Whigs

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Textual Production Delarivier Manley
The full title is Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean.
DM must surely have intended allusion to Francis Bacon
Textual Production Anna Maria Porter
An engraving after Richard Cosway was published for the Whig Club depicting the Polish national hero Kościuszko with a quatrain in his praise contributed by AMP .
McLean, Thomas. The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Palgrave Macmillan.
54, 57

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27 March 1680: According to an early advertisement, the...

Writing climate item

27 March 1680

According to an early advertisement, the London offices of the Penny Post were opened by upholsterer Robert Murray and metals merchant William Dockwra . This challenged the government monopoly , and advertisements were thought to...

1780: Charlotte Cowley published The Ladies History...

Women writers item

1780

Charlotte Cowley published The Ladies History of England, with the avowed intention of depictiing her Sex's Worth in every Age,
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press.
206
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