This day 341 years ago: birth of John Gay (1685-1732).

Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00303.shtml

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On this day (279 years ago), Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College published anonymously by Robert Dodsley in 1747.

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https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1747

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On this day (297 years ago), birth of William Dodd (1729-1777).

Poems appear in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00220.shtml

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OTD (337 years ago): birth of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont) (1689-1762).

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https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00001.shtml

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Pleased to report the availability of 16 of the 18 surviving editions of Harris’s List of #CoventGardenLadies in the #HarrissListDigitalArchive (IIIF/full-text), with over 2,200 entries, an interactive map, network analysis, and a visualizations page:

https://harrisslist.prisms.digital/

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