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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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Elinor James: 5 November 1689
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5 November 1689
, in This Being Your Majesty's Birth-Day, marked the first anniversary of
's landing in England on his way to the throne.
Aphra Behn: 20 November 1689
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Author event in Aphra Behn
20 November 1689
's comedy The Widdow Ranter; or, The History of
in Virginia, the first play to be set in British North America, had a posthumous performance at
which may have been...
25 November 1689: The House of Commons accepted the final wording...
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25 November 1689
The
accepted the final wording of the Revolution Settlement, or what became known as the Bill of Rights, the nearest thing to a British constitution.
Late 1689: John Locke published three important works:...
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Late 1689
published three important works: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, his anonymous Letter concerning Toleration (in English form), and Two Treatises of Government.
6 December 1689: Lex Parliamentaria (licensed on this day...
6 December 1689
Lex Parliamentaria (licensed on this day by either
or
and published the following year) maintained that women had no right to vote in parliamentary elections as, it seems, they formerly had...
Elinor James: 11 December 1689
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Author event in Elinor James
11 December 1689
was committed to
, and fined 13s.4d., for dispersing scandalous and reflecting papers.
Elizabeth Delaval: About Christmas 1689
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About Christmas 1689
Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (the former
) probably fled at this time from England via the Low Countries to France.
Anne Conway: 1690
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Author event in Anne Conway
1690
The Latin translation of
's philosophical notebooks was posthumously printed at Amsterdam as Principia philosophiae antiquissimae & recentissimae, in a volume entitled Opuscula philosophica.
Joan Whitrow: 1690
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Author event in Joan Whitrow
1690
followed her recent address to
with To
: the Humble Salutation, and Faithful Greeting of the Widow Whitrowe.
Mary Ward: About 1690
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Author event in Mary Ward
About 1690
An iron chest full of papers belonging to
's
was lost at sea; this has obscured the early history of the Order.
Winefrid Thimelby: 1690
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Author event in Winefrid Thimelby
1690
died in her convent,
at Louvain, after twenty-two years as prioress.
Elinor James: Probably 1690
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Probably 1690
The irrepressible
printed a pamphlet, Sir, My Lord Mayor and the Aldermen his Brethren, to point out the widespread disregard of a recent city by-law against street fireworks and to offer her personal intervention.
1690: A satire on women, Mundus Muliebris: or,...
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1690
A satire on women, Mundus Muliebris: or, The Ladies Dressing-room Unlock'd, and her Toilette Spread, by
, was posthumously published by her
.
1690-1720: During these 30 years almost 50% of defendants...
1690-1720
During these 30 years almost 50% of defendants before the
in London were women.
1690: Italy saw the founding of its first Academy...
1690
Italy saw the founding of its first Academy to admit women, the so-called
.
1690 or 1691: One of the earliest Societies for the Reformation...
1690 or 1691
One of the earliest
was founded in Tower Hamlets on the outskirts of London, by a group of Anglican gentlemen.
1690s: This was the first decade in which women...
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1690s
This was the first decade in which women embarking on the publication or circulation of religious writings did not outnumber those embarking on any other genre.
Elizabeth Bury: 18 January 1690
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Author event in Elizabeth Bury
18 January 1690
If
was using the New Style that began the year with January, then this rhapsodic diary entry by Elizabeth Lloyd (later
) about meeting with God in the Mountains of Myrrh is...
Elizabeth Bury: 27 September 1690
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Author event in Elizabeth Bury
27 September 1690
Elizabeth Lloyd (later
) made the diary entry (a look back at her own childhood) which her
later placed first among his published excerpts (ordered by topic) from her private life-writing.
Susanna Wesley: 10 February 1690
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Author event in Susanna Wesley
10 February 1690
bore her eldest child,
, at her parents' home; her
was away at the time serving as a navy chaplain.
Elizabeth Walker : 23 February 1690
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Author event in Elizabeth Walker
23 February 1690
died after a short illness which her
reported as a combined Rheumatism, Erysipelas, and Peripneumonia.
Anne Finch: 29 April 1690
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Anne Finch: May-November 1690
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Author event in Anne Finch
May-November 1690
While her
was in London defending himself against charges of treason,
stayed at Godmersham near Eastwell and continued writing.
Elizabeth Walker : Probably May 1690
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Author event in Elizabeth Walker
Probably May 1690
's widower, the Rev.
, published The Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, which is very largely composed of her own writings.
Margaret Fell: Probably July 1690
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Probably July 1690
wrote A Relation of Margaret Fell, Her Birth, Life, Testimony and Sufferings for the Lord's Everlasting Truth in her Generation, which was printed in her Works in 1710.