers (only two dailies) which dominated publishers' book advertising until nearly the century's end.
12 November 1734 - 2 July 1736: Aaron Hill (with sporadic help from William...
Writing climate item
12 November 1734 - 2 July 1736
(with sporadic help from
and perhaps
) edited a twice-weekly periodical entitled The Prompter.
Henry Fielding: 28 November 1734
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Author event in Henry Fielding
28 November 1734
married his first wife, Charlotte Cradock, whom he loved passionately and with whom he had eloped.
28 November 1734: The Daily Courant launched the first attack...
28 November 1734
The Daily Courant launched the first attack on
for his dubious patent medicine, Ward's drop.
Fidelia: : December 1734
Women writers item
Author event in Fidelia:
December 1734
The Gentleman's Magazine closed the year with another poem signed
, but very different in tone from her earlier contributions: A Christmas Hymn. By a Lady.
Alexander Pope: December 1734
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Author event in Alexander Pope
December 1734
published anonymously a poem which is anything but sober, entitled Sober Advice from .
Samuel Johnson: Probably December 1734
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Author event in Samuel Johnson
Probably December 1734
published his first work, the anonymously translated travel book and missionary narrative A Voyage to Abyssinia, with 1735 on its title-page.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: December 1734
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
December 1734
was again seriously ill, possibly as the aftermath of a row with her
.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: December 1734
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
December 1734
's Sober Advice from attacked
(under a variety of ingenious but permeable nicknames): to be even suggested in a poem of this pornographic tone was damaging.
5 December 1734: A notorious poem by Swift, A Beautiful Young...
Writing climate item
5 December 1734
A notorious poem by
, A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, first reached print. In mock -pastoral mode, it describes a professional prostitute carefully disassembling the cosmetics and prostheses by which she...
Catharine Colace Ross: 1735
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Colace Ross
1735
's autobiography, Memoirs, or Spiritual Exercises, was posthumously published nearly forty years after her death, at Edinburgh.
Anne Irwin: 1735
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Irwin
1735
had a house built for her at 5 New Burlington Street, London, by
, former associate of her
's architect,
.
1735-October 1736: An island-wide African rebellion occurred...
National or international item
1735-October 1736
An island-wide African rebellion occurred in Antigua; many executions followed.
1735: The earliest Watch Act established a nightly...
1735
The earliest Watch Act established a nightly force of watchmen and beadles to police London; a series of further Acts set out to improve on the first one.
1735: The architect John Wood the elder completed...
1735
The architect
completed Queen Square in Bath, one of the earliest of the city's urban Palladian landmarks.
1735: Robert Dodsley, a man from the lower classes...
Writing climate item
1735
, a man from the lower classes who had worked as a footman, opened his publisher's shop in Pall Mall, London.
1735: Some Considerations upon Streetwalkers, while...
1735
Some Considerations upon Streetwalkers, while following its predecessors in blaming prostitutes for lewdness and depravity, added the new idea that women were driven to prostitution out of economic need.
1735: The Conjuration and Witchcraft Act, repealing...
1735
The Conjuration and Witchcraft Act, repealing previous British acts against witchcraft and replacing them with more moderate treatment, made its way through
. It received royal assent on 24 March 1736.
1735: An all-female conger or group of publishers...
1735
An all-female conger or group of publishers (including
and
) got together to finance the expensive Annotations on the Holy Bible.
Alexander Pope: 2 January 1735
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Author event in Alexander Pope
2 January 1735
published his Epistle to Dr. , which was later reprinted as Prologue to the Satires.