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1709 |
Nicholas Rowe's edition of Shakespeare. |
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1709 |
Mary Astell, Bart'lemy Fair, or an Inquiry After Wit. |
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1709 |
Robert Gould's "The Playhouse," revised for publication in his Works, portrays Ephelia as a whore and literary parasite.
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1709 |
Bill passes for the naturalization of foreign Protestants |
*Anglicans |
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1709 |
The Statute of Anne provides a basis for limited copyright, limiting possession to 14 years with an option to renew for 21 total. Throughout most of the century, until Donaldson v. Becket, booksellers behaved as if this law did not exist, buying and selling copyrights as if they owned them in perpetuity. |
*copyright |
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Apr 12, 1709 |
Sir Richard Steele et. al. launch The Tatler, the first major British periodical, presenting news and literature as well
as recipes for behavior for the ideal gentleman and gentlewoman. |
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Sept 18, 1709 |
Samuel Johnson born, Lichfield, Staffordshire. |
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1710 |
Naturalization Bill repealed. |
*Anglicans |
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1711 |
Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism. |
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1711 |
Lord Shaftesbury, Characteristicks, articulates the philosophy of the literary movement of sensibility. |
*Sensibility |
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Mar 1, 1711 |
Richard Steele and Joseph Addison begin publishing The Spectator, a periodical succeeding The Tatler, that makes use of a fictional framework and sets the vogue for periodicals throughout the rest of the century. |
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1712 |
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock. |
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1712 |
Joseph Addison, "The Pleasures of the Imagination" papers in The Spectator (No.s 411-21). |
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1713 |
Treaty of Utrecht concludes the War of the Spanish Succession, a treaty for which Bolingbroke and Ormonde are impeached. |
*Spain |
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1713 |
Anne Finch (Countess of Winchilsea; "Ardelia"), Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions |
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1713 |
Alexander Pope, Windsor Forest. |
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1714 |
England's population approximately 5.5 million; at this time, 1 out of 4 children survived. |
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1714 |
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (five cantos). |
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1714 |
Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore. |
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1714 |
John Toland pens Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland. |
*Anglo-Jewish History |
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Aug 1, 1714 |
Queen Anne Stuart dies; George I Hanover becomes king. |
*House of Stuart
*House of Hanover |
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1715 |
Jacobite rebellion: Earl of Mar leads the Scottish Rebellion on behalf of the Pretender; The Riot Act passed. |
*Jacobites
*Scotland |
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1716 |
The Septennial Act leads to greater electoral corruption: general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3.
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1717 |
Alexander Pope, Collected Works (including "Eloisa to Abelard"). |
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1719 |
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. |
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