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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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Charlotte Charke: 5 September 1735

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5 September 1735

CC 's farceThe Carnival; or, Harlequin Blunderer played for her benefit at Lincoln's Inn Fields .
She was entitled to a benefit night each season (as was every member of the company), when she...

By September 1735: The gardens of Lord Cobham at Stowe in Buckinghamshire...

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By September 1735

The gardens of Lord Cobham at Stowe in Buckinghamshire were complete enough to be written up in The Daily Gazetteer.
Zeitz, Lisa M. “Constructing the Past, Construing the Future: Time and History in the Garden Space of Stowe”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, 1999, pp. 201-13.
204, 205

19 September 1735: A proposal was published for a series or...

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19 September 1735

A proposal was published for a series or periodical to be entitled The Weekly Novelist, a Collection of the Best Novels.
May, James E. “Scribleriana Transferred: Dealer Catalogues 1993-1994”. The Scriblerian, Vol.
xxix-xxx
, Department of English, Temple University, 1 Mar.–30 Nov. 1997, p. 286.
286

Charlotte Charke: 24 September 1735

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24 September 1735

CC 's topical farceThe Art of Management; or, Tragedy Expell'd, a satire on Fleetwood and other Drury Lane personnel, played at York Buildings .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 513

Jane Brereton: October 1735

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October 1735

JB dated her inscription to Queen Caroline of the first poem in a sixteen-page quarto issued by Cave as by a Lady: Merlin: A Poem . . . To which is added, The Royal...

Ann Jebb: 9 November 1735

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9 November 1735

Ann Torkington (later AJ ) was born at King's Rippon in Huntingdonshire, the eldest daughter in her family.
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
597

13 November 1735: Mother Mary Davis took office as Procuratrix...

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13 November 1735

Mother Mary Davis took office as Procuratrix (i.e. domestic bursar or housekeeper) of the Bar Convent School in York, and began a sort of log book in which she and her successors kept detailed...

27 November 1735: The recently-founded official government...

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27 November 1735

The recently-founded official government paper The Daily Gazetteer vigorously defended the current rate of twenty or thirty hangings a year in London.
Dussinger, John A. “Ciceronian Eloquence: The Politics of Virtue in Richardsons PamelaEighteenth Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 1, Oct. 1999, pp. 39-60.
51n27

Susanna Wesley: By 27 November 1735

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By 27 November 1735

Following her husband 's death on 28 April 1735, SW moved to the town of Gainsborough with her daughter Emilia or Emily, a schoolmistress.
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
xiv
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
15

Jane Johnson : 16 December 1735

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16 December 1735

Jane Russell married the Rev. Woolsey Johnson , who had been a curate in London but this year became vicar of Olney in Buckinghamshire.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
162, 168

Mary Barber: 1736

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1736

MB was reported to be ill at Bath.
Swift, Jonathan. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon, 1965, 5 vols.
IV: 451-2, 456

Sarah Stone: 1736

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1736

SS , though well into middle age, made an ambitious career move, to set up in business in Piccadilly, London.
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Stone: Enlightenment Midwife”. Clio Medica: Medicine in the Enlightenment, edited by Roy Porter, Rodopi, 1995, pp. 128-44.
129
Stone, Sarah. A Complete Practice of Midwifery. T. Cooper, 1737.
title-page

Anne-Thérèse de Lambert: 1736

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1736

ATL 's Traité de l'amitié was posthumously published at Paris in a composite work called Recueil des divers écrits sur l'amour et l'amitié. This essay on friendship bore the nearest approximation to her name...

1736: Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion,...

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1736

Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, a defence of Christianity against Deism which argued from a principle of reasonable probability.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
58

1736: The first lying-in hospital in Great Britain...

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1736

The first lying-in hospital in Great Britain was established in Edinburgh.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
139

12 January 1736: Susannah Maria Cibber made a sensational...

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12 January 1736

Susannah Maria Cibber made a sensational debut as a tragic actress (though she had been heard as a singer) in the title role of Aaron Hill 's Zara.
Nash, Mary. The Provoked Wife: The Life and Times of Susannah Cibber. Little, Brown, 1977.
87-93

Thomas Gray: Early in probably 1736

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Early in probably 1736

Dorothy Gray , mother of the poet Thomas Gray (who was then nearly twenty), sought legal advice about the physical and verbal abuse she endured from her husband and what recourse she might have in law.
Gray, Thomas, and Herbert Willmarth Starr. Correspondence. Editors Toynbee, Paget and Leonard Whibley, Clarendon Press, 1971, 3 vols.
3:1195-7

Martha Fowke: 17 February 1736

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17 February 1736

Martha Sansom (previously MF ) died at her brother's house in Leicestershire.
Fowke, Martha. “Introduction”. Clio, edited by Phyllis J. Guskin, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1997, pp. 15-50.
38-9
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
85

Phebe Gibbes: 18 March 1736

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18 March 1736

PG may have been the Phebe French born on this day in Peartree Alley in Shoreditch to Martha and Anthony French. But she may instead have been born to Sarah and Thomas French of Edge...

24 March 1736: The repeal of the English and Scottish laws...

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24 March 1736

The repeal of the English and Scottish laws against witchcraft (dating from the beginning of James I 's reign and making it a capital offence) received the royal assent.
Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
22: 651
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
529n

Elizabeth Justice : 25 March 1736

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25 March 1736

Edmund Curll 's unauthorised publication Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence included in its fourth, ragbag volume four letters from EJ in St Petersburg to one of her London friends.
Griffith, Reginald Harvey. Alexander Pope: A Bibliography. University of Texas Press, 1922, 2 vols.
2: 334
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Irwin: Early 1736

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Early 1736

AI travelled to Germany, appointed by Queen Caroline to escort Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha to England to marry the Prince of Wales .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

15 April 1736: The Porteous Riots occurred in Edinburgh...

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15 April 1736

The Porteous Riots occurred in Edinburgh.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
338
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
984

27 April 1736: Frederick Prince of Wales married Princess...

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27 April 1736

Frederick Prince of Wales married Princess Augusta , who had first met him two days before, when she landed in England.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
6 (1736): 230
Backscheider, Paula R. “The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-102.
99

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: By May 1736

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By May 1736

LMWM fell suddenly in love with Francesco Algarotti , a brilliant young middle-class Venetian making the tour of Europe.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2:102