The first five numbers appeared of Theosophical Transactions, the Philadelphian Society 's journal: not a work of JL 's but a journal intimately connected with her writings.

Marie-Catherine Desjardins published the opening two volumes of a long novel or romance which she never returned to finish, entitled Alcidamie.

The History of Adolphus, Prince of Russia began as an interpolation in MCA 's romance L'histoire d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas, which was itself published in French in 1690 and not translated into English in its entirety until 1708 (below). The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of the Lady — Travels into Spain (translated from the first two parts of Relation du voyage d'Espagne, 1691, and generally known as The Lady's Travels into Spain) began with a long, descriptive title (The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of the Lady — Travels into Spain. Describing the devotions, manners, humours, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people. Intermixt with great variety of modern adventures, and surprising accidents: being the truest and best remarks extant on that court and countrey). It was quickly joined by an English version of its third part, and went through more than ten editions or reprints during the next fifty years. A edition which reprints (with modernised spelling) a version of 1692 appeared in 1930. It was serialised in January 1726 to April 1727 in Parker's Penny Post.

DM published anonymously, in two successive volumes, her secret history or political scandal fiction Secret Memoirs from the New Atalantis.

ESR published the second and third volumes of her Letters Moral and Entertaining.

Curll published in two volumes the recently-dead ET's correspondence with her late fiancé (and other works) under the intriguing title of Pylades and Corinna.

SR published the first two volumes of his second epistolary novel, Clarissa.

EH brought out the first, anonymous part of her earliest known work: Love in Excess; or the Fatal Enquiry. A Novel. Two more handsome volumes followed serially, bearing her name, by 26 February 1720.

Lady Llanover edited and published MD 's Autobiography and Correspondence, in two sets of three volumes each.

An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips was published by instalments.

CC published in instalments A Narrative of her life, which she said she had begun writing about five years earlier.

Marivaux' full title, La vie de Marianne; ou, Les aventures de Madame la Comtesse de*****, suggests a story from actual life. MC wrote most of her version before 1741 (very soon after the French original appeared). It was published in weekly instalments before volume form. Once in print, it was re-issued in both licit and illicit editions. A scholarly edition was produced by William Harlin McBurney and Michael Francis Shugrue in 1965.

A second volume of ML 's Poems upon Several Occasions was printed by Richardson , with a new subscription list.

The first two volumes of A Series of Genuine Letters Between Henry and Frances—that is, between EG and her future husband, Richard Griffith —were published at both Dublin and London.

MOW anonymously published in the Massachusetts Spy the first instalment of her patriotic, or pro-independence, one-act play The Adulateur, an attack on Governor Thomas Hutchinson .