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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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Anne Finch: From the latter half of 1690

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From the latter half of 1690

AF kept copies of her poems, carefully transcribed in her earliest surviving manuscript volume, now Northamptonshire Record Office Finch-Hatton 283.
Beal, Peter. Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Mansell, 1980–1997, 5 vols.
3: 4: 536
Wright, Gillian. “The Birds and the Poet: Fable, Self-Representation and the Early Editing of Anne Finch’s Poetry”. Review of English Studies online, Vol.
63
, No. 261, Aug. 2012.

12 July 1690: William III heavily defeated James II at...

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12 July 1690

William III heavily defeated James II at the battle of the Boyne in Ireland, in which 62,000 men fought.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
324
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
22

Joan Vokins: 22 July 1690

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22 July 1690

JV died on her way from London to Berkshire, having got as far as Reading, having finished her course, and kept the faith, as the title-page of her work reminded its readers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
qtd. in
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
211

25 September 1690: The first newspaper in North America published...

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25 September 1690

The first newspaper in North America published its single issue, at Boston, setting out its aim to help citizens better understand the Circumstances of Public Affairs.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
25 September 2015

October 1690: William III addressed the General Assembly...

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October 1690

William III addressed the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland , speaking against extremism in the newly established national church. The more radical Covenanting Cameronians thereupon split from the main body.
“Act of Union 1707”. United Kingdom Parliament, 2007.

Anne Finch: By 21 October 1690

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By 21 October 1690

The new Earl of Winchilsea, Heneage's under-age nephew, offered AF and her husband a home at his estate of Eastwell Park in Kent.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
64-5

Joan Whitrow: 5 November 1690

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5 November 1690

JW approached the king again in The Humble Salutation and Faithful Greeting 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.

Alicia D'Anvers: 23 December 1690

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23 December 1690

ADA 's first published work, A Poem upon His Sacred Majesty , His Voyage to Holland, was licensed for publication; it appeared by January 1691, dedicated to Queen Mary .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
376

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy: 1691

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1691

Two works by MCA were published in London in English translation: The History of Adolphus, Prince of Russia; and the Princess of Happiness, and The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of the Lady — Travels...

Barbara Blaugdone: 1691

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1691

BB published her Account of the Travels, Sufferings, and Persecutions she had endured during her career as a minister.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Anne Dacier: 1691

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1691

AD collaborated with her husband, André Dacier , on a translation of the meditations of Marcus Aurelius : Réflexions morales de l'empereur Marc-Antonin.
Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale, 2005.

Joan Vokins: 1691

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1691

JV 's letters and autobiography were posthumously published in God's Mighty Power Magnified: As Manifested and Revealed in His Faithful Handmaid Joan Vokins.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
211

Elizabeth Polwhele: By 1691

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By 1691

The former EP , wife of Stephen Lobb and probably the playwright of the 1670s, died by the time that her funeral sermon was printed during the course of this year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1691: Robert Gould published another misogynist...

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1691

Robert Gould published another misogynist satire, A Satyrical Epistle to the Female Author of a Poem Called Sylvia's Revenge.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Hughes, Derek. “The Masked Woman Revealed; or, the prostitute and the playwright in Aphra Behn criticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 149-64.
150

1691: Gerard Langbaine published An Account of...

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1691

Gerard Langbaine published An Account of the English Dramatick Poets.
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.

1691: Robert Gould published A Satyrical Epistle...

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1691

Robert Gould published A Satyrical Epistle to the Female Author of a Poem, call'd Silvia's Revenge, an antifeminist contribution to the Sylvia debate.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1691: Richard Ames published two misogynist satires...

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1691

Richard Ames published two misogynist satires this year: The Folly of Love and Female Fireships, or A Satire against Whoring.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1691: William Walsh published anonymously A Dialogue...

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1691

William Walsh published anonymously A Dialogue Concerning Women, Being a Defence of the Sex, Written to Eugenia.
Walsh, William, d. 1708. A Dialogue Concerning Women. Printed for R. Bentley and J. Tonson, 1691.
32, 34
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
2: 305n10

1691: Jean Racine's heroic tragedy Athalie, written...

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1691

Jean Racine 's heroic tragedy Athalie, written from a biblical subject for performance by a girls' school, was both printed and staged.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Mary Mollineux: 18 February 1691

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18 February 1691

Henry Mollineux , husband of MM , was arrested with a neighbour for failure to appear before the Bishop's or Consistory Court (where, he claimed, they had never been properly summoned) to answer a charge...

Alicia D'Anvers: 14 March 1691

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14 March 1691

ADA 's satirical poem entitled Academia; or, The Humours of the University of Oxford, went on sale in Oxford.
It is available online from the Women Writers Project , www.wwp.northeastern.edu.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
377

17 March 1691: John Dunton (in his tenth year as a London...

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17 March 1691

John Dunton (in his tenth year as a London publisher) issued the first number of the periodical which then became the Athenian Mercury.
Crane, Ronald Salmon et al. A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800. University of North Carolina Press; Cambridge University Press, 1927.
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The date as printed was 1690; this was the oldstyle...

By early 1691: Tace Sowle, aged twenty-five, took over from...

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By early 1691

Tace Sowle , aged twenty-five, took over from her elderly father, Andrew , the family printing firm (which that year distributed books to 151 Quaker meetings, as well as bookshops in England, Europe, and the...

Late May or early June 1691: The Quakers, at the first of their Yearly...

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Late May or early June 1691

The Quaker s, at the first of their Yearly Meetings in London, decided to require their provincial Monthly Meetings to order one copy of each Quaker book priced at sixpence or more, and two...

Delarivier Manley: 24 June 1691

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24 June 1691

After a pregnancy in which she was perpetually ill,
Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, 1986, p. various pages.
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DM bore a son, who ranked as illegitimate, because of her husband 's previous, still valid marriage.
Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, 1986, p. various pages.
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