Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: May 1736-May 1741
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May 1736-May 1741
wrote love-letters to
, many of them in French.
Lady Mary Walker: 8 May 1736
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8 May 1736
Lady Mary Leslie (later
) was born at Melville House near Cupar in Fife; she was the youngest daughter out of seven children.
Elizabeth Cooper, d. 1761: 17 May 1736
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17 May 1736
's second comedy, The Nobleman; or, The Family Quarrel, opened at the
.
May Drummond: After May 1736
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After May 1736
published, with her name, a handful of religious letters under the title of Internal Revelation the Source of Saving Knowledge: Candidly recommended in several Epistles, whose first edition was produced at Reading and...
Elizabeth Singer Rowe: By July 1736
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By July 1736
's eight-book biblical verse epic, The History of Joseph. A Poem, was published as by the Author of Friendship in Death.
Eliza Haywood: 17 July 1736
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17 July 1736
dedicated to
, a major critique, with her name, of
's Prime Ministership: the satirical fiction Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo.
7 August 1736: Mary, Lady Bellfield, the second wife of...
7 August 1736
, the second wife of
, was imprisoned for thirty years at his great house in County Clare, for an alleged affair...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 13 August 1736
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13 August 1736
's
married
in the parish of Marylebone, London.
September 1736-1738: Joseph Ilive, who had worked on the Gentleman's...
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September 1736-1738
, who had worked on the Gentleman's Magazine, founded a rival Gentleman's Magazine; and Monthly Oracle; but it proved short-lived.
Sarah Savage: 8 September 1736
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8 September 1736
, who had been living with various of her friends and children since her
's death seven years before this, set out on her move to West Bromwich in Staffordshire, where she...
29 September 1736: An act for Laying a Duty upon the Retailers...
29 September 1736
An act for Laying a Duty upon the Retailers of Spiritous Liquors (Gin Act) came into effect, making it harder to obtain a licence to retail spirits.
Elizabeth Singer Rowe: By October 1736
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By October 1736
Philomela: or, Poems by Mrs. was issued without permission by
, just a few months before the author's death.
Anne Irwin: December 1736
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December 1736
The Gentleman's Magazine printed
's An Epistle to Mr.
. By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: December 1736
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December 1736
proposed to
that she might move from England to Venice to be near him.
Mary Chandler: 1737
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1737
participated in the boom in Bath: she built a large new lodging-house between the Abbey and the new development of Orange Grove, an area frequented by Dissenters.
Charlotte Charke: 1737-38
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1737-38
gave puppet performances of her own devising at Punch's Theatre, in the Old Tennis Court, James Street, London.
Janet Schaw: About 1737
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About 1737
was born at Lauriston, which is now part of Edinburgh. Although her family is well-documented, her precise birth and death dates have not so far been found, but she seems to have been...
Laetitia Pilkington: 1 January 1737
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1 January 1737
's
died, some months after apparently falling with a surgical knife in his hand.
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: 1737
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1737
A love-song by
, which she called Song to a River, was published in Bickham's Musical Entertainer, as The Maid's Request.
Elizabeth Moody: 1737
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1737
At about thie date Elizabeth Greenly (later
) was born into a family of several children at Kingston in Surrey (close to London) which was rich in wit and art.
1737: The Belfast Newsletter was founded as a liberal,...
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1737
The Belfast Newsletter was founded as a liberal, reformist journal which attracted disapproval some years later by its support for the revolt of the American colonists.
1737-9: Elizabeth Blackwell (not to be confused with...
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1737-9
(not to be confused with the pioneer physician of the same name who flourished a century later) published, first in weekly parts and then in volume form, her Curious Herbal.
1737: Alexander Cruden, who later in life styled...
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1737
, who later in life styled himself Alexander the Corrector, published his Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures.
1737: Fifty-seven of the 133 merchants or retailers...
1737
Fifty-seven of the 133 merchants or retailers operating this year in Boston, Massachusetts, were women.
1737: The London pleasure-grounds of Vauxhall Gardens,...
1737
The London pleasure-grounds of Vauxhall Gardens, on the south bank of the Thames, were extensively re-modelled; this gained them new status and popularity