Events Timeline

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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8 June 1688: The seven bishops (the Archbishop of Canterbury...

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8 June 1688

The seven bishops (the Archbishop of Canterbury and six others) were imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusal to proclaim and distribute James II 's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
880-2
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under James II

10 June 1688: The son of Mary of Modena and James II was...

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10 June 1688

The son of Mary of Modena and James II was born; the date became one of annual importance to Jacobites.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
882

Aphra Behn: By 13 June 1688

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Author event in Aphra Behn

By 13 June 1688

AB had probably completed her short novelOroonoko, or, The Royal Slave, which was published by William Canning that same year, with a dedication to the Jacobite Lord Lauderdale .
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
417
O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986.
137, 139

Rebecca Travers: 15 June 1688

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Author event in Rebecca Travers

15 June 1688

RT died in London at nearly eighty. William Penn preached her funeral sermon.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Aphra Behn: By 23 June 1688

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Author event in Aphra Behn

By 23 June 1688

AB published her verse satire To Poet Bavius.
O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986.
148-9

30 June 1688: A letter was signed by national leaders inviting...

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30 June 1688

A letter was signed by national leaders inviting William of Orange to assume the throne of England.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
28: 663

Mary, Lady Chudleigh: 10 July 1688

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Author event in Mary, Lady Chudleigh

10 July 1688

Richard, three-year-old son of Mary, Lady Chudleigh , died: his parents set up a stone memorial to him in their church.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
76

Elizabeth Cellier: 19 July 1688

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Author event in Elizabeth Cellier

19 July 1688

Lady Powis , governess to the infant Prince of Wales , brought the baby to the king with Elizabeth Cellier 's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand.
Lady Powis was author of a broadside Ballad...

24 August 1688: At eleven weeks old the prince James Edward...

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24 August 1688

At eleven weeks old the prince James Edward was finally found a wet-nurse.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
882, 888

John Bunyan: 31 August 1688

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Author event in John Bunyan

31 August 1688

JB , tinker and dissenting preacher, died of a fever in London.
Sadler, Lynn Veach. John Bunyan. Twayne, 1979.
10
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Collier: About early October 1688

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Author event in Mary Collier

About early October 1688

MC was born in Sussex, probably at Lodsworth.
Though both the Feminist Companion and critic Moira Ferguson give her a birth-date of 1679, Richard Greene identified her in the Dictionary of National Biography: Missing...

Aphra Behn: 22 October 1688

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Author event in Aphra Behn

22 October 1688

The Stationers' Company licensed AB 's The History of the Nun: or, the Fair Vow-Breaker.
O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986.
155

Catharine Burton: 4 November 1688

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Author event in Catharine Burton

4 November 1688

CB was born at Beyton near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, into a family of ten children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

8 November 1688: William of Orange (husband of James II's...

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8 November 1688

William of Orange (husband of James II 's elder daughter, Mary ) landed near Torbay in Devon with a view to gaining control of Britain.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
892-3

Susanna Wesley: 12 November 1688

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Author event in Susanna Wesley

12 November 1688

Susanna Annesley married the Rev. Samuel Wesley (then curate at St Botolph, Aldersgate) at St Marylebone Church in London.
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
xiii

13 December 1688: Anti-Catholic mobs in London burned down...

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13 December 1688

Anti-Catholic mobs in London burned down places of worship and homes of prominent Catholics.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
895

13-18 December 1688: James II twice left London as if to flee...

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13-18 December 1688

James II twice left London as if to flee abroad, but then returned, before leaving finally on 18 December.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
895

Sarah Savage: After 18 December 1688

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Author event in Sarah Savage

After 18 December 1688

When her first-born child died at a few days old, SS wrote: I could not keep my passions in bounds. . . . yet my judgment is quiet. I had not one repining thought against...

18 December 1688: William of Orange entered London (the same...

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18 December 1688

William of Orange entered London (the same day that James II finally left it) and held court at St James's Palace.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
895
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.

Mary Astell: 1689

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Author event in Mary Astell

1689

MA presented Archbishop Sancroft , in gratitude for financial help, a hand-sewn booklet of her unpublished poems.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
68

Anne Audland: 1689

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Author event in Anne Audland

1689

AA contributed a testimony on her late first husband , and a letter to him, to the collaborative Quaker text The Memory of the Righteous Revived.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Anne Finch: Probably between 1689 and 1691

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Author event in Anne Finch

Probably between 1689 and 1691

During her early years of marriage, AF wrote a drama which critic Diana Solomon classes as a tragicomedy or heroic romance, The Triumphs of Love and Innocence.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
53-4
Solomon, Diana. “Anne Finch, Restoration Playwright”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
30
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2011, pp. 37-56.
42

Joan Whitrow: 1689

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Author event in Joan Whitrow

1689

JW called people and monarch to repentance in a fifteen-page pamphlet, The Humble Address of the Widow Whitrowe to King William.
This text is available online from the Women Writers Project , www.wwp.northeastern.edu
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Elizabeth Stirredge: About 1689

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Author event in Elizabeth Stirredge

About 1689

ES issued with her name the undated tract A Faithful Warning to the Inhabitants of England, and Elsewhere.
The English Short Title Catalogue dates this text about 1701.
Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle, 1711.
195

Elinor James: Early 1689

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Author event in Elinor James

Early 1689

EJ published another broadside, Mrs. James's Advice to the Citizens of London—urging them to remain loyal to James II.
James, Elinor. Elinor James. Editor McDowell, Paula, Ashgate, 2005.
68
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.