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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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Laetitia Pilkington: Shortly before 29 September 1739

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Shortly before 29 September 1739

LP published a second pamphlet, the ironically-titled An Apology for the Minister.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
2: 550

October 1739: The Gentleman's Magazine printed a four-page...

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October 1739

The Gentleman's Magazine printed a four-page article by an anonymous Lady about women's education and women's employment.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
9 (1739): 525-6

23 October 1739: Britain declared war against Spain. This...

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23 October 1739

Britain declared war against Spain. This war, however, was later swallowed up in the War of the Austrian Succession, which involved a larger number of combatants.
Wallace, Charles Harrison. “Porto Bello”. Monamy Website.

November 1739: The anonymous, probably female Sophia published...

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November 1739

The anonymous, probably female Sophia published a pamphlet entitled Woman not Inferior to Man.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
9 (1739): 608

November 1739: Sir Roger L'Estrange's prose translation...

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November 1739

Sir Roger L'Estrange 's prose translation of Aesop 's Fables (formerly treated in snappy couplets by Aphra Behn ) was printed—by Samuel Richardson .
Richardson, Samuel. Pamela. Editor Sabor, Peter, Penguin, 1985.
522n79

Samuel Richardson: 10 November 1739

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10 November 1739

Breaking off other work, SR began writing the work which became his first novel, the epistolary Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded.
Richardson, Samuel. “Introduction”. Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family, edited by Christine Gerrard, Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. i - xlix.
xxvi

15 November 1739: The first number appeared of The Champion,...

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15 November 1739

The first number appeared of The Champion, an Opposition periodical by Henry Fielding and James Ralph .
Graham, Walter. English Literary Periodicals. Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1930.
156

21 November 1739: Not quite a month after Britain had declared...

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21 November 1739

Not quite a month after Britain had declared war on Spain, Admiral Edward Vernon (who had been allowed to sail months earlier) captured the Spanish stronghold of Porto Bello in Panama.
Wallace, Charles Harrison. “Porto Bello”. Monamy Website.

Sarah Dixon: By 22 November 1739

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By 22 November 1739

SD 's subscription for her book of poems must have been nearly complete when Elizabeth Carter wrote to Edward Cave asking for any leftover copies of the proposals.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.
236 n6

Late 1739: There was published, bearing the date of...

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Late 1739

There was published, bearing the date of 1740, The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies , commonly call'd Mother Ross. Taken from her own mouth, the story of a woman cross-dressing to be a soldier.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Easton, Fraser. “Plebeianizing the Female Soldier”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, St John’s, Newfoundland, 15 Oct. 2010.

Sarah Dixon: 1740

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1740

SD published at Canterbury, by subscription, Poems on Several Occasions, anonymously as by a Lady.
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.

Susannah Gunning: Probably by 1740

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Probably by 1740

Susannah Minifie (later SG ) was born in Somerset, perhaps at Fairwater House near Taunton, in her father's parish of Staplegrove, or perhaps away from home.
Her baptism is not listed at Staplegrove...

Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan: 1740

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1740

Margaret Smith, later Margaret, Lady Lucan , was born at Canons Leigh in Devon, the younger of two sisters.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
8: 237-8
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Behrendt, Stephen C., and George Holmes, editors. “Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period”. Alexander Street Press, 2008.

1740: The Académie Française authorised a new and...

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1740

The Académie Française authorised a new and reformed version of French orthography, a step away from fossilised traces of classical derivations, and towards a phonetic spelling.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
126

1740: The London Infirmary opened: it became the...

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1740

The London Infirmary opened: it became the London Hospital during the 1750s, and was later known as the hospital where Eva Lückes was Matron.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
57

1740: A Vagrancy Act provided that soldiers and...

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1740

A Vagrancy Act provided that soldiers and sailors could no longer be treated as vagabonds if they had passes.
Innes, Joanna. “The Domestic Face of the Military-Fiscal State: Government and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain”. An Imperial State at War, edited by Lawrence Stone, Routledge, 1994, pp. 96-127.
115

Elizabeth Boyd: February 1740

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February 1740

EB published a rousing patriotic or opposition pamphlet, Admiral Haddock ; or, The Progress of Spain, A Poem, advertised this month in the Gentleman's Magazine.
Foxon dates this 1740, though the title-page says 1739.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
10 (1740): 96

17 March 1740: A warrant was issued for the arrest of William...

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17 March 1740

A warrant was issued for the arrest of William Guthrie , a writer for the Opposition periodicals Common Sense and Old England.
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
149

7 April 1740: Colley Cibber, actor-manager and father of...

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7 April 1740

Colley Cibber , actor-manager and father of Charlotte Charke , published his autobiography, An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, Comedian.
Ashley, Leonard R. N. Colley Cibber. Twayne, 1965.
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Elizabeth Montagu: June 1740-January 1742

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June 1740-January 1742

Elizabeth Robinson (later EM ) spent long periods of time with the Duchess of Portland and her husband in London and at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire.
Climenson, Emily J., and Elizabeth Montagu. Elizabeth Montagu, The Queen of the Bluestockings. Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761. John Murray, 1906, 2 vols.
1: 49, 97-8

Mary Palmer : 18 July 1740

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18 July 1740

Mary Reynolds was married at Little Torrington in Devon to John Palmer , who had qualified as a lawyer but lived as a wealthy country gentleman. He was nearly thirty-two.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

2 August 1740: James Thomson's masque Alfred the Great was...

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2 August 1740

James Thomson 's masque Alfred the Great was first staged, in a special performance for the Prince and Princess of Wales: its pronounced patriotism was of the kind tied to the current political opposition.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 August 2010

Jane Brereton: 7 August 1740

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7 August 1740

JB died, as her daughter Charlotte recorded in an anniversary poem published in the Gentleman's Magazine. The cause was said to be gravel, or urinary problems.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
11 (1741): 438
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 14 August 1740-March 1741

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14 August 1740-March 1741

LMWM , no longer expecting Algarotti to join her in Venice, travelled while she waited to plan her future.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 202-32

William Law: Later 1740

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Later 1740

On her husband's death, Elizabeth Hutcheson , former friend of Mary Astell , moved with Hester Gibbon to join WL in philosophic retirement at King's Cliffe in Northamptonshire, where they became local benefactors.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.