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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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Margery Kempe: 1431-2

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1431-2

At about this date MK began dictating the story of her life.
Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, translated by. Barry A. Windeatt, Penguin, pp. 9-30.
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Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Translator Windeatt, Barry A., Penguin.
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30 May 1431: Following her trial for heresy, Joan of Arc...

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30 May 1431

Following her trial for heresy, Joan of Arc was burned at Rouen under English occupying forces.