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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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Penelope Aubin: Shortly before 23 April 1738

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Shortly before 23 April 1738

PA died in London; she was buried on this date. Her husband made and signed another codicil to his will about a week later.
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.
Welham, Debbie. “The Particular Case of Penelope Aubin”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
31
, No. 1, Mar. 2008, pp. 63-76.
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Alexander Pope: May, July 1738

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Author event in Alexander Pope

May, July 1738

AP published (under different titles) the two dialogue poems which in 1740 were given the joint title Epilogue to the Satires.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
4: 296, 312

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: May 1738

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May 1738

Frances, Countess of Hertford 's The Story of Inkle and Yarrico was handsomely published, with its companion piece, as Attempted in Ver[s]es by The Right Hon. the Countess of ****.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
S380
Hertford, Frances Seymour, Countess of. The Story of Inkle and Yarrico. J. Cooper, 1738.
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Laetitia Pilkington: 3 May 1738

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Author event in Laetitia Pilkington

3 May 1738

The Lady whose operatical farce entitled No Death but Marriage was given on this date at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin was probably LP .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Samuel Johnson: 13 May 1738

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13 May 1738

SJ published his anonymous satirical poem London; it was at first ascribed to Pope .
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
1: 15n2

Just before 15 May 1738: Captain Robert Jenkins displayed to the House...

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Just before 15 May 1738

Captain Robert Jenkins displayed to the House of Commons (as an incentive to declaring war against Spain) his severed ear.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

24 May 1738: John Wesley experienced conversion and the...

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24 May 1738

John Wesley experienced conversion and the assurance of salvation, at the Aldersgate Street meeting-house in London.
Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 26 July 1738-12 July 1744

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26 July 1738-12 July 1744

During these years LMWM wrote her letters to Lady Pomfret .
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 118-337

Elizabeth Carter: By August 1738

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By August 1738

EC issued, through Cave , in a small number of copies intended purely for friends and patrons, a slim quarto bearing her name: Poems upon Particular Occasions.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe. 26 Feb. 2006.

Grisell Murray: 6 August 1738

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6 August 1738

George Baillie , father of GM , died. He was buried in a mausoleum which he had expressly ordered to be as plain as possible, at his family estate of Mellerstain in the Borders of Scotland.
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 1822.
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Aphra Behn: September 1738

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September 1738

The Gentleman's Magazine, in a piece called The Apotheosis of Milton, describes AB trying unsuccessfully to get into Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
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Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford: September 1738-October 1741

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September 1738-October 1741

Frances, Countess of Hertford , exchanged letters, often on literary topics, with Lady Pomfret , who with her husband was living abroad for economy reasons.
Hertford, Frances Seymour, Countess of, and Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret. Correspondence between Frances, Countess of Hartford and Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret. Richard Phillips, 1805, 3 vols.

Mary Collyer: 28 September 1738

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28 September 1738

Mary Mitchell married, at a City of London church, Joseph Collyer , who worked as a bookseller and an author, and had bought the marriage licence that same day.
Culshaw, Geoff. Geoff’s Genealogy. 21 Feb. 2009, http://www.geoffsgenealogy.co.uk/index.htm.

9 October 1738: The audience at the New Haymarket Theatre...

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9 October 1738

The audience at the New Haymarket Theatre rioted against the appearance of a company of French comedians.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 729, 735-6

Dorothea Celesia: Before 11 October 1738

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Before 11 October 1738

Dorothea Mallet (later DC ) was born on the outskirts of London, the younger of two children. She was baptised at Chiswick on this date.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Elstob: Soon after November 1738

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Soon after November 1738

Having abandoned her plan for running a girls' boarding school, EE took up her post as governess to the Duchess of Portland 's very young children.
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.

Celia Fiennes: 6 November 1738

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Author event in Celia Fiennes

6 November 1738

CF made her will: she had two houses and many personal possessions to leave, though she remarked that her personal fortune had declined steeply in value during recent years.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
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Elizabeth Carter: By late November 1738

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By late November 1738

EC issued her first translation: a scholarly version, with critical comment, of the Examen on Pope 's An Essay on Man which had been written in French by Crousaz .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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5 December 1738: The trial opened in which Theophilus Cibber...

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5 December 1738

The trial opened in which Theophilus Cibber sued William Sloper for adultery, claiming £5,000 damages: virtually the trial of Susannah Cibber . The jury found Sloper guilty but signified their opinion of Theophilus by awarding...

Lady Eleanor Butler: 1739

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1739

Eleanor Butler was born at Cambrai, considerably the youngest of three sisters; the arrival of a brother the following year made her position in the family still less important.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
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Frances Sheridan: About 1739

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About 1739

At fifteen Frances Chamberlaine (later FS ) wrote a romance, Eugenia and Adelaide.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
vii

Elizabeth Justice : 1739

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1739

EJ published by subscription at YorkA Voyage to Russia, Describing the Laws, Manners and Customs of that Great Empire, as governed, at this present, by that Excellent Princess, the Czarina (Catherine the Great).
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Grisell Murray: 1739

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1739

The year after GM 's father, George Baillie , died, she set down at their temporary home in OxfordPlain Facts Relating to My Father's Character, of which I could give many more.
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 1822.
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1739: Sir Richard Manningham, fashionable man-midwife...

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1739

Sir Richard Manningham , fashionable man-midwife or obstetrician, opened England's first lying-in infirmary or medical centre reserved for childbirth, in a house next-door to his own in Jermyn Street, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1739: Joe Miller's Jests, probably the best-loved...

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1739

Joe Miller's Jests, probably the best-loved eighteenth-century jestbook
Dickie, Simon. “Hilarity and Pitilessness in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: English Jestbook Humor”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-22.
6
(an incongruous mix of jokes with fables, maxims, proverbs, and Moral Sentences), first appeared for sale.
Dickie, Simon. “Hilarity and Pitilessness in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: English Jestbook Humor”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-22.
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