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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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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 2 January 1735

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2 January 1735

Pope 's Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot made a particularly strong and memorable attack on LMWM 's friend Hervey and also herself.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
348

9 January 1735: Elizabeth Purefoy of Shalstone Manor in Buckinghamshire...

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9 January 1735

Elizabeth Purefoy of Shalstone Manor in Buckinghamshire wrote the first of the business letters printed in Purefoy Letters, 1931; they provide a vivid, detailed account of managing a farm and estate.
Purefoy, Henry, and Elizabeth Purefoy. Purefoy Letters 1735-1753. Editor Eland, George E., Sidgwick and Jackson, 1931, 2 vols.
1: 157

Alexander Pope: 8 February 1735

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8 February 1735

AP published An Epistle to a Lady, completing his set of Epistles to Several Persons (or Moral Essays).
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
351

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 8 February 1735

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8 February 1735

Pope 's An Epistle to a Lady. Of the Characters of Women delineated a controlled and submissive female ideal (and again attacked LMWM ).
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
351

Elizabeth Cooper, d. 1761: 22 February 1735

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22 February 1735

Elizabeth Cooper 's comedy The Rival Widows; or, Fair Libertine opened at Covent Garden , where it ran for long enough to give her the profits of two benefit nights.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 463, 464, 466

Elizabeth Cooper, d. 1761: 27 February 1735

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27 February 1735

On her benefit night, Elizabeth Cooper played the lead (a young widow, like herself) in her own comedy The Rival Widows.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 464

Fidelia: : March 1735

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March 1735

Fidelia reappeared unmistakably in the Gentleman's Magazine with Fidelia to Sylvanus Urban, a verse epistle in her former jaunty style to the magazine's proprietor, Edward Cave.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 159

Margaret Calderwood : 30 March 1735

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30 March 1735

Margaret Steuart married Thomas Calderwood , a landowner gifted with a talent for languages who was said by his wife's editor to be a good easy-going man, somewhat indolent,
Calderwood, Margaret. “To the Reader; Introductory Chapter”. Letters and Journals, edited by Alexander Fergusson, David Douglas, 1884, p. vii - lviii.
xliv
who developed the habit...

Jane Brereton: April 1735

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April 1735

JB , writing as M—a, joined in the spirited verse conversation which had been begun by the still unidentified Fidelia in the pages of the Gentleman's Magazine.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 215

Fidelia: : April 1735

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April 1735

In the same Gentleman's Magazine issue that suggested she might be nothing but a disguise for the editor , appeared Fidelia 's To the unknown Gent [sic] who signs Sylvius.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 215

Alexander Pope: April 1735

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April 1735

AP published the second volume of his Works, to go with the one that appeared in 1717.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
351

3-30 April 1735: Sir John Barnard's bill for regulating the...

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3-30 April 1735

Sir John Barnard 's bill for regulating the theatres and limiting the number of companies failed to pass the House of Commons , but generated much heated debate over theatre reform.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: xlix-l, 411-12

May Drummond: 29 April 1735

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29 April 1735

MD , travelling in Devon, preached a sermon about the Inner Light; the manuscript, now in the library of Friends' House in London, is entitled May Drummond's Account of Conscience and Account of...

Sarah Chapone: May 1735

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May 1735

SC published, anonymously, a feminist treatise on women's legal situation: The Hardships of the English Laws in relation to Wives.
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(May 1735): 283

Fidelia: : May 1735

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May 1735

The Gentleman's Magazine printed a poem to Fidelia by Fido (that is, Thomas Beach), a poem to Melissa (Jane Brereton ) by Elizabeth Carter , and also Fidelia to Melissa.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 255
Barker, Anthony. “Poetry from the Provinces: Amateur Poets in the Gentleman’s Magazine in the 1730s and 1740s”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 241-56.
254

Mary Barber: 17 May 1735

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17 May 1735

MB 's Poems on Several Occasions were entered to her name in the Stationers' Register ; the date of 1734 on title-pages in the first issue of the quarto edition for subscribers seems therefore to...

Jane Brereton: June 1735

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June 1735

JB , now writing as Melissa, followed up her earlier Gentleman's Magazine poem as M—a with further contributions to the ongoing verse dialogue.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 321

30 June 1735: The Daily Gazetteer: or, London Adventurer...

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30 June 1735

The Daily Gazetteer: or, London Adventurer began publishing.
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.
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.
160-1

Samuel Johnson: 9 July 1735

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9 July 1735

The twenty-five-year old SJ married, at Derby, a widow who was twenty years older, Elizabeth Porter ; he said it was a love match on both sides.
Huntington Library Summary Catalogue of Montagu Papers.
1: 95n2

Jane Brereton: By August 1735

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By August 1735

An Extraordinary issue of the Gentleman's Magazine printed, among poems submitted for its Four Last Things competition, an entry by Melissa, that is JB .
Carlson, Carl Lennart. The First Magazine. Brown University Press, 1938.
215
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 393, 436

Fidelia: : August 1735

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August 1735

Fidelia reappeared in the Gentleman's Magazine with To a young Gentleman who had a fine Genius for Poetry, but who upon reading Mr Pope 's and Dr Swift 's Works, declined writing.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 494

Constantia Grierson: August 1735

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August 1735

The Gentleman's Magazine reprinted (two or three years after CG 's death) her To Mrs. Mary Barber, which had just appeared in Barber's Poems on Several Occasions.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (August 1735): 492

Elizabeth Elstob: By summer 1735

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By summer 1735

Two decades after her brother's death and her virtual disappearance from records, EE was teaching at a dame school for labourers' children in Evesham. She was exhausted and disheartened by the work.
Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, 1985, pp. 12-48.
21, 23

Fidelia: : September 1735

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September 1735

Fidelia made her final identified appearance in the Gentleman's Magazine, with two epistolary poems, Fidelia to Sylvius and Fidelia to Mr Urban.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 551, 555

By September 1735: Merlin's Cave at Richmond in Surrey, brainchild...

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By September 1735

Merlin's Cave at Richmond in Surrey, brainchild of Queen Caroline , was opened to the public.
Backscheider, Paula R. “The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-102.
97-8
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 532